Single’s Inferno is a dating reality show, not a mystery series, but that didn’t stop a viral conspiracy theory from taking over the fandom.
During Single’s Inferno 2, three additional contestants were added to the original Season 2 cast: a woman, Lim Min Su, and two men, Kim Jin Young and Kim Se Jun. Yet, some fans believe that one more man was supposed to be on the show.
Such suspicions arose with Episode 8. Many viewers found the editing choppier than usual, as if a lot of moments and context were removed. For example, little to none of the talking among contestants since the new people arrived was shown, providing no context for their decisions when choosing their Paradise dates.
When Jo Yoong Jae returned from Paradise (resort) in Episode 8, he appeared to have a sore on his lip, which confused viewers. Some viewers thought it looked like he had gotten hurt, as if he had been hit in the mouth, but others wrote it off as a cold sore or pimple.
If he was hurt, it would have made more sense for it to have happened after the unfortunately violent men’s game at the end of Episode 8, not before it. Yoong Jae appeared with a busted lip before the game, but he didn’t get it in Paradise with Lee Nadine, so when and how did the injury happen?
Choppy editing and a busted lip weren’t the only oddities viewers noticed in Episode 8. Several contestants were left in Inferno (while three pairs went off to Paradise) and enjoyed the beach.
Kim Se Jun and Choi Seo Eun hung out while Shin Dong Woo and Park Se Jeong suntanned. Some believe there was originally one more person present.
A drone shot of the scene had viewers greatly perplexed. They pointed to the huge open space next to Se Jeong on the towel. It raises a couple of questions: Why were she and Dong Woo so physically close when there was so much space left? Why was there an extra pair of flip-flops? It definitely appeared someone had been edited out from the space next to Se Jeong. You can even see that the blank space next to her is much smoother than the rest of the towel because someone was on it.
This exact drone shot was shown in Episode 1 in Season 2’s preview clips of what was to come. As you can see below, there is another man on Se Jeong’s towel.
Based on the shot, it appears that the other man in question is Kim Han Bin. The face and tattoo look to be his. But he was in Paradise with Lee So E at the time in Episode 8, so…how was he in two places at once?
In the previews shown during Episode 1, there are other angles of the beach scene. In one, Se Jeong applied lotion on the man in white’s back.
In another shot, we can see what appears to be Dong Woo, Se Jeong, and the other man lounging on the towels. Seo Eun also is in the same spot. It even looks like it could be Se Jun, but with his navy shirt’s sleeves rolled up.
So, it seems that Han Bin was originally in this scene and was removed. Even more curious, the beach scene in Episode 8 that he was allegedly removed from was shown immediately before people returned from Paradise. He was shown at the center of the group, and some even made comments about those “dressed for the beach.”
So, the only semi-logical explanation is the drone shot was that it was “filler” footage, but even then, all the other shots of the same content being shown before are confusing.
Still, these details, including the removed body on the beach and Yoong Jae’s lip among the obviously choppy editing, provoked viewers to theorize. A conspiracy theory about an additional male cast member circulated on TikTok. The OP (Original Poster) has since removed their videos.
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