Burning Sun Surabaya event draws protests, Seungri gives clarification

JAKARTA - TSV Management's Instagram social media account which calls itself a event planner (planned event) based in Surabaya and Malang managed to make noise by uploading information about an event entitled 'Burning Sun Surabaya'.

The event also uploaded a photo of Seungri, the former BIGBANG as the main performer.

"The new chapter is born (a new chapter has been born)," reads the caption for the Instagram Story TSV Management upload, quoted on Sunday, August 11.

Meanwhile, the event is planned to be held on the fifth floor of bills located in Surabaya on August 31.

The TEV Management upload managed to attract the attention of Indonesian netizens, considering that the Burning Sun and Seungri scandals were the biggest negative news in South Korea.

The scandal involved prostitution and drug abuse. Seungri also had to languish in prison for a year and a half.

"In Korea it was canceled, (in Indonesia) it was even given a stage!" wrote one netizen on X.

"That's right!! In korea, people have been canceled in do is still being hyperped, it's really sad," wrote another netizen.

The news of the Burning Sun Surabaya event turned out to have reached South Korea, Seungri had already clarified it to the local media.

"I don't even know where the territory of Indonesia is mentioned in the article," Seungri told Daily Sport.

"It was said that I would go on August 31, but I don't plan to come there," he continued.

"This is really ridiculous."