As speakers of the Korean language, I was wondering if you could tell me your opinion on the whole Hakyeon bullying issue? I understand sometimes translations can be misleading but other times not so much, so if you could just share your opinion I would really appreciate that.
We’ve received a lot of asks related to this, and after this one, we won’t be answering anymore or comment on any follow up questions or replies.YES, translations can be misleading because language isn’t just a language, it’s made up of the country’s cultural and social aspects which is what makes it so hard to translate properly. The colorism issue is also mainly due to this cultural difference bec of 2 reasons: 1. they’re an idol group, which means they’d never do anything that would harm their reputation&their fan base .2. it’s common in Korea to comment on each other’s looks, to make light jokes about it in an affectionate way. all in all, please don’t hate VIXX from what you read off on other people’s blogs (isolating all these comments not knowing how the members are so close with each other), look at their vids, get to know how real these kids are on and off cam, then judge, please. VIXX don’t deserve what some people are dumping on them just because they can’t readily reply to their comments.-marrymeNand can I just add that we only get to see what the media and the shows want us to see. we don’t know how much they have removed from all their footages, even people’s reactions can be edited. for them (show crew), it’s fun to comment about people’s skintones, and they are not aware of its impact to international fans. have you seen the captions for ofd, even our translators are so annoyed with their captioning sometimes -_- -fand here’s a long version of betty’s answer, read it if you want to. [I insist that you do]
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