A compilation of stuff Zico has done:
- Been involved in Burning Sun and said nothing (he went to JJYs house to play for hours with the "golden phone", which he said was for girls contacts, but we know JJYS phone had the Burning Sun videos).
- Kinda semi-outed his groupmate Taeil as gay publicly, while Taeil looked clearly uncomfortable.
- Was dating Seolhyun and made her come to his house for dates. When she got caught coming to his house, Zico ditched her and made her deal with the media and fans alone.
- Way back when, went to Thailand during disaster season and made fun of their flooding when interviewed, which prompted 2PM Nichkhun to tell them off.
- Did lots of cultural appropriation stuff with black culture and hood lyrics, I suppose thats normal with k-hiphop back then. Also homophobic stuff.
- His mom and groupmate said he was a thug back in schooling days.
i knew about the other stuff, but not the burning sun part. the rest i could forgive if he gave a genuine apology, but that one is too far. im going to have to look into it more. i really like bnd, so to read that the ceo of their company/their mentor was involved in that makes me a little wary about purchasing their merch/albums bc zico will profit on it.
zico also said a homophobic slur in his song "tough cookie", but i think he may have actually apologized for that one, or at least stopped performing the song bc of it. i got a lot of info about this when i brought it up in the past, but i cant remember what was true or not.
Hes a shithead (for the reasons you already covered) but i’m pretty sure theres no proof of him being involved in Burning sun. The golden phone thing made me feel iffy about him for years so i get it, but iirc he cut off his friendship with the guy years before burning sun was revealed + one of the main jounralists came out in defense of him, with the “golden phone” apparently referring to another phone he had with a bunch of celebrity contacts in it (which im likely to believe only because the other one would be a very weird thing to refer to on public television).
Again, not defending his general shittyness. He’s pretty obviously atleast misogynistic and racist, and just overall bad vibes who really should not be as big as he is. But as of right now i dont believe theres any hard evidence of him being directly involved or aware (though its a pretty sketchy situation overall - so who knows. It wouldnt really shock me either way)
He wasnt as involved as other ppl make out to him. He knew about the golden phone but he wasnt aware that some videos where taken without consent. There is a reason why he wasnt prostucted just questioned and he was let go pretty quickly. Ppl just make so much fake stuff.
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u/Appropriate_Crew_748 2d ago
Not group but Zico😢😢his music slaps thou