“Lovely Runner” Byeon Woo-seok Faced Mixed Reactions for Calling His Fans “Toilet”?

On April 18, a topic regarding “Lovely Runner” Byeon Woo-seok was published on the Korean forum Pann Nate and immediately attracted attention, 

The topic in question attaches an image of Byeon Woo-seok’s autograph, and it can be seen that the actor named his fan club “toilet”, based on a word play using his surname, “Byeon”. 

The author of the topic seems to take issue with this, and called Byeon Woo-seok a “turn-off” for using such a name for his fan club. While many netizens also find such a name perplexing, a lot defend the actor, stating that he has since changed the fan club name into something. 

Below are some comments from netizens: 

• It was a joke he made way back in 2016. He literally said he wanted to change it after one day, but fans found the name cute and continued to use it. Anyway, the fan club name has since been changed to mail box
• Honestly, I just find this to be funny 
• It seems that Byeon Woo-seok is getting popular to the point of getting hate on Pann 
• Congratulations to Byeon Woo-seok, getting malicious posts like this mean you are official popular

Source: Pann Nate, Krb