EXO’s Fan Letters Mistakenly Mailed to Gangnam Police Station

[theemii.livejournal.com]

According to police officers on July 3, there have been around 8-9 containers worth of EXO fan letters that were mistakenly delivered to Gangnam Police Station, starting at the end of last year until now. A majority of these fan letters were sent from the province areas, including Incheon and Daejeon.

A lot of the fan letters were addressed to members Baekhyun and Chanyeol, and some of the fans have repeatedly mailed letters to the wrong address three or four times.

On the outside of the letters, fans wrote messages such as “I’m an EXO fan but not a sasaeng fan,” and “Please read this.”

A police official said, “We have been returning most of the letters. Fortunately, they are simple letters and not packages, so it does not interfere with our work.”

It appears that this situation arose due to an apparent joke played by a netizen. On one of Korea’s major portal sites, there is a question asking for a way to send fan letters to EXO, and in response, someone posted an answer that states the address of the Gangnam Police Station instead of the SM Entertainment building.

The police official also expressed, “We have not thoroughly looked into it, but if someone purposely spread the wrong address, it could be hurtful to young student [fans], so it needs to be stopped.”


Article: 'EXO' fans send fan letters to Gangnam police station

Source: Yonhap News via Naver

1. [+2,489, -38] ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

2. [+2,105, -30] Probably spread the address around saying it was EXO's dorm, not SM since that stuff can be looked up online. What a disturbance.

3. [+1,821, -36] If you're not going to help the police, don't bother them with petty stuff.

4. [+1,472, -33] Seriously so embarrassing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

5. [+1,361, -26] Ridiculous. People have so much time on their hands!

6. [+230, -5] Who fooled the elementary school students ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ They probably still haven't realized their fan letters are at the police station ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

7. [+167, -2] I actually saw the original prank post ㅋㅋㅋ Can't believe it's in the news now

8. [+137, -8] Does the company not take in fan letters? ㅋㅋㅋ Little kids are sending them, they should at least accept them ㅋㅋㅋ



Source: Soompi & Netienbuzz

Comments

[hawk-fry.livejournal.com]

Sad and funny at the same damn time.

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

well I feel bad for the fans that wrote the letters but my thoughts went right to "what if the letters said very, VERY creepy things?"

[hawk-fry.livejournal.com]

probably those ones that said "Exo fan, not a sasaeng" lol

[tha-x.livejournal.com]

before reading the article I thought some insider had "accidentally" sent creepy/hurtful letter to the police

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

2. [+2,105, -30] Probably spread the address around saying it was EXO's dorm, not SM since that stuff can be looked up online. What a disturbance.


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[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

it actually did though lulz they found the original link to naver answers - they give out the supposed address for exo's dorms :P

[honeyfunnybunny.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many went thinking they'd see oppa? lol kinda sad that the person who started this thought it would be fun and the people who believed lol

[digitalqueen.livejournal.com]

this is like when people call to emergency numbers to make jokes.

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

Can't there ever just be a normal article attached to Exo's name? Lol.

[petecarl.livejournal.com]

I'm finding this a lot funnier than I probably should. Sucks for whoever has to do extra work to return the mail. Hope word of the address being fake spreads through fandom, so that the police quite being bothered. The situation reminds me of an artist who kept getting other people's mail sent to his house, and he got sick of returning it, so he let it pile up and then allowed people to open the mail at an exhibit. Most of it was junk, but he did have to confiscate some paychecks and such. BTW, opening other people's mail is a crime.

[mad-nux.livejournal.com]

it's only funny coz it happened to exo fans lol