K-pop group Twice has been a major influence for the entire K-pop industry as well as for women specifically. They’ve been continuously releasing music since 2015 and are still going on tours. They have a world tour coming up this summer, where they will be performing in South Korea, Japan, Australia, and the U.S.
Twices latest album, Ready To Be, is currently the number 1 spot for Billboard's top selling album. This year they won the Breakthrough artist award in Billboard’s Women in Music Awards 2023. Twice would most definitely be considered one of, if not the biggest, K-pop girl group in the world right now.
However, their huge successes have also come with some contentious issues concerning one of their members. This member, Chaeyoung, performed wearing a shirt of a Q with an American flag and the words “We go all” on the bottom. This is a slogan from the American political theorist group, QAnon. The original phrase is “We go one, we go all.” Only a few days later, Chaeyoung posted a picture of herself in a shirt with a swastika on Instagram. This shirt had an image of Sid Vicious wearing a swastika. Sid Vicious was the bassist of the popular English punk rock band the sex pistols, and he ended his career after murdering his Jewish girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
Chaeyoung has worn this shirt in public and at other events previously, including at an Apple Music interview. She has taken down and tweeted an apology for the Sid Vicious shirt, saying she “didn’t correctly recognize the meaning of the tilted swastika in the t-shirt I wore.”