Ahead of BTS Jinโs birthday, a Japan-based fanbase and KONI (@btsforever1207 on X, formerly Twitter) prepared a project in honor of him, consisting of a themed boarding pass.
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๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ๐
๐๐โ ๐ธ๐๐ฃ ๐น๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐ค๐ค
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์ง์์ด ํ์น๊ถ ํ๋ฉด๊ด๊ณ ์ํฌํธ [ํฐ์ผ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ]
collaboration@JP_Jinfanbase
ใๆฅๆฌ็บใฎๆกๅ ใจ็ณใ่พผใฟใฏใใกใ๊ธฐ๊ฐ :โฆ pic.twitter.com/Ro6JPirbpq
โ KONI (@btsforever1207) September 19, 2023
The fanbase partnered with airline JINAIR to issue boarding passes with Jinโs face from the Yet to Come in Busan concert.
๋ด์ผ10์ผ๋ถํฐ JINAIRํฐ์ผ ๋ฐ๊ถ์ด ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค
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โ KONI (@btsforever1207) November 9, 2023
Recently, ARMYs have been sharing their boarding passes, which they described as โeven prettier in person.โ
์ค์ ๋ก ๋ณด๋ ๋ ์ด๋ป์
๊ฐ๋์ด์์@btsforever1207 x @JP_Jinfanbase
๋๋ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค#์์ง์ด์_ํจ๊ปํ๋_ํ๋ณตํ_๋นํ#HappyFlight_WithJin#ใธใณใจไธ็ทใซ_ๅนธใใชใใฉใคใ pic.twitter.com/B97ad731Zjโ ใใฟใผ๐งๅคงๅฅฝใ
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์ง์์ด ํฐ์ผ ์ค๋ฌผ ๋๋ฌด ์๋ป์!! ๋จธ๊ธ๋ค์ด ๋ค ์ฐ๋๊ธฐ ํ ๋ค๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๋๊น ์กด์๋ ฅ ์์ผ ๋ ๋ฟ๋ฏํจ..๐ฅน ๊ณํ์ ์๋ ์ฌํ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ํด์ฃผ์๋ ์งํ๋๋ค๊ณผ ํจ์์ฐ๋๊ธฐ
โชโ๏ผฏ๏ผโงโโฆ๏ผ๏ผฏโโช๋ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค!๐ฉต@btsforever1207 @JP_Jinfanbase #JIN #๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ์ง #TheAstronaut @BTS_twt pic.twitter.com/y5NWbBEP7Vโ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ซกํ์JJ (@JJ12041204) November 16, 2023
์์ฃผ ์๋กฑํด
๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋คโ ์ํโท (@ahha0501) November 10, 2023
Yet, it has now been announced that HYBE has halted this fan project. Both organizers shared statements via X, revealing that the company viewed the fan project as a corporate advertisement since one must buy a ticket from JINAIR to obtain the themed boarding pass.
๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํด์ผํ ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ ์ฐฉ์กํ ์ผ์ ๋๋คโฆ ํ์ด๋ธ์ ์์ฒญ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉํจ์ค ํฌ์ํฌํธ๊ฐ ์ค์ง๋์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ฉฐ ํฐ์ผ์ด ์ ๋ํ๊ธฐ๋์๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋คโฆ.
์ง์ง ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ง์ํด์ผํ ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ด์ ๊ณ์ ๋ง์ด ํ๊ณต์ ํ๋์์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง์ ์น์ ์๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ๊ตฌ์โฆ..
์ด๋ฐ ์ผ์์ ๋ฐ๊ถ ์ค๋ฅ๋ก ์๊ณ ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ โฆ
โ KONI (@btsforever1207) November 16, 2023
๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํด์ผํ ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ ์ฐฉ์กํ ์ผ์ ๋๋คโฆ ํ์ด๋ธ์ ์์ฒญ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉํจ์ค ํฌ์ํฌํธ๊ฐ ์ค์ง๋์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ฉฐ ํฐ์ผ์ด ์ ๋ํ๊ธฐ๋์๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋คโฆ.
์ง์ง ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ง์ํด์ผํ ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ด์ ๊ณ์ ๋ง์ด ํ๊ณต์ ํ๋์์ ์ฝ๊ฒ ๋ง์ ์น์ ์๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ๊ตฌ์โฆ..
์ด๋ฐ ์ผ์์ ๋ฐ๊ถ ์ค๋ฅ๋ก ์๊ณ ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ โฆ
โ KONI (@btsforever1207) November 16, 2023
I really donโt know what to say so my words keep circling around in thin air, and I couldnโt speak up easilyโฆAt first, I thought that there was an error in the issuing of the tickets temporarily, and I was waiting for it to be reopened, but currently, Iโve found out that HYBE made a request to the airline and advertisement agency to halt it. It seems like they felt that the advertisementโs influence was too big and thought that the airline would benefit off of it. Although we requested for them to see it as a fan support from the international fans that have continued to be a part of the idol fandom, rather than an advertisement for the airline, it seems like they are unable to accept it. But everyone else who has prepared this, including the jingerfan fanbase, has decided to humbly understand the companyโs POV and accept their actions.
โ KONI
HYBE contacted JINAIR, requesting that the advertisements be halted. So, the fanbases have had to accept this and look for alternatives. They also plan to make it up to the fans who had paid.
Currently, as the birthday is approaching, the jingerfanbase is taking measures to deal with the subsequent steps for current support, and at the same time, we are preparing birthday support in South Korea at a respondent scale. We are also prepping the steps on how to deal with the participants and passengers of the flight. Please send your warm wishes of support to the fanbasesโฆWe have also heard that even though the tickets canโt be issued, the airline does not have any special steps to deal with the passengers. We feel sad and responsible for having promoted this as a part of the fan support. Although we are unable to soothe your sadness about your planned fun holiday, for the locals, if you wish, we will refund you in full with our own money. We will also send you gifts of condolences.
As Iโm also preparing other personal birthday support, I will quickly accept and process the cases for the locals through a form after the birthday. For the participants and passengers in Japan, Jinโs fanbase will deal with it after discussion about gifts of thanks and condolences. They will make an announcement after it has been decided.
All the fees for all the items will be undertaken by myself and the others through our personal funds. We feel so sad and distraught that we canโt say anything despite how sorry we feel. We hope you can generously understand everyone who has worked hard in this process.
โ KONI
ARMYs are divided over the matter. Some feel this project is no different than idolsโ birthday ads in magazines since you must also buy a magazine or when a Jimin fanbase had an aircraft decorated.
However, others pointed out that the boarding pass included not only Jinโs name but trademarked and copyrighted content, including โBTSโ and โARMY.โ Many also believe the airline would have profited too much from the sales rather than BTS or ARMY.
if hb quickly closed this matter, then everything is obvious
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lizzieโท (@LizLizziezai9) November 16, 2023
hybe themselves cancelled a jin theme boarding pass as part of many jin bday projects for jin air passengers bcoz of demand theyre worried the airline would benefit too much lmao https://t.co/8mZAjH5RZF pic.twitter.com/eGZ1hH3rl0
โ this is the fastest jin misser i know (@jinakgay) November 16, 2023
Since u are bring jm into this, do u know that BTS and ARMY name are protected under trademark law
Jin project : mentioned both BTS and Army
Jimin project : JIMIN, CHINABAR, AND PJMS. https://t.co/ijRsdL2fB8 pic.twitter.com/ISGndGG5lZ
โ JIMIN BILLBOARD HOT 100 NO 1๐ช (@diorparkmin) November 16, 2023
What do you think?