The incident occurred during the opening celebration of the 21st Sunchang Fermented Sauce Festival in North Jeolla Province on October 15.
HYNN, also known as Park Hye-won, was among the artists scheduled to perform at the festival’s opening ceremony.
During her set, after she had completed two songs and was speaking to the audience, the event’s emcee came onto the stage and introduced Kim Min-seok. HYNN briefly left the stage while Kim greeted the crowd before returning and continuing her performance.
The moment subsequently circulated on Korean online communities, where some viewers criticized the decision to insert a politician’s greeting into the middle of an artist’s scheduled stage rather than waiting until the performance had concluded.
Several commenters argued that the interruption showed insufficient consideration for the performer, while others questioned why the greeting could not have been delayed for a few more minutes.
The criticism was directed largely at the event handling and the decision to prioritize the political greeting during HYNN’s set rather than at HYNN herself.
Netizen Reactions
The sampled comments were overwhelmingly critical of the interruption, with users arguing that the organizers and Kim should have waited until HYNN’s scheduled stage was finished.
1. Seriously, why are they like this?
2. Lee Jae-myung and Kim Min-seok have nothing going for them, but they’re overflowing with entitlement and making fools of themselves.
3. Even if he had another schedule and only arrived then, shouldn’t he at least know the basic courtesy of waiting until the performance is over before going onstage? Where did he learn to behave like that, cutting into the middle of a singer’s stage and walking up there?????? Ah, is he a “Celestial Dragon,” so entitlement and rudeness are just second nature?
4. It’s not like he had breaking news to deliver, so why couldn’t he wait? Who does Kim Min-seok think he is?
5. I’d bet today’s lunch that if Jang Dong-hyeok or Han Dong-hoon had done that, you would’ve been the first one in the comments swearing at them.
6. Mr. “New Millennium NHK” Kim Min-seok really “tore up the stage,” tsk tsk.
7. It wasn’t even anything important to say. He couldn’t wait a few minutes for the performance to end?
8. Of course it feels gross imagining some politician barging into your favorite singer’s stage and getting them dragged into politics for no reason. The set only had about 10 minutes left—couldn’t he wait that long?
9. Who does he think he is? ㅋㅋ
10. The singer got out of there just in time so they wouldn’t get any “Choco-sh*t” on them ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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