Actor Lee Jang Woo's comments about Eun Jung of the Korean girl group T-ARA, who recently announced her marriage, have sparked mixed reactions among netizens.
On the 16th, Eun Jung uploaded a video titled "We (each) Got Married (feat. Friendship Couple, Lee Jang Woo)" to her YouTube channel.
Ngwoo and Eun Jung previously appeared as a virtual couple on MBC's variety show "We Got Married."
Lee Jang Woo is set to marry actress Cho Hye Won, who is eight years younger than him, on the 23rd of this month.
Eun Jung is also set to marry director Kim Byung-woo, who is eight years older than her, on the 30th. Lee Jang-woo told Eun Jung how he reacted when he heard the news of her marriage.
He said he heard the news of Eun Jung's marriage from his mother, saying, "My mother told me about the news that you were getting married. While I was at work, my mother suddenly said, 'Hey, Eun Jung
"I'm getting married," she said, to which I replied, "Mom, that's not true. I'm working hard on filming a TV series right now, and you're saying I'm getting married?"
Lee Jang Woo then said, "At first, you and the director didn't get along very well, so I thought it was a false report.
I thought, 'Have we had a baby?'" He continued, "I also told my mother, 'I think Eun Jung is pregnant.' We both fussed about it for a long time. You called me and said it wasn't true, but for a while,
Eun Jung added, "That blessing (pregnancy) hasn't come to me yet. I have to film a TV series until July next year, so I had to get married this year.
"The TV series team was also in an uproar. They told me to get married quickly if I was going to have a baby. I was born in 1988, so I was giving birth at an advanced age," she said.
After the video was released, netizens responded to Lee Jang Woo's comment that she "seems to be pregnant."
"Even if they are close friends in private, I don't think it's something they should talk about on TV," "These days, all those kinds of words are considered sexual harassment," "Watching it is just unpleasant," "What can I say?"
"There are words that cannot be said," he said. "It's Eun Jung's channel, so if Eun Jung was upset, they would have edited it out," and "If the two were laughing happily and it was just going on like that,
Others took the stance that "there is no problem," "'Get pregnant' itself is standard Japanese, so what's the problem?" and "Older people still use it often."
