On May 21, it was confirmed that the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), an organization under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, is conducting an investigation in relation to allegations of music hoarding against BTS.
Previously, a complaint regarding the hoarding of BTS’s music was filed with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and transferred to KOCCA. Regarding this, KOCCA plans to investigate the facts by requesting a response from HYBE (Big Hit Music).
If an investigation into music hoarding is conducted by KOCCA, data may be requested from music service providers, etc., and will be reported to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism after review by an advisory group. If necessary, request cooperation from the court or investigative agency. It is expected that civil complaints related to BTS will also be processed through this procedure.
In response, HYBE completely denied the allegations of music hoarding related to BTS and hinted at legal action.
Reacting to this investigation, however, Korean netizens believe that it is “useless”, considering that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and KOCCA are not courts.
Below are some comments from Korean netizens:
- Is the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism a court? What can it do?
- Since none of the numerous hoarding suspicions have been adjudicated before, it seems as if they are the first hoarding marketing users to have a clear ruling. If you don’t find a whistleblower, you can’t even catch hoarding…. I don’t really trust the results that KOCCA, which has no investigative power, will bring.
- Let’s investigate everything at this point.
- It’s an old story, and in the meantime, BTS has grown so much that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism won’t touch it. They’ll just pretend to do it half-heartedly, and they won’t be able to look at it properly because the data is gone. It’s an obvious ending.
- Most of us know that the investigation into music hoarding is meaningless
Source: theqoo
