Jumping BoAs and Kpop Fan Groups

Filed as: Korea FTW! // Responses: 54

We’ve discovered a new and scary thing in Korea: K-pop fan groups. Our experience with them first began on a small scale two years ago with our How to Dance Kpop 2008 video when a TVXQ fan group thought we were mocking Mirotic (which we weren’t. It’s one of our all time favourite kpop songs) and we were shocked to receive some angry angry comments from angry 14 year old girls. Most recently, our video on U-Kiss also got a whole lot of angry comments from a bunch of members from their fan group. They thought we offended a member from U-Kiss after he mentioned our video in a Twitter post, and this caused some of the fan group members to supposedly cry while watching our video. Wow. Totally bizarre. And so our final consensus is: Kpop fan groups are scary.

We were at the Asia Song Festival on the weekend and got to see some awesome acts, including 4Minute, Kara, 2AM, B2ST, Rain, and BoA. All were great. B2ST was fantastic, Rain was unbelievable, and BoA was, well, we don’t know. When BoA went on, we couldn’t hear the show. Like, not at all. Why? Because the people you see in the video were sitting right behind us screaming the whole time. And not regular screaming. It was cold outside, and one of the girls was screaming so much that her face was covered in sweat. No joke. The screaming you see in this video is one tenth of how much they were screaming during the performances. In this video, they’re screaming because BoA’s about to come back on stage. Yeah.

Anyhow, this isn’t something we’re used to seeing, so we thought it’d be interesting to put up a video about it. We’ve been to lots of concerts ourselves for bands we really, really like, but have never seen people screaming like this, or ever felt the urge to scream ourselves, except for that one time when Martina went to a free Hanson concert a million years ago and supposedly the only sound she heard was “WAHHHHHHHHHH”. *Cough* probably because she was the one doing all the screaming :D

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Anonynony

I’m sorry to hear you had such bad experiences with fan groups. I’ve met a lot of good people through fan groups, but it always seems that the crazy ones rear their ugly heads towards the nicest people. There’s no humour with the more….’dedicated’ fans these days.

I heard Kevin of U-KISS really likes your videos though xD
Anonymous

Typical kpop concerts I’ve been to Â = very very very loud screaming and even louder music. Everything’s so loud that the singer’s sound like they inhaled helium. :))
http://twitter.com/n3ssar00 Vanessa Vun

lol I think it’s like that everywhere — typical crazy fans. I went to SMTOWN ’10 in Los Angeles and the girls next to us kept screaming like crazy when DBSK, SuJu, or SHINee came out which was like 80% of the time. I lost my hearing and I could not hear the songs at all. :( I forgot to bring earplugs and I don’t think I’ll ever forget again for any other concert.
Sara Meyer

Yeah there are fans like those everywhere. When I went to the first JYJ world tour in NYC it was crazy screaming like that the entire time but it was totally different when I went in NJ. We screamed when they came out yet but when they sang every got quiet so we could hear them.