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well sungjong is the member that is always forgotten. people talk about him for like 3 minutes at maximum and make it about the other members all over. yesterday was infinite effect advance day 1, sungjong had his solo stage. (1 | 2)

he practiced, when he was stuck in tonga, by himself. he performed, and i might add with no problems, after being probably jet lagged as heck. he cried during the concert, and sungjong never cries in public unless it’s really really hard for him. people didn’t bother about him crying. they were more talking about the fact that myungsoo patted his head and dongwoo hugged him or so. 

he was seriously depressed in 2013, he even mentioned it himself.  during an interview, i think, he said he skipped meals but fandom didn’t even react. 

on instagram he’s getting hate comments by a person who wishes him dead and other than a handful of inspirits didn’t react to it, saying “nbg, he’s not gonna read it anyway”. but the second it’s another member, be it sungyeol or anyone else, fandom goes berserk. 

he has such a nice voice. soft and soothing yet people tend to ignore it and attack him, saying he can’t sing (which is the biggest lie of the century but okay?) sungjong gives SO much fanservice, and it doesn’t matter who’s fan you’re holding, he just gives and gives and gives and never takes. 

fandom reducing him to his old “diva maknae lemon candy sassy girl group covers” sungjong is literally so ugly. he matured, he grew up a lot. as my friend mentioned it, sungjong has to constantly prove himself no matter what he does. 

why is it, that he gets send to any show whenever there’s a rumour involving him but when it’s another member they can continue their normal schedule? why is it that sungjong has to deal with tons of hate for no reason?

do you remember the way inspirits flipped every stone because sungjong got more lines and others lines got cut down because of it? in all honesty, sungjong deserves more lines than he ever gets. i don’t get why the rapper line gets more lines than the vocal? don’t get me wrong, i like dongwoos & hoyas voice but i just don’t see the logic? if they sing let sungjong rap? 

and did you know that sungjong was sent as a replacement for woohyun to law of the jungle? sungjong wanted to go so badly even way before, yet he was sent as a replacement. if woohyun wouldn’t have had another schedule, even that wouldn’t have been granted sungjong.

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First: “Ma Naega” is not dialect. It is nonsense. I’ve seen people trying to deflect this by saying it means something but it directly translates to “Ma I Am” and does not mean anything in the dialect of S.Coup’s region so unless he’s saying “Mother I am” fast and while dropping he first syllable of “mother (umma)” (which he isn’t and wouldn’t make sense in the situation anyways), he really is just saying Korean words that sound like the N-word and that’s why the other members are laughing. And no, he’s not referring to the Mama awards.

Is it true that 내가 (“I am”) and 니가 (“you are”) sound like the N-word? Yes. Does that apply to this situation? No. So that’s unfortunate and I feel very disappointed at all the people who are suddenly fluent in Korean and deflecting this. I’m even more disappointed at fellow Koreans who are defending this. You know damn well what he was doing. It’s a common ass joke amongst ignorant teenage boys who listen to hip-hop and know they can’t say the N-word but don’t exactly know why (which is why they use Korean words). Y'all are desperately pulling these excuses from your ass.

Now on to Seungkwan. There’s good news here, because from what I can see, he didn’t say the word.

He was singing “I am what I am, my girl” but because of his accent, “my girl” came out sounding like “mygur” which sounds like the N-word, but in fact, that is exactly what a Korean accent sounds like. If we are just learning English, we can’t roll our vowels, so “girl” ends up sounding like “gur” or “gull” (L and R are the same in Korean[ㄹ]). It’s why on shows, idols who are supposedly fluent in English are told to say words like “Apple” or “Girl” to “prove that they are fluent”. Being able to pronounce these words correctly is very difficult if you are a native Korean non-fluent English speaker. To try and hold him accountable for his accent is just cruel. He really can’t help it.

I understand that people were upset and you have EVERY SINGLE RIGHT to be upset (and I apologize on behalf if you were triggered), but this one (Seungkwan’s) is a misunderstanding. S.Coup’s tho…he deserves to be flamed a bit (flamed, not threatened). I hope he apologizes.

Secondly though, I need to correct her and say that actually, “Ma” is in fact, a Gyeongsang-do Dialect (the region that includes Daegu, Seungcheol’s hometown, and Busan), which is very frequently used among Gyangsang-do Dialect speaking people.

Here is an example: Jungkook from BTS is from Busan and here is a short clip from Weekly Idol of Jungkook doing an alarm in Gyeongsang-do dialect.

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What does “Ma” mean? It is incredibly difficult to explain its meaning since context plays a whole lot in its use. Mostly, it is used between close friends that can be translated as the satoori version of “Yah!”. I’d like to describe it as a more aggressive version, something like “dude, or buddy/yo” in English. 

And as most of you know, “Naega” (I am) and “Neega” (You are) aren’t dialects but they are Korean words that sound like the N-word. Does that apply to this situation? Yes, it does, because by saying “Ma, naega”, Seungcheol is referring to himself going to the MAMA awards.

Literal translation of Seungcheol’s MAMA acrostic poem: MA: Ma, naega        (Yah, I am) *NOTE: He is referring to himself, so yes, it is used appropriately in context

MA: MAMAae ganda aiga        (going to the MAMA awards) *NOTE: He IS referring to the MAMA awards

Seungcheol DID NOT say the N-word, and he did not intend to make it sound like the N-word either. The members are laughing simply because Seungcheol is using the dialect, and he is trying to sound tough. Busan/Daegu satoori (dialect) is associated with portraying “manly” images, and that is why the members are laughing, NOT because Seungcheol implied to say the N-word.

I initally didn’t want to involve myself in this issue because I thought it was going to die off. As a native-Korean speaker, I was able to understand why this problem arose from both Korean/International viewpoints, but the situation is going out of hand and I’m personally feeling hurt at all the comments at Seungcheol and Seungkwan and I had to something about it.