Is a public love relationship a good thing or a bad thing for girl groups?

Singer and actor Lee Seng Ki and Yoona of Girls' Generation admitted their relationship on January 1, 2014. The two started going out back in September of 2013, after meeting each other for the first time in singing and entertainment programs back in 2007.

The bottom line is that the public is taking the side of Lee Seung Ki and Yoona, arguing that the two's relationship is a good thing for Girls' Generation. More than anything, the boyfriend Lee Seung Ki's gentle and dandy image completes the pictures of the relationship of 20 somethings. In addition, some say that, as the representative of Girls' Generation, Yoona needs to make more of a mature image than before. In this case, the news of a relationship does not hurt but actually contribute to that mature image.

Yoona in the KBS drama "Prime Minister And I" also plays a mature role of a mother of three children. People from the entertainment industry is looking at her publicly open relationship with Lee Seung Ki as the final piece in the puzzle of Yoona's mature, woman like image instead of her previous girl like image.