Lee Hyori’s Past Comment On Taking A Junior’s School Uniform Resurfaces

With all the bullying allegations popping up in the news recently, singer Lee Hyori‘s past comment about taking a junior’s school uniform has been brought back to light on various online community boards. On the show, they discussed the worst things they have done in school.

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How was everyone during school?

Suddenly, Hyori asked a question to the cast.

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Have you ever changed your school uniform? To a new one…

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You go to the class where the freshman are…!

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…oops!

Although the comment itself doesn’t confirm that she did in fact take the school uniform, many felt that it left room for suspicion. K-Netizens felt that she was a lucky to have debuted during a time where this type of comment was acceptable.

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• “Woah…”
• “Ah man…”
• “Times have changed…if she said something like this now she would have been canceled.”
• “She’s lucky she debuted at that time.”
• “There was a time saying things like that was considered humor…”
• “Daebak…”
• “Dang…”
• “Back then, celebrities were free to talk about stealing student’s money, etc.”
• “She needs to be thankful that social media wasn’t a thing back then.”

International netizens also agreed that her comment was ambiguous and that debuting at an earlier time had “saved” her.

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What do you think of this? Considering the era we are in now, it could have been hard to get out of saying something like this on public TV.