KBS Under Fire From Netizens After Alleged Mistreatment Of Golden Child
Korean television network KBS is currently under fire from netizens after allegations of mistreatment for the K-Pop idol group Golden Child, following changes in their live stream schedule that impacted the Woollim artists.
At the start of October, KBS announced that they would be broadcasting compilations of various K-Pop performances on their YouTube channel. From BTS, IU, and several other artists, fans were excited to see that Golden Child was scheduled to appear on October 22.
Yet, fans voiced their anger when the announcement was suddenly changed on the day. Rather than the Golden Child compilation, the channel would be streaming Stray Kids, a group that was not initially included in the schedule.
After fans noticed this, they immediately started tweeting #KBSneedtoapologize, and it trended on social media.
kbs went from treating golcha as a prince to having no interviews, no stage sets, excluding bomin and yeeun on that mcs compilation, ditching them even though they clearly put golden child on that online concert compilation and putting other group instead. nah kbs this ain't it pic.twitter.com/K2WJ2SY1El
— syl. (@gidamdis) October 22, 2021
They deserved better 💔 Imagine what golcha felt 💔 KBS is unprofessional 😵
The orig plan vs what they did#KBSneedtoapologize#goldenchild pic.twitter.com/FM1YptJqsk— strawberry_moon 💗🎶 (@joynampyeon) October 22, 2021
no but you didn't just disappoint our fandom but also to golden child themselves. how could you be so reckless in this kind of works. you could've informed us ahead. what a disgrace.
APOLOGIZE TO GOLCHA@KBSWorldTV#GoldenChild_DeservesBetter#KBSneedtoapologize
— jb's lalai (@shxxdaebeom) October 22, 2021
However, after this issue, many brought up other times they believe KBS may have mistreated the group on their recent comebacks. Netizens believed that the group had not had any interviews with the Music Bank MCs, and their sets have been simpler.
In particular, many shared a clip shown on the music show with all of the show’s previous hosts. Many Goldness noticed that maknae Bomin and actress Shin Ye Eu, the hosts between 2019 and 2020, were not included.
— syl. (@gidamdis) October 22, 2021
KBS has yet to respond to these comments.
