In China, while the feeling of receiving the Ban Fleet Award by BTS has caused intense controversy, reports about BTS-related content have been censored in a lecture at a local university.
China made a gesture to evolve the controversy by drawing a line that the controversy over the BTS had nothing to do with its official position, but behind the scenes, BTS-related censorship was carried out to the educational scene.
According to the Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP) on the 16th, Jeong Ah-reum (37), a Korean assistant professor at the Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute (SCUPI) co-founded by Sichuan University in China and the University of Pittsburgh in the U.S. I was going to give a lecture on, but I refused to lecture after being told by the school authorities to delete the part related to BTS.
"I was upset that the school authorities were trying to censor the content of the lecture, too, because of the ridiculous claims made by the (Chinese) nationalists."
Mr. Jung, who refused to lecture instead of deleting the BTS part, said, "I do not self-censor."
Earlier, on the 12th of last month, the Chinese nationalist circumstantial clock was awarded the Van Fleet Award for contributing to the development of ROK-US relations in commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Korean War. “We must remember the sacrifice forever”, which encouraged conflict, saying that Chinese netizens expressed their anger.
Since then, the attack on BTS by Chinese netizens has been violent, and it has a great impact, as Samsung unloads BTS-related products from Chinese online shopping malls.
SCMP introduced Jung's case in an article titled ``What Happens When Korean K-Pop Meets the Chinese Communist Party?'' Reported that it has become a'political hot potato'.
He said that 120,000 Koreans residing in China are taking the test between the political system between the two countries and their perspective on the United States.
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