이거 다같이 해야할거 같음 도와줘(하이퍼)

Dear Paul,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate that you took the time to read through my concerns.

I would like to correct you, however, on your suggestion that this matter appears to be at an end. If you have carefully read my previous concern regarding factual inaccuracy in said article, I problematize your reporting on the Nazi flag accusation seen on Seo Taiji (STJ)’s concert.

In your email, you referenced the acceptance of apology published by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. I am confused as to why your email references only the Center’s article, which blatantly ignores the main points of BigHit’s full explanation published on BTS’ official Facebook page. In doing so, you have also neglected to acknowledge the full capacity of BigHit’s actual statement.

The official statement of clarification from BTS’ management BigHit explains why the specific STJ Nazi flag accusation at hand is unfounded. This accusation, which the SWC cited directly from an uncorroborated Twitter video, currently stands in the Guardian’s article without critical reflection on its factual validity. If you have not yet registered my previous factual correction or have yet to refer to the official statement of clarification, I strongly encourage you to pay attention to paragraphs Two and Three. It should be clear to you that their apology was specifically limited to the hat and the shirt incidents only.

If I may, I’d like to bring to your attention the fact that other respectable publishers such as The Independent, The Associate Press, and the CNN reasonably limited their reporting to the T-shirt with the image of the atomic bomb and the hat scandals only, because the STJ performance accusation was evidently fraud and baseless. In all sincerity, it would have taken very little effort to fact-check the validity of this specific accusation.

To further emphasize the absolute urgency and necessity of your retraction and recognition of the falsehood of the said accusation, I urge you to reflect on the dangerous message of cultural insensitivity that the Guardian’s inaccurate conclusion can send out to the non-Western world. As explained clearly in BigHit’s statement, the “Gyosil Idea” performance utilized creative elements totally unrelated to national socialism to express criticism against specific problems at Korean schools in the 1990’s. Relativizing unfamiliar cultural products to the convenience of the Western eye is unfortunately a common and widespread problem we face today, but it is not an inevitable one. I sincerely hope that the Guardian can push beyond Western-centric interpretations of events to recognize other cultures’ right to their own and unique artistic expression. Your failure to recognize the falsehood of this baseless accusation carries serious implications for any future artists as it actively dismisses the fact that art outside of the Western world can be appreciated or celebrated in their own right.

For these reasons, I do not believe that this matter is closed until your publication takes full accountability and corrects the factual error to follow your editorial code 1. This is expected of any publication that practices journalistic integrity.

I eagerly await your response.

Regards,

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