Recently, a Japanese netizen brought back an old video featuring BTS members, which has ignited some severe rift in the K-Pop fandom.
The video in question features BTS leader RM playfully singing a popular Korean song, “Dokdo Is Our Land.” Notably, the Dokdo Islands are a disputed territory between Korea and Japan, with both countries laying claims of sovereignty on the land.
The video was first posted by a right-wing Japanese netizen, who paired it with a derogatory caption, even designating the hanbok RM was wearing as “comfort women’s clothes.”
Shortly after, the video was reposted by a media outlet with almost the same caption, garnering huge attention.
【動画】BTS リーダー、慰安婦の服を着て『竹島は韓国の領土』と歌う… https://t.co/BnL0nLAooB
— Share News Japan (@sharenewsjapan1) July 12, 2024
International ARMYs took to social media to voice their objection against this blatant attack against BTS.
when will japanese neo-nazis leave bts alone man 🧎they have nothing to do w ur hate boner for korea. also calling hanbok ‘comfort women clothes’ is fucking insane considering it was japanese soldiers who pioneered that shit dpmo https://t.co/iqOFiAjTbi
— (jinnie the) rooh⁷ (@btsprodsuga) July 13, 2024
Dumbasses liking this when this cvnt said Koreans r descendants of pr0stitutes. Mind u those “pr0stitutes” were comfort women that the Japanese r@ped and tortured. But yall will never admit to ur war crimes. https://t.co/G5o44dAn50
— 인절미⁷ 👩🏻🚀 (@blueming_13) July 12, 2024
This Japanese argued that a white top&black skirt as “Japanese military sexual slavery costume.” BTW. It was a school uniform for Korean girls in the 1920s~50s. How horrible is the difference between two eyes on one history. https://t.co/6y8MRhx2YL
— 한복저장소 (@HanbokPantry) July 13, 2024
62k likes and a large chunk of them being kpop stans who feel the need to side with literal neonazis just cause they dont like bts oh yall are not normal in any capacity like seriously have some fucking shame pic.twitter.com/XtpLVBOeBF https://t.co/KVA0zIJGVE
— ely⁷⭐️ JIN JIN JIN (@taekuv) July 13, 2024
qrts are dumb as shit oh my god this post is literally from a japanese right winger who is calling the hanbok “comfort women clothes”. they are not “calling out rm for mocking comfort women” this is a nazi that hates koreans 💀 https://t.co/VIxsHA2NMr
— yani⁷ (@stayblueandgrey) July 12, 2024
If you are a fan of any Korean woman and you think that this tweet is okay just because it drags an idol that you hate, let me tell you that you are stupid because these kinds of Japanese people have the ideology that Korean women are descendants of prostitutes https://t.co/ODC2WU1QNc
— 🐙 (@koooditto) July 12, 2024
Meanwhile, Korean fans were deeply offended by the actions of some international fanbases of other K-Pop groups that seemed to deliberately spread the video with misleading captions.
- “The i-roaches have started again.”
- “Aren’t they embarrassed?”
- “I usually hate getting involved in any fight between international fandoms, but this needs to be called out publicly.”
- “Comfort women…Have they gone crazy?”
— “The historical distortion is driving me f*cking crazy, LOL.” - “They’re distorting our history. Are they all even sane?”
- “What’s the issue of these overseas fans?”
Source: Instiz
