“BH Family Concert on the same day as Gayo Daejaejeon? MBC made their bed, they lie on it”
Critic Park Junghwan on MBC-BH (op-ed):

BH announced in a press release that they’ll be holding a joint concert w/ their artists on 12/31. But it’s a little strange. It overlaps w/ MBC’s +
yr end show which is held on 12/31 every yr.

Unless MBC pre-recorded BH’s artists’ content, it seems impossible that they’ll be able to show their faces at MBC Gayo. To understand what happened, we should go back 1 yr ago. At last yr’s MBC Gayo, BTS weren’t able to attend.+
They were invited to Dick Clark’s Rockin Eve at Times Sq & had to go to NY. Bc the dates overlapped, it was impossible to go to MBC. Had MBC been flexible enough to allow BTS to prerecord their pt, they would’ve gotten BTS on the show, but the MBC production team didn’t do that.+
Instead, with BTS’ absence, a strange situation arose. Since their debut, Gfriend, who has been invited to all the year-end shows at the major networks, didn’t perform on one stage: MBC.

And it’s not like their popularity decreased last yr. Gfriend was #1 twice on MBC’s Music +
Core on 1/13 for their song Sunrise and on 7/13 for Fever, showing their popularity.

Though they weren’t invited to MBC Gayo, Gfriend was invited to SBS and KBS. At the time, MBC’s response to the gapjil (abuse of power) suspicions was that “the criteria for invitations are +
at the discretion of the producers.” But, at the beginning of the yr, you didn’t see TXT at the 2020 Idol Star Champs either. Only at MBC, you couldn’t see GFriend & TXT.

After the acquisition of Source Music, BH acquired NU’EST & Seventeen’s agency Pledis, expanding the company
Just as GFriend wasn’t seen at MBC in February and July, Seventeen also wasn’t seen in June. Though one could see their songs & performances at SBS & KBS’ shows. Had the MBC production team had some sense/flexibility and pre-recorded BTS’ segment since they had to go overseas, +
and had GFriend and TXT appeared on MBC programs since the end of last year, would this have happened?

That answer lies w/ MBC, not BH. Unless MBC rectifies this situation, the absence of BH’s artists will continue. Unlike KBS & SBS, if only MBC Gayo doesn’t have BH artists, +
This isn’t the first time Park Junghwan has written a scathing column. He wrote one in 2019 about how SBS MBC KBS looked dumb by not giving BTS the final slot in the year end shows. (The final slot is usually reserved for the most senior OR the most popular/successful artist) https://twitter.com/modooborahae/status/1095405285387259904
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