He f*cked up - but there’s no way he should have been dragged over the hot coals in the way he was IMHO.
The thing that made me uncomfortable is people talking about it gleefully because it was an excuse to drag down someone they resented for other reasons, probably not because they found the crime itself that heinous. Don’t get me wrong, there were plenty of people who also just were very clear that they think any kind of drinking and being in control of any kind of a vehicle is a hard no. I mean the people who were just thrilled they had an opportunity to unleash every bad thought they ever had about him or BTS.
Yes, a DUI is always serious and an idol's image is everything.
I can't imagine a female idol surviving a scandal like that.
They treat DUI in Korea very seriously
In Korea yes.
even god rested
DUIs are always serious but I think he got dragged wayyyyy too hard. They are not taken as seriously in the West so it's odd to me but I understand. Like Justin Bieber got an underage DUI driving his lambo and was belligerent iirc, but I doubt many even remember that.
He f*cked up - but there’s no way he should have been dragged over the hot coals in the way he was IMHO.
The thing that made me uncomfortable is people talking about it gleefully because it was an excuse to drag down someone they resented for other reasons, probably not because they found the crime itself that heinous. Don’t get me wrong, there were plenty of people who also just were very clear that they think any kind of drinking and being in control of any kind of a vehicle is a hard no. I mean the people who were just thrilled they had an opportunity to unleash every bad thought they ever had about him or BTS.
Absolutely agree. It was totally a stupid move. The ferocity of hate was disturbing. I believe he is a good person and hope that he finds forgiveness and the lesson in all of this. In our lives we have done something that has hurt someone probably not intentionally and have experienced the grace of forgiveness. I wish that all idols are shown some compassion. None of us are perfect.
as the old adage goes, the cover-up is worse than the crime.
duis are serious, but i still think it was blown way out of proportion simply because he is a celebrity.
It is and was serious and there are those whose ulterior motive in dragging him as hard as they did had nothing to do with the actual DUI - they would have dragged him for anything they could.
Very true and the next time SK needs someone to bail them out of a PR disaster or an expo bid, who are they gonna call?
It's a pretty neat piece of ammo. DUI is a crime recognized both internationally and in Korea, but crucially people - intentionally or not - always leave out the fact that he was on an electric scooter.
As an american, being drunk on an electric scooter is more of a nuisance (i.e. public drunkenness) than a deadly crime (going 200 mph in a school zone while DUI)
DUI is loaded with connotation and people like to use it to slam him, even if the actual action wasn't on the same level of the connotation.
I'm going to point it out like this: What he did is wrong. His haters are never going to let his fans forget that like they're a toxic ex using "that one time" as ammo over and over again.
Idols get inexplicably high levels of adulation. Their very ordinary acts of kindness is praised to extraordinary levels.
Therefore it is only to be expected that when they fail, make a mistake, the reverse happens, they earn extraordinary amount of censure, that an ordinary person making the same mistake won't.
Besides DUI even if no one was harmed, shouldn't be treated lightly.
Absolutely agree. It was totally a stupid move. The ferocity of hate was disturbing. I believe he is a good person and hope that he finds forgiveness and the lesson in all of this. In our lives we have done something that has hurt someone probably not intentionally and have experienced the grace of forgiveness. I wish that all idols are shown some compassion. None of us are perfect.
Definitely definitely this. I just feel very strongly in this, condemn the action, not the person, as some sort of write off.
I have no idea whether Korean GP will come back around to him, but Grace is a powerful thing, and he deserves it as much as anyone else, since he obviously regrets his actions.
Man, I could never be an idol, having my whole life and all my business out there to be scrutinized would be horrid.
People need to chill out.
Newsflash, ur faves are human too. 
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