In moments that make me wonder if I’m going insane, THE BOYZ member Sunwoo is currently embroiled in apparently a major scandal after video of him went viral recently. In it, he’s shown rushing to an elevator and dropping his AirPods, after which he looks around and casually accepts them from a security staff who picked them up, seemingly without a bow or thanks. This led to netizens and even former After School member Nana targeting him with criticism for his attitude and power trip allegations.
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얘는 지가 진행하는 아돌라도 태도 별로라고 출연하는 게스트 팬들마다 한소리씩 하는데 언제쯤 고치려나 https://t.co/kZPPbwPHao pic.twitter.com/wDZ3GDRM7g— 뚀뚀 (Taylor’s Version) (@DDYODDYONIM) April 1, 2025
What made things worse was his response to this came off as dismissive (despite the clarification and apology) and then confrontational. At the time, Nana commented on the video on Instagram, saying that he needed to be scolded, and then after realizing she piled on to a mess, explained what she saw in a statement where she basically doubled down despite acknowledging it might’ve not been exactly the way it seemed to her. Then recently, Sunwoo continued to complain to fans about the issue blowing up, his agency issued an apology, and he appealed to fans to believe he’s not a power tripping type of person.
Okay.
Mind you, this discourse has now been going on for almost two weeks now, and I gotta say … I kinda don’t give a shit? Also not sure why people have to be entirely good or bad in this mess or ever. Can it not be just as simple as he made a mistake in not showing proper thanks to the staff, acknowledged as much sloppily, and then basically made PR blunders in continuing to “tweet through it” so to speak instead of just letting controversy run its course. Meanwhile, while Nana probably had the same thought as many other commenters, and thus is understandable on a human level, we can also say it’s sorta weird to single this incident out to bring attention to when it probably could’ve been just ignored and saved everybody trouble.
I don’t know much about him, so I’m not criticizing or defending him as a whole, I’m just saying this incident seems like it’s being given a bizarre amount of bandwidth even if we assume the best or worse of everybody involved. Maybe it’s partially me being tired of covering actual serious issues with wide-ranging consequences, but I just can’t find it in me to get up in arms over this, I guess. Hopefully he does better after this in both being mindful of staff and the response to any criticism afterward, and if you want to side-eye his personality after this then go for it, but other than that … it’s whatever.
