This is crazier than Mukodono, Last Scandal, and Oh My Lady. Combined.

[dangermousie]

boginje just linked me to this article and I have to basically copy-paste it in all its glorious entirety.

It's completely completely insane.Short version: a popular Korean singer recently "came out" to his fans and revealed the shocking, horrible truth

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[boginje]

BTW, VOS is doing OK after the scandal-they released an an OST album(for Creating Destiny) and a greatest hits album. They did some concerts in Japan, too. They are one of the luckiest boybands around- their fans are SANE!!!!

[dangermousie]

Seeing that some other bands have fans who hounded a random fangirl to death because she got a hug from their idol - yeah.

[katranna]

Link?

[dangermousie]

http://popseoul.com/2007/06/07/suju-fans-are-killers/

There are a bunch more on the net. The girl clearly had other things going on too (but don't most victims of bullying who kill themselves) but still. Yikes.

I am not familiar with kpop but I do remember this group's fans. This is a boyband with 13 (!!!!) members and the reason I first came across them was stuff on their fangirls setting a cordon around the management building because they added 2 new members (would anyone notice? :)) and trying to buy out the company. They are kinda insane.

ETA: Cyber harassment is pretty common in Korea. Actually, a huge star, Choi Jin Shil, killed herself because of it couple of years ago and her attacker only got a few months in jail.

[scanky_chops]

This is why i'm glad i'm a Johnnys senpai fan - if any of them came out and said they were married for x number of years with a kid i'd be jumping for joy for them.

Also, the whole no-girlfriend thing is so hilariously weird 'cos if that's the case then why is Kimura still one of the biggest names in the fandom?

[dangermousie]

I really don't get Asian pop stuff sometimes. Really.

[dangermousie]

boginje said that the fans got over it and the group is doing fine. But the very fact that this is a possible issue is insane to me.

As to his wife, I don't care how famous/rich/hot he is - I don't think I could have put up with this for that long. Furniture would have been thrown :)

[boginje]

It took (large majority of)their fans a couple of hours to get over it. It took their former (current) agency a couple of months to get over it(to get over the fact that he came out without their permission). LOL

[dangermousie]

So crazy.

[boginje]

The whole point of the Kimitaku scandal and why everyone is still supporting him is : He got married to an ex-idol singer. If he married an ordinary person he would have suffered major consequences (SMAP fans are really weird).
V6`s Innochi is married ,too (no problem there as well).
BTW Some City Hall fans are insane: they would like Cha Seung Won and Kim Sun Ah to be an item in real life?!
Cha Seung Won got married 22 years ago and has a 21 year old son and a 15 year old(i don`t know exactly but she is probably around 15)daughter!!!!!!!!!!

[dangermousie]

I saw the SSW/KSA rpshippers and they are kinda freaky. I mean, I find rpshipping weird to start with, but when one of the parties has been married for decades? Yeah.

Some rpshipper of theirs commented somewhere that she wasn't going to watch an upcoming movie of CSW's because he kisses a woman other than KSA. That's definitely crazy.

[vert_gazon]

"At the school there was an event where parents were to attend but because Myungsun was labeled an unmarried mother, he could not participate at the event."

This part made me mad. Wtf.

[dangermousie]

Now that I think about it, his wife is even cooler/stronger than I thought at first because apparently there is a HUGE stigma to being an unwed mother - most of them abort their kids, and the rest are encouraged to give the kids for adoption. And if they keep them, they are very looked-down on. So I bet she got a LOT of attitude from people because of that. And she still kept her mouth shut.