Seventeen fans have expressed their annoyance at LA Weekly.
On the 28th, the media outlet wrote about IOI's Somi coming to KCON LA as well as her ethnicity, and titled it, "Can Jeon Somi Become K-Pop's First International Biracial Superstar?". The tweet that accompanied the article read, "#IOI's Jeon Somi is going where few biracial K-pop stars have gone before. Appearing at #KCON this weekend."
A few fans wrote back to them and tweeted, "yes hi sry but this has already been done by vernon from seventeen!!!!!!!! [sic]" To this, LA Weekly replied, "We should have mentioned him in the article, but not sure he's a "superstar" even in S. Korea."
If the original lack of Vernon in the article didn't already annoy Seventeen fans, the tweet definitely irked many, as many took up in arms to inform LA Weekly of all of Seventeen's achievements so far.
What do you think of the situation?
3percenter • Sunday, September 11, 2016
Damned oppaers whining as if LA Weekly gives a fuck about kpop and especially kpop boygroups. What part of INTERNATIONAL didn't they get? Nobody gives a shit how popular this whatever named boygroup is in Korea.
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creampasta • Wednesday, August 31, 2016
I dont hate Somi. the main issue isn't about her anyway so whoevers hating on her because of this should just sit down. it wouldn't be a problem if the writer didn't reply to the girl with that kind of tone(?), somehow sounding like they were degrading(?) svt. He/she just didnt put it the right way hence causing misunderstanding.
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Ashlynne_3 • Saturday, August 20, 2016
*i listened to see what the hype
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aldrin_m • Saturday, August 6, 2016
Oh so they're dissing Somi now? What a mature people -_-
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Cvcxn • Tuesday, August 2, 2016
woops i dont even wanna check the comments lol carats 5ting
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sugafree17 • Monday, August 1, 2016
Bc this article is about LA KCON I understand why Vernon wouldn't be in it - I agree that fans overreacted on that part. If it was about NY KCON that would be a different story, given that Seventeen was there. I think the real issue is that instead of just saying this is about LA KCON the magazine had to insult Vernon (I do love Somi, but she's not the first biracial kpop idol like they stated) and doubt Seventeen's success (clearly without doing their research) just to defend themselves for not including him. Oh well, they definitely know about Vernon now lol. And congratulations to Somi for getting recognition - I've been a fan since Sixteen and I wish her all the best :)
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torchik37 • Monday, August 1, 2016
LOOOOOOOL
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mike2427 • Monday, August 1, 2016
You know why they didn't mention other stars? because other biracial stars aren't as famous as Somi. Yes, Vernon is popular but mostly amongst fans. If you're not a seventeen fan you wouldn't know who he is ( You would probably know him from SMTM and the bad scores he got from there). Most of you aren't even fans of IOI or Twice and you still know who Joen Somi is. Most people know who she is in Korea and in Kpop internationally.
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haylucky • Monday, August 1, 2016
La times biracial means half white and Korean . I mean lets just forget about the queen inspo I and Tara
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Sylvfia • Monday, August 1, 2016
I'm not offended that they did not include Vernon but they should have mentioned they promoting Kcon LA and since Seventeen isnt part of it, they didnt include him. They were kinda rude to the fans with their response too...
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