BTS agency apologizes for using 'Jonestown' cult leader's speech in Suga's new song
BTS rapper Suga. / Korea Times fileBy Jung Min-hoBig Hit Entertainment has apologized for using infamous cult leader Jim Jones' speech as the intro to BTS member Suga's mixtape track “What Do You Think?”At the beginning of the song, which was released on May 22, Jones said (from his 1977 sermon) to his followers that “… though you are dead, yet you shall live, and he that liveth and believeth shall never die.”Jones was leader of the cult, the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known as its informal name “Jonestown,” a remote settlement in the Guyanese jungle.Jones and the group became internationally known in November, 1978, after more than 900 members, including many children, died in a mass suicide, an act that he ordered. The poisonings followed the killings of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan and several journalists, who went there to investigate claims that some people were being held against their will.Until 9/11, the incident was the largest single incident of intentional civilian death in U.S. history.After taking flak from people
