110801 JYJ Kim Jaejoong Shows His Displeasure About Crazy Stalker Fans On Twitter‏

Male idol group JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong recently speak out on his own Twitter about stalker fans.

On the 30th, Kim Jaejoong wrote on Twitter, “The groups of Sasaeng taxis have increased. I guess the number of drivers who lack the qualms of conscience and the number of pitiful children will rise as well. The drivers will earn big money with this hell of a business while the children who get into these taxis will uselessly use up their money and time to take away the time and freedom of the people they like.” [twitter trans credit: dongbangdata]

He continued, “Isn’t this a little overboard and distasteful to be something that a person has to endure as a star..? Is it normal for a person to have to be wary of others and be in hiding like some criminal for the past seven years just to eat, work, take a break or even enter one’s house? Stop it, you’ve done more than enough [T/N: The literal translation is ‘You’ve had a lot to eat, haven’t you?’ and is slang that comes from the province of Gyeongsangnamdo]. Let me concentrate on my work and let me sleep, you scoundrels.”

[twitter trans credit: dongbangdata], expressing his displease with the Sasaeng fans who overly concerned with his personal life.

Sasaeng fans refers to those fans who are extremely concern with their idols’ personal lives, and bore feelings that exceeds what of a fan to an idol and crazily stalks them. These fans usually appears at the artistes’ non-official schedules and shows violation behaviors from waiting outside their idols’ house to revealing artistes’ identity number and mobile phone numbers.

Recently there are immoral drivers who make use of such fans’ infatuations to earn money and thus aid the craze of idol-stalking. The immoral drivers would loiter around the spots where idols would usually appear and once they spot the ‘target’, they would notify the fans and earn their money through this engagement. At times, they would also result in a dangerous car-chasing act with the artistes’ vans.

The Sasaeng fans and immoral drivers have never considered about the artistes’ feelings and would sickly insisting with their infatuation for every single movement of the artiste. To these people’s over-concerns, Kim Jaejoong and JYJ members have not only once expressed their displeasure.

Park Yoochun ever expressed, “It’s really exhausting and really hate it. Those fans that appeared in front of the house are most likely anti-fans, please don’t follow me anymore and don’t ever appear outside my house again.” Kim Jaejoong also revealed, “A few of us had ever cried outside our house or even on the streets and there have been accidents before. Of course we were angry but for the sake of everyone, please don’t let these life-threatening behavior appear again.”

As an artiste, popularity is a need to maintain one’s entertainment career but Kim Jaejoong and Park Yoochun have stepped out to condemn such behavior with no qualms. This shows how much inconvenience they (Sasaeng fans) have brought upon the artistes’ personal lives and this pressurized the artistes. Even though things like crying and grudging occurred as what Kim Jaejoong had said, the yearn for these people (Sasaeng fans) to change is ultimately not an easy task. Fans, please remember this. The over-passion for the stars would cause the other party to feel disgusted.

In conclusion, whether to become a fan who ripped the freedom off an idol or to become a fan who the idol would be proud of, it needs everyone’s calm consideration to make a clear decision.

source: koreastardaily
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110628 Shrieking ‘Oppa Troops’ Have Become Benevolent ‘Good Deed Troops’

The fandom culture, that used to chase after stars, is experiencing a change. The generation of ‘Sasaeng Fans’(Fans who chase stars’ private lives) and just writing letters to stars is over. Recently, fans have been spreading the culture of giving back to the community and getting their stars a better image and more publicity.

◆Rice instead of flowers… Even creating a scholarship fund in their celebrity’s name

These days, it’s hard to find ordinary flower stands at musical concerts or concert venues. This is because fans have been replacing these flower stands with ‘rice stands’ through donation drives.

At the venue of the successful musical ‘Mozart!’, the entrance of the building is decorated by the ‘rice stands’ donated by Kim Junsu’s fans. ‘Rice stands’ from other stars such as Eom Gi Joon, Song Chang Ui and Park Eun Tae fill the entrance as well. These ‘rice stands’ have been distributed to social welfare centers, retirement homes and to the elderly who are living alone.

Kim Hyun Joong’s fanclub became a hot topic last year when it created a scholarship fund with their favorite star’s name titled ‘The Kim Hyun Joong Scholarship Fund’. After donating 14 million Won to a childcare center, they have been monetarily supporting students who leave the center due to their age.

Fans of JYJ’s Park Yoochun have been donating at regular intervals since 2010. They collected a total of 40 million Won this year and after donating 10 million Won to a social welfare center last year, they’ve been helping child patients since then.

Lee Minho’s fanclub ‘Mizuno’ donated 20 million Won to celebrate his birthday. A different fanclub of Lee Minho also donated alms to a devastated district through Unicef and they’ve been avid supporters of the Green Energy campaign.

◆Take care of our star..Sending lunchboxes to staff

When stars spend the night filming on location, fans prepare lunch boxes for the members of the staff as well. Everyone knows about fans making lunch boxes for their celebrities to ensure that they don’t skip their meals, but recently, fans have begun preparing lunch boxes for staff members as well. They take care of their stars’ image by leaving a message with the stars’ names on each lunch box.

