Brian Joo apologizes for his actions on KBS 2TV’s “100 Points Out of 100″
6:57 pm - 04/10/2011
In a previous article, we highlighted Brian Joo in a “talk-battle” on KBS 2TV’s “100 Points Out of 100“, and he showed a different side of himself on the set, much to the delight of many fans and those on the set itself.
However, apparently there were individuals who didn’t find comedy in his performance, with some saying that he was invoking negative stereotypes about people and even inferring that he was a racist.
The few people who did express these feelings invoked a strong and heartfelt apology from the singer.
Read them below in chronological order from bottom to top:
He’s obviously showing a ton of remorse over the issue, but do you think the apology is even necessary?
source: Brian Joo's twitter, akp
smh at the commentary
Well, I'm happy that Brian apologized. I know he didn't mean it to be that way, I've always seen him as a really nice guy.
wtf.
and i dont understand the korean part, but it seemed to me that brian was just acting like a diva. the first half of the video was pretty funny, but the second half was just too much. he didn't come off as racist, imo...just over dramatic and slightly annoying.
But in either case, I surely hope those very netizens simultaneously reached out to all the US / European comedians who ever parodied asian people... as well as any other race / gender. They got lots of hwk to do if they want to be fair.
lol I quoted him from 100 points out of 100 and he replied to my tweet :D
Edited at 2011-04-10 01:26 pm (UTC)
I don't get why people have got their panties all up in a bunch over such a small thing.
In any case, it's good that he apologized. He seemed to really mean it. Initially when I watched it, I didn't see what was so offensive about it. Then I watched it again, and I was like "Oh...I see."
he may not have been directly acting like a african american female, but just ghetto.
i think the show producers are the only who connected it with a black woman mostly. it is good that he was aware and apologized because of his actions. now if only kkkikwang could do the same.
Don't see why he had to apologize in the first place.
I laughed when watching it after this article too tbh but after felt like I wasn't supposed to..
This totally fits with the first part of the definition, about all members of each race possessing characteristics or abilities specific to that race, but what the producers and Brian did definitely did not distinguish the women he was imitating as inferior or superior to anyone else. It was just a simple imitation of what one person perceives of another. I suppose some people will get angry anyway simply because it was an Asian imitating a white female.
I really wonder how people would react if a normal black female, who doesn't typically act this way, imitates a friend of the same ethnicity who does. And it wasn't like he was giving the rest of the cast negative images of black women, because Seo Inyoung behaves this way too and everyone adores her because it's cute and funny.
I really don't mean to come off as racist or whatever, since I'm Asian myself and I'm defending Brian and the producers, but I don't see the fault in his actions. To me, this is just like Doojoon from BEAST trying to imitate Hwang Sookyung, who happens to be the announcer for 100 Points out of 100.
Edited at 2011-04-10 03:15 pm (UTC)
but i've watched some of Brian's english interviews and he really talks that way, maybe not that exaggerated, but pretty slang that way..
Yeah there people who act like that but I hate to see people assuming that we're are all like that. My issue is that what he did kind of feeds the ignorance of those who watch it and assume we, as a whole, are obnoxious, loud and up in your face people. Black people come in different forms but when a country has very little exposure to the other forms and are mainly aware of the ones they see in movies and what mainstream finds entertaining it's kind of disheartening. Laugh all you want but what i worry about is the lack of knowledge that some people have about us and how they try to use what they know to put us all in labels that hardly describe us all.
He sounds like a snooting hills girl to me. Or a Jersey girl. It was hilarious.
Edited at 2011-04-10 03:25 pm (UTC)