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[superpiggy]

The following article was published in a chinese newspaper (Lianhe Wan Bao) in Singapore.


Credits: blog.omy.sg/wbnews/

Translation:

The leader of SNSD, one of the most popular Korean pop groups, SNSD or Girls’ Generation, had arrived in Singapore secretly with her family for a short holiday. However, once she was spotted by her fans, she was followed everywhere by over a hundred fans.

SNSD, the popular Kpop girl group groomed by SM Entertainment, is also Super Junior’s junior in the the Korean music industry, have a rather large loyal group of fans (SONES) in SG despite not having performed or visited Singapore since their debut in 07. On 31st May, Kim Tae Yeon had made used of her holiday break and visited Singapore with her family while travelling in low profile. (All 9 members of SNSD are currently on vacation before continuing with their activities.)

It is believed that for her first trip to SG, Tae Yeon has been travelling in low profile and she visited Sentosa’s Universal Studios, Vivocity, as well as travelled on the ‘Duck Tours’ without any crew or bodyguards around.

Kim Tae Yeon was spotted at the Singapore Flyer, dressed in casual wear, along with sunglasses to try to remain as low profile as possible, but she was still spotted by her sharp eyed fans there. The fans shouted excitedly, kept cheering and calling out her name while taking pictures and flashing the cameras right in her face, causing her to say ‘’please no pictures’’ in a slightly offended tone. The 18 secs clip taken of the incident has been uploaded online, and had active response, hitting over 25k views already.

Previously, when FTIsland had visited Singapore, one of their members had been ‘ambushed’ outside the hotel by fans.

Similarly, Kim Tae Yeon had also encountered crazy fans, who were rumored to have pulled at her hair. (However, there is another version of the incident where an itchy handed fan had reached out and grabbed at her hands.)

After the news had leaked, fans had left many messages online reprimanding the unruly actions of pulling at Tae Yeon’s hair and hands. Some fans had also reprimanded the others, saying that ‘’Tae Yeon is here for a holiday, and we should respect her privacy, as well as care about her feelings…. Please do not harass her, and if you see her please do not follow her and take photos’’.

It is said that Tae Yeon has already left Singapore and returned to Korea.

Online fans had mentioned on her FACEBOOK fan page that it was already part of her schedule to come to Singapore for a short trip, so she did not leave Singapore earlier just because she was spotted by fans. They also stated that Tae Yeon was not angry about her fans’ actions, but she felt apologetic to her family members who were travelling with her.

This section is under the same article but not related to Tae Yeon's trip in Singapore:

SNSD has come out strong, and together with their seniors Super Junior, they have taken the lion’s share of album sales in Singapore for the top half of the year.

SNSD is a 9-girl group groomed by SM Entertainment which had debuted in 07, and within 2 years, they had achieved high levels of popularity within Korea, China, Taiwan, and Thailand as well as within many other Asian countries. Each member had roles in movies, TV dramas, hosted television programs and had also been seen in many commercials. At the same time, various members are also well versed in Chinese, English and Japanese among many other talents.

Recently, for the top half of the year, results of albums sales in Korea has shown that SNSD, together with Super Junior have the highest records of sales, the 2 groups taking 1st and 2nd place respectively, with album sales shooting past 100k. At the same time, only the 2 groups SNSD and SJ had taken the top 4 places for album sales, while the mini album of Kpop king Rain had only taken 6th place.

Cr : LIANHE WANBO , translated by SNSDinmylife (Soshified Singapore),
QC-ed & edited by smirk7 (Soshified Singapore), posted by wh! (Soshified Singapore)

Guys, feel free to comment but keep in mind that this is our translation for this piece of news. Whatever is written is not me nor the translators' views. Our views on this greatly differs from what is written on the article.

Thanks for moving the thread, mods!

[superpiggy]

uwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh she went to SG !!

TAEYEON was in singapore~~~

i wish i could see her !!

so lucky, theyre all on vacation at the moment


i want to meet them >o<

hehe

[Patrick7124]

please give me the link of the video!

so I could picture the face of those unworthy people!

Holding TaeTae's hand? pulling her hair?
This is unacceptable!

[kcxy96]

poor Taeyeon,cannot even enjoy a short holiday trip with family. And fans even pull her hair,touched her hands omg these are really too much

[kyosh02]

This news is quite misleading for there are a lot of fake details added.... but sad to say, the idea of it is quite real.
Some SG Sones had been said to follow(stalk) her around as well as they took pictures.... and the guy flashing camera on her face had been reported to be true too as well as the screaming sones as she walk out of the flyer...

