{"id":149074,"date":"2025-09-21T06:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=149074"},"modified":"2025-09-21T06:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:58:24","slug":"jay-parks-new-boy-group-lngshot-stirs-controversy-with-first-photo-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/jay-parks-new-boy-group-lngshot-stirs-controversy-with-first-photo-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Park\u2019s new boy group LNGSHOT stirs controversy with first photo reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jay Park<\/strong> unveiled the new boy group under his agency, <strong>LNGSHOT<\/strong>, on September 19th, 2025. This new crew made a surprise appearance at Hanyang University\u2019s festival in Seoul, performing an unreleased track even though fans had almost no information about them. But what really caught the attention was the middle-finger pose captured in group photos posted by Jay Park himself.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kchartsmaster\/status\/1969197724269445427\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jay Park reveals his newly produced boy group, LNGSHOT.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u201cThe Kpop Demons \ud83d\ude0e\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vm8BxaqzW6\">pic.twitter.com\/vm8BxaqzW6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kpop Charts (@kchartsmaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kchartsmaster\/status\/1969197724269445427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 20, 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>The images quickly spread online, sparking criticism from some viewers. Some comments questioned the boldness of the move, while other users dubbed the photo and their poses as cultural appropriation. Despite the backlash, Jay Park himself captioned the post with \u201cAren\u2019t my kids handsome? I can\u2019t promise we\u2019ll sell the most, but I can promise we\u2019ll do K-pop the coolest,\u201d followed by the hashtag #middlefingertothenorm. On a different tweet, he then responded to the criticism, saying:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cWe already have haters, thats a great sign.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lngshotpics\/status\/1969229844501213229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/lngshotpics\/status\/1969229844501213229<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t know, besides being a singer and performer, Jay Park also established his own label, <strong>MORE VISION<\/strong>, in March 2022, which focuses on developing K-pop artists. The freshly revealed boy group, LGNSHOT, is made up of members <strong>OHYUL, RYUL, WOOJIN, and LOUIS<\/strong>, and they&#8217;re now taking their first step in the K-pop spotlight. Their official debut is slated for January 2026, giving them a few months to build anticipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Park unveiled the new boy group under his agency, LNGSHOT, on September 19th, 2025. This new crew made a surprise appearance at Hanyang University\u2019s festival in Seoul, performing an unreleased track even though fans had almost no information about them. But what really caught the attention was the middle-finger pose captured in group photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":149075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-kpop"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149074","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=149074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}