These lunch boxes are delivered to a variety of locations such as concert venues, and filming locations for movies or CFs. At the press conference of ‘You’ve Fallen For Me’, which features CN Blue’s Jung Yong Hwa, fans impressed the reporters and production company crew by providing everyone with lunch boxes.

 

Not only do these fans help maintain the image of their stars, but they also help the morale of the star. As more fans buy lunch boxes in large quantities for their fans, new ‘support lunchbox businesses’ have sprung up.

◆Money is no issue… They even create newspaper ads

It has become a natural thing for fans to celebrate stars’ birthdays or promote albums through advertisements. Fanclubs collect money for a variety of mediums such as newspapers, buses, and electronic scoreboards.

‘Girls’ Generation’ fans have been garnering attention for making newspaper ads for the birthdays of the members. Last year, their fanclub ‘HwaSuEunHwa’ created newspaper ads for members such as Seohyun, Sunny, Soo Young, Jessica and Yoona.

When Yoochun, Jaejoong and Junsu, who have transformed from ‘TVXQ’ to ‘JYJ’, released their music essay in January, fans hired 120 buses across the nation to hang advertisements for the group on the side of the vehicles. To make it happen, it was said that the fans collected a total of 200 million Won. After this, JYJ fans also placed ads in 21 subway stations.

A broadcasting representative stated, “Though the current mature culture of the fans who think of their star’s image is desirable, there is still fierce competition amongst the fans in certain areas,” and “I hope that the fandom culture becomes something mature and truly for the star and his or her well-being.”

Source: [etoday]
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110314 Towards JYJ’s Repeated Warnings to Sasaeng Fans, Netizens Commented “Fans are not law breakers”

JYJ Park Yoochun recently complained with the excessive act of the sasaeng fans.

On March 12th evening JYJ Park Yoochun tweeted, “Please do not follow me. Do not come in front of my house. Sasaeng!”. Later he also tweeted on the same day, “The people in front of my house… No matter how much I think about it, in my opinion they’re just the same like anti-fans. It’s been too much, I hate it.” he expressed his frustrated feeling.

Sasaeng are kind of fans who give up their own lives to intrude the privacy of celebrities, they follow each and every moves of their idols, even after the idols’ work schedule wrapped up. During recent years, sasaeng fans have been known to stalk around their artist in a group by taking taxis.

Last year JYJ Kim Jaejoong who had the same experience as his fellow member with sasaeng fans wrote in his twitter, “The sasaeng taxi that drives around an empty cab looking for celebrities and then contact fans to charge them is the more evil of society. If your children or family member did this… if only the knew how many people whose privacy got harmed,” he revealed his uncomfortable feeling with those sasaeng in taxis.

He also mentioned, “All of us five members, either at home or on street, they have seen us crying or suffering from accidents, but all we saw in the front glass of ‘sasaeng taxis’ were smiling faces.” and “let’s not do acts that shorten lives in the name of love,”

Towards these repeated warning of the artists to sasaeng fans’ act, netizens commented, “You guys are criminal, you don’t even sleep.” “It’s an illegal act,” “They must be mentally disturbed.”

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Park Yoochun Pleads for ’Sasaeng’ Fans to Stop

JYJ’s Park Yoochun recently expressed his frustrated feelings about sasaeng fans.

On March 12th, the star left the following message on his personal Twitter: “Please don’t follow us. Don’t come to our house either. Sasaeng!” ‘Sasaeng’ is a term meant to describe a particular group of fans who stalk their favorite star’s private lives and every movement with an emotion that exceeds a normal fan’s.

Netizens responded, “I think Park Yoochun is suffering a lot because of sasaeng fans that follow him to his house”, and “Love expressions towards celebrities should have some restraint.”

Source: Sports Chosun via Daum

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Jaejoong Rants About Sasaeng Fans

Social Micro blogging service Twitter is a valuable resource for many fans to follow their favorite celebrities and learn more about them. Recently, JYJ member Jaejoong went on a rant about Sasaeng fans.
For those of you who don’t know what Sasaeng fans are, they’re basically crazed fans who invade the privacy of celebrities. They stalk the celebrities and some go even as far as having access to the idol’s phone number and break into their homes.

To generalize his tweets, he basically talks about suffering for the past 7 years, when trying to meet friends, family, and acquaintances these fans will delay him for 2-3 hours. He also states that over this time, all 5 members have cried in public and had accidents but these Saesang fans in their “taxi’s” would just look at them with smiling faces. Jaejoong also mentions that what’s even worse than Korean Sasaeng fans are oversea foreign fans who pay the Korean fans to rent cars, drive them around and stalk them.

Jaejoong also mentioned that one time he asked Big Bang member G-Dragon if he had to deal with Sataek from Sasaeng fans and G-Dragon replied, “Hyung, what’s Sataek?” (Sataek = Saesang + Taxi)
Quite unfortunate that celebrities have to deal with this, hopefully these fans will realize they’re doing a lot of harm to these celebrities.

 Source: Allkpop