Do idols really lie about their height?

Both female and male idols routinely lie and state that they are taller then they are. Only a few instances where idols are so tall that they lie to say they are shorter. But never use videos where the idols are wearing shoes to determine what's real, let alone videos where you can't even see the shoes. idols wear some crazy clown shoes to offset height differences.

Well I don't know these other idols but Mark is definitely not quite 175.

The real question is why they need to do that

All male heights are lies. This goes for every male celebrity in every country... I still say i'm 5ft 8 but that was over 25 years ago...i'm pretty sure i shrunk maybe half an inch since then but i dont admit lol. I would subtract at least 1-3 inches from a male idol's claimed height lol.

Apparently BB were the biggest offenders, Top was listed as 5ft 11 when he is apparently no taller than 5ft 8 and a half. G Dragon listed as 5 ft 7 when he is apparently no taller than 5ft 4 and a half. For women, there is pressure to both inflate heights (for shorter idols) and lowball them (for taller idols).

I would say most male idols sort of coalesce around my height 5ft 6 to 5ft 10.

This happens often in entertainment across the globe. Many lie about their height and are shorter than their billed height .

Yes, everyone's listed height is inflated. It's usually the company that tells idols to lie. And it's very common for both men and women to wear insoles. The reason for this is the competitiveness and pursuit of perfection in the K-pop industry and Korean society as a whole. No one wants to be left behind. Not in looks, height, anything

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Only a few instances where idols are so tall that they l‍ie to say they are shorter.

Indeed. Y‍el f‍rom H‍1-K‍ey is 175cm (≈5'9") but previously claimed a height of 173cm (≈5.8"). I believe this makes her the tallest active female idol at the moment. bartkun, can y‍ou confirm?

I think Gawon is taller than 173 cm which she likes to claim. Members of MEOVV all think the same as well. See (from this time point)

https://youtu.be/mzkfQ13nxG0?si=_&t=639

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Oh she’s defo taller than 173cm! I thought she was at least 175

Maybe they are genuinely clueless!

Oh, what I meant was the other members have the same view as me that Gawon should be taller than 173.

Please check out the video above which I added the time mark.

Only a short ~ 10 sec segment about her height from the time marker.

Athletes and politicians lie about their heights too.

Generally....

Idols don't talk about their height in terms of measurements, rather they compare themselves to other members in their group.

It's their Companies that decide to publish any numbers referring to height and weight so they are the ones that fabricate them.

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SF9's Rowoon is one of the opposites, he said he was only 189cm and stuck to that number despite looking much taller than that, but more recently it was changed to 190.5/191cm. There was something floating around k-forums and Twitter though that FNC told him they wouldn't debut him if he was taller than 192cm, so it's probably why he doesn't like sharing the real number.