(150711) @jonghyun.948: i live life by the notion that you shouldn’t give big reactions to small matters. and i believe that understanding the perspectives or thoughts of people who criticize my faults, and continuing to fix my incorrect ideas, is a fundamental part of life. the reason i am writing this is because as a man who has a mother and sister as his family, there’s word going around that i’m a misogynist or that i made comments belittling women. that isn’t true, and if i keep my mouth closed while knowing that such word is going around, some people may think of me as a misogynist or someone who made comments to belittle women and i’ll become cemented as that kind of person; but that would be far too grave of a matter for my life, and it would leave behind an indelible stain. i’m not a misogynist, and i have never made comments belittling women. i’m communicating like this because if my comments made anyone uncomfortable, i would like to exactly know which part it was. i said that women are a blessed existence while discussing music on radio, and to follow, i will put up the related remarks on sns. i don’t know how to connect the remarks in question on instagram, so i will put them up on twitter. (s/n: this particular sentence — “i’m communicating like this because if my comments made anyone uncomfortable, i would like to exactly know which part it was” — has the danger of coming across as defensive or accusatory in english. however, written in korean, jonghyun uses deferential wording that makes his tone sound cautious and self-effacing. he says “exactly know” in the sense of “knowing / understanding with precision.”

@realjonghyun90: to say that someone’s existence is blessed, and that their existence gives me inspiration, does not mean they’re below me. subjects of inspiration exist transcending (the concept of) “above and below.” / people are discussing whether i only see women as tools for creative work but there’s nothing in the world that gets “used as tools” for creative word. “some thing” that exists is expressed through art; this is all. (s/n: the translator quotation marks to clarify the terms he’s trying to emphasize in his tweet.) (source: sullaem)

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@dearcloud_nine: i hope you don’t misinterpret the context if you didn’t understand it (ie: the conversation) correctly. it’s been an upsetting night. (source: z0eyyy)

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a quick note! i mentioned earlier that i’d reblog the original post i made with the first translation i stumbled across (a rough one, which the translator admitted to) when sullaem translated it instead. i figured it’d be better off to just repost it altogether because this translation, obviously, also includes a translation of his tweets along with a translations of a tweet made by nine, who the conversation in question as had with. you can find “said” conversation here on twitlonger and here / here to be reblogged on fyjjong. you can find sullaem’s original translation for the instagram caption here and for the tweets here.

edit: information on why the topic even spread around / had to be addressed is here!