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원본 한글문서/출서: http://bit.ly/bFIZbg
The original statement in hangeul: http://bit.ly/bFIZbg
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SNSD YeonHapSite, i.e. a joint statement/website of SNSD fan clubs henceforth SNSD YHS
This is a statement released by SNSD YHS, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the translator, soshified, soompi, or any other hosting website
Regarding the Dream Concert 2010
SNSD YHS's Statement of Position
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"It is an ettiqutte that has been in place for the past 15 years
Since this is a paid performance, there is substantial way of reserving seats by ELF
However, fanclub blocks are blocks made for fanclubs to join together and enjoy together(it is easiest to think of supporters of football or baseball)
If there are people coming to the Super Junior block of LMNP, we request that you have the manners to cheer for SuJu.
[In turn] ELF will also cheer for all the singers appearing at Dream Concert as one.
-Extract from "Statement of Position of Super Junior fans ELF regarding Dream Concert 2010"
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Hello we are the SNSD YHS.
While we are already aware of the emotional conflict between fandoms caused by the unique "Color Mixing" in the LMNP blocks and ABC blocks, there were certain incidents that we could not seriously take as part of reasonable emotional in-fighting caused by fans feeling uncomfortable. Thus, the joint-site must take the following position.
At the location of the Dream Concert on May 22, we saw both faces of fandom. ELFs requested the SNSD fandom that if they were sitting in LMNP, that they should have the courtesy to support Super Junior and that ELFs would support all singers appearing in Dream Concert as one. But this was overshadowed by ELFs on location who used the advantage of numbers and were almost like a gang.
We inform you that for all statements below, there is evidence including transcripts and video.
The first is the issue of multiple SNSD fans with LMNP block tickets who were foricbly ejected from their seats. While there were specific circumstances in different location, even from before the concert and even during performances of other singers, there were instructions of "Get down xx" and "Turn that glowstick off xx", and there were direct personal rants aimed at seated fans that were close to personal assault. Thus, some fans were forced to leave their seats that they had tickets for and had to watch the rest of the concert in the aisle of the second floor. In particular, female fans received such abuse that one would not dare utter with their own mouths that they gave up on watching the concert and left before SNSD performed, and in one section, there was a systematic denial of access to the LMNP block from the very beginning.
The above incidents were not organized by staff but were done by the Super Junior fandom, ELF. Unless SM had released a notice of recommendation to each fandom to purchase tickets from specific areas, there is no right to drive out people because they are not in your fandom when they have paid for their tickets as per procedure and are sitting in their ticketed seats. This (if it wasn't for a notice released to improve the outward appearance of a fandom) is a position that ELF would agree with and is the position held by the concert host, Yeon-Jae-Hyeob.
Moreover, what we found shocking and intolerable was the organized movement/effort to create a silence during SNSD's stage performance.
During Dream concert, a message originating from the third floor blocks, was spread via word of mouth and anonymous text messages along the lines of "A SONE has assaulted an ELF. So we will give SNSD's stage the 'ten minute'" [Tr. note: ten minute refers to the ten minutes of silent treatment given to SNSD during DC08].
More surprising was that in an environment where herd mentality would have been easy to stimulate, second floor fandoms including SHINee received organized messages during the concert saying "During SNSD's stage, do nothing and be silent".
With more of our fans were in attendance than before and cheering with all our strength and some fandoms, to whom we are truly thankful for, being well-mannered enough to cheer passionately, the result was that the harmful silence for SNSD's performance that the ELFs on location tried to plan did not occur. However, we must ask the ELFs present that day if this is how the Super Junior fandom, ELFs, express their own intimacy and how it is justifiable to direct expressions of tension between fandoms at artists on a stage.
For SNSD to taking the stage without knowing the situation, they may have heard the shouts from the audience as part of their supporting cheers, but we still cannot forget the image of people staying silent throughout the performance and picking lyrics not part of the fanchants (I told you not to fool around, you're no fun, you have no manners) to make screams that were close to cat-calls/booing, and the thorough manipulation of the atmosphere [with the instructions] so that glowsticks would be kept on to maintain the fandom image while not making any cheers[for SNSD].
No matter how great the reason, there is no justification in this instance for organizing a repeat of 'ten minute' which was traumatic for SNSD and their fans at Dream Concert 2008, and while it was not physical violence, no justification for the organised verbal abuse behind strength in numbers.
When other fandoms unite and cheer passionately as one for your own singer, it is something to be proud of and would be the envy all other fandoms. However, if this unity is used to intimidate other attendees and re-enact the behavior of the ELFs at Dream Concert 2010 towards singers who had worked their hardest to perform on stage, it appears to be a tyrannical gang, nothing more and nothing less.
Currently, in each community site, there are individual ELFs claiming SNSD fans bought tickets in their allocated LMNP blocks. In the face of forced ejections from paid ticketed seats, the organized verbal abuse on locations against SNSD including female fans, organized group silence during SNSD's performance, intentional fan chant interference etc, they are writing that there was no troublesome behavior and since this is completely false, we have decided not to be suspicious and think that this was the stance of Super Junior's representative fandom, ELF,
Just as there was a fast clarification of position during ticketing, we wish to hear a proper and offical statement from ELF clearly covering the wrongs that were committed, instead of accounts that have been written solely to improve the fandom image that are obviously just excuses.
Finally, despite the fact that many of the audience left the stadium early due to traffic, during final performance by Super Junior, many of the SNSD fandom were one of those that stayed until the end cheered supportively as much as we had for SNSD and were one of the fandoms.
This is a truth and fact that can be verified via self-portrait photographs and videos taken during the concert. We take full responsibility in this, and we hope that this will be enough to stop any gossip-like rumors about SNSD fans being the single group to leave during the Super Junior performance being forced on them.
-translation: oniontaker@soshified, oniontx@soompi
This is basically what happened during the Dream Concert 2010 but why are the sones still the one they are pointing out to be behaving badly???
And that is basically an image of an "ELF" calling the Sones an Oil Spill on their pure blue sea~~~~
