I’m not going to get into this (more here) — if you have something to say about it, my comments section is open.
In case you haven’t seen the video footage, here it is (plus pixelation).
Netizens are also apparently upset that a member of the performance team was wearing a t-shirt with the Japanese imperial naval standard. Someone close to the band in question said that the individual’s shirt was actually the Kamikaze T-shirt of the British punk group The Clash. He said that The Clash opposed fascism and imperialism, and the shirt was meant to lampoon Japanese militarism. I know nothing about the punk scene, so I really can’t comment other than even if that were the case, the irony was lost on a fair number of Netizens.
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Saw the gochu exposure uncensored, didn’t do much for me personally, but really funny. Some anarchy in the ROK, to paraphrase the Pistols. This is gonna date me, but I was in London in 1977 and saw a few punk bands, so the whole thing was rather nostalgic. Aside from being on TV though, you unfortunately see guys exposing themselves on a regular basis in Korea taking a leak on walls, sidewalks, parked cars, etc.
Oh yeah, that was a Clash T-shirt, I saw it on the news–but would the kids know the Clash from Kim gun-mo? Doubt it. Always nice to see some noncomformity in this country, though.
Is that Joe Strummer on the t shirt?
What a strange world we live in. Pixelated vaginas and graphic depictions of violence in the movie theatres.
Never mind the Sex Pistols, here’s our bollocks!
OK, got to admit that I took that line from Bachelor Boys, the official book of “Young Ones”, which as everyone should know is the classic UK comedy from the early 1980s.
Major Woody and Private Parts reporting for duty, sir!
What if with this kind of scene broadcasting on NBC or CBS? And if you’re with your kids in the weekend evening?
the reponse is certainly to blame.
But they should’ve thought twice before they did perform this kind on a live program.
No problem if they did it at a club, at least for me.
however, doing it on a nation-wide scale may be going too far. - it’s my personal opinion.
I would say to them,?Zavaan hognuud!??
I know these guys pretty well. The Korea Herald is using this incident to once again show off it’s amazing knack for incompetence: days later, it still refers to Rux as a “funk” band, says the guys who were flashing were in the band (they’re in another band, called The Couch) and claims they were wearing masks (clearly face paint, if you look at the video).
The scandal here is not the dicks on TV. The scandal is the glaringly obvious way the media is misreporting the fact, condemning the musicians, and simultaneously putting giving them more attention than they could ever dream possible.
That’s much MUCH worse than weiners on the tube.
That’s the biggest hoot about all of this — if there is no such thing as bad publicity, then aren’t the members (no pun intended) of RUX being a bit gypped by all the media attention the members of The Couch are getting?
I know why there is the confusion in the wayuk press, at least — the video of the event has RUX on it and apparently some journalists are too lazy to check out if the people they are seeing when they write there story are, in fact, RUX.
I meant “their story” not “there story.”
And just of the sake of accuracy, I believe that the name of the other band is ‘Couch’, not The Couch.
Nope, it’s “The Couch.”
Welcome to Korea. Anyways, most people just call them Couch and in Korean, it sounds like “Cow-chi.”
This is proof that there is such a thing as bad publicity. Incidentally, the Chosun Ilbo’s reporting has been the most accurate. The Korea Herald is just laughable in contrast.
foreigner chi mongolskii?
I almost went on a tirade about this and then I remembered the Janet Jackson “Breast-gate” incident. The US populace FREAKED out about a lousy nipple. I shudder to think what reaction two flailing peni would garner in the States.
Is “peni” the correct plural term?