{"id":17907,"date":"2025-09-12T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/17907\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:20:08","slug":"super-juniors-choi-si-won-deletes-tribute-to-charlie-kirk-from-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/17907\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Junior&#8217;s Choi Si-won deletes tribute to Charlie Kirk from Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Published: 12 Sep. 2025, 12:14<\/p>\n<p>                                    Updated: 12 Sep. 2025, 15:24\n                            <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Left: Singer and actor Choi Si-won of boy band Super Junior. Right: A post commemorating Charlie Kirk, uploaded by Choi on Instagram on Sept. 11 [YONHAP, SCREEN CAPTURE]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fca0d083-e192-405a-9b51-1f123e0174f8.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Left: Singer and actor Choi Si-won of boy band Super Junior. Right: A post commemorating Charlie Kirk, uploaded by Choi on Instagram on Sept. 11 [YONHAP, SCREEN CAPTURE]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   Choi Si-won, singer and actor best known as a member of boy band Super Junior, deleted a social media post that mourned the death of U.S. far-right youth activist Charlie Kirk after it drew swift criticism from fans.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Choi had uploaded a photo of Kirk with the words &#8220;REST IN PEACE CHARLIE KIRK&#8221; on his Instagram Stories on Thursday following the political activist&#8217;s death.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   He uploaded a second photo of Kirk and his family with the Bible verse &#8220;Well done, good and faithful servant.&#8221; The posts were deleted as of Friday morning.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The U.S. activist had put his evangelical Christianity and family at the center of his politics. The Super Junior member is also vocal about his religious beliefs.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>                                                           <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Super Junior's Choi Si-won uploaded a post commemorating Charlie Kirk on his Instagram on Sept. 11. [SCREEN CAPTURE]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c33718b7-16ce-4f94-a588-f186bf7e9f15.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Super Junior&#8217;s Choi Si-won uploaded a post commemorating Charlie Kirk on his Instagram on Sept. 11. [SCREEN CAPTURE]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   The posts quickly spread among K-pop fans online, some of whom criticized the Super Junior member for supposedly publicly supporting Kirk, a staunch advocate of right-wing politics.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Fans cited Kirk&#8217;s staunch support for gun rights, opposition to abortion, and a history of divisive remarks \u2014 including comments criticized as racist and Islamophobic \u2014 as reasons they felt Choi was out of step with the values of a more inclusive audience.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Kirk, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and founder of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, was killed while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p>BY KIM JU-YEON [<a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"f79c9e9ad99d828e929899c5b79d98989990969990d99498d99c85\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 12 Sep. 2025, 12:14 Updated: 12 Sep. 2025, 15:24 Left: Singer and actor Choi Si-won of boy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-17907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}