On August 6, 2023, civilians had been thrown into panic when a commotion occured on a subway on Line 9 in Seoul, South Korea. While the supply of panic remains to be unclear, as a couple of began fleeing the scene, many adopted go well with. This resulted in a mass evacuation, resulting in accidents as individuals fell whereas escaping. It was later confirmed to be a false alarm.

This comes at a time the place the nation is at unrest, as a result of spike in knife assault threats, particularly in Seoul. After Korean information shops investigated a number of witness anecdotes and talked with the authorities, it was decided that studies had been made a couple of potential gasoline leak in addition to a screaming within the carriage.

Things obtained sophisticated when witnesses claimed that the screaming was from BTS followers on the subway. Fans had been crowding the subway after the top of a live performance held on the identical day. At the same time to the incident, BTS’s Suga had gone on dwell stream, inflicting a stir with the reveal of his tattoo. Witnesses didn’t specify that it was BTS followers specifically, however different netizens related the dots resulting from time stamps.

신논현역 칼부림도 생화학 테러도 아니니까 더 이상 잘못된 정보로 공포분위기 조성하지 말아주세요

제 옆에 외국인 분들이 영상 보다가 소리 질렀는데 지하철 안이 복잡한 터라 사람들이 오해하고 도망친 거에요

경찰 진술도 다 했습니다.

물론 다들 조심하시고 이어폰 빼고 다니시길..
건강하세요

— 제촌 (@tom7890_) August 6, 2023

It isn’t a knife assault on the Sinnonhyun station, so I hope that individuals will cease creating concern resulting from false data any longer.

The foreigner subsequent to me was watching a video, and instantly screamed, inflicting the state of affairs within the subway carriage to complicate. People misunderstood and ran away.

I gave my witness assertion to the police too.

Of course, I hope that everybody will be cautious and journey along with your earphones out. Stay wholesome.

— tom7890_

Extreme BTS followers consider that the followers’ screaming on the subway as a reason for panic is fake information. This is as SBS News earlier reported information of studies of a gasoline leak occurring on the station. These BTS followers have been utilizing the next translated screenshot from SBS News to again up their claims that the witness (@tom7890_) was mendacity.

However, one other report on the morning of August 7, 2023, additionally by SBS News, reported that there have been certainly studies of each causes. According to SBS News, the police themselves confirmed that the commotion was partly resulting from BTS followers.

A consultant on the fireplace division stated, “We tested for any gases and we did not find any gas or harmful gases, or things like that. We helped all passengers evacuate from the station and on to level ground…”

The police defined that “This issue was a happening that occured due to the screams of foreigners who had been watching a BTS video in the subway.”

— SBS News

As excessive followers firmly believed that the witness @tom7890_ was “spreading misinformation,” they started to focus on the witness on-line.

In response to this, Koreans have accused these excessive followers of “cyberbullying” the witness, even once they had been offered with the details.

• They’re actually some loopy b*tches.
• Even Satan can be so shocked that he’d run away.
• I knew that iRoaches had been at all times sh*tting, however sigh…
• It’s a attribute of theirs. Even once they‘re in the wrong, they just cyberbully. They’re so lots of them they’re mainly gangsters.
• The idols’ lyrics scream so that you can “love yourself” however the followers are making a meme with the idols’ face saying “kill yourself.” I’m shocked.
• Why are they like this…
• There are individuals like this, and there are individuals like that. But take a look at how they’re simply monitoring down the entire individuals and cursing at them. It’s like they waited to curse at individuals… I hope foreigners simply cease caring about issues in our nation. They can’t get a grip on the state of affairs, however are simply cyberbullying individuals out of the blue.
• Crazy fandom.

This comes with a observe that not all BTS followers are akin to those excessive ones.

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