'Single's Inferno5' Choi Minasoo candidly expressed her feelings about the flood of malicious comments after the show aired.
On the 28th, a video titled "The hottest woman right now 'Single's Inferno5' Choi Minasoo, met in Cheongdam-dong | EP.53 Choi Minasoo" was uploaded to the 'One Mic' channel.
In the video that day, Netflix 'Single's Inferno5' participant Choi Minasoo appeared and shared behind-the-scenes stories from the show. When asked "Did you watch the broadcast?" she honestly expressed regret, saying, "I saw the things I did a lot during the reunion. I only watched the highlights so it was very painful. 'Why did I do that?' I found it a little hard to watch again."
After the show aired, Choi Minasoo was criticized by many viewers as a 'villain.' She confessed, "From the first week of the broadcast through week three, there were a lot of malicious comments. It was no joke. It was funny. There were more comments than likes. I didn't close the comments because of the malicious comments. We filmed the reunion in December, and when I watched it then and looked back on my actions, there were certainly parts I reflected on. I thought if I wanted to show that attitude, it would be right to keep the comments open, so I deliberately left them open."
When asked whether she was hurt, Choi Minasoo answered, "Of course." When she said, "I thought I was okay because my mental strength is strong," she conveyed, "No. What are you talking about. Truly, like ten thousand too many people were cursing, so of course it was hard. But although it was hard, I tried not to stay in that hardship. If that means my mental strength is strong, then it is strong. What's strange is that during the period when I was getting a lot of criticism, I would say 'I'm Choi Minasoo, I'm okay,' then suddenly get very depressed and go back and forth a lot."
She continued, "I was more worried about my parents than myself. The producers said in conversations, 'It will be okay in the end,' but parents probably have more uncertainty. I'm an only daughter. My parents' worries bothered me the most. My father worried more than my mother, but he said, 'It's okay. It will be okay in the end. I'm Choi Minasoo. You're daddy's daughter.' My mother actually reassured me. She said, 'You're so funny. Were you really this funny?' and I was grateful. Their worrying itself might have made me feel worse, so they were careful and actually cheered me up at that time."
Regarding reactions from people around her, she said, "High school friends and university friends told me, 'The Mina Soo I know isn't that kind of person.' Close friends around me said, 'The you I know is a really good friend. I know what kind of person you are.' Those words were nice. I was grateful that people who knew me before remembered me fully. I thought I shouldn't be swayed, I shouldn't be shaken. I was very thankful. Not only friends but fans who supported me since 'Miss Earth' or 'Miss Korea' were there too. I was very grateful. I really wanted to say that."
She added, "Rather, toward the end I think I came across as a more three-dimensional person, so people may have understood me more. Among the DMs I received, there were many such DMs. After the show ended and people watched the reunion, more people said, 'I understand Mina Soo's feelings,' and offered more understanding," reporting the changed reactions by the end of the broadcast.
She said, "From the moment I decided to film 'Single's Inferno,' the attitude I wanted to take while filming was that: to act immediately according to the feelings I felt. Before that I was Miss Earth and focused on external activities, trying hard to show the image I thought I should be. There are other sides of me, but here I wanted to show those sides even if someone might not like them. That was my goal," adding, "I think I achieved that goal. But if I were to film again, I think I might do things a little differently."
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