Winter, a member of the girl group aespa, was embroiled in controversy over "animal cruelty."
According to South Korean media reports on September 1: Winter (Kim Min-cho), a member of the girl group aespa, communicated with fans yesterday (August 31) through paid fan community services. Han Yu did not know that in the exchange, Winter told his past experience of raising hamsters. Winter's remarks were then posted on the online community and SNS, sparking controversy.
In the dialogue, Winter said that he had 25 hamsters when he was a student, although initially only 2, but later increased to 25, winter also said that "I decided to keep only one sick friend (hamster), so (finally) only one." ”
In this regard, some netizens believe that the reason why it has changed from 2 to 25 is only because "hamsters have strong reproductive ability", and criticized Winter's breeding experience, accusing him of breeding without prior knowledge of hamster information, and also recounting these experiences in a dignified manner. Han Entertainment did not know that Winter did not mention the remaining 24 hamsters in the dialogue, which also triggered speculation among netizens.
In addition, Winter has previously been involved in the controversy of animal cruelty because of videos of interacting with cats. Han Yu did not know that in the video that caused controversy at the time, Winter strongly stroked the cat, the cat seemed to feel uncomfortable, and then avoided it, and Winter also imitated the cat's call in the video.
After the video was made public at the time, many cat lovers accused Winter of "abusing cats", which caused controversy.
At present, netizens have also launched a war of words on whether Winter abuses cats and hamsters.