{"id":577206,"date":"2026-08-07T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577206\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:30:11","slug":"massive-attacks-south-korea-gig-video-stirs-row-over-1980-gwangju-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577206\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Attack\u2019s South Korea gig video stirs row over 1980 Gwangju massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When Massive Attack covered Seo Taiji &amp; Boys\u2019 \u201cRegret of the Times\u201d at Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival on August 1, the British band framed it as a tribute to a song that had once defied authoritarian control.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Now, a South Korean city councillor wants to use a government audit to investigate the band over the performance, a move critics say risks reviving the very dynamic the song was written to resist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegret of the Times\u201d, released by Seo Taiji &amp; Boys in 1995, was itself once at the centre of a censorship battle. The group refused to comply with a government pre-screening requirement for the track, resulting in a stand-off that contributed to the eventual abolition of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/south-korea?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Korea<\/a>\u2019s pre-release music censorship system.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Massive Attack\u2019s cover, performed partly in the original Korean as homage and partly in English for a wider audience, was explicitly framed by the band as an act of solidarity with that legacy.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201c\u2018Regret of the Times\u2019 took on an authoritarian government and won. In 2026, as corporate absorption and the censorship of artists for political expression looms large again, it resonates as a signal lesson,\u201d the Bristol-based band said in a social media post introducing the cover.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe see this cover as an act of continuity, revival and solidarity with Seo Taiji &amp; Boys \u2013 K-pop progenitor \u2013 whose work defied state censorship while creating a global genre.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Massive Attack covered Seo Taiji &amp; Boys\u2019 \u201cRegret of the Times\u201d at Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47624,261036,146,50,60049,85,261038,261040,261033,261034,46,261041,19163,261037,167551,16010,261035,261039],"class_list":["post-577206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-busan","tag-democratic-party-of-korea","tag-entertainment","tag-gaza","tag-gwangju","tag-il","tag-incheon","tag-incheon-metropolitan-council","tag-incheon-pentaport-rock-festival","tag-incheon-tourism-organisation","tag-israel","tag-jamie-finn","tag-korea","tag-lee-beom-seok","tag-massive-attack","tag-north-korea","tag-people-power-party","tag-seo-taiji-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}