One of the epitomes of toxic feminism is how male idols’ sasaeng fans, most of whom are
girls, have been mushrooming in recent years as they know that society could hardly ever
take extreme measures against them for their gender.
Sadly, when such crazy people don’t have to bear extreme consequences for their obsessive
acts, it is idols who have to suffer from extreme traumas, one of which includes living
with a fear of being murdered at any time.
Jin getting vaccinated for no reason
In total contrast to people’s thought that living in government-controlled institutions
will shield all the bad things, it has recently turned out that even the authorities could
hardly save idols from the sasaeng fans' clutches and the case of Jin is the epitome of this.
On May 18, the Internet was sent into a frenzy after all renowned outlets in South Korea
informed that Jin had been caught in an unpleasant with sasaeng fan right when he was serving
in the military as an active duty soldier.
What’s even scarier is that the crazy person who potentially put Jin’s life in danger
is a young female nurse, who is only in her 20s, has already had her background checked
and all to serve in the Korean military, and even receives help from a military peer to
not only stay close but also impermissibly administer Jin the second vaccine for hemorrhagic
fever.
According to the sources, this nurse made a thirty-minute trip from the 28th Division
located in Gyeonggi-do, the place to which she had been working, to the 5th Division
Recruit Training Center in Yeoncheon-gun where Jin was stationed.
After arriving at around 1:30PM, she joined forces with the base’s medic, Doctor A,
and entered Jin's base to meet him under the guise of injecting Jin with a second vaccine
against hemorrhagic fever.
As you know how people often need to stay around medical staff for the first thirty
minutes post-injection to make sure no adverse reactions take place, this nurse also made
use of this logic to stay around Jin for a little more.
When going back to her Division, she even implicitly bragged about such a creepy act,
saying how Jin looked in much pain and would probably need ample rest.
Yet, the most shocking part is that Jin had never needed any vaccines and this girl actually
broke the military protocols as well as made an illegal medicine distribution to the 5h
Division, all of this just to be in proximity with him.
Specifically, the nurse hadn’t informed her senior about her leaving the Division
and according to Article 79 of the Military Criminal Act, it is a punishable offense to
come away from the workplace without permission and calls for punishment by imprisonment for
up to one year.
Not only that, she has also been accused of stealing a large supply of Tylenol vaccine
and transferring it to Jin’s base as a way to bride her way to meet him.
Unsurprisingly, BTS’ fans are angry with the nurse for breaching Jin's privacy and
giving him a vaccine that he didn’t need, putting his health at risk and misusing their
position and power.
The criticism was so serious that though everything had happened in January, which meant four
months had passed, netizens were still bombarding the nurse on social media everyday and constantly
urging HYBE as well as the higher authorities to complete their investigation.
Regarding HYBE’s reaction saying that the company had received information about this
case and hadn't known much about the final penalties, many believed the higher authorities
were trying to save face by hiding the information since there was no way they couldn’t quickly
get everything they wanted from a nurse working under their control.
Jungkook getting death threat
Even when going on an extended hiatus, BTS’ members still have to suffer from immense
crazy acts and ironically enough, their great power and status don’t shield them from
such nonsense people but even push the dangerousness of the situation induced by sasaeng fans to
a greater extreme.
Similar to Jin, Jungkook has recently got involved in a scary situation where his life
was also put under threat.
However, the degree of his situation was way more alarming since rather than encountering
a sasaeng fan whose intention and action both stemmed from goodwill, Jungkook was threatened
to be finished-off after refusing the delivered food sent by a sasaeng fan.
Seemingly the circumstance has been going on for a while and reached Jungkook’s limit
so he ended up sending a long message on Weverse, asking a sasaeng fan to stop sending food
to his house because regardless of how many times she did, he would still not eat them.
Jungkook said he would have to take legal actions had the sasaeng insisted on sending
more food to his house.
As a gentleman as Jungkook is, he also tried to escalate the tension and deal with this
situation as politely as possible, adding that he was thankful for being taken care
of but thought it would be better for the person to use that money to buy herself food.
Still, as this was a rejection and threatening letter at its core, the sasaeng fan was triggered
and threatened to kill Jungkook.
