I'm seriously just curious.
Has SK moved on from her scandal? In a recent netizen thread they were praising irene for her leadership skills for not wanting to take off the mask.
I've recently seen her being praised a lot by netizens, does that mean she is back to her old status? What kind of impact did her scandal leave one year later? Even their song queendom performed well.
I'm a little surprised because korean gp are never lenient with idols who get into bullying/gapjil situations. Aoa jimin and g-idle soojin never recovered from their allegations despite not being 100% proven guilty. Their career is petty much over. But on the other hand although irene was exposed by an influential editor with evidence and even several other famous stylists confirming to have same experiences (so it's been pretty much a notorious fact among industry workers she had a bad attitude), it's been pretty much shrugged off these days. Although objectively, irene's case was much worse than most idol scandals where the only proof for them is "unknown person x claims this idol y bullied them, these idols never are forgiven.
Irene even seems to still be openly loved and cherished by other idols, she was still voted in the popular idol poll ISAC as one of the prettiest idols in 2021, just a few month after her scandal.
Nobody cares at all it seems, which I find suprising merely for the fact that koreans never forgive bullying and gapjil, no matter what apology the idols spit out and what hard times the idol goes through. What is different with irene that they forgave her with no serious consequence? Or am I wrong?