Recently, the Chinese Weibo account of Park Ji-min, a member of the South Korean Bulletproof Youth League, posted a notice that the fan group allegedly cooperated with South Korea's Jeju Airlines to support the "Park Ji-min Customized Exclusive Aircraft" in order to celebrate Park Ji-min's birthday.
Park Ji Min
It is reported that in order to celebrate Park Jimin's birthday, Chinese fans began to raise funds from April this year, and finally raised more than two million yuan to customize this exclusive aircraft advertisement for this Korean artist, as well as 18,000 customized paper cups. Not only that, but not only will these loans be smashed in South Korea, but they will also advertise Park Jimin in the New York Times and the British Times on his birthday. In response, Park Ji-min's Chinese fan group said that in order to be able to run aidou advertisements in world-renowned media, they overcame "unimaginable difficulties" and paid "unimaginable sky-high advertising fees".
This is not the first fund-raising activity, in 2020, the South Korean media "Seoul Sports" previously reported that although the previous acceptance speech of Kim Nam-joon, the head of the bulletproof youth team, "always remember the pain experienced by the two countries in history (this time referring to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea)", which triggered a large number of boycotts in China, but under this premise, the Chinese fans of the Bulletproof Youth Group still purchased 220,000 albums through the way of purchasing. The fan group also raised more than 1 billion won (about 6 million yuan) for the birthday of member Kim Tae-hyung.
I have to say that the brainless fundraising behavior of Chinese fans can be described as bizarre.
Park Ji-min, the protagonist of this aircraft advertisement rescue incident, is one of the members of the bulletproof youth group, which is not a good stubble and has offended China many times.
In October 2020, the Bulletproof Youth League won the "VanVleet Award" from the politically charged U.S. non-profit organization Korea Social Association, James Van Fleet, a U.S. general who caused great casualties to the Chinese volunteer army in the Korean War, and the Bulletproof Youth League mentioned the Korean War in his acceptance speech, saying that "it will always remember the painful history of the two countries (South Korea and the United States)," a statement that made many Chinese netizens and fans dissatisfied. In addition, members of the Bulletproof Youth League once referred to Taiwan as a "country" in interviews.
The Hanfu that broke out in February 2021 was described by South Korea as a Hanbok incident, and although we thought it was ridiculous, this Korean youth group jumped out again, saying that Hanbok is a unique Korean costume! Disgusting us in China again. As everyone knows, Hanbok has been slowly imitating our ancient Chinese clothing since ancient times, because Korea has been our vassal state for most of the time since ancient times.
In response to this incident, South Korea's "Seoul Sports" also said that although China and South Korea have recently aroused heated discussions on the "Hanbok originated in China" incident, through the behavior of Chinese fans of the Bulletproof Youth League, it can still be seen the failure of the "BTS Clearance Action" in China and the influence of the Bulletproof Youth League in the world.
Why can such a Korean group, which has repeatedly spoken ill of and sneered at China, still allow so many fans to "help" with multiple fundraising donations? If you look at the Weibo messages sent by this Korean star, you can see that almost all the messages are girls, yes, they are girls!
We have an ancient poem in China: The merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and sings the backyard flowers across the river. Confucius also has a famous saying, Zi Yue: "Only women and villains are difficult to raise." "Many women, especially those who chase stars, would rather change their nationality for the sake of their love beans, and will not pay attention to the feelings of home and country."
Although fundraising is not a spontaneous act of fans, it must be the fans who are "willingly" "cut leeks", so that they can be cut so much. These fans are close to morbidity, opening their mouths and shutting up to call their love beans as husbands, they pay hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars to go out to "help" their love beans, it is already willing.
Of course, there are also celebrities whose own media accounts directly raise funds from their own fans. An event like this one that raised more than two million yuan to help Park Jimin's birthday was an act of raising funds from fans on Park Jimin's own Weibo account.
In addition, celebrity personal Tieba including Weibo celebrity Super Talk and Baidu Tieba will also organize this kind of fund-raising activity. Most of them are organized, like fan groups or fan support associations that organize fund-raising activities, among which there is a black industrial chain of "cutting fan leeks" that has existed for at least a decade. What is puzzling is that who is behind the organization and operation of these fund-raising activities, and whether the funds raised are transparently announced in total amounts and transparently announced the details of expenditures? Is there a large amount of money flowing into the personal pockets of the organizers? More importantly, is this kind of fund-raising behavior legal? Is it not an illegal fund-raising scam?
epilogue:
Chasing stars is not impossible, and anyone has the freedom to chase stars. For example, for singers we can buy their album songs to support; for actors we can spend money to go to the cinema to see their movies, we can chase their TV series on video websites, etc., which is normal star chasing behavior. But if someone always engages in these activities that let fans raise funds and raise money to "respond to help", we need to be vigilant, which is definitely not a normal and correct star-chasing behavior. Don't think that in recent years, this kind of fund-raising should be felt that it is normal, which is actually a pathological and deformed rice circle phenomenon. If society wants to develop well, it is necessary to cut off these black hands hidden behind the "fund-raising and assistance" and eradicate their money-making positions on social platforms such as Tieba and Weibo, star websites, etc., so as to truly put an end to the continued spread of such fund-raising activities.