BTS: Korean band's managers apologise over Nazi photos

by Justin McCurry

 

BTS is currently touring in Japan Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

 

The agency representing the K-pop band BTS has offered its “sincere apologies” following a row over photographs showing one member of the group wearing a Nazi-inspired hat and another a T-shirt that appeared to celebrate the atomic bombings of Japan.

 

In a statement carried on its Facebook page, Big Hit Entertainment said it “had no intention of causing distress or pain” to those affected by the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki days before Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945 – a date Koreans mark as their liberation from Japanese colonial rule.

 

The band, who began their tour of Japan at a sold-out Tokyo Dome on Tuesday, last week had an appearance on Japanese TV cancelled over a 2017 photograph in which BTS member Jimin was seen wearing a T-shirt commemorating Korean liberation that included an image of an exploding nuclear bomb.

 

Big Hit said the shirt was not intended to offend but offered its “sincere apologies not only for failing to take the precautions that could have prevented the wearing of such clothing by our artist that inadvertently inflicted pain on anyone affected by the use of atomic weapons, but to anyone who may have experienced distress and discomfort by witnessing the association of our artists with imagery related to atomic bombings”.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/14/bts-korean-bands-managers-apologise-over-nazi-photos

Much like Thailand these guys simply don't understand until the international media catch up with them.  A non-story then.  

could be ignorance or it could be deliberate to try to get publicity. either way cultural appropriation is wrong.

1 hour ago, guest879 said:

could be ignorance or it could be deliberate to try to get publicity. either way cultural appropriation is wrong.

 

But some things migrate quite well from Western pop - wet boy bands, for instance.

On 11/14/2018 at 2:31 PM, fanjita said:

Much like Thailand these guys simply don't understand until the international media catch up with them.  A non-story then.  

huh agree