Really, South Korea? REALLY?

I really am not understanding why that stick is shoved so far up your ass right now. Are you really investigating Kwon Ji-Yong and threatening him with jail time because of his solo concert performance? Do you understand how ridiculous that sounds?

True, some of the stage acts were not suitable for a young teenage audience. But didn't you already deem his album unsuitable for anyone under the legal age to listen to? So shouldn't you have taken more precaution when selling tickets and shouldn't you have enforced parental guardians to accompany anyone who even looked underage into the stadium that night?

Kwon Ji-Yong is a musical artist. He envisions things and makes them happen. He is one of the top entertainers in your country, in the world, bringing you money from overseas. And yet this is how you thank him? By creating laws that inhibit an entertainer from having any amount of freedom in the form of a personal life, and protecting the record companies, and then completely disregarding the fact that not only is he an entertainer that makes you money, he's a human being.

I really don't believe that this has anything to do with the "unsuitable material" displayed at his solo concert. Entertainers have done crazier things before him and have only received verbal criticism. Lady Gaga at the VMAs this past fall faked her own suicide on stage. Did you see the American police threatening her with jail time? No. Even though it was broadcasted on national television, and no doubt there were "young teenagers" watching, legal action was not threatened.

The famous Super Bowl incident, where Justin Timberlake ripped off a piece of Janet Jackson's clothing, revealing her nipple ... yes, there were fines from the FCC for not having the proper time delay during a live performance and fines for multiple other things ... but neither of them, nor the network producers, nor the MTV producers in charge of running the show were threatened with jail time.

As I said, it has nothing to do with the material of the performance. This all reverts back to that group of people we've all come to know as Netizens.

They sharpen their claws, they attack, they bitch and moan and complain about anything and everything. They are a group of people who spend their lives on the internet, typing out ridiculous and hateful things. You're listening to these people. Netizens are saying jump, and you, South Korean government, you're answering, "How high?"

Since when does a government accept heat and criticism from a bunch of teenagers or young adults in the form of internet commentary? It's absolutely mind-blowing how it was all acting, it was all for the sake of art ... and yet some people have the audacity to shred it to pieces. You're shredding his creativity to pieces. By placing all the blame on him, by reprimanding him, you're limiting his future self-expression, his future projects, his future revenue. And that really does seem to be all you care about, right? Making money off your faithful, devoted citizens?

There's also the comments from "parents" floating around that it was not something they wanted their child seeing. I'm sorry, but don't they speak Korean? Haven't they heard the lyrics before they purchased tickets or accompanied their children to the concert? Haven't they read a newspaper or watched TV and shouldn't they have known that his album was labeled not suitable for minors and that if he wasn't allowed to perform certain songs on television, then more than likely his live performance would include something "not suitable?" That just makes sense to me.

Kwon Ji-Yong is a gifted artist. He's creative and he's driven and he has not stopped working since he was thirteen-years-old. He gave up having a normal life to pursue a dream, and you're doing everything you can to crush that dream. I really hope you feel proud of that, feel proud of taking an issue that a group of bitter internet users blew extremely out of proportion and running with it, making it unnecessary and absolutely pointless.

Don't you have better things to do with your time?

Sincerely,
The K-Pop Addict