After judging that Rain’s Rainism was harmful and detrimental to youths last week, the Commission of Youth Protection has acted again by labeling DBSK’s Mirotic, Solbi’s Do It Do It, Trust Me and Make Up Sex from Dynamic Duo’s 4th album, etc in the same category as Rainism. This has created an uproar once again in Korea with the ruling taking effect from this week onwards.
According to sources, the Commission of Youth Protection usually examines around 100 songs every month to see if they are harmful or detrimental to youths in Korea. But this is the first time that their scope is targeted specifically towards popular mainstream singers in Korea right now. In the last month alone, 110 songs were judged to be inappropriate with 32 of them Korean songs, setting a new record in the process. The reason for banning Mirotic was the same as Rainism in that part of the lyrics were inappropriate.
The ruling will come into effect from 4th December with the song being banned from playing on tv or radio before 10pm. The Mirotic album will have stickers affixed to them that indicates “unsuitable for people under 19 years old”. The song lyrics will have to be modified if they are going to perform this during concerts or events. Action will be taken if any of the above are flouted.
Although affected singers and their companies have expressed that they will adhere to the ruling, they can’t fathom the reasoning behind the ban.
Industry critics feel that this will only heap more misery on the already suffering music industry. And one wonders if the “19-only” stickers restricting the sale of affected albums will actually have any effect. DBSK for example are already done with promoting Mirotic and are actually in the midst of promoting their follow-up song Wrong Number. With album sales already exceeding 300,000, it also means that most of their fans have already gotten the album already.
According to sources, the Commission of Youth Protection usually examines around 100 songs every month to see if they are harmful or detrimental to youths in Korea. But this is the first time that their scope is targeted specifically towards popular mainstream singers in Korea right now. In the last month alone, 110 songs were judged to be inappropriate with 32 of them Korean songs, setting a new record in the process. The reason for banning Mirotic was the same as Rainism in that part of the lyrics were inappropriate.
The ruling will come into effect from 4th December with the song being banned from playing on tv or radio before 10pm. The Mirotic album will have stickers affixed to them that indicates “unsuitable for people under 19 years old”. The song lyrics will have to be modified if they are going to perform this during concerts or events. Action will be taken if any of the above are flouted.
Although affected singers and their companies have expressed that they will adhere to the ruling, they can’t fathom the reasoning behind the ban.
Industry critics feel that this will only heap more misery on the already suffering music industry. And one wonders if the “19-only” stickers restricting the sale of affected albums will actually have any effect. DBSK for example are already done with promoting Mirotic and are actually in the midst of promoting their follow-up song Wrong Number. With album sales already exceeding 300,000, it also means that most of their fans have already gotten the album already.
Part 2
Korea’s Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs is on a roll.
After banning Rain and his Magic Stick, the Ministry has now turned their attention to Dong Bang Shin Ki.
Just a couple of days ago, the Ministry banned TVXQ’s hit song “Mirotic” for its “suggestive sexual content” and asked SM Entertainment to change the lyrics of the song.
SM Entertainment negotiated the terms for the condition but like Rain they were left with no choice but to comply with the Ministry’s decision to release an edited version of “Mirotic”.
A representative from SM Entertainment released a statement on December 2, said, “The Commission of Youth Protection has determined ‘Mirotic‘ as one of the songs that are banned, therefore we will release an edited version. However, this decision will not necessarily satisfy Commission of Youth Protection because they have their own measure apart, but this step must be made to prevent further effects.”
Based on Ministry decision, the new and improved “Mirotic” would most likely not include the words ‘jumun’, ‘nol kajjeosso’, and its famous line ‘I got you under my skin’ since these lyrics are “very harmful to the youth”, so the Ministry says.
The squeaky clean version would be effective immediately on all future TVXQ activities.
Credits: KPOP JJANG
I just don’t know whether to laugh or cry. These guys have to be kidding me, this is simply LUDICROUS! Beyond ridiculous! They decide Mirotic is harmful now that like a zillion copies have been sold????? And after every single tv show and radio broadcast has played Mirotic another zillion times?? Even myself in Buenos Aires have an uncensored version in my hands... I wonder if they were drinking vodka while deciding this or they somewhat had to justify their salaries or something.
I read all kind of comments at the TVXQ Argentinean forum, we were mad of course but also laughing our heads off when we read this. They cannot be more ridiculous even if they tried.
For the time being I have added a support message in my signature at the forum (I SUPPORT MIROTIC’S ORIGINAL VERSION – UNDER MY SKIN) and have also joined a French Facebook group called “association Mirotic 100% skin”.
C’mon people! We’re in 2008! Not in the Dark Ages! Have these guys even read the lyrics of songs like “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails or “I touch myself” by Devinyls or “cream” by Prince?? Just go get a life and leave DBSK alone.
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