South Korea’s SM Entertainment’s NCT men’s team has members from different nationalities. In addition to NCT 127 and NCT Dream, which focus on the Korean market, the Chinese team “WayV” will also be launched in 2019. As the youngest member of the group, Yang Yang, who is proficient in Chinese, English, German, Korean and Spanish, recently uploaded photos to his IG account to wish everyone a Happy New Year. The seemingly general greetings were caused by leaving “Happy Chinese New Year”. South Korean fans are dissatisfied, saying that if they want to have an event in South Korea, they should write “Happy Lunar New Year”, and even more helplessly say, “Isn’t your company in South Korea?” and “Learn to watch your words.
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Taiwanese member Yang Yang wished everyone “Happy Chinese New Year” on IG, which made Korean fans feel disappointed and left a message, “Well, if you are in Korea, at least look at Korean winks” and “If you want to be in Korea, you should write Happy Lunar New Year, isn’t your company in South Korea?”, “It’s enough to write Happy New Year in Korean events, why did you just add Chinese^^”, some fans left a long post and mentioned: “ The perception is not very good. I hope Yang Yang can learn from this mistake and no similar incidents will happen in the future.”
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And the incident also attracted Chinese fans to go over the wall and reply one by one against South Korean netizens’ messages, believing that Yang Yang is a Taiwanese who has the right to say “Happy Chinese New Year”, and many people have left “shut up”, “trash” and other comments. Tore, accidentally set off a scolding war, and also washed the versions of “Happy Chinese New Year” and “Happy New Year” to express support for Yang Yang. At present, more than 43,000 messages have been posted.
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