Choi Siwon of Super Junior unliked Twitter post, apologised twice on Weibo platform. FMTNews Kpop SuperJunior
BEIJING: A South Korean pop star has become the latest celebrity to spark anger on the Chinese internet after he “liked” a tweet about the divisive issue of pro-democracy unrest in Hong Kong.
Twitter is blocked in China, but opinions that rile Beijing regularly make their way across the “Great Firewall” of censorship and go viral on Chinese social media. “Since the controversy caused by this behaviour makes you all feel disgusted and disappointed, I express my sincerest apologies to all of you,” he wrote on his Weibo account, where he has 16.5 million followers.He apologised again on Tuesday, writing on Weibo he felt “really sorry for my wrong behaviour on Twitter recently, which has made everyone feel disappointed and hurt everyone’s feelings.”By Tuesday afternoon, the hashtag “Choi Siwon” was the No 1 topic on Weibo, with 260 million views.
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