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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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 Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:19 pm Post subject: "I hate Korea," wrote 2PM member...4 years ago |
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I heard about this first from my wife. This guy got in big trouble because of something he wrote on MySpace 4 years ago. From the Herald:
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2PM member Park Jae-beom issued an official apology yesterday over controversial remarks he made through his MySpace account four years ago when the 22-year-old had been a singer-trainee with Park Jin-young's JYP Entertainment.
Recently, it became known that the singer had written critical remarks on the social network site with the following messages:
"Korea is gay. I hate Koreans. I wanna come back. Korea is whack, but everyone thinks I'm like the illest rapper wen i suck nuts at rappin."
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http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/09/07/200909070063.asp |
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jdog2050
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject: Re: "I hate Korea," wrote 2PM member...4 years ago |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
I heard about this first from my wife. This guy got in big trouble because of something he wrote on MySpace 4 years ago. From the Herald:
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2PM member Park Jae-beom issued an official apology yesterday over controversial remarks he made through his MySpace account four years ago when the 22-year-old had been a singer-trainee with Park Jin-young's JYP Entertainment.
Recently, it became known that the singer had written critical remarks on the social network site with the following messages:
"Korea is gay. I hate Koreans. I wanna come back. Korea is whack, but everyone thinks I'm like the illest rapper wen i suck nuts at rappin."
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http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/09/07/200909070063.asp |
AHAHAH. Hilarious. |
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Epicurus
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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a 17-18 year old gyopo raised in American culture coming over to Korea, experiencing the massive culture shock and thinking it's "gay"?
sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
especially so in the broad sense that many people use the word. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| I know this "story" sounds trivial, but apparently it's been quite a big deal on the Net. I think I'll ask my students about it. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| It is trivial. Plus anyone who's part of a Korean pop group has no right to criticize anything for being "gay." |
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sulperman
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:00 am Post subject: |
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I feel bad for the guy. Anybody could have said the same thing, especially on a friend's myspace when you are 17 or whatever.
He's done. Not fair.
Makes me wonder what I have written over the years, not that I am in any danger of becoming famous. |
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shifter2009
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| I know this "story" sounds trivial, but apparently it's been quite a big deal on the Net. I think I'll ask my students about it. |
My students ask me about it today then brought up some links for me to translate, none of them had that specific line in it. One called korea bizarre and another one said he was sacrificing a few years of his life here to live his dream or some such thing. There was one were him and his buddies were calling each other gay ect but I didn't read it to closely as I didn't really want to explain the foul language to the girls, might have been in there where he said it...My students basically called him a traitor, I calmly said its just the shock of living in another culture, you'd hate a lot of things in America too, probably say you hate it even though you don't ect. Seemed to calm them down a bit |
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kirsi
Joined: 29 May 2009
Location: dongtan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:14 am Post subject: |
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This is super lame because now they also suspended their activities, and they were supposed to be releasing a full-length album soon.
Jay also wrote a nice apology and it seems strange that fans even don't want to try to understand his situation @_@
http://popseoul.com/2009/09/05/myspace-of-2pms-jae-bum-reveals-dark-side/ |
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Savant
Joined: 25 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:07 am Post subject: |
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Koreans do not take criticisms or rants about their country well. Their own public view of Korea is that it is so perfect but their private views are much different; it is a shame that they need to hide their personal views out of fear of attack.
Korean netizens are some of the most vile and vicious groups of people on the planet. |
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rickig
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Soon to be anyang
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| This is one of the first things my co-teacher told me about when I went into class today. She asked if I knew about myspace and proceeded to tell me this. Poor kid. But sometimes how you feel is how you feel. Perhaps he shouldn't have put it out there for the world to see maybe he needs to keep a writing journal . |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| I know this "story" sounds trivial, but apparently it's been quite a big deal on the Net. I think I'll ask my students about it. |
Some fans have refused to accept his grovelling apology, and so promotional activities for 2PM's upcoming album have been halted. To their credit, his group mates and Park Jin-young (JYP) don't want to kick him out of the group. The kid is feeling terrible, and isn't eating. Hopefully, these netizens won't drive him to become Korea's latest celebrity suicide. (All relevant links here.) |
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I'm no Picasso
Joined: 28 Oct 2008
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Oh good grief. *This* is why the boys wigged out when I did my "rumor" lesson today and the first "rumor" was that Jaebeom went on a date with Kim Taeyeon.
I need to get on an email list or something for this nonsense so I can keep up.
Also, anyone who can't get over a seventeen year old kid posting that on myspace when he's been dropped into a foreign country without his family is obviously a numbskull hillbilly who hasn't experienced even the most obtuse aspects of hardship in life and should be duly ignored. |
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GreenlightmeansGO
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Sooke
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Location: korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| On no. The netizens are angry. No, not the netizens. Please protect me from the netizens. lol |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| This is another sorry case of Netizens Gone Wild. The kid grew up in the states, couldn't speak Korean well, was having major culture shock and homesick...and he was young and these comments were done on his MySpace like a few years ago. Why now? And why do we care? Some people have too much time on their hands to go digging this stupid crap up. Give the kid a break...it wasn't like he was caught with drugs or DUI or something. |
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