The Asia Artist Awards (AAA) are hosted yearly by Korea, in varied nations. Previous AAAs have been hosted in Seoul, Incheon, and Vietnam. However, this 12 months, the 2021 AAAs might be held in Japan, inciting the fury of Koreans.
As many would know, tensions between Japan and Korea have been bitter for the reason that conflict. Although reconciliatory efforts have been made, sentiment remains to be adverse. Worries have been furhter exacerbated by the present wave of COVID-19 instances in Japan, the place they’ve hit a day by day common of over 11,000 instances for the primary week of August 2021.
Netizens are outraged, with many calling out the organizers.
- “Do they let you overseas just to perform? I don’t get it.”
- “They’re nuts, selling out the country.”
- “Read the room, you crazy f*ckers.”
- “Where can we protest this? We need to block this.”
- “The Olympics couldn’t be helped but they’re money-grabby for going all the way to Japan in this pandemic just for some nameless awards ceremony.”
- “They’re crazy. I hope my idols don’t go…and I hope the company won’t send them out to try to push their juniors together too.”
- “What’s going on??? Do they have to be like that in the pandemic?”
Although the AAAs have already introduced the situation, they’ve but to release the checklist of nominees or how they may go in regards to the ceremony. Stay tuned.