BTS angers Chinese with Korean War diss, Samsung yanks online merch

After winning an award celebrating cooperation between the U.S. and South Korea from the New York-based, nonprofit Korea Society, band leader RM, whose given name is Kim Nam-joon, had this to say. “We will always remember the history of pain that our two nations shared together and the sacrifices of countless men and women,” he said in tribute, alluding to the Korean War, which pitted U.S. and South Korean forces against those from North Korea and China in the early 1950s. Trouble is, he didn’t mention the deaths on the other side, and China felt dissed.

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