Reporter Zhang Xiaohan / comprehensive report
South Korea’s large-scale award ceremony MAMA ended successfully on the 29th, but not only the joint performance of the five popular girl groups caused controversy, some netizens on the Korean Internet pointed out the two parts they disliked the most, and some viewers who watched the live broadcast expressed their approval. Netizens who watched the broadcast criticized that “it really looks like a drop in price.”
▲Somi served as the host of the first day of the MAMA Awards Ceremony. (Picture / Taken from YouTube / Mnet K-POP)
A South Korean netizen posted on the evening of the 29th that “today’s MAMA is really not very good. Two things.” , and specially hired white people to do it, and the location is in Japan, because it is purely assembled and does not require special skills at all.” This article quickly exceeded 90,000 views and more than 700 people discussed it.
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When the trophy is engraved haha pic.twitter.com/BgIdYlun74
— SYRUP (@CB97_ovo) November 29, 2022
▲ MAMA will assemble the names of the winners on the bottom front in the background. (Video / Taken from Twitter / CB97_ovo, please forgive me if it is deleted)
Netizens thought that “It’s really funny to ask white people to use this”, “Why, it’s obviously a Korean awards ceremony, and it’s getting weirder and weirder”, “It’s all an act of saving face, please delete the trophy screen”, “There are some vulgar ones who insist on speaking English”, “It’s so embarrassing”, “I feel ashamed for them”, “The standard is getting worse and worse”, “It’s really embarrassing”, “It’s really good to learn from the United States. Shame”, “English host + Caucasian assembly is really…”, “It’s really ridiculous, (Korean awards ceremony) is even held in Japan, and it is hosted in English, and white people are invited to engrave it (actual assembly)”.
▲ Hanwang’s reaction. (Picture / Taken from theqoo / Translated from “ETtoday Starlight Cloud”)