[AKP] Norazo's Jobin dedicates lengthy apology for racism concerns in the duo's 2010 hit song 'Curry'

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July 15, Norazo's founding member Jobindedicated a lengthy letter of apology toward global K-Pop fans for the duo's 2010 hit song, "Curry". 

Concerns about racism and religious mockery surrounding the 2010 song "Curry" arose again recently due to the fact that back on July 14, Seventeen members Wonwoo, Vernon, and DK sang the song during an episode of 'Going Seventeen'. Afterward, numerous global fans demanded an apology from both Norazo and Seventeen, prompting Norazo's Jobin to take action. 

In an Instagram post on July 15, Jobin wrote, 

 

"Norazo has no intentions of committing racism or religious mockery at all. 

From what I've been informed by Indian fans today, 'Curry' is actually not a traditional Indian dish; the reason that Norazo worked on this song at the time was that while living in Korea, we were misinformed about the origins and history of 'Curry' and were led to believe that ''Curry' is a traditional Indian dish'. We did not check the facts before creating this song.

As a result, we did not realize that several words that we used in the song to accentuate the 'feel' of India were actually very spiritual and important words to the native speakers of this language. This is a clear wrongdoing of my own.

We only wanted to express through the song that 'Curry' is a delicious dish that any one can enjoy at any time, in Norazo's fun and unique style. I want to express that we had no intentions of degrading anyone, and no intentions of undermining anyone's country or that country's culture and traditions.

I vow to become a singer who creates songs based on correct information from now on. I want to relay my sincere apologies to those of you in India, across Southern Asia, etc for causing offense. 

Finally, many hoobae idol singers are also still unaware of the offense that this song has caused. I sincerely hope that this song which began as a result of our ignorance toward other cultures and countries, will no longer cause damages to our respected hoobae artists, who are loved by so many people from nations around the world."

 

https://www.allkpop.com/article/2020/07/norazos-jobin-dedicates-lengthy-apology-for-racism-concerns-in-the-duos-2010-hit-song-curry

Edited July 16, 2020 by sergel
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7 minutes ago, lighterxx said:

Tons of idols sang it, but only carats created big enough fuss for him to apologize I would say this is win o.o

Otherwise, its really transparent of akp to name only svt members when tons of idols should apologize or at least show they have learned through this. Anyway, I guess we will be the bad guys. 

Like you said, Carats are probably the reason it became an issue big enough to notice, as the song had been around for a decade and no one really brought it up.

I do think the writer should have mentioned other idols have covered it too, though fairly recently I can only think of OMG.