Indonesian Netizens Enter Korean News – The virtual world of Indonesia was again shaken by the entry of Indonesian netizens who entered the news in South Korea. This was known on Wednesday, July 7, 2022 through the KNETZ Youtube channel.
The incident was the aftermath of the UEFA EURO 2022 song voting where BTS’ song “Butter” managed to become the most. However, this actually led to hate speech against the South Korean Boy Group.
These hate speeches were made by several Indonesian netizens on Instagram social media. They feel that the song is inappropriate to listen to in the EURO 2022 Final match which will be held on Monday, 12 June 2022 at Wembley Stadium, England.
So why are Indonesian netizens in the Korean news?
Starting from the EURO 2022 Music Vote
As is known, the organizers of EURO 2022 make a vote for the song on Twitter which will be played in the final later. There are four songs on display for netizens to choose for free around the world. Voting starts from 2-5 July 2022
The songs are BTS’s “Butter”, Louis Tomlison’s “Kill My Mind”, Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy”, and Usher’s ‘Yeah’. Until the closing of the vote, it was determined if BTS “Butter” got the highest vote, reaching 47%, beating Louis Tomlison “Kill My Mind” who was in second place with 44%
This achievement is good news for ARMY because the song from their proud Boy Group will be played at the opening final of the championship. However, behind it all, it turns out that there are netizens from Indonesia who have clouded the atmosphere by commenting on racism.
Indonesian Netizen’s Racism Comments
The @EURO2022 Instagram account was enlivened with “Racism” comments directed at Korean artists, especially BTS with their chosen song “Butter”. Because of this, Indonesian netizens entered Korean news and became a hot conversation among ginseng country netizens.
Of the many comments against some of them are as follows.
“Butter’s song is not very suitable for Euro 2022 final, I regret and don’t like it”
(Butter’s song is very unsuitable for the Euro 2022 final, I’m sorry and don’t like it”
“Plastic butter don’t deserve to play on Euro 2022”
(‘Plastic’ butter is inappropriate to play with at Euro 2022)
Indonesian Netizen’s Racism Comment Enters Korean Media
This problem finally attracted the attention of many South Korean netizens and entered one of the media there, namely theqoo.net.
In the report, it was stated that Indonesian netizens attacked BTS’s Instagram account with racist comments.
“As BTS continues to maintain its no. 1 fan of another singer flocked to BTS’s Instagram space and started attacking with his personal comments”
Some of the images that are loaded are as follows.
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Knowing this, netizens from South Korea commented on the theqoo.net site. Some of them are like this:
“I wonder if they will play all the songs if the song ‘Butter’ doesn’t rank first,”
“Why are they so extreme like that,”
“But the BTS song is still playing in the final and the blasphemous comments from these haters will go down in history,”
“I can say they are very racist, hahaha,”
“Plastic? They don’t do plastic surgery.”
“If Korea had a poll like that, we wouldn’t blaspheme the social media accounts of other artists,”
EURO 2022 Organizer Attitude
After quite a heated polemic, finally the organizers of the EURO 2022 Final finally opened their voices and made a surprising decision.
In the @EURO2022 Twitter tweet, it was written that after being voted on by 4.5 million voters, the four songs will be played at the EURO 2022 Final. This means that all songs that were previously nominated will be played at Wembley Stadium later.
It should also be noted that previously the BTS song “Fake Love” was played at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Russia. In addition, the BTS song “Idol” has also been played in a baseball game at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, United States.
The final word
In the end, the organizers of EURO 2022 will play the four nominated songs. Therefore, you fans of BTS, Louis Tomlison, Billie Eilish, and Usher, don’t miss this moment on Monday, July 12, 2022.
Now some Indonesian netizens have gone global because power-like a “god” on social media. Therefore, a wise and mature attitude in responding to a matter must be upheld. Moreover, those related to international media will certainly carry the name of the State and have great responsibilities.
So much information about Indonesian netizens in Korean news, hopefully it will be useful and there will be no more similar incidents.
