[NEWS] 150427 “Gag Concert” Censors JYJ Junsu’s Name, Fans Raise Voices in Protest

Fans of JYJ Junsu have raised their voices in protest, after the April 26 broadcast of KBS 2TV “Gag Concert” censored the singer’s name. “Thinking of his [current] stage name, we only censored out ‘XIA,’” said the producer of the show.

In the skit, comedian Park Sung Ho says, “When male celebrities play soccer Minho is manly, XIA Junsu is cool, and Lee Duk Hwa is…,” where “XIA” is noticeably muted.

Fans responded in the show’s online community: “To both the singer and fans, this is offensive!!! You need to apologize,” “It’s not like XIA Junsu is a criminal,” “What exactly did he do so wrong that you need to censor his name? I don’t understand.”

“Gag Concert” producer Jo Joon Hee said to Star News, “We thought the use of XIA Junsu’s name would hurt fans, so we censored ‘XIA,’ but it seem’s we’ve caused a misunderstanding.”

The producer explains further, “While we were editing the show, we thought about the fact that these days, Kim Junsu is active under the names XIA and Kim Junsu, not XIA Junsu. Park Yoochun and Kim Jaejoong both are active under their [regular] names, but we thought calling only Kim Junsu as ‘XIA Junsu’ would be hurtful to fans. That’s why we censored the ‘XIA’ part, causing the ‘Junsu’ to sound unclear.”

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Sources: Star MT via Naver + 봄날처럼
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[NEWS] Fans outraged after “Gag Concert” censors JYJ Junsu’s name on latest broadcast

An incident on the latest Gag Concert episode has fans outraged as they demand the show to apologize to JYJ‘s Kim Junsu.

On the April 26th episode of the popular KBS show, comedian Park Sung Ho said during a skit, “When male celebrities play soccer, Minho (SHINee) is manly, XIA Junsu is cool, and Lee Deok Hwa…” where the “XIA” is noticeably muted, leading the following pronunciation of “Junsu” to sound as if it was muted as well.

To this, fans immediately bombarded the community board for the show to protest, where they wrote, “This is offensive to both the singer and fans!!! Please apologize,” “Junsu is not a criminal,” “What did he do so wrong that he must be censored from broadcasting? I don’t understand.” The amount of posts protesting over the latest censor continues to rise since the 26th.

In regards to the censorship, the show’s PD Jo Jun Hee explained to Star News that “we thought the name ‘XIA’ would hurt fans, so we censored it, but instead we caused a misunderstanding.”

“During the editing process, we thought that nowadays, Junsu is known as ‘XIA’ not Junsu or ‘XIA Junsu’ [for his music promotions]. Park Yoochun and Kim Jaejoong are active under their own names, so we believed using ‘XIA Junsu’ would only hurt fans. So we censored ‘XIA’ but only for ‘Junsu’ to barely be heard as well. Only ‘XIA’ was muted. It seems we have unintentionally created a misunderstanding with fans.”

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To this response, fans said:

[+4137, -173] You should have just called him Junsu from the beginning..

[+3231, -259] It’s been years already.. This is really pathetic.

[+2393, -198] He’s doing fine..why can’t people just leave him alone

[+675, -37] I guess you get in big trouble if you say Junsu’s name on broadcast

Source: Star News
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