After a fan claims that Kim Jiwoong said ssibal to her, the controversy is getting worse rapidly. Some fans are having hashtag campaign to make ZB1 Kim Jiwoong to leave the team by using #김지웅_탈퇴해 (Kim Jiwoong leave the team) and some are protecting and showing their support by using hashtag #제로즈가_지킬게(ZEROSE will protect you) #제로베이스원맏형김지웅. (The ZB1’s oldest brother Kim Jiwoong) Not just that, Kim Jiwoong Protest Truck donation has opened.
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Kim Jiwoong Protest Truck Donation and the Phrase
As the donation for Kim Jiwoong Protest Truck has started, the first person who started raising money for the truck protest has showed the phrases they would like to put in the truck protest. There were 4 pictures with the phrases are written on. From the 1st image it means ‘Kim Jiwoong-si Quickly Withdrawal from the team,’ ‘I voted you to debut, and I get cursed in face,’ ‘If we keep going, all ZEROSE will run away, the oldest brother will cause inconvenience to his eight younger brothers’ and ‘All the members get stigmatized because of one. Hurry up and leave.’
The phrases are straightforward and tough. All of it are straightforward asking Kim Jiwoong to leave the team. Especially, the first phrase has ‘ssibal’ in the phrase refers from what Kim Jiwoong allegedly said.
How Korean Netizens react
ZEROSE (the fandom of ZEROBASEONE) is in sharp conflict within, there are people believing in Kim Jiwoong and supporting him while some are wanting him to leave the team. While fans are having conflict, the conflict got famous and netizens are talking about it. In this article, we will be checking few opinions that has made about ZEROBASEONE Kim Jiwoong Protest Truck and the phrases.
The first capture is from a DAUM cafe, ‘Women’s generation,’ and second capture is from ‘The Qoo.’
- Wow, the phrases are straightforward.
- I wasn’t interested because I didn’t know who it was, but I thought the explanation was true, when I read the article about the ssibal explanation
- omg the phrases…
- wow
- If you’ve had cursed, you should’ve apologized. I don’t want to support him
- He will be filming BL drama again (Before he joined the ZEROBASEONE team, he was starring in BL dramas)
- Cheer up, the fans
These are the comments of ‘Women’s generation.’
- The phrases look nice. I hope it goes in the direction that the fans want.
- I was shocked that he didn’t apologize at all
- Wouldn’t it be better for him to apologize to the fan himself? Even though it’s already out of his mouth, so it can not be vanish…
- No matter how hard I think about it, I think he should apologize, even if it’s false as he claims, it’s better to apologize for the misunderstanding.
- the phrases are strong wow
- I support them. How could he swear in front of a fan?
These are comments from ‘Theqoo.’ If we check the atmosphere, it seems what Korean netizens really want is sincere apology, not leaving the team. The people are saying even if the claim that the fan made, swearing at the fan, is false, it would be better if he apologize about making misunderstanding. Some say the ssibal might be not toward the fan, but as fan heard he should apologize. Others say, saying ssibal might not happened at all, but as some fans get hurt, just apology. Everyone has different thought about this situation.
But as Kim Jiwoong Protest Truck has set to go, it seems like Kim Jiwoong and the agency, WAKEONE need some more official statement. Do you support ZB1 Kim Jiwoong? Or believe he should apologize before Kim Jiwoong Protest Truck really happens?
