'SEAblings' vs. Korea: Rising anger reveals long-buried racial tensions

What began as a quarrel over camera equipment at a K-pop concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has erupted into sweeping backlash across Southeast Asia, exposing long-simmering racial tensions with South Korea that many in the region say have been ignored for years. The escalation — now framed as “SEAblings vs. K-netz” — is no longer about a single breach of concert etiquette, but about accumulated frustrations over condescension and racism within the global K-pop ecosystem and beyond. The conflict

By The Korea Herald