sm to respect the decision of shinee members regarding upcoming dome concerts in japan

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SHINee Japanese homepage announcment says the status of SHINee’s ‘'SHINee WORLD THE BEST 2018~FROM NOW ON~’ concerts in February will be determined after discussions with the members and the staff.https://t.co/SxdobpmECN pic.twitter.com/uPmyjGlDnJ

— mes #TeamPinky (@OH_mes) December 24, 2017

for those unaware: shinee is slated to hold a small series of dome concerts in february. the concerts were set up in a way to visibly celebrate their past five tours and albums in japan, and possibly serve as their final dome concerts before onew's enlistment. shinee world japan, their japanese fan club, released a similar statement late on the 23rd and this seemed to be the follow up by sm. speculation is that the statement was released because registration for fan club lottery ticketing was meant to come to a close yesterday.

source(s): oh_mes (via naver)

this one is ... rough and i have some feelings on it that i'll save to post in an actual comment.

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everything was so painstakingly planned out - more than people really realized. i have a lot of close shawol friends and we've picked up on so many things that we missed in the last few months and ... we know we did all we could, but you can't help but feel guilt, especially wondering if you could've done a little bit more. i had a strange feeling about him all year but i never wanted to say anything because: i could only support him from afar and i didn't want anyone to get upset or say that i was "reading too deep" into things. it had been at the back of my mind but i never actually thought he'd do what he did. it doesn't really help that jonghyun became very ... unavaliable after the end of september. he was frequently doing lives on instagram in late september and seemed to be doing okay and maybe he still was at that point. we'll never really know but then he went very silent. we heard from him twice around the end of october and then his concerts were confirmed and silence again. we just assumed that he was being quiet because he was preparing for his album and concert (considering that we all knew he was slated for january as early as mid-october). and i do figure he was busy with both. there's no way he wasn't but ... i don't know. there's always going to be a lot of unanswered questions.

many people that i know have expressed guilt at how focused they were on jinki's scandal, specifically in the last month after antis began to come at him harder, but as per usual: we couldn't have known. jonghyun was already quite mia by then and people were being so vile to jinki that it was difficult not to get upset with what was going on. the entire situation is just bleak and sad because shawols and shinee were having such a great year pre-august. they held concerts in north america for the first time, the entire obama thing happened, taemin had his first solo concerts, minho started to get more acclaim in acting, jonghyun held all those wonderful agit concerts. everyone was looking forward to a great and nostalgia filled 2018 for their tenth anniversary but after august it was just ... it's hard to explain. one thing after another but no one ever thought the year would end this way.

the future is difficult to map out. i'm worried for jinki, honestly. i've said this before but i feel like it'd be best for him to stay out of the spotlight leading up to his enlistment. to take the time to try and relax and be a non-celebrity as much as possible before all the ... military related stress he's going to have to take on. all-in-all i just hope that they make decisions for themselves and not for either sm or shawols. the last thing i want is for them to do something that they feel they need to do rather than what they want to do.