[Hyung-Yi's Creator World]
Meaning of someone who is perfect in every aspect
Trend in content & marriage market
Questioning whether perfection exists
Awareness that humans are beings who make mistakes

The keyword 'hexagon human' recorded the highest trend index for the trend keyword in the 2nd week of April 2024. 'Hexagon human' is truly the biggest trend.

A hexagon human refers to a person who is perfect in all aspects, including appearance, education, assets, profession, family background, and personality. This keyword is usually used as 'hexagon 00', and representative examples include #hexagonidol #hexagonathlete.

Blackpink's Jennie is often mentioned as a hexagon idol. Jennie is a perfect character close to perfection, with a wealthy background born in Gangnam, experience studying abroad, innate beauty and physique, and outstanding entertainment skills.

Shohei Ohtani, a superstar in Major League Baseball (MLB), is a representative example of a hexagon athlete. Ohtani can be called a perfect hexagon human with nothing lacking in terms of skills, character, appearance, diligence, profession, and assets.

This month, I strongly felt the trend of hexagon humans in various aspects of our society. Let's take a look at each one.

First, I felt the trend of hexagon humans while watching the overwhelming enthusiasm for the couple Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won in the tvN drama <Queen of Tears>, which is currently a big hit with over 20% viewership ratings.

Previous drama trends often dealt with love stories between male protagonists who were the second generation of chaebols and female protagonists who were ordinary people. Viewers used to get immersed in the ordinary female protagonists and fulfill their fantasies while watching the drama.

However, the trend has changed, and now both the male and female protagonists are close to perfect hexagon figures.

In the drama, Hong Hae-in (Kim Ji-won) is the third-generation chaebol of the Queens Group, the CEO of a department store, and a truly perfect woman with fantastic beauty and physique. Baek Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun) was also born as the son of a local landlord, graduated top of his class from the top university in Korea, worked as a lawyer at a large corporation, and is a hexagon human with perfect looks and height.

People were excited about this perfect hexagon couple. Looking at the comments, people are over-immersed in the two perfect people, reacting with things like 'Please date in the real world too ㅠㅠ'.

Second, I felt the hexagon trend in the Korean marriage market. In Mnet's mega-couple matching survival show 'Couple Palace', the most popular men were undoubtedly hexagon men.

In the past, it was socially accepted to be considered well-married even if someone was exceptionally good-looking but had little assets, or if they had a good job but were short.

But now, marrying someone who has a small but evenly balanced hexagon is considered a socially accepted successful marriage, and it is felt that a dented hexagon is not socially accepted. As this preference for hexagon humans intensifies, stories like 'Only hexagon men get married' are appearing on SNS.

Finally, I felt the hexagon human trend in an unexpected place, the excessive criticism people had about Le Sserafim's Coachella performance. Le Sserafim's performance at Coachella was perfect, but their lack of vocal skills was exposed.

Foreign media gave them 4 out of 5 points, saying, 'The performance was good,' but Korean media and comments showed reactions that went beyond disappointment to excessive criticism.

Of course, it is understandable to be disappointed that they couldn't sing well, which is the essence of being a singer. Also, showing their lack of skill on a global stage can damage the reputation of K-pop as a whole, so it is understandable to criticize them. However, I felt a little more detail than just 'disappointment' among fans, and I thought that the reason for this was the 'shattering of the illusion of perfection'.

While the narratives of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation idols were stories of growth that came from the bottom through hard work, fans today want 'born-complete characters' for the 4th generation idols. Le Sserafim is from a major agency and has been on a winning streak from the start, having a character that has nothing lacking. However, when their lack of vocal skills became apparent during this performance, the immersion in the character was broken, and I could feel the disappointment of fans who were greatly disappointed.

When did idols become synonymous with 'perfection'? Ten years ago, when I was active as an idol, each member only needed one strong point. Each member had their own role, like the main vocalist, rapper, dancer, visual, and entertainer. However, now everyone needs to be good at dancing, singing, looking beautiful, having a good physique, and, in short, everything needs to be perfect.

Le Sserafim member Sakura responded to the criticism people had about their Coachella performance by saying, 'There is no perfect person,' and that statement itself is a truth and a fact that we need to accept. There is no truly perfect person. However, the public and the trend today want perfection, so 4th generation idols need to act in a way that makes them appear perfect, even if they have to package themselves well. It's a sad reality for 4th generation idols.

As such, the trend of hexagon humans is unfolding across society, including the content market and the marriage market, along with an obsession with 'perfection'.

The trend of hexagon humans shows the tendency of modern society to pursue perfection. But does perfection really exist? No, it doesn't. Perfection doesn't exist, so it can be said that it's a goal we can never reach.

The problem with the trend of hexagon humans becoming widespread across society is that we live with 'inadequacy' as our default value in front of the goal of perfection, which we cannot reach.

A society where people feel inadequate in front of unreachable goals and ideals is a strange and unhappy society. I think that Korea's culture that demands hexagon humans will ultimately make our society sick.

I wondered where K-pop fans who pursue hexagon humans will ultimately end up. I predict that fans will increasingly turn to virtual idols and fantasy.

That's because fans want perfection, but because humans aren't perfect, events like Le Sserafim's vocal skills being exposed or Karina's perfect worldview being shattered by dating will continue to happen.

These events that shatter worldviews hurt fans. I expect fans to turn towards pursuing 'eternally perfect' virtual idols in order to overcome this disappointment.

It's sad that they're trapped in fantasy, pursuing an ideal that doesn't exist, constantly being disappointed and dissatisfied with real humans. Real humans are sometimes ugly, sometimes clumsy, and they make mistakes. That's what humans are like.

※ The author of this article is myself andit is taken from an article written for the Woman Economy newspaper..