104 The Meaning of a Band

The Omniscient Parents’ Perspective episode featuring Seo Si-yeon and Kim Seol became quite the national sensation.

In contrast to the criticism in online communities and elsewhere that Kim Seol’s segment was boring, both girls’ segments actually attracted considerable interest.

First of all, Kim Seol naturally draws people’s attention simply by existing.

She is a member of Blooming, which has recently risen to become one of Korea’s top bands, and at the same time the daughter of a Nobel Prize–winning literary giant.

Naturally, people were enormously interested in her private life.

In return for that attention, Kim Seol went all-out with her spending and showed everyone exactly what life as a young lady was like.

Everyone in Korea already knew Kim Seol was rich and born with a silver spoon in her mouth, so everyone knew pretending to be frugal would only get her criticized. She had simply committed fully to the young-lady image.

And that sort of behavior actually appealed to some viewers.

Seo Si-yeon’s veiled daily life also drew people’s attention, and various clips were cut up and spread across the internet as short-form content.

Naturally, the person who had been beside her also attracted attention...