Hoya’s admiration for African-Americans

I was planning on completely cutting off all possible ways to see anything related to KPOP ever since the ‘black face’ jokes UNTIL I read what Infinite’s Hoya said in an interview dealing with African-Americans:

“The name of the dance team I used to be in was ‘BK’. The letters stood for ‘Black Korean’. Because African-Americans have good physical bodies, good elasticity/flexibility during dancing, and good vibrations while singing, I was jealous and purposely went to go eat hamburgers with my hyungs who danced and learned slang that African-Americans use.

It was to the point that once during puberty, I asked my mom, “Why aren’t I African-American?”. My mom’s answer? “Because I’m not African-American.”

Recently while filming the music video for ‘She’s Back’, I got a natural tan. Everyone didn’t like that they got burned, but I was the only happy one. I can almost say that my role models are African-Americans.”

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Never would I have thought that a Korean idol, or a Korean person in general, would admire African-Americans so much after I saw those ‘black face’ jokes. I wonder if he still feels the same way towards African-Americans and how would he react if he met an African-American fan…..

S!B: Some people might think that I would’ve been dumb to stop listening to KPOP just because of ‘black face’

S!B2: People are going to think I sound stupid(?) for thinking all Koreans are like Kikwang, BOOM & whoever else joked about ‘black face’