ENHYPEN's Sunghoon issues apology after backlash over ‘racist typo'
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Sunghoon, while using a popular fan forum to communicate with his fans from all around the world, tried to tell someone 'Good Job', but ended up writing the word 'good j*p'. The phrase is usually used as a racial slur against the Japanese. It is also used by people to degrade and demean Japanese people as well, further enraging netizens.
The phrase is often written as 'good jab' in Hangul, which many thought was the reason why the mistake occurred in the first place.
As soon as the post went viral and the idol started facing a lot of backlash, he quickly issued an apology online and addressed the matter.
Sunghoon's apology
Sunghoon quickly posted the correct phrase under the post and even issued an apology to the fans on the same fan forum. The apology read, 'During the listening party, I accidentally spelt an English word wrong and it became an issue. I fixed it later after I found out it was wrongly spelt. I had no intentions behind it, and it was simply a misspelt word. Thank you to the ENGENEs who were worried for me. I'll be more careful in the future'.
The member quickly corrected himself online after taking help from fellow member Junghoon as well.
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