Chaeyoung of K-Pop Group Twice Apologizes for Wearing Swastika on Shirt

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Chaeyoung -- a member of the K-Pop group Twice -- is apologizing for wearing a swastika on her shirt ... saying she didn't realize what the symbol was.

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The singer took to IG for her mea culpa, writing ..."I sincerely apologize regarding the Instagram post. I didn't correctly recognize the meaning of the tilted swastika in the t-shirt I wore." Unclear when she wore the top in question, but there's a photo that shows her posing at a restaurant with agraphic tee, where he's depicted in black and white ... and baring a swastika on his own shirt.

 

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Didn't BTS do something similar? Funny thing is Hitler and the Nazi's would hate them as well

Why? Now are Asians can’t have their own cultural symbols? Maybe the Star of David needs to be banned. That sh*t represents greed and sedition to me

Why you keep repeating tweeting this TZUYU CHARISMATIC TZUYU AWESOME TZUYU FLAWLESS CHAEYOUNG CHERISH CHAEYOUNG LOVELY CHAEYOUNG ADORE

Welp them US tickets gonna be cheap asf! They wanna break out into main stream but do stupid shit like this! She needs to directly apologize to the owners of the restaurant and not a notes app ass apology a video!!

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Shes disgusting

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Cmon y'all I'm pretty sure she ain't no Jew hating racist. She probably got the shirt because of it's aesthetic appeal and rarity but didn't notice the swastika? 🤷‍♂️ She apologized whether you accept it or not is on you. Life goes on

*hakenkreuz not swastika

She did it twice 💀💀💀

Imagine being in 2023 and don't know anything about Nazi or union sovietic plz c'mon it's the world history everyone should know even a bit of this

not a swastika just call it a nazi shirt

Delete

It’s bad for my girl I’ll sit this one out 😭

As a person that has some Jewish Ancestry. Who has had a Grandfather fight the Nazi's in WW2. The The swasticas Predate Nazi Germany to Buddhism in Ancient China and Asia. People should know this. There is a big chance she doesn't know better. People should know history..

A known terrorist by her actions !!!!

You are making a big deal of this come on

Red Velvet Irene was right,

SinB's Nazi scandal a few years ago didn't learn koreans anything I guess lol

She didn't even apologise for wearing it (she bought it and wore it 2x and it's kinda a rare shirt to buy) she apologised for posting the ig post where she wore it. No apologie towards even owning and wearing it...

Her team should apologize not her. They need to get rid of her stylist

If you want to break into the western markets education is key with what you wear and what you say

none of the 'omg how did she not know' ppl in the replies know jack shit about the Japanese war crimes during WW2 guaranteed

i speak for everyone when I say the United States should ban kpop concerts immediately.

The real outrage is that’s she’s wearing a Sid vicious shirt. He’s be rolling in his grave

Just because they claimed a symbol doesn't change the original meaning...

Swastika are common worldwide/Id have difficulty thinking a young Asian woman was a Nazi or NeoNazi or sympathizer

She made a mistake and she apologized for it. Which show she hold herself accountable for the wrong she done. But people also need to realise she's Korean. She may know what wwii or nazis are but she may not know the symbol they used. As Swastika doesn't ONLY represent nazis.

I don't believe that there's a single adult (who had access to education and/or internet) who doesn't recognise that symbol. As a South Korean who has no doubt seen temples before, she should know that the Nazi swastika is not the same as the Buddhist & Hindu symbols.

'It's literally WW2 ' 'Everyone knows that' NO NOT EVERYONE. She said she didn't mean to Leave her alone. To all people who learned history did great job but to people like me this is new knowledge

She didn't realize...lol mind you, you can't find it in online unless you search then purchase it. She even wore it 2x like twas her fave shirt. 🤦🤦

Isn't this noise marketing for der is no way all those stylist that dress her up don't know about this

she’s over

Get off her case. She apologized. Everyone knows about ww2 but not all about the symbols, as strange as it may be. Read up of swastika origins and how it's been used in Asia for hundreds of years.

I know she made a mistake but how do you guys are 100% sure she knew what it means? Like are you her I didn't even know the meaning of the symbol myself and had to Google it. She apologized already you're not going to tell me that you never made a mistake in your life be fr!!

K-Pop stylists are so unserious.

