Petition filed to BAN BTS star SUGA - Details Inside

A ceremonial petition has been submitted to the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), urging the web to restrict appearances by BTS subordinate SUGA owed to a past drunk driving offence. The petition, posted connected KBS’s spectator connection board, calls connected the broadcaster’s Appearance Regulation Review Committee to measure the singer’s eligibility for aboriginal broadcasts.Titled “Request to restrict SUGA’s quality successful narration to his DUI fine,” the petition references an incidental from August 6, 2024, during which SUGA, portion serving arsenic a societal work agent, was caught operating an electrical scooter nether the influence. His humor intoxicant level reportedly exceeded 0.08% — capable to warrant licence revocation nether South Korean law. He was aboriginal fined 15 cardinal KRW astir $11,000 via a summary bid issued successful September 2024.As reported by allkpop, the petitioner argued that drunk driving is simply a “serious discourtesy that tin straight endanger others,” and expressed interest implicit the imaginable connection SUGA’s beingness connected tv could nonstop to younger audiences. “As a nationalist fig with sizeable power implicit young people, SUGA's continued appearances connected tv could weaken nationalist consciousness of the gravity of DUI crimes,” the petition stated.

The petitioner besides noted that portion KBS had not addressed the substance earlier owed to the ongoing investigation, the ineligible process has since concluded, with the good finalised connected September 27, 2024. SUGA was officially discharged from his alternate subject work connected June 21, 2025.“Prompt and just measures indispensable beryllium taken to support nationalist spot and uphold the broadcaster’s work arsenic a nationalist institution,” the petition concluded, urging swift enactment from the committee.As of now, KBS has not publically responded to the petition.