K-pop Wars
Hey everyone. Remember back a few months when fandom_wank got it's first good dose of the crazy of the K-pop fangirls? If not the crazy is still here, and still quite frightening to read.

But it looks like there's another great wrong that is pissing off fans of several fan clubs of the Korean boy groups. This is namely a new girl group called SNSD or Girls Generation. Apparently fans don't think the girls of this group, and one in particular, Tiffany, are respectful enough of the boy bands and are 'making fun of' them. Here's a good write up that summarizes things by an angry fan, as everything else are a nice shade of tl:dr.

There are several accounts of the going ons of the 2008 Dream Concert, which was a concert that many of Korea's boy and girl groups performed at to promote national patriotism, ironically enough. The concert was ill-prepared for the crowd size they had, they expected 35,000 and 50,000 fans showed up, which did not help things at all as the concert progressed. There was mass shunning of SNSD as everyone that was not in the SNSD fan club turned their light sticks off (which at an Asian pop concert everybody has) during their performance and then preceded to boo and heckle the group. After that there are several reports of violence between the fan clubs were people claim to have been assaulted and banners made for the artists performing were torn during the concert.

This journal entry has a complete run down of what occurred, but the tl;dr and angry fangirl-ism is a bit daunting. But she gets to invoke Snacky's Law with:

This was done because of SNSD, why? Because these girls ARE rookies, they have NO respect for their sunbaes (seniors) they just jump around like their the popular girls in high school. And seriously, does the movie “mean Girls” not pop up when you think of a reality show in their dorms?

Of course according to her report the SNSD fan club, which seems to made up of mostly guys going by the reported accounts, acted violently against members of other fan clubs and to quote "According to fan accounts, other fan lclub members were beaten up by SNSD fanboys - some had their hair ripped out, raped, stabbed with a knife and had broken legs, and were taken to the hospital."

In another journal someone tries to rationalize that all the fighting between the fan clubs is a way that young people in Korea are releasing their pent up anger and frustration about the current political situation in Korea. And rounds it all out to blame the U.S. for wanting to export beef to Korea. Followed by a tangent about all that's going wrong in the world and ending by saying SNSD fans are just ignorant of how terrible the group is and don't know any better.

There are some blogs from SNSD fans and their take on the whole ordeal. Here is one that just doesn't repost information from every other blog about the incident.

And then there are even some much less unbiased reports about the concert here, here and here.