Discussion prompt
Going to take another risk and post another set of articles without doing my own thoughts in-depth.
International vs. Korean fandom
http://www.allkpop.com/article/2013/07/op-ed-the-unending-conflict-between-international-fans-and-korean-fans
http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/comment-inception-akp-op-ed-unending.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
(Translations of Korean comments on the above article)
http://themhcc.blogspot.com/2013/06/an-appeal-to-overseas-fandom.html
(As you can see, I had a strong enough knee-jerk response to this one that I commented in it.)
The section in the netizenbuzz article with all of the Sones griping about international oshi fandom is hilarious to me, because 1) the 48fam oshi drama was SO DELICIOUS at the election, and 2) I wonder if any of them was that old K-sone that lectured us about not adhering to 9=1 back in the day.
Some of the other stuff I'll have to think about, because while my initial opinion is to side-eye most of the Korean entitlement, there is a space somewhere in this discussion concerning international entitlement and its blurring into appropriation and privilege, as well as checking how I'd feel in their shoes, which I haven't seriously done yet.
http://pink-wota.livejournal.com/27583.html
International vs. Korean fandom
http://www.allkpop.com/article/2013/07/op-ed-the-unending-conflict-between-international-fans-and-korean-fans
http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/comment-inception-akp-op-ed-unending.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
(Translations of Korean comments on the above article)
http://themhcc.blogspot.com/2013/06/an-appeal-to-overseas-fandom.html
(As you can see, I had a strong enough knee-jerk response to this one that I commented in it.)
The section in the netizenbuzz article with all of the Sones griping about international oshi fandom is hilarious to me, because 1) the 48fam oshi drama was SO DELICIOUS at the election, and 2) I wonder if any of them was that old K-sone that lectured us about not adhering to 9=1 back in the day.
Some of the other stuff I'll have to think about, because while my initial opinion is to side-eye most of the Korean entitlement, there is a space somewhere in this discussion concerning international entitlement and its blurring into appropriation and privilege, as well as checking how I'd feel in their shoes, which I haven't seriously done yet.
http://pink-wota.livejournal.com/27583.html