Sasaeng ??
Today, I came accross a video cut of a korean television program. The tittle is Illegal TVXQ fan, by that kind of tittle, at first i thought it was a fanmade video, unfortunately it wasn’t. The highlight of the video was how a group of teen girls operate to follow their idol, how they can find the location of their idol at certain time. I found it creepy when i saw by my own eyes they could stalk their idol till late night and mostly could locate their idol by corporate with other sasaeng, taxi driver, and even bodyguard of the certain idol. Ther really are organized well.
I knew there are stalker, but just by now i understand how it works and i never thought that they would do to that extent. Somehow it made me wondering how far idol culture have effected korean youth , this culture also turned some teens to professinal spy. I’m not korean nor do i live in Korea. In addition, i just know Kpop on its very surface, I hardly know how the real climate of these whole kpop culture. But i thougt it safe to say that this behavior is kinda excessive and can indicate mental problem. Eventually, i found strong urge to canvass some researchs regarding this issue, Korean psychologists better already had taken some actions. This whole Kpop culture is intrigue, indeed.