Broduce 101 Lai Guan Lin apparently involved in controversy in Taiwan??

[Hyooga]

 

 

 

From this link

 

https://ask.fm/MrsDooB2uty/answers/140255632437

 

Hi, may i know why everyone been hating on Lai Guanlin? I mean he is taiwanese but people keep saying he is chinese. And some said otherwise. Do you know whats the actual problem?

Lai Guan Lin mentioned, referring himself as a Chinese Taiwanese. It's not something new. In fact, Tzuyu was swept in a controversy because she called herself a Taiwanese instead of a Chinese.

Chinese believes that Taiwan is under China, while Taiwan likes to think that they're independent from China. It's basically different ideologies from different countries. So it will be controversial anyhow, if he starts to talk about nationality. And it has already been a controversy for Lai Guan Lin back in Taiwan. There are news about him on P101, and about him claiming himself as a Chinese Taiwanese.

It's a risky move, in my opinion. He should have just said he's from Taipei, instead of referring to his nationality.

Then again, I guess it's unavoidable. But whoever who are hating on him, I hope they stop and realize that he's just a 16 year old. The fight over politics have been there for some time, and it's not wise to put such burden on a 16 year old.

 

 

)))))))

 

It seems that it was caused by what he wrote here

 

Click here to view the Tweet

 

Translation:

 

(From Lai Guan Lin) National producers, I'm still weak in Korean, but I can speak. Please wait a while more, so we can meet soon,I love you

 

From China Taiwan Lai Guan Lin

 

 

 

 

#ProtectLaiGuanLin2017

Protect this kid! He's only 16  

 

 

[sly fox]

Yikes I don't even care he wrote that but couldn't he just write Lai Guan Lin to save trouble? I just think mentioning China/Taiwan here is unnecessary

[MineMuses]

So are people literally find a way to hate on every PD 101 contestant? 

[Moa_Nunu]

What's done is done... just leave the kid alone.

[loonatrash]

Pls leave this kid alone. He's only 16 :(

[space odyssey ✧*]

he's only 16, yet he's tangled up in all those politics. leave the poor child alone; he is taiwanese, nothing wrong about it. china seriously needs to fucking chill.

[Hyooga]

he's only 16, yet he's tangled up in all those politics. leave the poor child alone; he is taiwanese, nothing wrong about it. china seriously needs to fucking chill.

 

 

It was Taiwan who was offended here not China because he called himself as someone from China Taiwan. 

[YuiAyu]

LET MY BABY ALONE!!! :C HE'S ONLY 16 :C

How can people hate this cutie pie

[Kazaewin]

Come on Taiwan should not be like this, he's still underage. 

[Little Miss Splendid]

i hope this shows get things together when they start airing .... which is very soon

[~Skye~]

Yikes I don't even care he wrote that but couldn't he just write Lai Guan Lin to save trouble? I just think mentioning China/Taiwan here is unnecessary

[pinkpanda_spirit]

I don't know why but my friend (who is chinese) told me that some chineses don't like him because he said that he was from China and he should have said he was from Taiwan. I don't get it anymore tbh

[missa_suzy]

people should stop using kids like him and tzuyu for their political agenda 

[indigo]

Isn't there a standard practice here? There's a lot of Taiwanese celebrities that work in China, and Taiwan. 

 

And Tzuyu's incident wasn't exactly caused by her calling herself Taiwanese, but by holding the ROC flag while doing it. 

[space odyssey ✧*]

It was Taiwan who was offended here not China because he called himself as someone from China Taiwan. 

then taiwan needs to take a chill pill.

[KentasGlittery EyeMakeup]

I feel like the poor kid actually wanted to avoid a Tzuyu-like controversy by saying something like that and being diplomatic but it backfired on him instead

[4minute-s]

I feel like the poor kid actually wanted to avoid a Tzuyu-like controversy by saying something like that and being diplomatic but it backfired on him instead

the poor kid knows nothing. The whole show is scripted. Its either Cube or Mnet who dont know what they are doing. I'll be rooting for him still!

[Honey-bee]

If you were from Taiwan and you said Taiwanese, you got hate from Chinese. You said you're Chinese, you got hate from Taiwanese. You said Chinese Taiwan, you got hate from both. You just can't escape the hate~

[Hyooga]

the poor kid knows nothing. The whole show is scripted. Its either Cube or Mnet who dont know what they are doing. I'll be rooting for him still!

 

Ugh keep politics out of Kpop lol

[HotTea]

Wait he is 16yo? Nah I can't stan him.

[Hyooga]

Wait he is 16yo? Nah I can't stan him.

 

 

Yep, the trainees CUBE sent were very young.

[lilacanesthetic]

Wait he is 16yo? Nah I can't stan him.

He's actually 15!!! Born September 23, 2001. He'll turn 16 later this year. (on the show he's 17 because that's his Korean age)

[Asimov]

If they mess with my baby I will fight every last one of them

[meukies]

Poor Guanlin :( Leave the boy alone!

[Moon Gin]

I will feel sad if they make a fuss out of this and use it to drag him down. It's never easy to be a citizen of a country/region which sovereignty is still under dispute. In any case he's prone to receive backlash from either Chinese or Taiwanese, depending on how he states his origin is.