thanks tinggg for the article! read it from the site and i think what MNet meant was "Hyomin as been an ulzzang since middle school. And the captures are also from her middle school days. As you can see, it is very different from one another, because a picture is not the same as a capture. There lies the misunderstanding regarding the unflattering capture."
so yeah. i think we should just watch that clip and see for ourselves if it was just a bad capture. honestly, she looks so much like her kindergarden photo that i don't believe the surgery rumors..