All Day Project Woo-chan Rejects Homophobia → Homophobia Controversy
Sep 03, 2025
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The beginning of the incident was a live broadcast. During a live broadcast on the 30th of last month, Woo-chan responded to a male fan's suggestion, "'Let's go out with a brother.'"You're (I) older than you, but you're trying to go out with me. I'm not like that. No, I can't."
However, overseas fans insisted that Woo-chan's answer was Homophobia. The opinion is that the statement, "What if I try to go out with you when I'm your older brother?" criticized the other person's gender identity. Some fans responded pleasantly and sensibly to male fans' confessions, saying, `It's not a national emotional issue, but a personal attitude issue.'' continued to criticize.
However, domestic fans' reactions are completely different. Fans support Woo-chan by saying, `If homosexuality should be respected as an individual's gender identity, so should heterosexuals also be considered as heterosexuals?', `Is it a problem if male fans ask me to go out with them?',`If homosexuality speech is freedom of expression, should we go out with them?', `If you don't deny that you will react tactfully, won't you be suspected of being homosexuals again?' Woo-chan said.
Currently, K-pop is raging in the global market beyond Asia. As such, it is true that the importance of cultural sensitivity, which carefully cares for other cultures and marginalized minorities, is also appealing. However, the behavior of using the yardstick 'quasi-constructor' while ignoring individual tastes and values is also a problem to be avoided.
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