BTS‘s Suga was found recently operating an electric scooter after consuming alcohol, with a breathalyzer test indicating a 0.08% alcohol level. BigHit Music confirmed that his license was revoked, and he was fined accordingly. In addition to the company’s statement, Suga personally apologized for the incident on Weverse. In South Korea, laws governing electric scooters are strict, due to the high death rates involving electric scooters.
Despite the severity of the issue in South Korea, many international fans have been making light of the situation. To the international eye, driving an electric scooter, drunk or not, does not seem to be of serious concern.
Many fans have also tried to “cleanse” his seaches on X with tags such as #ARMYLovesSuga.
They have been flooding X with encouraging messages instead, seemingly to distract the public from the matter at hand by burying the negative news.
Their actions have invited criticism from the public instead, who condemned them for trying to erase his mistake.
- You should never get involved with those little sevens LOL.
- They’re basically promoting his controversy LOL. Yeah, go ahead and spread your bias’ accident far and wide LOL.
- Like singer, like fan.
- They’ll stick their own foot in their mouth like that.
- Always the little sevens.
- Don’t they know it’ll have the opposite effect? How dumb…
- Not surprised.
- Yeah, you can love him all you want but…
- As expected of i-Roaches.
Electric scooter usage is highly goverened in South Korea. You need a license and verified account on an app to rent and use one. According to SE Daily, electric scooters’ fatality rate for traffic accidents is 5.6%, which is 4.3 times higher than the overall traffic accident fatality rate. You can read more about the incident below.
BigHit Music Releases Official Statement To Address BTS Suga’s Drunk Driving Incident
Source: theqoo
