{"id":166061,"date":"2026-05-06T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166061"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:18:25","slug":"riizes-eunseok-apologizes-for-the-racial-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/riizes-eunseok-apologizes-for-the-racial-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"RIIZE\u2019s Eunseok apologizes for the racial remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RIIZE<\/strong>\u2019s member,<strong> Eunseok<\/strong>, is currently at the eye of the storm after the controversy over a racially insensitive expression. The idol is now under public scrutiny and has released a substantial statement to apologize for the ongoing controversy.<\/p>\n<p>On May 6<strong>, Eunseok posted a lengthy message on the fan communication platform Bubble to address his inappropriate behaviour and mistake by asking for forgiveness to all those who were offended by his remarks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RIIZEs-Eunseok-post-over-the-racial-remark-.jpg\" alt=\"The idol has apologized!\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RIIZEs-Eunseok-post-over-the-racial-remark-.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RIIZEs-Eunseok-post-over-the-racial-remark--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RIIZEs-Eunseok-post-over-the-racial-remark--1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RIIZEs-Eunseok-post-over-the-racial-remark--768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RIIZEs-Eunseok-post-over-the-racial-remark--1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RIIZEs-Eunseok-post-over-the-racial-remark--860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cWhile sharing a childhood photo of myself, I used an inappropriate expression. I sincerely apologize to anyone who may have felt uncomfortable due to my poor choice of words. Although I recognized the mistake and deleted the post immediately, <strong>I still feel deeply sorry<\/strong>. I will think more carefully before I speak and act. I sincerely apologize once again.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>The controversy became a major matter after Eunseok shared a childhood photo in celebration of Children\u2019s Day. The idol used a term that has been <strong>criticized<\/strong> for being derogatory toward a specific racial group. Despite his quickly deleting the post, the damage was already done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIIZE\u2019s member, Eunseok, is currently at the eye of the storm after the controversy over a racially insensitive expression. The idol is now under public scrutiny and has released a substantial statement to apologize for the ongoing controversy. On May 6, Eunseok posted a lengthy message on the fan communication platform Bubble to address his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":166063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,16],"tags":[2441],"tmauthors":[3735],"class_list":{"0":"post-166061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-riize"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166061","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=166061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166075,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166061\/revisions\/166075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166061"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}