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By Danielle Broadway
OAKLAND, California, – South Korean boy band Seventeen had followers chanting their names in Oakland, California final week as a part of their “Proper Right here” world tour to advertise the group’s 2024 album “17 Is Proper Right here.”
“I have been a Seventeen fan about six or seven years,” stated Ruby Webb, a 21-year-old fan from Portland, Oregon.
“I like them a lot. S.Coups, Mingyu, Dino, they’re my infants,” she added.
Whereas there was pleasure, the followers often known as Carats, spoke concerning the latest controversy with the South Korean firm HYBE, that oversees a number of Ok-Pop artists, together with widespread teams BTS, Blackpink and Seventeen.
An inner doc that circulated amongst firm executives, together with HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyuk, containing disparaging feedback about a number of of its Ok-pop teams was disclosed throughout a Nationwide Meeting audit on Oct. 24 by the South Korean Nationwide Meeting’s Tradition, Sports activities, and Tourism Committee.
The report was revealed by Korean popular culture critic Kang Myung Seok.
Within the doc, some Ok-pop teams, together with Seventeen, had been criticized for being “unattractive” and having “an excessive amount of cosmetic surgery.”
This adopted a sequence of different controversies within the trade.
Ok-pop star Hanni, a member of the group NewJeans, made an attraction in October for higher therapy within the Ok-pop trade throughout a parliamentary listening to.
Ok-pop idols are sometimes held to excessive requirements for his or her conduct and should keep a clear public picture, together with strain from followers to not have companions.
The corporate’s criticism of Seventeen instantly sparked backlash from Carats.
“I’m principally disillusioned,” stated Laura Munoz, 29, who traveled from Kansas to attend the live performance.
“You help a gaggle, and their very own firm will not be holding them in thoughts and wanting to guard them, and being on their aspect,” she added.
For Webb, nonetheless, it is necessary to focus extra on the music than the controversy.
“I am simply attempting to have my focus and on the members, not a giant enormous conglomerate,” she stated.
Eden Johnson, 22, who attended the live performance with Webb dressed as a carrot, felt optimistic at her first Seventeen live performance.
“I simply get pleasure from it, being on the live performance that they get to be completely satisfied in,” she added.
Seventeen member, Seungkwan, posted a response to the doc on Instagram in October, a number of days after it was launched.
“You haven’t any proper to simply insert yourselves into our narrative,” he wrote in Korean.
“This is applicable not simply to us however to different artists as properly. We’re not your commodities for use and loved at will,” he added.
The South Korean group had final yr’s biggest-selling album globally.
Lee Jaesang, CEO of HYBE, issued an apology assertion from the South Korean firm that was shared with Reuters.
“I prolong a proper apology to all exterior artists talked about within the doc,” Jaesang wrote in Korean.
“I’m additionally within the strategy of contacting every label on to apologize, and assembly with the entire HYBE music group’s artists, who at the moment are dealing with criticisms for actions taken solely by the corporate,” he added.
Followers in Oakland arrived dressed as each carats and carrots, introduced posters of their favourite band members and handed out free handmade merchandise for different followers.
The U.S. portion of the tour started in Illinois in October and concluded in Los Angeles final Saturday and the group will now head to their Asia tour subsequent.
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