When Twice singer Jihyo dismissed haters in a recent online chat, some netizens were not happy that she used a Korean term that is viewed as humiliating to men. The 22-year-now has now apologised, tracing her outburst to her struggle coping with fame since early last year.
In a long online post, she wrote: "After completely unfounded rumours about me came out in March last year, I became more scared about appearing in front of people."
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