I don't know if you guys have heard of sasaeng fans, but they are these extremly hardcore fans that would do anything for a picture of their idols. Not only pictures though, I think the proper word for them would be stalkers. Like creepy obssessive stalkers. I read so many crazy things they've done to their idols and I don't really know how to react.

For example there has been lots of scandals with sasaeng fans and JYJ/DBSK.

Things Sasaeng Fans have done to JYJ/DBSK members:
–Made a copy of the key to DBSK’s apartment 
–Followed Changmin, then broke his pinky finger 
–Froze DBSK’s phone account, checked their call history on their cell phones, and checked one by one to see if they called a girl 
–Looked for DBSK’s personal seal to register marriage documents 
–Snuck in lingerie in DBSK’s bags 
–Secretly ordered a bunch of pizza and chicken to DBSK’s apartment and forced them to pay for them
–Snuck into their apartment and kissed them while they’re sleeping
–Saved menstrual blood to give the oppas as a present
–Been the cause of their car accident 
–Found the phone numbers of family members and called them
–Hit Changmin with a bag full of rock
–Used members’ social security numbers to sign into various internet sites
–Tapped their phones

              

And more. (source~)

When I read this.. I didn't really know what to think. What kind of people would take fandom so far? Sure, I know how it feels to be in love with Idols and I know how desperate one can get at some times. But that is no freakin' excuse for behaving like this!! Who sneaks in to their apartment when they're sleeping, isn't that illegal?? O__o


I also read this report that told the Sasaeng fans side of it all.
Apparently, most of the sasaeng fans are outcasts from school. That means that they have more time to stalk their Idols. These fans can spend all their time stalking their oppas, going to their dorms, practice rooms and salons. But to get to all these places they need taxi, and for taxi you need money.

Lee (15) spends about $1,000 USD a month on her sasaengactivities alone, which mostly goes into paying for the taxis that chase her oppas down.

Renting out a sasaeng taxi for a day costs $300 USD. She saves money by working part time at convenience stores and comic book rental stores, as well as saving $500 USD that would normally go into her after school classes.

She revealed, “I heard that there is also a girl that prostitutes herself to make money for her sasaeng activities.”

Sasaeng fans usually sleep or spend the night at PC rooms. Some will even be homeless during the summer and skip out on school. Extreme sasaeng fans go as far as to drop out of school completely.

                      

 

The sad reality is that there are taxi services, as mentioned above, catering specifically for sasaeng fans. These special taxis will speed as much as 200 km/h to chase after vans that idols ride.

As if all of this wasn’t already hard to believe, there are actual companies that fans can hire to spy on and watch over their oppas’ every activity all day.

One official of such a company revealed, “Sasaeng fans are stalkers. They’re not normal,  they’ve mentioned killing someone, and even themselves. Some even ask us to find out what color clothes their idols wear to bed.”

One sasaeng even offered $100,000 USD if the company could steal her idol’s underwear.

 

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The fans were then asked about the hatred and criticism they’ve been receiving since the scandal with JYJ came to light in the media.

Park (18) replied, “There are rules even amongst ourselves that we must keep. The fan that tried to kiss oppa broke one of our rules. I heard that, that particular fan was assaulted by other sasaengs for breaking the rule.”

Source~

So yeah.. what do you guys think about this? I could understand some of it. If I could see my idols on the street because I know they are there, I'd sure go and see them!! But not like this. Not stalking them like a crazy person, chasing them down with a cab -.-