A Chinese netizen again caught up with the Korean idol group BTS.
The China Global Times reported that BTS’ agency Big Hit Entertainment was criticized by Chinese netizens using a map that marked’Nam Tibet’ as a territory of India rather than China in its earnings report.
China is claiming sovereignty, calling Arunachal Pradesh, which is effectively ruled by India, South Tibet.
The world map in the regional sales section of Big Hit’s earnings report released on the 23rd, with a blurry background, said the problem was that South Tibet was not marked as Chinese territory, a Chinese netizen argued on social media platform Theuban.
This netizen demanded that Big Hit need to revise the map.
The Global Times reported that inaccurate maps have touched the planting of many Chinese netizens.
The Global Times reported that some netizens cited BTS’ remarks in the Korean War, accusing it of not the first time that Big Hit caused a problem.
Other netizens have pointed out that Naver should be criticized for saying that the map written by Big Hit is on the Korean portal site Naver.
The British colonial rule of India in the past signed the’Shimla Treaty’ with Tibet in 1914 to set the’McMahon Line’, which made southern Tibet the territory of British India, but China did not recognize this and claimed it as its own territory. And confronted India.
Chinese customs authorities destroyed 30,000 maps of the world for export, marked by southern Tibet as an Indian territory in 2019.
China also expressed strong regret when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Arunachal Pradesh in 2018.
Prior to this controversy, BTS received intensive fire from Chinese netizens for remarks related to the Korean War last October.
BTS received an award from the Korea-US friendship group at the time and said, “I will remember the history of suffering and the numerous sacrifices shared by both Korea and the United States.”
Although there was no mention of China, some Chinese netizens argued that BTS did not respect Chinese soldiers who were sacrificed in the war, and China’s Global Times reported this online reaction extensively, leading the issue.
(Photo = Weibo, Yonhap News)