KUALA LUMPUR: Most celebs would rather avoid reading hateful comments about them. Not Kang Seung Yoon of popular K-Pop group WINNER though.
According to Soompi, the South Korean celebrity intentionally seeks out any hateful comments about himself.
During his recent appearance in an episode of tvN’s talk show Secret Garden, he confessed that he purposely looked for negative comments in articles written about him.
He said: “I keep reading malicious comments (about myself). I actually look for them. To be honest, there haven’t been that many of them recently. So I dig through all the comments to see whether there are any (hateful ones) or not, and I look for them and read them.”
When host Jung Hyung Don asked him why he did that, the popular K-Pop artiste replied with: “I really hate (reading malicious comments). They break my heart and truly hurt my feelings, and I dislike them. But nowadays, there are less people who judge and criticise me, and one day, I suddenly realised that I had gotten too comfortable. I started thinking, ‘I can just keep doing things the way I am now.’ That made me uneasy.”
He then further explained with: “I think it’s a really double-sided aspect of my psyche. On one hand, I really don’t want to hear (people’s hate), but then I find myself wondering, ‘Why aren’t there more (hateful comments)?’ I wonder, ‘Am I really doing a good job?’ and yet I feel nervous.”
Jung Hyung Don then jokingly suggested that Kang Seung Yoon should cause some kind of scandal. Fortunately, the other hosts quickly shot down the terrible idea.