The pregnancy and marriage news of Chen, a member of the idol group EXO, are getting bigger. The EXO official fan club has issued an Exiting statement, and fans are rebelling.
Chen posted a handwritten letter to the fan community on the 13th and announced the news of the pregnancy of marriage and GFriend.
Chen said, “I have a GFriend who wants to spend my whole life together. Then we have a blessing. I will show you how to repay the love you have spent in your place. "
After Chen’s sudden marriage and premarital pregnancy announcement, fan reactions are divided into poles and poles: “Congratulations” and “Exiting.”
Some fans cheered him, saying, "I am responsible, I am courageous."
On the other hand, Chen's Exiting campaign is being carried out by the Social Network (SNS). At 2 p.m. on the 15th, the word "Chen Exiting" was also ranked among the top 10 real-time search terms on the portal site Naver. China fans are exercising with a hashtag called Kim Jong-dae Exiting EXO through Weibo (China version Twitter).
Why are fans reacting so much in this upbeat fashion?
EXO-L ACE Alliance (hereinafter EXO El), an official member of EXO's paid fan club, issued a Chen Exiting Statement on the 16th. Fans demanded Chen's Exiting because of Chen's arbitrary actions, △ serious image damage of the group called EXO △ serious division and breakdown of EXO fandom △ unstable group schedule is damage to both fandom and artist.
“Many paid members who have substantial purchasing power in EXO fandom are eager to withdraw Chen,” they said. “SM Entertainment should realize the need for a concrete review of Chen’s Exiting in the team through long-term and realistic future predictions, not expectations.”
There is such a precedent in SM Entertainment.
Sungmin, who was a member of the group Super Junior in 2014, also announced marriage during his activities and was boycotted by fans. Sungmin met Kim Sa-eun during musical activities and marriage in 2014.
Park Hee-ah, a pop culture critic, diagnosed the phenomenon.
“When you tell your fans that you like (the stars) like them,” he said on his SNS on the 14th, “when they say, “the stars are human,” you need to think about how the Korean idol industry has provided them as a Service.” “Even if you become an idol because you want to sing, what he chose is to offer an act of charm and lover mode. “It’s a designed place.”
"As long as this characteristic has been solidified for a long time, I can not blame the fans unconditionally," he said. "The intimacy accumulated in such a way is an industry in which fans identify with their trust. If we recognize that there is a wrong part of this characteristic, we should criticize the selling point of the Korean idol industry, and we can not blame consumers who bought 'selling'. "
Meanwhile, EXO fans will hold a protest in front of SMTOWN COEX atium on the 19th if SM Entertainment (hereinafter SM) does not give a position on Chen until the 18th. It is noteworthy whether Chen will be able to seal the division and conflict of fans and continue his activities as an EXO member.
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