God Forbid — MARILYN MANSON Coming to Korea

August 6, 2003

Han Hyun-woo of Chosun.com is reporting that MARILYN MANSON will play a concert in Seoul in October, after government authorities recently gave the promoters the nod for the show. Concert organizers had tried to bring the shock rock group to Seoul in 1999 and 2001 but the Korea Media Ratings Board withheld permission both times.

The promoters, Access Entertainment, said they had signed a contract with MARILYN MANSON to perform at the Olympic Fencing Stadium on Oct. 4 and received permission from the ratings board. "Manson agreed in the contract not to defile religious or national symbols or do anything sexually graphic on stage," a representative of the company said.

The editor of the local music magazine Hot Music, Kim Hun, said, "To ensure that we have diversity of culture, all concerts must be guaranteed the opportunity to be staged. This performance is evidence that our pop culture has matured."

On the other side of the issue, the music critic Lim Jin-mo said, "Certain religious groups and sectors of the public will not have a positive view of this. The pop music industry may have to bear the consequences."

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