K-pop upskirt photo scare over footage of Aespa’s Winter dismissed by band’s label SM Entertainment
- A video uploaded to Aespa’s YouTube channel appears to show a man taking an upskirt photograph of singer Winter during a photo shoot for Dazed magazine
- The video spread via social media this week, prompting the band’s label SM Entertainment to say he was the photographer in charge and nothing untoward happened
South Korean company SM Entertainment has shot down fan concerns over a video that appears to show Winter, a member of K-pop girl group Aespa, being photographed inappropriately without her knowledge by a staff member on the set of a photo shoot.
The video, uploaded on March 10 to Aespa’s YouTube channel, featured a behind-the-scenes look at the band’s recent Dazed magazine photo shoot as brand ambassadors for Givenchy.
In it, a male on the set of the shoot can be seen behind two members of the group, and appears to lower his phone behind them as he walks past. Fans believed the footage showed him taking an upskirt photo of singer Winter (Kim Min-jeong) and this week began spreading it across social media.
According to a statement issued late on Wednesday by SM Entertainment, the man is the photographer in charge of the photo shoot and SM confirmed with him that he did nothing wrong and that Winter doesn’t believe there was anything upsetting or untoward on the set of the shoot.
The shooting of sexually suggestive photographs and videos of women without their knowledge is a major issue in South Korea, and K-pop stars are no exception.