Mnet 'Queendom Puzzle' openly divided female idols, 'noisy' even before the first broadcast

Mnet's survival program 'Queendom Puzzle' has been rumored to line up the ranks of female idols.

On the 6th, the pre-release video of 'Queendom Puzzle' was released. Taeyeon, who appeared as an MC in the video, told the participants, “(In the music industry) there is a thing called a military. This military is the report card you received while working in KPOP. .

The criteria for sorting groups 1-4 unique to ‘Queendom Puzzle’ was the sum of the total number of times they won first place on music shows and the highest number of first-week sales among released albums.

Group 1 featured JooE, Chaeyeon, Yeoreum, Dohwa, and Kei. Group 2 was Jihan, Joa, Soeun, Sujin, Yeeun, Haein, and Yuki, and Group 3 was Seoyeon, Jiwoo, Yeonhee, Suyun, Juri, Chaerin, Bora, and Jiwon. Lastly, the 4th group is Eli, Sanga, Miru, Pi, Riina, Huiseo, Nana, and Wooyeon.

The performers were surprised and responded with "suddenly cool", "how old are we", and "too cruel". Group Cherry Bullet's Bora said, "I know that they secretly divide and evaluate the ranks like that, but I thought it would have to be higher than the 3rd group because I was faced with it."

The idols who were ranked in the 4th group could not hide their complicated expressions.

Some netizens who saw this responded negatively, such as "Do broadcasters use expressions that are used on the Internet", "The script is really too much", "What are you doing openly", and "Taeyeon will be upset too".

'Queendom Puzzle' is an evolved version of the 'Queendom' series, and is a project to create a new global girl group by combining former and current girl group members like a puzzle.

Kim Seo-yoon, staff reporter seogugu@tenasia.co.kr