K-pop, Korean entertainment/culture, Korean fans/netizens [2014~]

Translations of Millenium Boy's apology




A few hours ago, Millenium Boy, a controversial Thai group who covers EXO, posted an apology video on Youtube. The whole video is 23:00 long and I translated up to 13:04. I translated what the Korean member was saying.


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We Millenium Boy is quite of an issue worldwide. We're here to answer questions from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 


The first concern about our team's logo. Our team is covering EXO and we're copying EXO. So we were going to do the same as them. We were going to change the original EXO and create our own EXO, so we made Millenium Boy logo. And we didn't think of violating copyrights in the first place, so we're sorry about that. So we're going to make our own logo and stop the logo we're using now.


About our fansigns. We go to cities and perform. Too many people came to see us, so the performance organization set up the table and we did our fansigns. We did not get any money from that and it wasn't done for a business.


Thirdly, about our fan meetings. The reason why we opened up our fan meeting is because our fanclub requested for it. They requested that they wanted to have a time with us, so we had fan meetings. We do get money from fan meetings. Honestly, the reason why we get money is not because we want to earn money, it's because it costs money to set up a place, food, and other costs from fan meetings. The money is just enough to supply those stuff. We never had fan meetings to earn money.


Fourthly, our clothing merchandises. We have promoted as Millenium Boy for a long time. With the time, we gained our fan club. So what the fan club requested was that they wanted us to sell any clothings like clothes, hat, and bracelets. They wanted to support us so we made them. We never went over and we made them just enough for the fans and sold them. It was never done for a business, it was because the fans requested it to support us. We were thankful and that's why we sold them.


Another thing about clothings, there's the black and white long-sleeve shirt with "EXO" printed on it. EXO wore it on Inkigayo. There's someone who supported us. They made those clothes for us and we signed on them. We never put EXO down and we never sold the signed clothings to surpass EXO. And about the signatures, a lot of people said that we're using EXO members' signatures, but we never use their signatures. We always used our own signatures.


We'll explain the cover dance culture in Thailand. In Thailand, cover dance has been done for ten years. In the beginning, it was only about doing cover dances without extra promotions. But after K-pop got popular, competitions and performances were formed. 


Most cover dance competitions in Thailand have rules. Similarity, dance preparation, and creativity. Just like you can see from our shows, we had to follow the rules for the competitions in Thailand. It's not weird that we're doing the same style with the singers. Some people posted that we're behaving like the original singers, but we did not intent it. Some of pictures of us were coincidentally similar to the original singers. We're average people living average lives. We're no more or less. We also love EXO. This is why we do cover dances of EXO. 


And another issued thing was about the picture that insults Kai. This hyung, who is in charge of Kai, will talk about this. 

(the Thai member talks...) 
There's the picture of blackfaced Kai with his eyes and mouth. This hyung got the picture from Tumblr. We don't know who made it but on Tumblr, a lot of people called the picture funny. So since this hyung is in charge of Jongin hyung, he posted the picture. But we never intended to insult Kai. And if you felt uncomfortable with it, I'm sorry.



(The Kai picture)


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