Idol-Turned-Actress Gets Candid About Infuriating Malicious Comments

A Korean idol-turned-actress candidly shared her feelings about malicious comments.

On the 18th, MBC’s The Manager featured Lee Jooyeon and Yang Sang Guk.

On the show, After School member-turned-actress Lee Jooyeon expressed that she doesn’t often read comments on videos she appears in. “When I was actively appearing on variety shows, I received a lot of criticism, so I tried not to look because it bothers me. These days, when I occasionally see good comments, I’m really happy, but for bad comments, I just say, ‘I don’t care, I don’t care,’” she said, revealing that malicious comments hurt her deeply.

She looked at comments on her videos and muttered to herself, “They say I look old and unpleasant. It’s better not to look.”

Later, Gahee visited Lee Jooyeon’s home. Jooyeon said, “We all got along well. The younger members don’t even call me ‘unnie’ (older sister); they tease me instead.”

Gahee and Lee Jooyeon reminisced while eating spicy chicken feet. Jooyeon recalled, “They needed a visual member, so they chased after me, but I kept running away. I couldn’t dance or sing. I couldn’t even sit down and get up properly, but after four months of preparation, they told me to dance just like the older members.”

She continued, “Dancing was tough enough, but they also made me play the drum… I played the drum, pole danced, and even tap danced. Playing the drum was hard because of finger injuries, and my whole body was bruised from pole dancing. I sweat a lot on my palms, so I even got an injection to stop sweating. I poured my 20s into it,” she added. Listening to this, Gahee said, “No other group could do that kind of performance. Why would anyone want to?”

Lee Jooyeon commented that Gahee must have had a tough time in the past, and Gahee lamented toward Jooyeon, “Why did you have your phone taken away? Because they were dating. How did you guys meet outside?”

Jooyeon explained, “Since everyone had their own laptops, we contacted each other through messenger to meet up. I was a senior, so I had more freedom, but the younger ones had a harder time. The Orange Caramel members,” she added.