1. To SHINee
Hello, this is BTS's fan club, ARMY.
Before I start, the person writing this right now will represent all ARMYs in relaying this letter of apology to those of SHINee World.
Not too long ago, many different sites, including Nate Pann, kept posting content stating that BTS plagiarized SHINee. There were a couple thousands of comments posted onto Pann, showing how much impact it had. Among those, our fandom left strong criticism, cursing out your family, making personal offenses, and other speech for which I apologize firstly in this writing.
I acknowledge that our fandom's first course of action was poor and thoughtless. While verbal warfare was raging on, we were spitting out a lot of things like provocative words to one another, and through our bias, there was no distinguishing what was wrong and what aspects we had to acknowledge and apologize for. We now concede to everything that we've done wrong, and we apologize.
The apology we promised was given later than we thought for which we also apologize. It took a lot of time because we had been unable to mediate on our opinions within the fandom. We relay our apologizes to all of those in SHINee World who had been waiting for this post.
We apologize for everything: putting down the words of the Shawols no matter what by stating that it was a common concept; greatly ridiculing or criticizing SHINee and SHINee World; and circulating unconfirmed truths. We also apologize for our inability to act with discernment from the position of fans who like, hold dear, and love somebody.
We mentioned things from the past while speaking rudely, and we are very embarrassed of and want to apologize for overreacting. I'm yet unsure as to how this writing will be taken by SHINee World, but I wrote this letter of apology because I want to relay a desire to apologize somehow. We will try not to disappoint you again in the future. I apologize once again.
Posted by the entire BTS fan club, ARMY.