From Asian Junkie on the recent KARA/Hara controversy on Radio Star 

"Well, the temptation to pester Hara proved to be too much for Radio Star‘s MCs, as the hosts virtually neglected saying anything about KARA‘s new album in favor of trash gossip… because ratings or whatever, which is basically what they admitted themselves."

"MC Yoon Jong Shin asked Hara, “Which question are you the most scared of?”. Hara answered, “You’re still going to ask!”, and Yoon Jong Shin said, “We’ll take that question out.” Hara then hesitantly answered, “I don’t want to talk about dating.”

Yoon Jong Shin then joked, “That’s way too broad. We’ll just take out one person,” to which Hara exploded, “I don’t have any! Why do you keep doing that to me?”. Yoon Jong Shin answered, “It’s because if we take out the ‘dating’ category when we talk to girl groups, then we can’t talk about a bulk of things.”

Kyuhyun then added, “She’s the dating-dol.” Hara glared at him and said, “What?”, and Kyuhyun meekly replied, “Dating-dol…”, to which Hara shoved her drink in his direction. MC Kim Kuk Jin then said, “So everything is okay as long as we don’t talk about dating?”, and she said, “Yes. It’s because when I talk about it, articles get written about it.”

MC Kim Gu Ra said, “Once articles keep coming out, people will stop caring so much. But I was wondering, your relationship doesn’t seem like it was that passionate?”. Hara answered, “As I’ve said before, our Japanese promotions were very long. That’s all I’ll say.”

As the MCs kept joking, they got to a point where the MCs said, “To pull the cloth over Hara, either Jiyoung or Seungyeon has to date.” Hara spoke up immediately and said, “Date! You’re already doing it!”. When the MCs caught onto her words, she confessed, “I’m just trying to cover myself up.”

The conversation continued toward the point where Kyuhyun said, “If I open my mouth, Hara will be over.” Hara exploded, burst up and said, “What do you mean, I’ll be over?! You can’t be 100% confident, either!”. Hara got so emotional that she started tearing up, and Kyuhyun said, “I was just joking!”. Hara, however, started crying, and said, “I’m really angry.” "

There is a very fine line between playful banter and (basically) slandering. This is pure radio show hyping that would make Skip Bayless proud. If I was Kara, or even the company, I would threaten with lawsuits, considering how this is extremely ill-sighted on the act of the MC's especially Kyuhyun.

But rather, it's the company that has to apologize. ed up world we live in.