Petition on Korean Sasaeng Fans

[AyuTan]

Here's a petition on those craaazy Korean Sasaeng fans (I don't recall them being this bad in Japan?). Okay, guys I made a petition at Change.org to get more action taken against these fans. Sure, some of you may think that this is useless...but what's the point unless we try? I'm tying to spread it, so if you're able to help - that's great!

If you don't know about these crazy fans here's some info:

'Sasaeng Fans', or 'World Fans' have long been a problem with the Korean music industry. These fans are driven to horrifying extents - some older and some younger. They take stalking their favorite idols far beyond normal, for some it becomes their lives. Some of these fans are still in school, they skip it or may even drop school to do the stalking. There are even taxis that cater to these fans and wait outside of celebrity home or broadcasting stations. They do anything just to get the superstar's attention - may it be negative, some would even feel pride in causing their idol pain (thinking thoughts as - "He now has a bruise, that I made!") Korean idols have to revolve their lives around having to avoid, or even escape these fans.

Some Examples of what these fans have done to get the 'attention' from there idols are: sending 'love letters' to their idols written in period blood or normal blood, hurting the idol (cases such as with a bag of rocks and breaking the idol's pinky finger), making copies of keys to their homes, causing car accidents, writing on celebrity home walls, calling idols and asking where their at, and more recently installing security cameras (or CCTV) in the parking lot of an idol's home.

It's time for a change in how these fans are handled, Korean idols shouldn't be hiding behind a wall, scared, or have to face continuous harassment to themselves or within their (meant to be) private homes.

http://www.change.org/petitions/kore...n-sasaeng-fans
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I hope this was the right place to post this .___.

[emi♡]

I am all for these people being taken a lot more seriously for their harassment...

but you didn't really define any steps on how to handle them, or what should be done...

are there many cases where they aren't taken seriously? Isn't it up to the idols to decide if they press charges or not?

idk, sorry. I suppose I don't know enough about this issue, or Korean law to say much.

I think it would make your petition stronger if you talked about some of these things~~

[AyuTan]

Originally Posted by emi♡

I am all for these people being taken a lot more seriously for their harassment...

but you didn't really define any steps on how to handle them, or what should be done...

are there many cases where they aren't taken seriously? Isn't it up to the idols to decide if they press charges or not?

idk, sorry. I suppose I don't know enough about this issue, or Korean law to say much.

I think it would make your petition stronger if you talked about some of these things~~

Ah, good idea. I'll do more research tomorrow.

[AyuBlackwind]

That is so crazy of them. These artists are people and deserve privacy and safety like the rest of us. They need to stop that.

[susiowong]

I think 'fans' like that have some kind of serious mental disorder. Not much can be done to stop them unless they got help, but in the meantime, maybe idols should just keep heavy security around them.

It sucks, but it's the life those idols chose, and there's always going to be crazies in your fanbase.

[yoshino]

yeah since those fans are doing such crazy stuffs and even hurting them, why dun the idols press charges? and why dun they get bodyguards too?? Maybe the company needs to do something to protect their artistes.

[Ayu_Love]

I remember reading about these so called 'fans'. They make my blood boil.

DBSK/Tohoshinki (DBSK and JYJ now) are the only Idols who I know who have trouble with them, but they do everything to these poor boys. People ask "Why don't they call the police and press charges?". They do. They call the police, and the Korean police only give them a slap on the wrist and tell them 'not to do it again', because these saesang fans are too 'young' to be officially charged, or it's their 'first offence' even though they've been doing it for 9 years, or some bullcrap like that, even though they are causing serious harm to these boys, physically and mentally. As for security, the apartments the boys live in have HEFTY security, like big time, yet somehow they still get in, and hack their phones. Usually they are rich kids, and they pay Taxi's hundreds to follow them, and to even to crash into them. It wouldn't surprise me if they were hiring hackers to get them into phones and apartments.

Like Ayutan has said, they so all sorts of things to them like breaking into their homes to kiss them while they sleep,
they sent them letters with period blood on it,
they somehow get their numbers and text and call them all the time, and one point one of them changed their number...5 minutes afterwards he received a text going. "You changed your number".
They're usually rich kids, who pay taxi drivers hundreds to follow them, driving through red lights and even crashing into them, causing them harm and putting them into sometimes bad incidents.
There is a video somewhere where one of the boys came out to greet his fans, and one of them slapped him across the face. They do this so that they will 'remember' them.
They cannot date because if they are even seen with another woman, they'll be harassed with messages like "Who is that *****?" and even the women themselves will receive hate and even death threats.
They have brought changmin (and probably the other boys) to tears before, because they would not stop.
Yunho actually saved one of these saesang fans from being hit by a car. Afterwards, all the other saesangs started to imitate her, by throwing themselves infront of cars, in an attempt to be saved by a member.
Jaejoong has also cried because of them, stating that he wished he wasn't a singer anymore, but a normal person, so that they would leave him alone.
They steal their identity's
They call the members family, even asking them where they are.
They block the service on their phones when they get calls, and check to see if it was a girls number.
They break into their house to find legal stamps to actually forge MARRIAGE PAPERS.
They put their own (dirty) underwear into members bags and send them to them.
http://discontinuetvxq.files.wordpre...g_21.png?w=610 <-In this picture, one of the JYJ members is in a restaurant. Think there's nothing wrong with that picture? Look out the window.
The list goes on...

If you want to read about everything they have done (beware, it's a lengthy post), and about the controversy of JaeJoong attacking a Saesang fan, then read this blog post. The beginning bit is a translation to what Jaejoong said in the leaked MP3 of him giving verbal abuse to one of these saesangs. Past that is all the evidence of what they have done: http://discontinuetvxq.wordpress.com...fans-revealed/
I'd also like to point out I agree with what they say at the end, supporting Jaejoong.


The level that these girls go to is extremely severe. They do all this yet are 'allowed' because they are 'young' or it's their 'first offence'. I am speechless that the korean police, despite all this harm they are causing, do NOTHING.

I will happily sign this petition. Maybe with enough votes you can send it off to the Korean government to get something done. Unfortunately I am uncertain what will get done, as (i'm not sure how laws are done in Korea but) new laws can take years to be put into power, if it is a new law that is needed to deal with them. But if you get enough signatures, especially from the korean public, they will have to listen. Maybe getting the petition around, and getting enough people signed to it and aware of these 'fans' we can all put our heads together to find a way to stop them. What these girls are doing is WRONG in so many ways and they should be stopped.