She initially just replied to a tweet capturing his message, saying that Jungkook should know
how to behave better while she was still being nice.
However, the situation quickly went sour after it drew massive criticism from netizens online.
Lots of direct messages were sent to this sasaeng fan yet rather than scaring her off,
they only seemed to trigger the madness in her blood, leading to her outright telling
people to either stop the hate or she would kill Jungkook right away.
Back up for such big words, this sasaeng said finishing Jungkook off was of course within
her ability because she single-handedly managed to know where the male idol lived and had
lived.
But do you know what is the craziest thing about this whole drama?
This sasaeng, who made such big statements online, is said to be only seventeen, not
even be able to cover up her own IP address, seems to live in Indonesia and could only
discover Jungkook’s house thanks to buying information from another sasaeng fan.
Despite the young age, her attitude was really something as after the incident blew up online,
she exposed the person who gave her Jungkook’s address, and published that person’s Instagram
account to put pressure through public criticism if he didn’t send out Jungkook’s second
house location.
Then, she even tried to play the victim, allegedly fabricating a whole story about her being
an orphan, and once having a mother who was a bigfan of Jungkook, her sending Jungkook
food was an attempt to make her mother happy as it what she loved eating while alive, and
as a result, when Jungkook turned down the food, she was so upset that according to her
words, revenge must be taken.
Personally, I think this sasaeng only has a big mouth and no serious actions would be
taken because one, the whole orphan story thingy sounds like any typical amateur fanfics
that you can stumble on Wattpad, two, her IP address in a foreign country and her alleged
age of seventeen both makes her a harmless boastful delulu and lastly, regarding her
childish action of dragging the person giving her Jungkook’s address to seek for empathy
and have someone share the tense criticism, I think this sasaeng fan is still too immature
and not thoughtful enough to do anything big.
That’s probably why HYBE hasn’t released any announcements but still, it’s best to
stay alert about situations like this down the road.
Jackson Wang getting intimately touched Being one of the most successful foreign idols
of Kpop who not only amounts to great achievements music-wise but also entrepreneurship-wise,
Jackson Wang has built himself a fandom that is extremely supportive and loyal.
Paradoxically, this also leads to situations where his fans will become a little too obsessive
and do things that ordinary people can never wrap their heads around.
One of the epitomes is most recently when Jackson performed Love You 3000 at his Brazil
concert, a fan invited to go on stage with him had extremely vulgar actions, from tightly
hugging, and sensually touching his face to even touching his inner thighs and resting
her legs across Jackson’s.
What irked people off even more was the way she repeated such provocative actions multiple
times and regardless of Jackson’s rejective gestures, she kept pushing so hard that he
had to end up going with the flow.
For example, in her first attempt to touch his face, Jackson tried to stop it by quickly
grasping her hand.
However, she continued the fleshy acts by leaning her head against Jackson’s, using
another hand to touch his face again and even trying to put his leg across her.
Of course Jackson didn’t want to embarrass both so he suggested she cross her legs over
instead and pull her face against his neck in an effort to avoid her eye contact and
keep her stay still.
After the video surfaced online, this girl was immediately met with intense flashbacks
and labeled a sasaeng fan.
Many couldn’t understand how this girl could turn such a precious opportunity to interact
with Jackson into something so vulgar and despising like that.
Even a simple action like hugging was also made arousing and sensual through the way
she tightly held onto Jackson and despite just being a bystander, most could feel the
secondhand embarrassment radiating through the screen.
However, there were also opinions saying that Jackson was the one to start everything because
it was his responsibility to avoid such loathing situations by not inviting fans to the stage
in the first place.
Besides, similar to the saying “the apple doesn't fall far from the tree,” but put
in the idol-fan context some said that since Jackson has also portrayed himself as a crazy
and vulgar persona, which is most clearly seen through his constant consumption of Brandy
and showing sensual moves on stage, the sasaeng fan shouldn’t have been totally to blame
at all.
So, what do you think can make these sasaeng fans so mad-minded that they can go to extra
lengths for idols’ attention?
Plus, why literally all of the most haunting sasaeng fan cases were against male idols
rather than female idols?