#alijay82

I AM SO TIRED SORRY IF IT MAKES NO SENSE. I mean, that is the K-pop industry, the big man, absolutely crushing souls. Korean society also has a pressure issue when it comes to idols and such 1000%, so in a way South Korea caused these issues, but the evils of the entertainment industry and its crazy fans are pretty much an issue of the industry rather than the land. Weed itself is tied in with past dictatorships and propaganda that had been a part of life for South Koreans till there was an overthrowing phase. I'm not going to go too deeply into South Korea and its history, but Park Geun Hye (the ex-president at the time) was the eldest daughter of Park Chung Hee, the man that implimented this strict culture against weed. She was being absolutely BOILED at the time, to say the least, and Tabi being caught for smoking weed and such came at this crazy time. The policies of these two is slowly starting to disappear as the grip of that dictatorship has slipped, which also adds to how weed is being viewed in a slightly better light by the general public. You will have people who are still "conservative" and against Tabi for the sake of it, but that is a different matter and isn't necessarily tied to how the "stan twitter" of South Korea think. South Korean social media in general is also crueller and such compared to Western social media (as in, they're quicker to be absolutely harsh and treat people as images rather than humans), which contributes to this, but that's kinda like saying Americans on (stan) twitter represent everyone in the USA, idk like.. I'm just trying to relativise how scandals are seen and such. Tabi's scandal was a witch hunt, especially because of the politics of the time and how he was perfect to be a distraction and be made an example out for multiple reasons, especially with him being caught doing weed while the dictator was still being stripped of power. Currently, his scandal only exists on the internet. I doubt you'd find a level-headed and relatively progressive Korean who'd hate Tabi (cuz remember, the times were very political). All this to say.. don't put "international fans" on a pedestal and Korean fans down, because everything was experienced differently.