{"id":125435,"date":"2024-08-28T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=125435"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:52:28","slug":"samsung-might-be-reconsidering-bts-suga-as-their-ambassador-due-to-the-dui-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/samsung-might-be-reconsidering-bts-suga-as-their-ambassador-due-to-the-dui-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung might be reconsidering BTS&#8217; Suga as their ambassador due to the DUI incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BTS<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Suga<\/strong> has received mixed reactions from the South Korean media outlets and K-Netizens over his infamous DUI incident. The consequences of the idol\u2019s actions go beyond anyone could have imagined, including a possible exclusion from the idol to represent Samsung Electronics as a global ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>On August 28, an insider familiar with Samsung Electronics\u2019 internal discussion made a series of revelations.<strong> The insider stated it doesn\u2019t matter how popular an idol can be, or how many fans support him, the company is not ready to revolve around<\/strong> <strong>controversy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sugas-promotion-for-S24-galaxy-ultra-was-deleted-in-Germany-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sugas-promotion-for-S24-galaxy-ultra-was-deleted-in-Germany-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sugas-promotion-for-S24-galaxy-ultra-was-deleted-in-Germany--300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Sugas-promotion-for-S24-galaxy-ultra-was-deleted-in-Germany--768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cRegardless of the fandom\u2019s size, there are significant risks in maintaining a figure embroiled in social controversy as a brand ambassador. A careful review is necessary.\u201d However, this doesn\u2019t mean Suga will be immediately removed from advertisements. The contract is with BTS as a whole, which complicates immediate actions unless Suga leaves the group. It\u2019s a situation that requires <strong>ongoing observation<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>The controversy escalated dramatically after Samsung Germany<strong> deleted promotional photos<\/strong> of BTS\u2019 Suga holding the Galaxy S24 ultra from their official <em>\u201cX\u201d<\/em> account on August 17. Samsung Electronics hasn\u2019t released any official statement regarding BTS\u2019 Suga\u2019s possible exclusion from the teamwork. Only time will tell what\u2019s going to happen with the idol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTS\u2019 Suga has received mixed reactions from the South Korean media outlets and K-Netizens over his infamous DUI incident. The consequences of the idol\u2019s actions go beyond anyone could have imagined, including a possible exclusion from the idol to represent Samsung Electronics as a global ambassador. On August 28, an insider familiar with Samsung Electronics\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":125445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49,935],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-suga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125435"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=125435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}