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Group Bulletproof Boy Scouts (BTS) suffered racism on a German broadcast.
Matthias Matuschik, the host of the German radio program’Bayern 3’broadcasted on the 25th (Korean time), made a racial remark because BTS covered the cold play’Fix you Poured out.
He criticized BTS for covering Coldplay’s song on MTV’Unplugged’ and said, “BTS is an abbreviation like’Corona Virus’ and I hope there is a vaccine against them. They are entitled to take a 20 year vacation in North Korea.”
Subsequently, Matthias Matuskik himself insisted that he was not a racist and that he did not discriminate against Korea in particular because he owns Korean cars.
After this broadcast, BTS’ global fandom posted a sentence “Wir sind gegen Rassismus” (we oppose racial discrimination) along with hashtags #RassismusBeiBayern3, #Bayern3Racist on social media, and strongly protested against the program and the host. Are doing.
Meanwhile, BTS appeared on MTV’Unplugged’ broadcast on the 24th (Korean time) and sang hit songs such as’Life Goes On’ and’Dynamite’. Then, “We prepared a cover because we wanted to be comforted by listening to this song, and I hope everyone will be comforted,” he said, and received hot attention by showing the cover stage of Coldplay’s’Fix You’.
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