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A representative of a parent organization that accused MAMAMOO member Hwasa, 28, of performing an obscene performance on stage at a university festival commented on the performance, saying, "(Hwasa's) obscene movements can have a worse effect than Barbary Man." On the other hand, the pop culture community countered that it was "excessive interference from parents who haven't even seen the performance."
On the 11th, Shin Min-hyang, head of the Student and Parental Rights Protection Alliance (Hakinyeon), said on CBS's Kim Hyun-jung's news show, "Barbary Man is punished under the Misdemeanor Punishment Act. In the case of Hwasa, a larger number of unspecified members of the public saw the performance, so in some ways, the negative impact may be greater than that of the barbarian."
Earlier, on May 12, Hwasa performed "Don't Give Me" with singer Rokko at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul as part of the filming of tvN's "Dance Dance Wanderers. On stage, Hwasa sat with her thighs apart and choreographed licking her hands with her tongue and flicking certain body parts. Immediately afterward, the scene spread on social media in the form of a "direct-cam" video, sparking controversy for being overly sexualized. The scene was edited out of the subsequent episode of "Dance Dance Wanderers. On June 22, Hak In Yeon filed a police complaint against the scene, saying it caused sexual shame to the public.
Shin said, "Hwasa's behavior was completely out of context with the choreography of the show. These acts fall under the obscene acts prescribed in Article 245 of the Criminal Code, the performance obscenity offense," he said, explaining that he filed the complaint after seeing elementary school students watching the performance. "I was not at the university site, but the video went viral and I was forced to watch it unwillingly. The fact that the public was humiliated by the performance, and the fact that minors were allegedly present at the performance site, constitute the crime of performance obscenity." He added.
In response to the criticism that Hak In-yeon's accusation was an 'overreaction', he said, "Even if it is a performance, it should be performed according to the place and people. I don't think it should be carried out like terrorism against the majority in an unexpected place," he said, adding, "There are those who claim artistic repression, but in the name of art, is it okay to carry out any act in a space where young students are naturally expected to be?"
On the other hand, Kim Heon-sik, a pop culture critic, argued that the accusations against Hakinyeon were excessive.
"This is a case of excessive intervention in artistic freedom by the 'Monster Parents' group," he said on the same radio program. "It's basically a performance by university students, and it's not appropriate for the police to intervene because a third party, a parent organization, who was not at the performance, filed a complaint, from the point of view of artistic spirit and freedom of expression."
"It's as if the police were called in to protect their children just because they were parents in the audience," Kim said. "If the problem is that the video was spread through social media, then the responsibility of the social media platform, which is the main source of the spread, should also be mentioned, but it was left out and only Hwasa was accused."
Recently, Hwasa was investigated by the police for the accusation. On the 10th, her agency Pnation said, "Hwasa was recently summoned by the police as a defendant and investigated."
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