T-ara in hot water after a scandalous Japanese greeting controversy

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

One of Korea's leading girl groups, T-ara, recently had an incident regarding them speaking Japanese in France.

On the 8th in Paris, the multi-talented mogul-dols participated in KBS's "Music Bank in Paris" program.

Before the performances, participating groups joined a photo session and T-ara's behavior became a hot topic. It was one of the first times for the Korean idols to be in front of so many French reporters and photographers, and after their photos were taken, T-ara's seven sensually seductive members said, "Arigatou gozaimashita," a Japanese phrase meaning "thank you."

The gracefully glamorous girls said before, "Bonjour" but after finishing, Eunjung thanked with Japanese. Soyeon also said, "Arigatou gozaimashita." The reporters were confused by this language switch.

Sites which are hosting the video, which show other groups using English, French and Korean, are seeing debates raging on whether their behavior was appropriate or not.  The video is currently #1 on Nate with a debate of nearly a thousand comments.

Source: nate
Translation: devilsatin a.k.a Me

Comments

[seoulkhun.livejournal.com]

stupid controversy tbh

[sincronia.livejournal.com]

mte. making a big deal out of nothing, wtf.

[taecish.livejournal.com]

hmm very unacceptable imo.. hope they get punished for it

[miko-nyappy.livejournal.com]

execution is the only option for this magnitude of a crime

[qrizta.livejournal.com]

these hardworking ladies have been studying japanese rly hard that they got confused :')

[drfaith101.livejournal.com]

So...what's the controversy again?

[shwinlewin.livejournal.com]

rite? -_-. Reading from the title I thought it was something more scandalous than saying thank you in japanese -_-

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Go without sleep for a week and see if you can remember your own name.

[eishastan.livejournal.com]

why would they do that?? did they got confused about their location? since that makes more sense than mistaking your own language. weird...

[flu-n-c.livejournal.com]

Getting minimum amount of sleep everyday can do that to you

[jeit91.livejournal.com]

what a faux pa

[kiku-cha8-8.livejournal.com]

没关系！！！

[faramis.livejournal.com]

I don't really understand why this is even a problem at all...if other groups are speaking English and Korean, why can't they speak Japanese?

Just people looking for another thing to needlessly bitch about again. Poor T-Ara, subject to controversy even when they've done nothing wrong.

[dapo322.livejournal.com]

The issue wasn't them speaking French, but switching over into Japanese after saying hello in French. I guess they forgot where they were.

[shwinlewin.livejournal.com]

-gasp- how dare they speak japanese!!!
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Seriously how is this even a scandal?!

[dapo322.livejournal.com]

I would guess they forgot they were in France and just LOL at the whole thing. It's like when singers are on tour and they say the wrong name of the place they are performing in.

My only thing is why does this article use a pic of co-ed/5dolls members with T-ara members and not just T-ara?

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

Korean Pride! Hallyu Pride!

[reemgirl.livejournal.com]

God heard me and cut out the three members I didn't like?

[dapo322.livejournal.com]

The pic is old. It's 2 members of Co-ed/5Dolls and 2 members of T-ara.

[lazmy.livejournal.com]

u m they were trying to thank people thats the opposite of rude

[darthscooter.livejournal.com]

Dumbest scandal EVER. When you are tired and have been studying another language, you are bound to get confused. I have said things to my mother in Japanese without realizing it and have yelled at my staff to hurry up in Korean on accident.

[uledy.livejournal.com]

why is this a big deal?? am i missing something?

[konichiwacobra.livejournal.com]

so the controversy is that they said Thank You? but in Japanese?

Is there nothing else to talk about lol??

[spread.livejournal.com]

IDGI..
Then again I'm sleep deprived rite nao.

[spread.livejournal.com]

And horny..
But that has nothing to do with this.

[mighty-romance.livejournal.com]

Knowing SK this probably has more to do with nationality than anything else, but it's probably a bit of both.

[cassie-cloud9.livejournal.com]

Ummm... and the controversy is?

[tofucakes.livejournal.com]

cute pic!

[untilsally.livejournal.com]

Um, and..?
IrlyDGI.

PPl are somehow offended coz they spoke in Japanese?

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

(http://s1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc379/LydziStark/?action=view&current=no1curr.gif)

[nyappnyappcafe.livejournal.com]

omg perfect gif

[fancifury.livejournal.com]

omfg i can't even recognize any of them in dat pic save jiyeon & her wonky eyes

[jonghyunf.livejournal.com]

3 of them aren't even t-ara members