K-Pop Star Mark Lee Apologizes For Wearing Confederate Flag Shirt

Here's a weird one! Mark Lee, a former member of the successful K-pop idol groups NCT 127 and NCT Dream, recently announced that he was going solo and splitting away from SM Entertainment, the South Korean talent-agency conglomerate behind the the various NCT sub-groupings, to launch his own label Upper Room. A few weeks later, Upper Room posted photos of Lee wearing a Confederate flag shirt at an event, then apologized for that extremely strange fashion decision. The post K-Pop Star Mark Lee Apologizes For Wearing Confederate Flag Shirt appeared first on Stereogum .

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