{"id":142439,"date":"2025-05-18T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=142439"},"modified":"2025-05-18T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T22:20:32","slug":"bts-jin-warns-fans-no-grabbing-at-hi-touch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-jin-warns-fans-no-grabbing-at-hi-touch-event\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 Jin warns fans: no grabbing at hi-touch event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18, 2025, <strong>BTS\u2019 Jin<\/strong> met fans during a Hi-touch event to promote his second solo album \u201c<strong>Echo<\/strong>\u201d\u2014but not without a little PSA. With a friendly smile and cute star vibes, Jin reminded fans to keep it gentle: \u201c<strong>If you hold my hands, it hurts. So please only touch lightly<\/strong>.\u201d The message came after 2024&#8217;s FESTA hug event had an uncomfortable moment with a non-consensual kiss incident.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ai_jiminily\/status\/1923985957650661703\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0azVkJHIYi\">pic.twitter.com\/0azVkJHIYi<\/a><br \/>HAHSHSHS HES JUST SO CUTEEE ARGGH \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/jin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#jin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EC%A7%84?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\uc9c4<\/a> <br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>250518 Hi-Seokjin event<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc39 everyone !!! <br \/>\ud83d\udc39 it&#39;s fine when you taking pic\/video of me when it&#39;s from your seat, but if you taking pic\/recording when you coming like this, i&#39;ll come out\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ai\u2077 (@ai_jiminily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ai_jiminily\/status\/1923985957650661703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Adding a little more caution (and humor), he joked: \u201c<strong>For foreigners, please don\u2019t grab, touch please<\/strong>,\u201d sparking some laughter. Last year\u2019s events, which led to two cases being investigated, clearly left a mark. The first one involved a Japanese middle-aged woman who kissed the idol on the neck without his consent. As a result, the woman was sent back to South Korea to face legal consequences. However, the second case is still being investigated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnseenJapanSite\/status\/1920318216208810437\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 50-something Japanese woman who forcibly hugged &amp; kissed K-pop band BTS member Jin at a meet-and-greet event last year has been officially charged by South Korean police w\/ sexual assault. The woman has gone back from Japan to SK to face the charges.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4LHMOce9Ur\">https:\/\/t.co\/4LHMOce9Ur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I5FsgLoFWW\">pic.twitter.com\/I5FsgLoFWW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Unseen Japan (@UnseenJapanSite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnseenJapanSite\/status\/1920318216208810437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To protect himself and create a safer fan interaction, Jin also asked fans not to snap selfies during the Hi-touch, claiming he \u201cmight appear ugly\u201d mid-greeting. But let\u2019s be honest, ARMYs would disagree. Despite the shadow of last year\u2019s controversies, Jin is still trying to reconnect with fans through softer and safer events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 18, 2025, BTS\u2019 Jin met fans during a Hi-touch event to promote his second solo album \u201cEcho\u201d\u2014but not without a little PSA. With a friendly smile and cute star vibes, Jin reminded fans to keep it gentle: \u201cIf you hold my hands, it hurts. So please only touch lightly.\u201d The message came after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":142440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[49,932],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-jin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142439","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142439"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=142439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}