Even though the fans defended him because the writing on the shirt did not mean much, but the netters still attacked Yuta for his behavior which was deemed insulting South Korean culture.
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I don't know what Yuta had in mind when he chose to wear this controversial shirt. If you should have known that it would cause controversy, Yuta shouldn't have done anything that could hurt fans. Recently, Yuta was flooded with criticism from netters for wearing shirts that were considered to be insulting South Korean culture and women.
The story is, recently many netters have been inflamed in various online community forums discussing Yuta's behavior. The NCT member from Japan was seen wearing a t-shirt designed in collaboration with Japanese YouTuber, Makyuri Shoji (Mercury Trading) and an online shopping mall. Unfortunately, the shirt had an illustration of Korean specialties, namely ramen, but the words "Korean Dream" were added in Japanese script.
The shirt plays on the phrase "Shin", which in Chinese means "happiness" but in Korean means "spicy." Not a few netters interpret the writing on the shirt like this, "How happy is a man when a Korean woman asks 'want to eat ramen?' after they drink together late into the night That's what's called the "Korean Dream".
The phrase "Would you like to come and eat ramen?" more or less like the English equivalent of the American phrase, "Netflix and chill." Some netizens also interpreted the shirt as demeaning or mocking South Korean culture and especially Korean women. Moreover, the shirts were made by a Japanese company that made fun of Korean sexual slang.
When the photo of Yuta wearing this shirt went viral, Korean netters immediately scolded Yuta. They were angry and couldn't understand why Yuta was wearing a shirt that reads like that.
"Is he crazy? Didn't he come to Korea to become a singer in Korea?" Quipped a netter. "Fans must stop protecting him. There's no way he doesn't know the meaning of the shirt. He's even friends with the anti-Korean YouTuber," commented another netter. "I want to know if he's not ashamed of getting money in Korea after that," quipped another netter.
"I thought it would be difficult not to know what it meant considering he was friends with that anti-Korean YouTuber," continued the other netters. "Please leave the group and leave this country," expelled a netter. /wowkeren.com
