SEVENTEEN members has lived a horrible and dangerous situation where they were victims of the sasaengs, a type of ‘fan’ that is obsesive and invasive, as they harassed and invade the privacity of their idols by visiting their homes and bedroom or calling the idol’s phone number.
In some cases of other K-Pop groups or idols, they make a statement calling out the sasaeng fan that is exceeding the limit with the intention to stop it. Rencently, BTS‘ Jungkook has to publish a message to a sasaeng that was sending food to his house, he asked to stop or he will take legal action to protect himself.
During the recent recording of Superman Returns, it was seen how SEVENTEEN members were harassed by a sasaeng fan who was taking pictures of the singers being hidden in the shadows of some structures, its presence being almost imperceptible and difficult to notice.
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Before the program was premiered, when the promocional photos were released, on social networks their fans found and share that was something disturbing in the images, an unexpected presence in the background was hiding behind a structure to take photos of the artists.
The CARAT fandom was scared and shocked thinking how terrifying would be for the singers to see that photos and found out the at that time was an unknown person that was observing them. Due to their great fame and success they have going through all this harassment throughout their careers.
Here are some of the SEVENTEEN fans reaction in social networks after watching the promotion images:
“They were some very famous fan site masters…I didn’t think they would do that…it’s so creepy“.
“This is a bit scary… Did they really have to go that far?“.
“The idols must be very scared because of the sasaengs“.