News Xdinary Heroes Jun Han apologizes for the racist remarks he made on bubble (1 Viewer)

[centen]

English translation cr. gaonfansite:

Hello, I'm Junhan from Xdinary Heroes. Firstly, I sincerely apologize for causing great hurt and discomfort to many people with my rash comments. I’m deeply reflecting on the fact that the content I mentioned contained biased views. Once again, I bow down and apologize to anyone who felt unpleasant, has been hurt by my lack of history, social consciousness and sensitivity. From now on, I’ll continue to learn and change so that I can act based on right knowledge. Also, taking this opportunity, I will act more carefully and responsibly in each of my words and actions. Once again, I sincerely apologize.

English translation cr. fromjubble:

Hello. This is Xdinary Heroes Jun Han. First, I would like to sincerely apologise for causing a lot of hurt and displeasure to many people with my careless remarks. I realised that the remarks I made contained a prejudiced view and I'm deeply reflecting on myself. I would like to bow my head and apologise once again to everyone I've hurt and caused displeasure to due to my lack of history, social consciousness, and sensitivity. In the future, I will continue to learn and change so that I can act based on the right knowledge. I will also take this as an opportunity to be more cautious and responsible with my words and actions. Once again, I sincerely apologise.

Context of what he originally said: 1 | 2 | 3
Additional context and an alternate translation from a native Korean speaker: link

@Villain

 

[centen]

Did not have "casually wildly racist thinking out loud" on my bingo card for shit to happen today. WTF. This is so disappointing.

 

[eclipsoul]

it's said that black people have a lot of cells in their ears, so they have good hearing and that's why they're good at music

how the fuck do you even come up with something like that, let alone say it out loud? if this is what they say in public i'd rather not know how it is when the cameras aren't on. i know a lot of kpop idols aren't bright but this is just abhorrent.

 

[centen]

how the fuck do you even come up with something like that, let alone say it out loud? if this is what they say in public i'd rather not know how it is when the cameras aren't on. i know a lot of kpop idols aren't bright but this is just abhorrent.

It very much reads like "I'm 12 and this thought just occurred to me, imma send it off real quick before I get lunch."

I don't even know how to react to it, because it's just so dumb.

ETA: I saw that the original bubble that he was reacting to was left out in the original tweets, so I added a link from another translator who includes the original comments that lead up to it. It's still basically "oh, cool, you're researching this thing I know nothing about, let me ask a bunch of dumb questions" but at least it's less "for no particular reason, I'm going to drop some racism." Also interesting was them sharing that the Korean version of Wikipedia lists the same stereotypes as if they're facts, so it's not entirely dumb shit he made up in his head. But still dumb AF.

 

[velvet]

This isn't just racism, this is eugenics. An apology isn't gonna cut it, educate yourself and do better

 

[Villains]

yikes what the hell

 

[lexus]

We can't go one day without an idol being racist anymore can we?

 

[Pirioca]

it's said that black people have a lot of cells in their ears, so they have good hearing and that's why they're good at music

The problems start when people don't understand scientific studies and provide their own interpretations instead. Then other people use those interpretations for their own argumentations. In the end, we see those 'it's said that' statements. They're just empty talk but many Social Media users don't research scientific articles.

Here's the scientific fact:

Epidemiologic studies of large population-based cohorts have consistently demonstrated lower rates of hearing loss among black than white participants with the odds of hearing loss generally 40–60% lower in black individuals.

Association of Skin Color, Race/Ethnicity, and Hearing Loss Among Adults in the USA - PMC

Epidemiologic studies of hearing loss in adults have demonstrated that the odds of hearing loss are substantially lower in black than in white individuals. The basis of this association is unknown. We hypothesized that skin pigmentation as a marker ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

So black individuals don't hear better than white individuals but their risk of hearing loss is lower.

 

[ChiaraStar169]

ugh... ANOTHER group to unstan! I hate having to unstan for this shit, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S MY ULT K-ROCK BAND! First Julie, and now Jun Han - who's next??? I'd better knock on wood that it won't be another idol I stan!

 

[athenaaa]

It’s truly disappointing how horrible actions like these continue to happen

 

[The_LastRomeo]

I'm truly confused as to why these kpop idols are suddenly doing this, its like Kiof started a chain

 

[pinkmelodies]

This year alone has been the worst with racist idols. It's very tiring