On May 21, a topic titled “ILLIT at Kutopia Festival” was published on the Korean forum theqoo, drawing attention with over 66,00 views and almost 400 comments.
The topic attached several videos of ILLIT’s performance at Korea University’s Kutopia Festival, which happened amid the NewJeans copying allegations against ILLIT.
Nevertheless, the members didn’t seem to have been affected by the news, and delivered an explosive and fun performance. However, reactions were not exactly positive, as it was pointed out that despite performing at a festival, ILLIT likely lipsynced.
Below are some comments from Korea netizens:
- Wow, full lip sync.. Hahahahahaha No apology?
- I came in expecting to see a live performance but that didn’t happen. Do they do a lot of lip syncing at festivals these days?
- They just openly lip-sync at every event haha. How much money do they get paid?
- It is annoying to see they receive money to perform only to appear on stage with lip-syncing
- The stage itself is good… but I just wish it wasn’t lipsynced