Apink's Oh Ha-young Issues Apology on Chinese Social Media Amid Backlash

The controversy surrounding Apink member Oh Ha-young has also drawn significant criticism on Chinese social media.

Translated comments from Korean netizens:

1. Looks like she wants to promote in China.
2. China, too...?
3. Didn't China force people out of the entertainment industry for taking photos at Yasukuni Shrine? Do they think this can be forgiven?

4. She also manages a Chinese Xiaohongshu account, so she posted separately there.
5. China is also a victim; they suffered greatly because of Japan.
6. China is naturally very sensitive about Japanese colonial rule, and now Indonesia is also upset.

7. This incident is her fault towards Koreans, so why post it on Chinese social media?
8. China is even more resolute and strict on such matters. The main victims of Unit 731 were also Chinese (as it happened on Chinese soil). If she's seen as a Japanese collaborator, even as a foreign celebrity, she'll be disliked just as much as Koreans dislike her.
9. China will be stricter about pro-Japanese behavior. Relations aren't good right now either.

10. This makes Chinese people very happy.
11. Honestly, who in Asia wouldn't criticize this? I just see her as a traitor, and she's parading it around as if it's glorious.
12. China's history education is very strict. Elementary school textbooks contain a lot about the atrocities of the Japanese army.

13. She probably has unannounced advertisements or projects. It seems she's trying every means to cover it up now.
14. China is very strict about this kind of thing; they won't let it slide. The suffering during that era was immense.
15. China will probably dislike her even more.

16. Chinese children know very well that you can't choose where you're born, but why can't she just be quiet? If she were quiet, who would know? Chinese children won't forgive her either, so stop testing the waters and just go back.
17. Why can't she just be quiet?
18. China is also super sensitive to pro-Japanese acts of treason. Occupied and plundered between 1930-1945, especially during the infamous Nanjing Massacre, China also had comfort women victims. In fact, almost no country in Asia wasn't harmed by Japan at that time.

19. China is stricter about this kind of thing; posting it in China probably means she wants to be criticized even more severely.
20. She probably doesn't understand the situation and just wants to make money in China, lol.
21. She brought this upon herself...

22. The only Asians who would welcome her activities are probably Japanese. If she wants to continue being an actress, she should go to Japan now, lol. In Japan, she might become a topic of discussion out of pity, but I don't know if they'd use her. Japanese people already like to criticize Korea, and even if they coax her by saying 'try harder,' they'd probably dislike her if she said she wanted to naturalize, lol.
23. China also suffered greatly from the Japanese army; the Nanjing Massacre is one example. China also had people taken as comfort women, and they have deep resentment towards Japan from that period.
24. She should just retire. If she retires, she won't have to make hypocritical apologies.

25. I hope she stops getting in the way and just goes back. She's not an essential figure in the entertainment industry. She herself said she could live even without doing this.
26. She hasn't said she's leaving, yet she even posted a copied apology on Chinese social media.
27. China also has celebrities who were blacklisted for pro-Japanese behavior; they are very sensitive to such acts.

28. China just released a blockbuster film about Unit 731 and Nanjing last year, and anti-Japanese sentiment is very high, haha.
29. Here, she can still work somehow... because someone is willing to use her. But there, she absolutely cannot work.
30. How shameless, just retire. Her greed is too much; I don't want to see the face of someone from a traitorous family, so just retire.

31. Does she intend to persist and continue being a celebrity?
32. China is also a victim nation, so they hate traitors.
33. The only thing I have a good impression of China for is their thorough historical awareness and response to Japan.

34. China's reaction to Japan is just hilarious, lol. I heard that when Abe died, they set off firecrackers in the streets, and some restaurant owners even treated customers; it was like a festival, lol. She's not an actress with exceptional acting skills, so at this point, she should stop posting and just disappear.
35. Chinese people will absolutely not show mercy.
36. China is even more so than us, especially towards celebrities.

37. If she were Chinese, she would truly be banned from all platforms and directly forced out of the entertainment industry. Especially in the current atmosphere.
38. It's not that China is 'what's wrong,' but rather that China hates Japan even more. There, any hint of pro-Japanese sentiment will immediately lead to a ban on celebrity activities and direct removal from the entertainment industry.
39. Just retire quickly!

40. There's probably no country in Asia that hasn't suffered, lol. China isn't far from us, so their suffering shouldn't be any less than ours.
41. If she were Chinese, it would truly be a career-ending situation; she survived because she's Korean.
42. China is even harsher, more merciless than us, lol.

43. How bad must her history education be, for someone from a pro-Japanese prominent family to try and enter the Chinese market, lol. Relations are at an all-time low now, lol. Hey, isn't Japan calling for you?
44. China is also super sensitive to Japanese colonial rule. Japan's Manchukuo, the Nanjing Massacre, etc., China suffered a lot, so the Kuomintang government and Chinese people also helped our independence movement. The bomb used in the righteous deed of Yun Bong-gil (윤봉길) was also made by Chinese people, and when the Provisional Government in Shanghai was pursued by Japan, China also helped them relocate the Provisional Government to other cities. At least in resisting Japanese imperialism, China and we have a history of mutual assistance, so they will also be angry when they see this.
45. If she goes to Japan, she'll be pampered; go to Japan.