YoonA (SNSD) faces racism incident at Cannes Film Festival... ”Security guards only block people of color

Girls' Generation member YoonA, who attended the 77th Cannes International Film Festival, was allegedly racially discriminated against by a female security guard.

On the 19th (local time), YoonA was invited to the 77th Cannes International Film Festival at the Cannes Festival in France. On the same day, YoonA walked the red carpet wearing a pink dress and was in the intensive spotlight of the foreign press, proving her global power.

A video of a female security guard preventing YoonA from posing for a photo spread online and caused controversy. In the video, YoonA looks at the cameras of the interviewers and greets them with her hand, but a female security guard sees this and blocks her with her arm, urging her to go inside.

On the 26th May (local time), the Hindustan Times, a leading Indian newspaper, reported that the Cannes International Film Festival faced heavy criticism for its racist treatment towards K-pop idol YoonA. They wrote "‘(YoonA) did not express it outwardly, but her expression was visibly inconvenient. She did not react and went inside quietly and patiently."

The behaviour of the female security guard who interrupted YoonA as she posed led to a racist uproar after it was known that the relevant security guard urged only stars of colour to enter early.

Unlike when the female security guard guarded white stars, when it was the turn of African-American singer Kelly Rowland and Dominican actress Mashiell Taveras, she blocked their view and cornered them so that they could not be photographed. In response, Kelly Rowland warned the security guard in question not to touch her, and Mathiel Taveras became very angry, shoving the guard in question's shoulder.

When such a racism issue flared up at the Cannes Film Festival, a global film festival, netizens reacted that it was really disrespectful to cross the security line and that it was wrong to only invade the coloured boundary.