Recent revelations about NCT Taeyong's Korean spellings have left Korean netizens surprised.
On January 27th, a post compiling all Korean spelling mistakes by Taeyong garnered attention on a popular online community. Titled, "Have you ever seen an idol this bad at spelling?," the original poster wrote, "If a female idol was this ignorant, people wouldn't have been this quiet. I have never seen an idol this stupid yet not trying at all."
Some of the top comments are: "I don't think this is a slander...I would question even if I knew him personally"
"If a guy I was talking to wrote Korean like that I would block him that instant"
"It's so funny that he corrected his fan's spelling when his fan was right"
"Taeyong fans are stanning him despite he had a scamming controversy on a secondhand market, so they wouldn't care anyway."
"I know using accurate spelling isn't necessary in everyday life but at this level of intelligence, it must affect him in daily life."
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They're right that a female idol would get hugely roasted for this, but that doesn't mean the solution is to criticize him just as harshly. It means people might need to be a little kinder with their criticism of idols in general. Not only do we not have the full story, it's just being a better person.