1. Miranda Kerr superfan has surgery on eyes and nose to look like her idol
A Korea woman who want to be an international model did plastic surgery several times to look like her idol Miranda Kerr. This article shows how a superfan can do something extreme for her/his idol star.
2. Biggest Fandoms in K-Pop
This Youtube clip shows the definition and history of K-pop fandom. Also the casts talk about how large the fandoms are, what they do for their stars, how they live their daily lives as a superfan of K-pop.
3. Fandom Life in Korea
This video is about the fandom culture in Korea. This video was directed and taken by some international exchange students who studied or are now studying in Korea.(from Brunei, Singapore and so on.)
4. 7 Things That Make K-Pop Fans Unique
Title of this article says '7 things' but actually this article contains 8 things that make K-pop fans unique. We can see how their activities changed their lives.
5. KPOP 101: Kpop Idol Fans, How to Become a Kpop Fan
In this video, a girl is talking about kpop idol fans and how to enroll in a kpop idol fan club as well as tips on how to be a good kpop idol fan.
There are a lot of interesting videos on your blog! I especially liked your second and the last one. First of all, I didn't know that many fans donate on their names to enhance the image of their stars. I thought fan activities are only for the fans and stars. Thanks to your video, I realized that fan activities can have positive effects on the society. Secondly, before watching the last video, I didn't distinguish Saseng fans from normal fans. I thought all serious fans are Saseng fans, which are not true. By watching the last video, I noticed that many fans don't like Saseng fans and they try not to go over the line and be Saseng fans. Thanks for posting videos.
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ReplyDeleteIt's full of videos and thank you for your posting because I can just watch them with ease without reading every single material. And I wonder if I saw right. On the video "Fandom life in Korea", at 1:35, are they crawling???? Kneel down to get autographs?? Are they fans?? I hope I'm wrong 'cause I'm very shocked. Also, I partly started to understand sasaeng fans since they are saying that some of the fans date with their stars and even get married, though it was Japan's case. Btw it was also interesting that the word "sasaeng" is commonly used in this area, just like an English-word.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed watching videos about enthusiastic Korean fandoms. The most intriguing one was the video about fandom life in Korea. It was made by Asian international students, and I could see how they tried to film supportive fans in their cameras. I thought that Korea is really well-known for K-pop idol fans among international students.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, the short article that summarzies the charateristics of K-Pop fans was interesting, but I also felt that these traits could be applicable to super fans in other nations. From these intensive materials your group provided, I could see some positive impacts on both fans and K-Pop idols. Since fans really love and take care of K-Pop idols, I guess most of K-pop idols practice their performance as perfect as possible and try to communicate with their fans more frequently. In fact, I am not that much interested in K-Pop, but I can feel how K-Pop fans truly love their favorite stars, thanks to your research. I expect K-Pop to be more popular and global so that more super fans visit Korea and know our culture sufficiently, as the fourth article mentioned.
Wow! There are a lot of interesting video clips to understand ‘superfans’ in Korea. I was interested in clip #3 and #5. Clip #3 was filmed by Indonesian students so I could see the fandom in Korea objectively. Actually, I haven’t been ‘superfan’ for star, so I did not know the mechanism(?) of ‘fan clubs’ and being a ‘superfan’. After I saw the video #5, I could know the fan club is very systematic. There were hierarchy and a membership fee. It looks like official meeting for me. However, I was curious that if there were some negative incidents because famous fan club executives take charge of a lot of money and can contact with their stars directly. And also, are there differences in fandom style between Korea and foreign countries?
ReplyDeleteI liked how some of the research you guys had done tried to differentiate sasaeng fans and superfans, because there needs to clarification so that people do not label superfans as going overboard like sasaeng fans. I hope this could be a chance to know more about superfans, especially healthy superfans, who sincerely admires one's favorite celebrities.
ReplyDeleteBefore,I have attended an open tv show called yu hee yeols sketchbook where idol Infinite and other singers performed and talked. I went there with my boyfriend's aunt, who is also a fan of Infinite. I had a chance to watch many sasaeng fans that day and there are few things they did that made my stereotype.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, they kept screaming their favorite member's names even when the tv show recordibg was going on. The hosts and staffs had to consistently tell the crowd to stop and even the idol group had to stop dancing and do the same dance again because the fans' cameras kept showing during the tv recording. I was curious why the fans kept interrupting the show because it seemed to be disturbig the stars. By this, I thought the fans were selfish.
Secondly, after the show, my boyfriend's aunt showed us how fans acted after the show and led us to the exit of the studio where stars went into their cars and fans waited. The surprising thing was that when the members came out one by one, the fans ran violently to the stars calling their names and trying to talk to them and touh them. Then the fans who were taking pictures yelled cuss words to them because the other fans were blocking the view. I was shocked by the violent situation and resulted to thinking they were violent.
Then I realized by this video that fans are more loving than violent and that I only saw one aspect that resulted to my stereotype.