 This incident raised a heated debate "[...] about the nature of "Korean-ness in popular music" and pushed this pointy but long dormant issue to the forefront in the mid-1990s.The group nearly split in 1996 due to the controversy, but eventually only came to an end in 2001 after the release of a final album.In 2008, the group was reunited with Lee Sang-min, Go Young-wook, Kim Ji-hyun, and Chae Ri-na to work on an upcoming album.