GFriend's Sowon in deep controversy for hugging Nazi mannequin

Article: GFriend's Sowon in deep controversy for hugging Nazi mannequin

Source: Hankyung

On the 30th, Sowon posted a photo of her hugging a mannequin in military uniform, smiling brightly and posing affectionately. She was touching the mannequin's face and hugging him around his waist. 

When it was revealed the uniform was of German Nazi, many foreign netizens left comments on her SNS demanding an apology reminding her of Holocaust where Jews were massacred by Nazis. 

As controversy grew, Sowon deleted the photo with no comment but photo had already circulated and spread in online communities. 

Her agency Source Music has yet to release a statement to address the controversy.

1. [+843, -90] If she didn't know, she just needs to educate herself and make sure it doesn't happen again. Don't turn someone into a criminal over one mistake. She just needs to pay attention and be more careful in the future. 
2. [+478, -16] She'd have to be stupid not to know who the Nazi's are but it's possible that she didn't know he was Nazi just by looking at his uniform... I don't think it was intentional so there's no reason to back her into a corner over this. She wouldn't have posted it if she knew. 
3. [+466, -28] How was she supposed to know he was Naziㅋㅋㅋㅋ? It's not like he was doing Nazi salute and had Nazi symbol on his uniform so its difficult for her to judge from looking at his clothes. Overseas fans are so hypocritical ㅋ so its ok to wear Rising Sun t-shirts but we need to be careful when mannequin isn't even wearing a uniform with Nazi symbol or salute on it? 
4. [+168, -18] She didn't even delete it because of the hate commentsㅋㅋ. Her fans got jealous of her playfully hugging the mannequin so she deleted it as a jokeㅋㅋㅋㅋ
5. [+53, -1] To everyone calling her dumb and stupid, how many of you would know that's a Nazi military uniform ㅋㅋ. Apparently she didn't even take this at museum but at a Korean cafeㅋㅋ
6. [+36, -2] The people leaving comments here are seriously amazing. Gijanim~write the title properly! Sowon only uploaded the photo to induce jealousy for her fans and only deleted it as a joke because buddies got too jealous. She deleted the post before it even became controversial. And how many people would know that's a Nazi uniform anywhere?! She took that photo during her filming schedule too but Korean is so quick to call everything a controversy and bury someone over a simple joke. 
7. [+31, -3] She deleted the post before it even became controversial ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Additional Source: Herald