I feel quite sorry for taeyeon and her family for her low profile vacation had been changed to a major news...
But we should not really generalize it as SG Sones for not all of them is at fault
Although a lot of them had taken action that lead to the few unfortunate incidents

These are my main concerns on this
1. Generalization had been quite evident but we should not blame all of them
2. Although there's a really few number of people that had given her inconvenience, those that are on their home that are saying they are innocent yet they are spreading her whereabouts should take blame too. logic: If they didn't spread Taeyeon's whereabouts, then fans couldn't have known her location thus the unfortunate incidents couldn't have taken place...
3. The excuse of saying that it is natural for fans to stalk her for she is popular thus they should not be blamed is quite a petty excuse. Yes, a lot of fans wants to see her or ask for a picture or an autograph from her, yet they should have asked her for permission rather than doing as they please. And the excuse that she is popular thus she should accept that fans can do such stalking to her is quite aggravating. This is like blaming her for being popular and if I would put it into other words, it would be: "If she wants a peaceful vacation without fans stalking her, then she should stop being popular." It's simply blaming her status for their own wrongdoings and is basically an invalid reason
4. Yes, Nature kicks in yet we are humans that doesn't operate under instincts. We could think twice before anything thus giving us time to reflect on our manners.

Lastly, I wish this a bit of an incident will serve as a lesson for us fans. We should improve for the better and do our best for our girls.

[seohyunlove!]

I hope fans can just give these stars a break. How often do they get a chance to go on vacation? If she's here with her family, it shows that she wants some private time with her family! But anyway I feel so honoured for Singapore! I didn't know big stars would pick it as a choice for vacation ^^

[ktsko]

didnt know she was in sg the day i plan to go vivo city that day...
now how i wish i was there at least a hope to get a glimpse...

[Darla]

Taeyeon is really cute in that picture ^^. Though somehow I feel guilty though I didn't do anything wrong. Maybe it's because I carry the name of S♥NE though because of some people, Taeng didn't get a chance to have a peaceful vacation, which is sad. Idols are really normal people. It's surprising how a mature 13 year old could completely understand that but for some reason, other people still think of them as not normal human beings. I'm disappointed.

[rahrah]

awww that's so sad that she was trying to have a vacation trip with her family
but then again it's snsd's taeyeon, who wouldn't recognise her even if she was on low profile...
thanks for translating the article so we could understand. i'm thankful for it

[GenerationSoshi4Eva]

Is it just me or is TaeYeon's head big in the picture ? She looks super cute ! If only she stayed in singapore longer. Haiz ...... TaeYeon, we are not fated to meet .

[iperiodic]

People coming from Singapore (fans of SNSD) should feel bad.it's our nation doing these sort of things.On the other note,I didn't know taeyeon came to SG (I read the english newspapers)

[DaNieL-]

BTW Thanks For Translating This. Haha.

Poor Taengoo. I Hope This Wont Be The
Reason Why Taeng Noona Would Not Go Back To SG.

By The Way Thanks For Cleaning Up This Mess. (Soshified
Singapore).

[YongRong]

Poor TaeYeon! It must be awful to be harassed like that while on vacation with your family. If these people are really such big fans of hers, then why don't they take her feelings into consideration before snapping pictures of her in her face and grabbing at her?

[emilykins]

awwww thats why i would hate to be a celebrity
no vacations or rest time
poor taeyeon.......
i hope she can go on a nice vacation soon!!!

[SOSHIFAN157198]

omg so misleading.
the newspaper trying to make sg sones look bad?
they should at least do a public apology .
make singaporeans seem so rude (proud singaporean)
Can't trust this newspaper anymore.

[SOSHIFAN157198]

Poor TaeYeon! It must be awful to be harassed like that while on vacation with your family. If these people are really such big fans of hers, then why don't they take her feelings into consideration before snapping pictures of her in her face and grabbing at her?

they didnt grab at her. the newspaper exaggerated .

[greensoul]

have you people watched the video before you comment? saying the fans who flashes their camera at taeyeon was rude was a bit hash.

if you watch the video, near the end of the video when taeyeon say no camera please, the fans apologized repeatedly "sorry, sorry, sorry" and turn off her camera immediately.

obviously the fans did NOT do it purposely she just TOO EXCITED to see the Taeyeon in Singapore which they NEVER had any event in Singapore before since their debut.

i'm not saying that it was ok for the fans to do what she does. it just that she did not think that much at that point of time, who will? it's THE Taeyeon!

all i wanted to say is that please don't let the article make you think that we Singapore's fans were rude or disrepectful. WE ARE NOT!

cheer!

[Jamais]

thank you for the transltion

lucky singapore fan ~~~

Glad they have a break before japan promotion

taeyeon is so cute ~~~~~

[shinein]

i didn't know she came, only until the news came out.
however, i still hope she did enjoy Singapore (at least for a little) despite those incidents.
in that way, there will be higher hope for SNSD to come ...

[SoshiDerv]

LMAO this is sooooo hilarious! reading the fan encounters (and the article page looks hilarious)
im glad taengoo and the rest of snsd r having a great vacation before asian promos start coming up (but hopefully they will be able to enjoy it without dodgin fans left and right hahaha)