Why does it feel like 2018 won’t end nicely for Kpop in Japan?
We have another Japan-Korea situation here, a Japanese politician Onodera Masaru shared photos of TWICE’s Dahyun. It’s an old photo (from September 2017) and she’s wearing a shirt supporting comfort women victims.
To give you a bit of a background check, ‘comfort women’ is a term used to refer to Korean women who were forced to be sex slaves for the Japanese soldiers during WWII.
The issue is still not over to this day, Koreans have been demanding an official apology from Japan to this day, and these days the relations between the two countries are tense.
【悲報】原爆Tシャツで日本人を敵に回したBTSがNHKの紅白落選!これは朗報だが、実は2回目の出場を決めたtwiceのメンバーのダヒョンさんが「慰安婦Tシャツ」を着ていたことが判明。このTシャツの売り上げは韓国の理不尽な慰安婦活動の資金源に…。NHKはこんな反日活動家を紅白に出場させるのだ。 pic.twitter.com/qkHPGNgIZI
— 小野寺まさる (@onoderamasaru) November 14, 2018
170924 #출국 PREVIEW
여러분! ! 다현이는 마리몬드 티셔츠를 입었답니다.😍😍 위안부 할머니들을 후원하는 좋은 취지에 동참하는 다현이 너무 멋집니다.❤❤❤❤#다현 #DAHYUN #ダヒョン #트와이스 #마리몬드 #marymond pic.twitter.com/InsOabgPWa— FLOWER DANCE (@TheFlowerDance) September 24, 2017
Onodera Masaru wrote in his ranting twitter post,
“BTS won’t be going on NHK’s ‘Kōhaku Uta Gassen’ because they turned the Japanese to the enemy with the atomic bomb shirt. This is good news but we have another bad incident. Ms. Dahyun, a member of TWICE, who decided to participate for the second time is wearing a ‘comfort women’ shirt.
The profit from the shirt goes to Korea’s unreasonable ‘comfort women’ movement funding. NHK will make an anti-Japanese activist participate in Kohaku.”
TWICE has been previously confirmed to make an appearance on the historic New Year’s Eve music show Kōhaku Uta Gassen, the event literally translates to Red and White Song Battle.
TWICE is the only Kpop group to appear on that show this year. This was good news considering the fact that the relations between Korea and Japan are tense right now.
The brand who designs this comfort shirt is called Marymond, which was created to incorporate pressed flower designs made by comfort women.
His tweet went viral and many Japanese liked the tweet, as of this writing the tweet garnered more than 20k likes.
The right-wing Japanese netizens are, as you’d expect, not happy with this and demand TWICE be removed from the show.
On the other hand, Korean netizens are showing support for Dahyun and TWICE, they are joined by international fans who also defended the girl for standing up for something she believes in.
What do you think of this?
Stop attacking people just because they wearing such clothes….. it doesn’t mean that they support what’s written on the t-shirts nor the photo’s on it…..respect them for who they really are don’t judge a book by it’s cover alright.