DaDa-ITZY EP.02 | Let's Defeat the Zombies!

What happened

ITZY member Chaeryeong got so scared during a zombie courage test that filming was paused. The moment is from Episode 2 of ITZY's own YouTube reality series 다다있지 (Dada-ITZY, a pun on the group's name), where the other four members went back in to rescue her from staff dressed as zombies.

Why Koreans care

ITZY's own Korean name, 있지 (itjji), is everyday spoken Korean for something like "you know, it's there" — so the reality show's title, 다다있지 (Dada-ITZY), is itself a pun: stacking "다" ("all"/"everything") in front of the group's name to suggest "ITZY has it all," a branding trick common when K-pop groups produce their own in-house content. The format is a 담력 테스트 (damnyeok teseuteu, "courage test"), a long-running Korean variety staple where cast members walk through a staged haunted setup and are expected to overplay their screams for the camera. That convention is exactly why the other members' first instinct was to joke Chaeryeong was "acting," and why they scrambled to apologize once told it was real. The on-screen caption crediting the pause to the "PD" (producer-director) also reflects a habit of Korean variety editing: the crew's real-time calls are left in as part of the story rather than cut out.

In the Korean comments

Majority reaction: viewers focused on how the fear itself made the members more endearing, not less. One commenter wrote about a different member's scare, "I feel sorry for how scared Ryujin looks, but she's just too cute," and another wrote, "Seriously, isn't 최리아씨 (Choeria-ssi) just too cute... the baby beast is right here" — both treating the vulnerability as the charm point rather than something to laugh at. Fandom reaction: a smaller, more insider-flavored comment zeroed in on an off-beat moment inside the chaos: "In the middle of all that, ENFP Yuna is over here asking the zombie's age, lol." Tagging her with the MBTI type is a fandom shorthand move, not a factual label.

What the words mean

When Chaeryeong's mic first cuts out and the others start joking she's "a good actress," a foreign viewer might read that as mockery. In the courage-test genre, cast members routinely overact fear for the camera, so co-stars' default assumption is performance, not real panic — that's why the group flips instantly to guilt ("We're terrible," "Sorry, Chaeryeong! Please don't watch this!") the second they learn the scream was genuine; it's concern, not the callousness it might first look like. Separately, tagging Yuna as "엔프피 (enpeupi, ENFP)" in the comments isn't a personal profile detail — Korean online culture uses MBTI types as everyday shorthand for personality quirks, so the label is just a punchline about her curiosity, not an actual claim about her.