[theqoo] “HYBE’S BUSAN BRANCH STAFFING AGENCY?”… CONTROVERSY OVER CIVIL SERVANTS BEING DRAFTED FOR BTS’ CONCERT

Controversy has erupted over the large-scale deployment of Busan City government employees to the “BTS World Tour Arirang IN Busan” concert, scheduled for the 12th and 13th.

On the 5th, a post titled “A thousand government employees are being deployed to the BTS concert for free” was uploaded to the workplace community site ‘Blind’.

The post raised the issue, asking, “Is it right that 915 Busan City Hall civil servants have to be drafted for a commercial concert that HYBE is putting on to make money?”

The OP expressed strong dissatisfaction, stating that they are being drafted “for free during working hours” and questioning whether the city hall has become “HYBE’s Busan branch staffing agency.”

In fact, complaints are mounting among Busan civil servants regarding the deployment of personnel to support a commercial performance.

[Busan City Hall civil servant (voice altered): “This isn’t even an event organized by the city; it’s a commercial performance where a private company is making 100% of the profit. Internally, we can’t understand why so many civil servants are being mobilized to handle safety management, so there’s a lot of dissatisfaction. I don’t really understand why we have to pay with our tax money for something HYBE should be paying for.”]

As the post went viral, other civil servants also voiced criticism, saying things like, “If it’s a for-profit activity, HYBE should be the one to cover the costs,” “Has the ‘beneficiary pays’ principle disappeared?” and “This is nothing short of embezzlement.”

1. A thousand people?????????? This is freaking oba;;;;;;

2. I guess they’re doing it because they have a justificationㅋㅋㅋㅋ Go take it up with the mayor of Busan, don’t take it up with HYBE

3. What’s up with working for free? Pay them at least

4. What is wrong with HYBE? If they make money, they should pay for it themselves. Isn’t drafting civil servants a waste of taxpayers’ money?

5. They drafted all the staff for the Gwanghwamun performance too, and the result was a complete disaster, just leave the civil servants alone

6. The special treatment for Bangtan is really just special treatment for HYBE. They’re even sweeping the Bang Sihyuk scandal under the rug, aren’t they?

7. But HYBE didn’t even ask them to do this, why are you constantly picking on something the Busan City government is doing? They’re probably doing it because it gets publicity and benefits Busan too… It’s really going too far to try to use this as an excuse to hate on Bangtan. If the Busan City government doesn’t want to do it, they don’t have to… Even if it’s not BTS, if there’s an event, they’ll just send out civil servants anyway

8. All of them are of the same body

9. Because something is going on between HYBE and the government

10. They already used up all the civil servants for Gwanghwamun in Seoul so this is no big dealㅋㅋ