Just a few hours ago, BTS uploaded a 'Bangtan Bomb', a series of short videos the boys casually film for fans to enjoy. This particular one was short and featured Jimin playing with a rubber snake. While the video itself was adorable, fans saw something they were shocked by - a staff member smoking behind Jimin.
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Smoking inside buildings is illegal in Korea (however, the law applies to public spaces, so an M/V filming set might not count), but the biggest reason for the fans' anger is that she's smoking near singers, whose throat conditions are very important.
Another staff member is also being called into question. During a Bomb back in 2014, V is shown introducing the camera to the rest of the group. However, when he walks into the class, one of the female staff members laughs loudly and can be allegedly heard saying, "It's like he's [mentally] disabled." The problematic Bomb is here, and the comment can be heard at the 0:05 mark.
After fans expressed their outrage at the video, the Bomb in question has been deleted.
However, the video has been re-uploaded by many angry fans, who are demanding a response from Big Hit. You can watch the video below:
What do you think of the controversy?
JungHalla0903 • Sunday, July 17, 2016
h tt p s :// ww w. you tube . c om /watch? v= 1A OP0Zt2Tck What about RV? The staff was standing close to them too
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aquamanas • Thursday, July 7, 2016
people are talking like EVERY SINGLE ONE of the armys are easily butt hurt. calm your tits ppl
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aquamanas • Thursday, July 7, 2016
look, it's okay!! you don't need to post link and shit i think what you said it's enough for searching i guess???? but i remembered that there are one incident about weed and the place where they're going to post the news about it put a photo of bangtan on the thumbnail lmao
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shikey • Thursday, July 7, 2016
look at army getting angry if someone make them realize the possibility of them smoking
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seonflowers • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
I mean it's not endangering their lives, but obviously with knowledge of how critical some fans can be, she should've smoked in an open space, not an enclosed area.
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Umohahyeah • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Clearly he doesn't even care if he chose to film where she was smoking? At least in the video you can see that she left right away too, so like what? These KNETZ are hella sensitive, if he was suffocating from all that haze and shiz he could have filmed somewhere else but he was fine. And this is coming from a person that doesn't smoke either. When people smoke near me I just move away. So chill. If the issue is about her smoking in a confined space, then fine. I can accept that. But other than that, nah.
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Ryo69 • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Nine muses documentary is full of unprofessional staff smoking everywhere!!
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ahfl143 • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
ALSO how about we acknowledge the fact that there's a literal cigarette in the I Need U 19+ video lol double standards
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ahfl143 • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
how is this even an issue, as if all of bts don't smoke anyway. no evidence but it's probably verrrrry likely that they're smokers
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Dramafan • Wednesday, July 6, 2016
smoking isn't healthy ok we all know that and yeah she should've smoked outside but these 'fans' need to chill, they can't protect the members of every danger...They are grown up and they know what to do, there is no need to be this obsessive cuz its annoying... The fans are acting like they live in a perfect world where there are no problems , everything should go well and stuff I mean open ur eyes no matter how much u like/love them its still reality and let them live how they want.. Smoking is not something new so why all the drama about it..U need to deal with it and pls don't act like crazy insane pple, there's a limit, they can't decide everything about BTS so calm the fuck down..
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