Isn't it, unnie? When I say 'one, two, three,' you do it? #NMIXX #LILY #BAE

Why Koreans care

The bit plays on a language ambiguity: 셋 하면 (set hamyeon, "when you get to three") can mean either "act as you say three" or "act right after three finishes," and Lily keeps guessing wrong. The clip also belongs to a familiar K-pop fan-service genre called 주접 (jujeop, exaggerated flattery banter), where one member showers another with over-the-top compliments on camera — several commenters name-check the genre directly. Commenters address Bae by her real name, 박진솔 (Park Jinsol), which is how NMIXX fans usually refer to her offstage. There's also a hierarchy joke underneath it: Bae calls Lily 언니 (unnie, honorific for an older female) while good-naturedly bossing her around — a playful inversion of Korea's usual age-based deference, since normally it's the younger member who gets teased, not the unnie.

In the Korean comments

Majority reaction is simple delight at both members: one top comment reads "Jinsol lol, so cute — and meanwhile Lily's being so sweet about it lol." Fandom-leaning comments frame it as a genre moment, with one declaring "This is a revolution in the jujeop scene. Jinsol, please keep walking this flower-flattery path." A minority pushed back playfully, with one comment simply saying "Stop teasing Lily already lol."

What the words mean

A foreign viewer reading 주접 (jujeop, flattery slang) literally would take it as "sloppy" or "messy," missing that fans use it as a compliment for exaggerated, gushing flattery between idols — commenters calling this clip part of the 주접계 (jujeop-gye, the flattery-content scene) mean it as high praise, not an insult. The back-and-forth confusion over 하나, 둘, 셋 (hana, dul, set, "one, two, three") also isn't Lily being slow — it's a real ambiguity in the Korean cue about whether to act on the count itself or after it, something an English "one, two, three, go" doesn't have.