Massive Attack’s South Korea gig video stirs row over 1980 Gwangju massacre

When Massive Attack covered Seo Taiji & Boys’ “Regret of the Times” at Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival on August 1, the British band framed it as a tribute to a song that had once defied authoritarian control. Now, a South Korean city councillor wants to use a government audit to investigate the band over the performance, a move critics say risks reviving the very dynamic the song was written to resist. “Regret of the Times”, released by Seo Taiji & Boys in 1995, was itself once at the centre…