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K-pop boy band BTS Photo: AFP
Samsung removed products related to the South Korean group BTS from its official stores on Chinese e-commerce platforms, after the band’s comments about the Korean War angered Chinese netizens, who said the group’s one-sided attitude K-pop to war denies history.
Users of the popular Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com discovered on Sunday that the BTS edition smartphones and headphones, Galaxy S20 + 5G BTS Edition and Galaxy Buds + BTS Edition, disappeared from the official Samsung store on the platform. e-commerce.
However, a member of the store’s pre-sale services staff told the Global Times on Monday that the two products are no longer in stock.
The same products also disappeared from Samsung’s official store on Tmall, another popular e-commerce platform in China.
Some Sina Weibo netizens applauded the move, with one user commenting that it “shows that Samsung cares about the Chinese market.”
Italian sports brand FILA also removed a post promoting the band on its Sina Weibo account.
After receiving the James A. Van Fleet General Award, an award that celebrates relations between the United States and Korea, the BTS team leader said, “We will always remember the story of grief our two nations shared together and the sacrifices of countless men and women. “
The two nations he refers to are the United States and South Korea. Many Chinese netizens pointed out that the speech plays up to the standards of American netizens, even though the country played the role of aggressor in the war.
Some Chinese fans of the group stated that they would stop persecuting the K-pop group.
“There were thousands of Chinese soldiers who sacrificed their lives in the war. You are South Korean people and you can say that, but I am Chinese, so I decided to get angry and leave the boy band fan club to express my strength. attitude”. a BTS fan surnamed Li told the Global Times on Sina Weibo on Sunday.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid to Korea (1950-53), also known as the Korean War, with large numbers of Chinese commemorating those who sacrificed their lives. during the war.
Chinese netizens on Monday cherished the memory of the hero Qiu Shaoyun, who lost his life during the war on the same day in 1952.
A series of commemorative events were also held in recent days, with media reporting on Saturday that the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea Memorial Hall in the northeastern province’s border city of Dandong Liaoning China, had been reopened after renovations.
