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Reaction from celebrities
In April 2016, Girl’s Generation’s member Taeyeon complained about the constant calls from strangers. She posted the capture photos of missed calls from strangers on the Instagram saying ‘Just let me sleep’ and ‘This is not helpin[ g at all for both of us’. [44]

In April 2016, Shinee’s member Key posted on intagram a photo of group kakaotalk chat room of full of foreign fans. He mentioned that he is struggling recently due to these sudden invites to chat rooms and missed calls from sasaengfan. He directly cited ‘you can’t call yourself a fan’ and ‘it is really insulting and unbearable’.

Response from entertainment company
In July 2018, A boy group wannaone’s entertainment, Swing Entertainment possessed the group is affected by the sasaeng fans during the world tour concerts. Swing Entertainment said over-obsessive fans are not only affecting the privacy of the group members, but also affecting totally irrelevant citizens too.

Blood writings
In November 2009, one of the fans of a boy group 2PM’s member Ok Taecyeon posted a blood writing to prove her as a real fan. Soon the blood was found out that it was from her period. This over-obsession toward the celebrity even made the fans of 2PM criticized it. [35]

In December 2009, MBLAQ’s member Lee Joon’s obsessive fan wrote a blood writing and posted on the social media. The writing said ‘Don’t forget me, Lee chang-sun (Lee Joon’s real name). I only have you. I love you’. What was even more shocking was she posted with the picture saying ‘what was that Ok Taecyeon’s fan’s blood writing. Period blood is so gross. I’ll show what a blood writing is’. This shocked most of the k-pop fans made them criticize it.[36]

In January 2010, an obsessive fan of Wonder Girls cut her wrist and wrote ‘Come back, Wonder Girls’ with her blood. She posted the picture of her face half covered with her hand and also with the blood writing showing the scar on her wrist.

What provoked for the government to move was the band Sanulrim’s lead vocalist, Kim Changwan’s sasaengfan incident. He was stalked by one of his fans for over 10 years and he eventually accused the fan for stalking. But, after the fan got out of jail with a sentence of 1 year, the fan again followed Kim Changwan and physically attacked him and got his nose bone broken. This caused to enforce under the law ‘Persistent harassment’ which is stalking in 2011.

In the popular culture
In the popular culture, the television program called Reply 1997, which covers the popular culture and incidents happened in the late 90’s, was able the tell how the fans were obsessively in to the celebrities. Since there were not many chances for the fans to interact with the celebrities, people tend to turn out to become a ‘Sukso fan’, which is to call a sasaeng fan who stays all night at the celebrity’s house until they get to see the celebrity. They used to have rules among them to not to trespass into the house, not to force the celebrity to come out, and not to take pictures of the celebrity.

Legal response
K-pop groups have been experiencing this kind of incidents over decades. So, the legal responses are inevitable. What provoked for the government to move was the band Sanulrim’s lead vocalist, Kim Changwan’s sasaengfan incident. He was stalked by one of his fans for over 10 years and he eventually accused the fan for stalking. But, after the fan got out of jail with a sentence of 1 year, the fan again followed Kim Changwan and physically attacked him and got his nose bone broken. This caused to enforce to law ‘Persistent harassment’.