MASSIVE ATTACK’S SOUTH KOREA GIG VIDEO STIRS ROW OVER 1980 GWANGJU MASSACRE

When Massive Attack covered Seo Taiji & Boys’ “Regret of the Times” 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. 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.

News - South China Morning Post reports that when Massive Attack covered Seo Taiji & Boys’ “Regret of the Times” 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.

The report adds: 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.

“Regret of the Times”, released by Seo Taiji & Boys in 1995, was itself once at the centre of...

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