[Comment Inception] AKP OP-ED "The unending conflict between international fans and Korean fans"

Reader request. This post is from Gasengi, a site that translates international netizen comments for Korean netizens. This post in particular is in response to the allkpop op-ed "The unending conflict between international fans and Korean fans".

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"Am I the only one who didn't know that such conflicts existed?"

"Henry and Zhou Mi have already been with SJ-M for a while and are clearly under SM so why does it matter at all whether the fans acknowledge them or not? ㅋㅋㅋ These fans are hilarious, as if their opinions on the issue matter at all ㅋㅋㅋㅋ"

- "It seems that it's not the Korean fans but the Chinese fans who are making these claims and causing a rift. They claim all of the Chinese members are better like Hangeng is the best in SJ, Victoria is the best in fx, Fei is the best in miss A. Even in EXO, Koreans Xiumin and Chen always receive low votes. It's good to support members from your own country but they're crossing the line sometimes...."

"After reading the op-ed, it seems to have been written because of the EXO issue. I didn't know that the foreign woman who was kicked out of Inkigayo was a controversy. Even if it wasn't, EXO fans are always causing trouble because they're so young. They always get into fights with broadcast officials at events. They're told not to film and yet they stand there with DSLR cameras and get caught;;; They even follow vans around in groups and jaywalk."

- "I looked up EXO and wow, this nugu fandom is crazy ㅋㅋㅋㅋ One of them even slapped a foreigner just for taking a picture with a camera... Way to make Korea look like a racist country ㅋㅋㅋ There's even another instance where a Japanese EXO fan tried to jaywalk in front of SBS and got caught and had her tickets taken away so she just knelt down in the middle of the road to beg and cry for her tickets back ㅋㅋㅋ This fandom is globally insane."

"I'll still never forget how international netizens made Koreans to be a joke for 'overreacting' about T-ara's imperial Japanese flag issue."

"This allkpop article seems to have been written purely to make Koreans look bad... damn anti-Koreans."

"I saw on a TV report that Japanese fans who came to Korea to see their idols have had bad experiences where they'll be robbed by teen Korean girls ㅡㅡ Can fans please show some respect?"

"The writer of this op-ed is insane. He doesn't take into account any of Korea's culture, society, and sentiment and makes Koreans out to be racist people deserving of criticism just because we don't fall in line with THEIR standards of right and wrong. These type of people never even try to understand things from our perspective because they're too busy judging another country's culture against their own."

"I really hate the foreign fans at SNSD concerts. They'll buy thousands of dollars worth of merchandise and sell them back to other international fans for double, triple the price. Korean fans had to wait 2 years for these concerts and wait in line since the early morning to get a chance to buy the merchandise but end up with nothing because the foreigners buy them all out ㅡㅡ They also ignore the rules of Korean fans. 80-90% of foreign fans are fans of individual members so they make slogans and posters for one member while Korean Soshi fans are 9=1. They ignore the rule that everything should be 9=1 and go ahead with their individual slogans anyway."

- "I agree, I seriously hate it when international fans ruin the '9=1' motto that Korean fans worked so hard to protect by creating these individual member fandoms."

"Even after explaining that Koreans had no idea that blackface is globally recognized to be racist and that Koreans do not intend it to be racist, the international comments are still so angry."

"The thing about international fans is that there wouldn't be a problem if they just enjoyed our idols as is but instead they're inserting their unwanted opinions into Korean issues and society without fully understanding any of it. Yeah, they had a big part in creating the Hallyu wave but they should understand that it was the Koreans who supported the idols for them to get to that stage where they could launch into Hallyu."

"I bet this op-ed was written by a Japanese."

"Chinese sasaengs are worse than Korean sasaengs.."

"International fans are a bit... stupid. They don't understand how important issues about the army are to us and don't understand why we get so angry over seeing the imperial Japanese flag, calling us petty for getting so worked up over it.."

"It really gets me riled up when I see international fans hate on Korea as if we're the only ones with problems when they're the ones who don't try to understand our culture at all...'"

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