This is why kids should focus on school and learn history. Because crying 'I didn't know,' can only go so far before it becomes either ignorance or outright lies.

thats not swastika but ok, thats a nazi symbol...

She took down the post in 1 hour and gave an apology in 2 hours. Yes she made a serious mistake, but she took quick steps to fix her mistake and gave a concise no-bullshit apology, please don't send unnecessary hate to her 🙏

The thing is many people are ignorant of it. And the no. is huge. What's good is that she apologized for her mistake sincerely. We have known her fr a long time , she is not that type of person. She can't even a curse anyone. She apologized. We will be forever with u chaeyoung.

Look at her now, she is on all international newspapers and websites, and this is something she never dreamed of in her life.

stop making your idol an innocent person who does not know what he is doing because it is the opposite, and an apology does not provide anything in her story Because she wore the shirt twice, the first time she did not get the required attention, but the second time it worked.

She is an adult woman, she studied, traveled to many countries, it is impossible not to know the meaning of what she wore, if you ask a ten-year-old about the meaning of the symbol, he will tell you.

Aún hay gente en pleno 2023 que no conozca el símbolo… mmmm bueno

NOOOO

Oh ma god

CHAENAZI (lo hizo 2 veces, ella sabía lo que hacía)

Not her making South Korea look stupid

Solo veo en los comentarios, muchos fandom que odian a twice. Tratando de aprovechar el error para destruir. Ella se disculpó y punto. Que quieren.

Honestly, it’s about time, so it makes it example about one of these idols because they continuously do culturally inappropriate things and fans defend it. South Korea is a developed country with a education system, and they could’ve learned, yet some still choose to be ignorant.

That symbol is from Buddhism, she literally said she didn't realize it had a different meaning when the manji is tilted, we all come from different cultures, y'all need to stop thinking everything revolves around yourself

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Chae will definitely not wear those shirts if she was aware of it. I mean, she'll know she'll get hate by wearing it and posting it on her IG. So I think, as much as she's ignorant for this issues, she really doesn't know it's meaning.

Why are they like this😭, didn't know kpop makes you lose your morals

she thought she'd be cool if she wears that nazi and Q shirt 🙄, like dude 'i'm different from my members im cool and i have many tattoos, i'm a rockstar'

It was unintentionally mistakes that's why she addressed the issue that SHE DIDNT CORRECTLY RECOGNIZED the MEANING , since nzi Logo has same pattern logo to Buddhist which are very common in Korea. The Important is she apologized and held accountability of her mistakes.

she done brought her grp on tmz

She apologize and said it will not happen again.

Even the congress members made the same fashion mistake

I feel like kpop idols and koreans in general wear western looking clothes or western designs with english writing bc it looks cool but in reality they dont even know what it means and dont really care for it😭😭

Shid she can wear dat round me if I can be her Adolf her fina ahh

Not she on the jumbotron

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KEEP IDOLS IN SCHOOL

Can't believe people defend this.

Yea, that's believable. They'll probably believe her and blame Trump somehow

Nasty bitch

It’s not swastika 😑😑

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'there's no way she didn't know' there are a lot of ppl in my country don't know about that symbol

TheShadeRoom

maybe Korean history is taught differently from how others are taught all around but at the same time if was your favorite y'all would be on one saying 'they should know' or ' The stylist dressed him or her'

2 times this week she’s worn these foolish type of shirts an honest mistake? I don’t think so, maybe someone is trying to set her up but either way disgusting

Not sure who needs to hear this but all over Asia we are taught about WW2. It’s part of our school curriculum. Moreover, Korea was one of the most affected countries in Asia. I don’t buy it that a grown woman doesn’t know the meaning of that symbol.

Squid Game?

I wonder if she knows what this one means too… someone please educate Korean companies cuz shit like this is happening all the time

that's why y'all need to study and not sleep on history sub!

just when theyre about to take off in the usa ohh it’s bad for this blackpink wannabe

NOT TMZ💀

She lyingggg

She made a mistake and apologized for it. She doesn't know what the symbol means. Yeah, she doesn't. If she does, she won't use or post it given the bad effects of it. TWICE members are so sensitive about things esp if they know it is bad. I just hope ppl don't just ride the hate

She made a mistake, educate her. She will learned from it. Stop hating her.

