jamamonkey

Firstly, 'Lianhe Wan Bao' is regarded as a gossip paper in singapore. You could say it is equiavalent to UK newspaper 'The Sun'.

"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."

This estimate is an exaggeration. The only time where there might have been over 100 fans would be at the Singapore Flyer. After that, most fans did not know her whereabouts, and stopped stalking.

"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."

1. There was only 1 person that used a polaroid with heavy flash right in her face. That person has been spotted at ALL kpop events in Singapore, and should not be regarded as a SONE.
2. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yj2XSK3ieE4 This is the 18 second video mentioned in the article. It can be clearly seen that Taeyeon does not sound or look offended at all. In fact, she was politely asking fans to stop taking pictures, and the fans there apologised.
3. As can be seen in the numerous fancams, fans kept their distance, and did not really crowd or 'mob' Taeyeon.

"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.)"

There was NO SUCH INCIDENT.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=9t3BW9kOKlQ

This is a video of Taeyeon safely reaching her chartered bus with her family, without any fans going near them, much less grabbing and pulling at Taeyeon’s hands/hair. Everyone near Taeyeon was her family and the staff that accompanied them to the Singapore Flyer.

"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 news was first posted by @bossa747 on TWITTER, not on facebook.
http://twitter.com/b...tus/15248704908

Thanks for the clarification! I knew something wasn't right because I didn't hear anything about hair pulling and judging by the fancams/accounts I have read nothing bad happened. Unfortunately, these trashy gossip magazines are spreading lies and exaggerations about what really happened.

thank you very much! i was told by my editor to write like a crazy fan with feeling hahaha
hmm the US did conquer us for a good 100 years, during that 100 years, English became the medium of instruction
up until now, English is still the medium of instruction and thus, people believe that the educated here speak English
therefore, most of our magazines, unless they cater specifically to masses as their target audience,
will almost always use English

i can actually write much better in English than I can our Tagalog (my native language)
also probably why so much Koreans come to the Philippines to learn English

Ah I thanks for the info! I guess it makes sense since the occupiers spoke English they would make everyone else learn and speak English.

Thanks again for sharing and I look forward to future articles from you!

no translation required! hahaha i wrote this in English :sweatingbullets:
and it was published in English! most magazines in the Philippines
don't use our local language. Thanks for the encouragement!
fighting!

Thanks for sharing! I like your writing style. Is there any reason why most magazines in the Philippines don't use the native language? I know the US owned the Philippines for a good number of years but still you know?