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sasaeng fan

Many countries have laws against sasaeng fan. In United States, California passed “stalking order of protection” in 1990. Laws are different from state to state; however, all states have their own laws against celebrity stalking with serious criminal laws. Germany has a very serious laws against celebrity stalking. Moreover, Japan has many different laws regarding many different aspects of celebrity stalking. For example, waiting in front of house/office, following, wiretapping and repeated relationship demands, etc. will cause them 1 year of imprisonment or fine of one million yen. Japan, also passed laws against continuous messaging, including on social media.

K-pop celebrities have been suffering from 1990s; however, there were no special laws to prevent or to punish against celebrity stalkers (sasaeng fan).

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( http://daily.hankooki.com/lpage/society/201510/dh20151027101214137780.htm )

In Feburary 22th of 2018, Coordination meeting of national agendas was held. In this meeting, the government said that “damages from stalking, dating abuse prevention measures” will be settled in the first half of this year. The definition of stalking and its types will be clarified in the new “damages from stalking, dating abuse prevention measures”. Moreover, the punishment against stalking will become more severe: instead of paying a certain amount of penalty, it will be severe amount of fine or imprisonment. “Damages from stalking, dating abuse prevention measures” will be used in celebrity stalking cases/ sasaeng fan cases, because Korean celebrities are suffering from many different kinds of sasaeng fans, not only physically but also mentally as well.

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Unfortunately, currently the “damages from stalking, dating abuse prevention measures” has not been settled. (www.law.go.kr lists all the laws, but this does not show up).

Two different view points in passing the law against sasaeng fan
There seems to be polarized view points about laws against sasaeng fan. People who agrees with passing laws against sasaeng fan has three different arguments: sasaeng fan is criminal, sasaeng fan not only harm the celebrities but also people around them, and sasaeng fan should be punished to prevent further crimes. First, sasaeng fan is a type of criminal, because they commit crimes like housebreaking, stealing, stalking, illegal use of social security number and ect.. If any citizen committed one of those crimes they will be punished; however, due to the fact that sasaeng fans committed those crimes because of their love of celebrities, they are taken lightly. Second, sasaeng fan not only harm the celebrities but also people around them. There has been many cases that sasaeng fan threat people around celebrities in order to get in contact with celebrities. Furthermore, while trying to follow celebrities’ car, sasaeng fan have created traffic congestion and car accidents. Lastly, sasaeng fan should be punished to prevent further crimes. The crimes that were committed because of loving the celebrity too much, could lead to much severe crimes. In order to prevent severe crimes and to teach sasaeng fan lessons, there should be a punishment against them.

On the other hand, there are people who disagrees with passing laws against sasaeng fan. First, they claim that sasaeng fan is still a fan of celebrity. Although the way of showing love to the celebrity might be wrong, they do not intentionally commit crimes. Sasaeng fan should be taught ethical and moral ways instead of punishing them. Second, most of sasaeng fan is a minor. Since they are still a minor, they are not mature enough to think what is right or wrong. As mentioned before, they should be taught ethical and moral ways instead of punishing them. If educating them does not work, punishment with laws should be the final measure.