Aespa‘s Winter recently shocked fans with her cuteness when she accidentally swore on Dear. U Bubble. Dear. U Bubble is a paid subscription service that allows fans to receive exclusive content and messages from their idols.

Due to the highly sensitive nature of the Korean language, where spacings can make or break a word, she accidentally sent fans a strong swear word.

Winter’s texts. | theqoo “Look out the window.” “Look out the windoooow” “Look at the weather.” “?” “It’s a misunderstanding.” “Look at the [spacing] weather.” “Phew.” “I am a girl group [member].”

“Weather” in Korean is “nal-ssi,” while “look” is “bwa,” or “ba” when typed casually. Winter had typed without spacings, causing her to send “nal ssi ba,” which sounds highly like the swear word “ssi bal.” People also commonly use variations such as “ssi ba,” and “SB.”

Winter quickly corrected herself, even adding some humor with the “I am” meme that swept the nation after Jeon Chung Jo’s high profile scam. Netizens fell over their feet with laughter, absolutely adoring Winter.

| theqoo LOOOOOL Kim Min Jung is so cute. Winter seems really cute kekeke. LOL, I saw her meme about “I can’t read this” and it was so cute. Sigh, I think I’ll become her fan at this rate. So cute LOL. She’s so cute! Seems like she comes on Bubble every day too. ROFL IJBOL Ah, cute LOL.

This is not the first time that an idol has made a “fatal” typo! Read more about how LE SSERAFIM‘s Eunchae accidentally “disrespected” Red Velvet‘s Wendy below.

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 It was a case of misplaced spacings.