LA Times Interview Blindsides Soloist Taemin with Question about Jonghyun's Death

[devourlove]

TW/// dec. 17/18
In the LA Times article with SuperM they mention the events multiple times and they asked Taemin about it personally. It was unnecessary and inappropriate. Please don’t read it if you don’t want to see that. I only ss these as proof for anyone else to see. pic.twitter.com/lJhVqyRth7
- 𝖌𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖞⁷ ❄️🖤 Johnny Day!!! 💗 (@peachyseokseok)

Comments

[thelxienoe]

The sensationalizing of all three of their suicides makes me feel really ill. The other day, I was looking up credits for Sulli's last release to see who the composition team was and at the tippy-top of the page was a result that listed her method of suicide, plain as day. Super disrespectful.

It sounds like Taemin was put in a super awkward position where he can't get upset at the journalist or even politely tell them how inappropriate they're being w/o this being used against him or being scrutinized ny non-Koreans in some broad commentary about mental health in Korea.

[devourlove]

I know exactly what you mean, not only with these articles trying to be edgy but it's literally everywhere whenever you search for them as soon as they die. Maybe I'm just sensitive but imo there's more to someone than the fact that they died and I mean u can look that up on wiki. Not everyone needs to only talk about their death

And ia. Essentially the goal was to get him to be upset but if he'd been upset, there would've been backlash about him being hostile, or if he'd cried it would be all over every media article. Everything he said was absolutely true which is why for the most part SHINee haven't been allowed to grieve outside of the actual funeral

[thelxienoe]

I just now saw this but yes at everything you said. People who never really cared about Kpop/Korean media are suddenly reporting about it because it became a bigger deal in the States recently. They want a hot take and they can easily criticize the industry and seem deep by writing about the suicides. It's tired.

[goodassjob]

The Kpop industry/bubble is SO strange

[stuffedpanda]

what a strange comment to make in response to this article

[digitalqueen]

go troll somewhere else

[vintage_boom]

...coming from you lol

[mayjailer]

i was/am far from an authority on shinee or k-pop as a genre, but jonghyun's death really hit me in a way few celebrities' have. he just seemed so kind and it broke my heart to know he probably passed feeling he was disappointing other people. he was also immensely talented, i've come to love his music and it led me to explore the genre more for which i'm grateful (ironically taemin is probably my favorite k-pop idol).

[devourlove]

That's what gets me to. I've loved SHINee since they debuted and jonghyun was my favorite lol. But because of that the reason he died has me so bitter even now that I still cry if I think too hard about it, because like someone said downthread, he basically did everything right to try and get help and they failed him

[mayjailer]

it's honestly heart-wrenching. he should be here, fully coming into his talent (he already had tbh but i ache to think what else he would have accomplished) and knowing he is loved, not just as an image but as an individual.

[krissasaur]

I think his kindness is what fucked me up so badly and I am still not over it. I used to say, and I firmly believe, that he was going to change Korea as a whole. He was open about supporting trans people, and was all for raising women up. He was someone the youth of Korea looked up to and I am sure he already made so much change in that country. It breaks my heart that the world betrayed someone like him. I know depression comes in many different ways, but I feel like the world actually failed him. I relate it back to myself, and my own depression, and so much of it stems from watching the world full of terrible people and not being able to actually do anything about it.

[rainstormraider]

Uh, WTF.
Unless someone willingly volunteers to broach that subject themselves, no one should be putting them on the spot like this, doubly so with a mic near their face.
Gross af.

Also Poet | Artist was one of the best albums of the last decade and everyone (even the users here convinced that K-Pop is too unapproachable because it doesn’t come subtitled) should listen to it.

[devourlove]

Yeah it makes me hot, I can't imagine because of course they were asking SuperM questions in general so I can't imagine what it was like getting that question thrown at him when they're supposed to be happy promoting, and only hours before they were supposed to perform

[elvasle]

JongHyun was one of my favorite members from one of my favorite kpop groups of all time and I still can't believe he's gone. It's ridiculous that people are this crass about his and the others' deaths. Taemin's statement is so wellput.