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BLACKPINK singing in Japanese? Fans slam ABC over error
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BLACKPINK, whose Singapore concert on Feb 15 is sold out, have also made history, tapped as one of the headliners at the prestigious Coachella music festival in Indio, California, on April 12 and 19. (YG Entertainment via The Korea Herald/-)
F
ans of BLACKPINK were not tickled pink when the folk at American broadcast network ABC captioned a clip of the South Korean girl group's performance, saying they were singing in Japanese.
The gaffe occurred when the quartet were performing their hit song Ddu-du Ddu-du on Tuesday on the Good Morning America show, reported the allkpop portal.
can someone tell whoever at abc made the subtitles on this video that blackpink are not japanese pic.twitter.com/h5KNiDJnoU
— sandra ✨ (@reyofjakkus) February 12, 2019
One fan wrote online: "This is so disrespectful. Do they not know the meaning of K-pop?"
Read also: K-pop girl band sensation BLACKPINK makes US television debut on CBS
There was no excuse for the error, others felt, since the group had already performed a day earlier on CBS' The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
That outing had drawn many fans to catch the group's arrival at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York, where the show was hosted, despite it being late in the evening.
Then, BLACKPINK had been introduced to the studio audience as "a wildly popular K-pop group who announced their first US tour today and are making their American television debut tonight".
BLACKPINK, whose Singapore concert on Feb 15 is sold out, have also made history, tapped as one of the headliners at the prestigious Coachella music festival in Indio, California, on April 12 and 19.
This article appeared on The Straits Times newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
