An Official Apology from JYJ

[shintotchi.livejournal.com]

Kim Jaejoong has released an official apology concerning the sasaeng assault controversy that has surfaced in the past couple of days.

On March 8th (local time) Kim Jaejoong and the other JYJ members held a press conference in Santiago, Chile at the Raddison Hotel for the JYJ 2012 Latin America tour. During this conference, the members opened up about the sasaeng controversy.

The members confessed that ever since they debuted in 2004, they have had to endure extremely painful moments because of sasaeng fans.

JYJ’s Kim Junsu even stated “they use our identification to expose our private phone calls and also place GPS trackers on our cars to monitor our every move. There were instances of breaking and entering where fans would take pictures of us while sleeping, try to kiss us, and steal our private items. Some fans even hired taxis to collide into our cars to see us in person.”

“Our lives began to fall apart as we would be groped, touched, and defiled every moment of the day. We, as humans, should at least be able to ask for a bare minimum standard of living, but instead we are forced to live in indescribable pain”.

Kim Jaejoong stated “We want to give an apology for our past behavior. We are sorry that we caused our fans to worry about us and that we forced them to share our pain.”

He followed by saying “In the future we will think about those who love us whenever we are facing situations which are mentally difficult and will try to act more responsibly. Because of those who support us through the pain we go through, we will try not to break down again.” He then finished with “For those fans who always cherish and support us on stage, I will do my best”

Sources: JYJ3
Newsen via Nate
Article translated by PrinceJJ.com

This was pretty much how I thought the situation to be. Instead of man vs woman, look at this as a person vs a stalker...an 8-year long stalker. If this was a female idol hitting female saesangs or a female idol hitting a male saesang, would it be easier to digest? They're not douchebags. They're humans with limits.

Comments

[kyupudding.livejournal.com]

Where is the fucking evidence that this girl that was abused did any of those things herself? Did SHE slap Jaejoong? Did SHE send him vile letters? Did SHE send him used tampons? Did SHE actually follow him day and night? There is absolutely nothing to suggest that SHE did those things. You have no right to put all those bad things that have happened to JYJ on this girl. That is victim blaming at its finest.

At that moment he decided to hit her over and over again whilst saying abusive things as she whimpered in pain and fear. He became the abuser and she became the victim.

You are a gross moronic person to be supporting this.

[jia-zhang.livejournal.com]

I get your stance and I understand where you are coming from, but you did not answer my question or try to understand my point of view. And if you really want to have a strong discussion about this, answer me this: If that video was of YOONA of SNSD saying and doing those same things to a MALE saesang fan, who has the exact same reaction, would it be different? If so, why would it be different?

[kyupudding.livejournal.com]

It would not be different.

[jia-zhang.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

So, as to your answer, it would not be different. Yoona would be an abuser, too, if she were hitting a male saesang in the exact same scenario. Do you agree? And if you do agree, stay with me on this Yoona thing here, why would she not be allowed to fight back against her stalker? I would really love to hear your answer to this, because I really want to understand your perspective (especially since you say Yoona would not be different than Jaejoong, it makes the point really interesting to me).

[dentedsky.livejournal.com]

I disagree with kyupudding, I think it would be different, because while all of us believe in equality, society does not - and physically men and women are different.

Not to mention, making this comparison is pointless because that hypothetical scenario has nothing to do with what Jaejoong did, as the situations are too different.

[joongieforeva.livejournal.com]

THIS. i agree with what everything you said

[dentedsky.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. Thank you.