Nazi America

she made to tmz omg😭

the stage shirt wasn’t on her, it was on the stylist, I don’t see how that’s relevant to the article. (Not speaking on the new shirt)

The way ppl are accepting that cheap apology and brushing this off is crazy !!! 'It’s ok , she is still young ' the hell !!! NO ITS NOT OKAY AND NO SHE IS A GROWN ASS WOMAN so stop making excuses and trivializing this

Why would you wear a symbol you didn’t know about?

it’s over im afraid

Damn they got her😭

She's done. The end of their american dreams.

The symbols are confusing, but when she realised, she apologized and took down the post, let's all move on, Thank you chaeyoung for apologizing and realising your mistakes

She apologized. What else do you want ? With not accepting her apology and criticizing her ,making her feel worthless as if she is some evil person . You are doing the same as the master of that sign did. Be a bigger person.

its not her first time wearing this shirt lol she KNOWS what shes doing.

It was a Sex Pistols shirt and calling her antisemitic over something she probably confused for another thing is crazy she didn’t have to apologize the world doesn’t revolve around y’all 🥴

awe damn…

TMZ? oh this is bad

If she didn’t apologize, people will hate her. But then she apologized, people are now questioning the sincerity of her apology. 🤧

acejen96 what a lame excuse

Made it to TMZ...

OH!!!

people are not gonna be satisfied about her action/apology no matter what. So giving a proper apology is the best thing she can do, as she realizes it was a mistake. What's wrong is wrong, i'm not gonna defend that. It's up to you guys if you want to accept her apology or not.

'Of course I didn't know'''

how tf does this even get on here this isnt even the first time this happened in kpop (especially to a large influtial group too)

The thing is, of course she’ll apologize after ppl called her out. But there’s no way she didnt know. From the q anon shirt to this… kpop idols dont dress themselves, there’s a whole team of stylists. There was at least a dozen people who saw that, who bought those clothes-

she’s sick

Did she not go to school?

Delete 😭😭😭😭

Cap, she fucking knows

For people saying she knew why would she risk her career/image over this? nothing good comes out this & she’s not a problematic idol. This isn’t like her, she’s ignorant in the subject but that doesn’t mean people should say she’s “lying” & that “she knew”

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bruh 💀 did some people really accept her apology and move on?

Please stop!! This will badly affect twice!!! weloveyouchaeyoung onceProtectchaeyoung

She apologized. She realized her mistakes. Let us give it to time to tell whether she learned from this situation or not. You are allowed to not accept her apology but you are not allowed to attack or throw hate on her. She is more than this issue. Please be open minded.

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girl debuted her group on tmz congrats

Hipocrisia ela sabia sim O pedido de desculpas mais falso do mundo que nojo

Apologies are useless. Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway to create any reaction only yo apologize later……

stay in school everyone

I have no idea who this kid is.. But C’mon!

Who made the shirt?

c’est chaud pour elle

Before nazis coined it, the swastika meant peace in American Indian tribes

A surprising number of people defending nazi symbolism in the replies, god help us

Not to mention the same girl wore this tshirt earlier this week. It’s either intentional or ignorant?.. you decide.

Midnightpinkss ITS CALLED A HAKENKRUZ NOT A SWASTIKA

stopppppp😭😭😭😭

Don't say is stylist choice. She wore the shirt before ☠️ girl bye

Did she really not realize? Really? 2023 and she did not know? 'Oh okay then.'

Cappppp

Of course the Jews are ignorant of its real meaning smh

That symbol is well known in Buddhism across Asia. I grew up recognizing that character so often.

ummmmm

I don’t like them but I believe her

wearing a tshirt of sid vicious wearing a tshirt with a swastika

I don’t think people realize they have stylists that choose all their clothes, and they just wear what they’re given. And in eastern culture this symbol (in reverse) is a religious symbol, used in Buddhist practice. Not an excuse, but still, blame the stylist.

It was a shirt with Sid Vicious on it.

Best possible answer that s*** ends careers

she has nothing to be sorry about. Freedom it's called in America, Freedom of speech.

That’s what happens when you take history out of schools.

It’s a wonder she wasn’t wearing black face racist people and hateful people

When a lame excuse. She should've said she didn't notice it

Honest mistake, move on

Good god people, look up Korean history before commenting…. americanignorance

Hitler stole the symbol from the Japanese, which was rooted in buddhism.

It’s ok she still young. ChaeYoung

yeah she’s done 💀

Lmfao! The bitch knew

lol

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