According to netizens, in the Korean group SEVENTEEN's letter program, the expression "Happy Korean New Year" appeared, turning the Chinese New Year into the Korean New Year, which sparked controversy.
It is reported that the show is also a fan paid column, and the netizens who found it were very angry and tried to persuade fans not to buy it through public means.
However, fans did not go down this level, blindly refuting it, and some fans said that "Happy Korean New Year" translates to "Korean New Year holiday", not "Happy Korean New Year", and there is a big difference between the two.
There are also fans who took out screenshots related to the "Korean New Year Holiday" released by CCTV News, attacking netizens for finding faults, angrily scolding netizens for not learning the language well, and thinking that netizens pick soft persimmons and pinch them. At the same time, take the program production Luo PD likes Chinese endorsement. It can only be said that it is too absurd, and the Chinese sentence of the Korean New Year holiday is the Korean "New Year holiday", not "it is the Korean New Year", and the saying "Happy Korean New Year" cannot be derived.
Then, fans posted a new screenshot of the show's official to say that adjustments had been made. It can be seen from the screenshots that they have changed "Happy Korean New Year" to "New Year holidays", which directly slaps fans in the face.
However, although the official has revised the wrong statement, there are still fans who are busy defending themselves, and it is also untenable. If it's a translation problem, then there will be no subsequent changes, so I advise fans to be sensible and not lose their judgment for blind whitewashing.
Regarding the Korean group's behavior of stealing the Chinese New Year, some netizens thought it was not surprising, saying that from the time they started using "Lunar New Year", they knew that it would be stolen as "Korean New Year", but they didn't expect the fans to cover it very tightly. And some netizens posted their textbooks in South Korea before, which directly said "Korean Lunar New Year", which also indirectly showed that the act of stealing was not unintentional.
Speaking of the SEVENTEEN group, some netizens thought that it was more reliable in the past, there would be donations, traditional Chinese blessings, Chinese songs, etc., but since HYBE took over, the mind is too obvious, and there have been many incidents.
There are two Chinese members in the SEVENTEEN group, and the group's album sales also account for the majority of the Chinese market, but they steal again and again and do not respect China. Previously, he also stole the Great Wall and Sun Wukong, and neither of the two in the group clearly expressed their resistance to it, and they were also questioned.
In the previous album trailer, there were obvious signs of insulting China, and the footage of the Great Wall was played, with yellow and white chrysanthemums, and the picture was gray and yellow, and he was scolded. Then, the brokerage company issued an apology and explanation, saying that Chinese culture was misunderstood and the notice was deleted.
SEVENTEEN's title song "Monkey King" is inspired by "Journey to the West", but it is not officially introduced as a classical Chinese novel. Some netizens said that Koreans think that "Journey to the West" is theirs, and stealing is a subtle transfer of consciousness, like this deliberately vague concept is considered stealing.
Later, the troupe added "Monkey King" to pay tribute to the character Monkey King in classical Chinese novels, which can be regarded as explaining the origin, but did not say in public that the creativity of the song, stage, and martial arts came from China, which was listed by many people as the so-called Oriental style.
The Korean group spared no effort in stealing Chinese culture, and the MV used Chinese style, but it was always called Oriental style to the outside world, and it seemed that by expanding it in this way, it would be possible to blur the characteristics of Chinese culture with East Asian culture. So, please be more sensitive and don't feel embarrassed when it comes to protecting Chinese culture.
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