Jessica teases foreign fans demanding she speak English

[typhlogirl.livejournal.com]

"She was interacting with fans in her Instagram comments and when all of the foreign fans kept asking her 'English please~' she replied back in Korean 'Learn Korean :P'"





"She's the jjang ㅋㅋㅋㅋ and looks gorgeous in that picture..."

"I'm so tired of foreign fans always asking for 'eng plz'"

"I really wish foreign fans would stop it with the eng plz ㅜㅜ if you're going to be a fan of a Korean idol, at least try to learn the language ㅠㅜㅜ"

"Yeah... I don't really see foreign fans who don't bother to learn Korean as having that much love for the idols they claim to like."

"This is why I love Sica ㅎㅎㅎㅎ"

"Seriously... it always frustrated me seeing them ask for English all the time"

"I feel it ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I was watching INFINITE's V app and people kept spamming that they were Turkish Inspirits... no one asked"
- "I saw that too, no wonder Dongwoo mentioned Turkey over 2-3 times"

"I know an unni who is a fan of a model and she learned that model's language ㅋㅋㅋㅋ she's mastered 7 languages so far like that"

"Or use a translating machine... every time I go into the video comments of Korean singers, I always see 'eng plz' comments"

"I agree ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ learn the language already!"

"Foreign fans, let's learn Korean ^^"

"But on the flip side, I find it so cute when I see foreign fans writing in Korean no matter how awkward it is ㅋㅋㅋㅋ"

"When she speaks in English and Korean fans complain about not understanding, she tells them to learn English too ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ"

"Yeah, I don't think you can get as dedicated as Korean fans are with their celebrities. Korean fans will go as far as to learn the languages like Japanese or Chinese... but I noticed foreign fans demand that Korean celebrities speak English for them ㅋㅋ"

"Sica actually uses a lot of English too but they always still ask her for English.. ^^"

"Seriously, it's so frustrating when fans just demand English from Korean stars.. if you like a Korean star, you should be speaking their language or at least trying to learn it ㅋㅋㅋ some just straight up demand that they speak in English"

"Oppa English plz"

"Pretty sure it'd be easier for foreign fans to just learn the language so that they can go to concerts and communicate with their favorite idols better."

"I even see foreigners report her posts and some comments for not using English, pisses me off"



Source: NetizenBuzz via Instiz

Omona, has your love of K-pop inspired you to study Korean at all? Do you think foreign fans should learn the basics, at the very least?

Alternatively, do you ever get frustrated by the langauge barrier between you & your faves (assuming they only speak Korean)?

Comments

[yixingsforehead.livejournal.com]

one of my biggest pet peeves. just went on a rant to a colleague about a similar thing this morning. (he moved to a country that he doesn't want to bother the main language of, and then compains when something is not accessible in english.)

the eng pls and eng sub pls thing is so unnecessary and inconsiderate. when i have time i go and explain to those people how hard it is to sub things and that they should also start to work on subbing if they need translations so much.

it's like... if you don't bother to learn the foreign language (i say bother, cause if you have that much access to the internet to follow kpop, you have access to korean lessons, too), at least be patient, and wait till someone nice translates for you. and then telling it straight to the idol... lame, lazy, etc.

we're the aliens in kpop and it's nice when we get content in english, we should not for a moment take it for granted... doesn't matter if it's a bilingual person or not.

it was actually my frustraition with english subs of korean movies that made me learn a bit of korean. i actually process korean content both based on english translations and straight from korean. even the biggest korean movies get really poor subtitles sometimes, and it used to be frustrating... but i just learned the basics, and now i understand what they really mean in the movie, even when the eng subtitle is off. (for the same reason i learned basics of many other languages.)

i simply cannot process when people actively follow kpop or kdrama and don't want to learn the language at all (and then complain re lack of english). like if you have enough energy to stare at lee min ho for hours in a row, you should be able to learn hangul very quick...

as i said, it's a pet peeve. /rant