Pentagon's Hongseok is under fire for his comments about fellow idol group ONF.
Hongseok held a live stream on V app to communicate with fans and made vitriolic remarks about another idol group in the process of recommending his groups' songs with ONF member E-Tion.
Hong Seok stated, "If I recommend a song called Asteroids, people will only listen to our songs. I'm trying to protect ONF's pride. Both songs have the same title but listening to ONF's Asteroids will make you feel deprived. Pentagon is better than ONF."
Asteroids is a song released by ONF in October 2019 and later in February 2020 Pentagon released a song with the same title.
He continued with his unilateral criticism of another song with the same title "Sumseong." He stated, "If ONF encounters Pentagon's asteroid, they'll feel like frogs in a pond. I didn't want to shock ONF." After making fans angry due to his remarks he added, "let's keep it a secret between us because our friends ONF will go crazy if they know about it."
But he didn't' stop there. He continued to make remarks about ONF stating, "to be honest our asteroid is a little better."
Netizens that saw the livestream criticized his comments stating, "he didn't give his fellow idol colleagues the minimum courtesy. He should issue an apology right away. His live was too rash. With that many people watching he said all those comments without paying attention to his words and action."
In a statement to Sports Kyunghyang on the 16th, an official from his agency CUBE Entertainment addressed the allegations and stated, "we will confirm the facts and announce our position later."
- [+792, -18] It's always nugus making a lot of noise
- [+758, -12] The group needs to try exorcism or something. Every time they start to do well a member causes a controversy.
- [+450, -13] Why make comments like that?
- [+61, -2] There's a reason why some people are not able to make it ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ he's been in a lot of controversies.
- [+60, -5] He had a lot to say before his debut too that rotten Yang Hyun Suk even threw him awayㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ imagine being thrown out by Yang Hyun Suk who's forgiven kids that got caught doing drugs and prostitution.
- [+56, -1] He's always under controversyㅋㅋㅋ
- [+38, -1] Even a rookie with BTS-grade profile would be called cocky if they said that about another rookieㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ who does this nugu think he isㅋㅋㅋ
- [+38, -0] He's lucky his group is being dragged by the collar by Hui right now
- [+35, -2] "Frogs in a pond" ㅋㅋ when ONF kids are better than Pentagon?
- [+35, -1] iKON threw him out
- [+26, -0] Wasn't he a YG trainee too?
- [+26, -0] He's been under controversy since his YG days..