NewJeans started promoting Hanji, but became the target of Chinese malicious commenters, and is under intense fire.
On the 6th, NewJeans drew attention by appearing in a promotional video for the ‘2022 Korean Wave-linked Collaborative Content Planning and Development Support’ project planned by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Craft & Design Foundation (hereinafter referred to as Gongjinwon).
In this video posted on Gong Jin-won’s YouTube channel, the members of NewJeans talked about various things on the topic of Hanji and also showed how to make Hanji themselves.
However, as soon as this video was released, Chinese netizens flocked to New Jeans’ social media account and started terrorizing them with malicious comments. There were over 3,000 malicious comments in one day. Chinese netizens criticized NewJeans’ promotional video, saying, “Papermaking belongs to China.,” while Korean netizens argued against it, saying, “NewJeans only promoted Hanji.”
In fact, if you look at the comments, there were many severe reactions such as “paper technology belongs to China and Korea only inherited Chinese paper technology, but they try to take away culture as if it were Korea’s own technology,” “Don’t steal culture,” “Why steal Chinese people’s?” and “papermaking belongs to China.”
Korean netizens who saw this were also angry and confronted. Korean fans said, “NewJeans only promoted the excellence of Hanji, and never claimed that Hanji was the world’s first paper,” and “Korea learned paper technology in China, but developed it, and Hanji is different from Chinese paper.”
Source: Nate
