Fans outraged over alleged discrimination of Yoona by Cannes security guard

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Fans of South Korean actress Yoona accuse a security guard of discriminating against her at the Cannes Film Festival last week.

Key points:

• Videos from the May 19 event reportedly show the female security staff rushing Yoona while giving white celebrities more time on the red carpet.

• The same staff member is accused of similar behavior towards Kelly Rowland and Dominican actress Massiel Taveras.

• Yoona fans are calling for the goalkeeper to be fired on social media.

The details:

• Yoona, whose real name is Im Yoon-ah — and who rose to fame as a member of the K-pop group Girls' Generation — attended the event before the screening of “Horizon: An American Saga.”

• Videos posted online show Yoona appearing uncomfortable as the guard rushed her around the premises and prevented her from posing for photos. Fans slammed the guard for allegedly ruining his red carpet moment and called for an investigation.

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• Rowland had a tense exchange with the same security guard on the carpet. The former Destiny's Child member later suggested she had been racially profiled, telling AP News: “There were other women on that mat who didn't really look like me and they weren't scolded, pushed away or asked to get off.”

• Netizens noticed a similar pattern with Taveras, who got into an argument with the guard for posing in her dress.

• An X user wrote about this: “Seriously, two black and South Korean women get pushed in line, but the white women get all the time they want, including 12-minute standing ovations. This woman needs to be fired! »

• The security guard was reportedly identified as a local woman hired on a short-term contract for the festival. Her colleagues called allegations of racism or discrimination “ridiculous”, telling the Daily Mail that she was “just doing her job” under pressure to move the rug.

• At the time of writing, the Cannes Film Festival has not commented on these accusations.

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