Not to downplay the seriousness of the allegations of domestic violence lobbed at Kim Hyun Joong, but there has been a surreal “the show must go on” atmosphere surrounding the progression of the legal case. His sit down interview with the police was delayed almost two weeks since he was in and out of the country on stops for his current concert series called the 2014 Fantasy World Tour. I can crack a joke about that name but will refrain from plucking low hanging fruit. His most ardent fans have stuck with him since the beginning of the case even as new information came out that he confirmed one fight that resulted in injuries while denying the other allegations. Since news broke he’s played three more stops on his world tour – Bangkok, Guangzhou, and the most recent was in Peru.
Up next was supposed to be one of his biggest stops and the final of his four Chinese city venues, on September 19th he was scheduled to play at the Beijing Worker’s Gymnasium in Beijing, China as the wrap up of his entire tour. All his Chinese tour stops have been organized by a local company and today the company issued a press release stating that the Beijing concert was being cancelled effectively and all tickets will be refunded. The press release stated “due to uncontrollable elements related to the entertainer that are impacting the successful performance of this concert, it has led to the event being cancelled.” Fans in Mexico who are gearing up for his concert on September 12th in Mexico City will be relieved to have no disruptions to that tour stop.
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I can't help but be disgusted at how how KHJ's side has downplayed this. It's amazing how his side is summarizing all this as angry feelings and break-up, making the issue so trivial,when its anything but that. The way this is going, I feel like justice won't be served...
Wow... After seing NFL Ray Rice video you get a mental vision and can't say I would ONLY take an apology, why and a what are you going to do about it! But I've been told that's part of the DV cycle. I hope she gets help other wise can't help but think she'll fall to the same kind of relationship in the future.
He looks menacing and there's a hard edge to his features in the poster, gone are the gentle soft features which appeared in his characters Jin Hoo (BoF) and Seung Jo (PK).
It seems he is trying to avoid publicly apologizing to miss A, through Lawyers. Its obvious that he did hurt A from what has been mentioned so far. I pity both parties, miss A for suffering violent abuse, and KHJ for marring his career with such actions. Physically hurting the person you professed to have loved for two years is so bloody wrong, and he should be ashamed as a man to use his fist against his beloved. Because his violent actions/nature is now publicly known, will this result in a ruin career?!
wow...since his other concerts were going on I never thought any countries would cancel his tour.
They better make this go away soon. Or else other places will realized DV is no laughing matter.
So glad that one of the biggest market in world cancelled his tour. It's disgusting that his agency is abetting in this irresponsible behaviour. They should just cut him loose. It seems like domestic violence is not a big deal in Korea whereas blackmail is. He was allowed to continue with the tour while LBH blackmailers were handcuffed and arrested immediately. The worse thing are his rabid fans who stood by him in spite of evidences of his abuse. What's with these people who can't separate right n wrong???
Actually, it seems that MONEY is the big problem in Korea. Blackmail w/ money involved is a serious crime (DaHee from GLAM), doing marijuana which required money is a serious crime (Daniel from DTMN), and walking out of the drama shoot to fly to U.S. due to very poor working condition is an automatically blacklist in Kdrama land (Han Ye Seul). However, physically assaulting a lady that doesn't involve w/ money isn't a crime (KIM HYUN JOONG). -_-
I guess S. Korea has their priorities in blackmailing and marijuana. Really show that they don't give a sh*t about hitting women. That it is okay for men to hit their women and still get away from it. It's even stupid that KHJ was able to still do his concert tour. Those delusional fans should be ashame of themselves for supporting a woman-hitter. >:( I wish Karma and hell comes to KHJ. I pray for justice.
They do show in their dramas how they measure people based on how much money they got. At first I thought it was a over-dramatization of things, but it might be not far from the truth.
Truly,women are their own worst enemies. I can't decide who is actually worse: a disgusting womanbeater showing no signs of remorse or thousands of girls who still plan to attend his concert despite knowing about his violent nature.
THIS. I know we have our own biases, but there are boundaries that come with being a fangirl. Just because you admire someone so much does not mean that you should look past his shortcomings.
Huh? I hate that fans are still going to his concerts, but a woman beater and a fan going to a woman beater's concert can't be compared in terms of guilt level. You have keep in mind that most kpop fangirls are kids/teenagers. Yes, they are being stupid, but it doesn't make sense to judge their actions by rational adult standards.
sorry for disagree, but many kpop fans are over 20 and some are over 30. And Ray Rice still has many female fans support him, most of them are well in their 50s.
You're right but I wanted to comment on the fans. I always thought most of his current fans were in the 20-60 age range. Does he even have teen fans anymore? And what's gross is I've seen fans in their 30s and 40s defending him on various sites and vowing to support him no matter what happens, guilty or not.
So glad to read her statement after his bullshit one. Admit it or else basically. Proud of her. He's trying to make the whole thing seem like a bitter breakup and her feelings being hurt because of that and downplaying the actual abuse as not being the issue. I hope she's able to stick with it.
It's too bad it's just one concert that is canceled, even if it's a big one.
I agree. I can't believe all his concerts weren't all cancelled. I understand that there are innocent people who will get hurt financially but that's on KHJ.
My respect for miss A for not being intimidated and giving in. IIRC I read somewhere, that her last statement mentioned, they could give further proof. She seems to be a determined lady. I really hope she is not going to take the money he'll be throwing at her.
BTW I think it's very interesting in this context, that with Blade Man a show just started highlighting violent behavior. I haven't watched the show's premiere, but read, that a lot of viewers were turned off by the massive violence LDW's character used even if such scenes were to be expected from a show with such a plot. Makes me wonder what Korea's attitude towards physical violence is.
Hi @Newbie Off topic
I've watched Blade Man, yes it does have a lot of violence, but funnily enough its quite comical and the whole drama makes you laugh, not because its silly and not worth watching, but because it is worth watching because parts of it is funny,and the violent parts are part of the funny. I'm not one to advocate violence, but also have no problems should a film or drama require it to tell the story. Blade Man needs the initial funny violence for audiences to understand why the character is so. Give it a go.
I think this case is beyond appologies. It's a crime, so just prosecute, & give out jail time. Offenders offend cuz they have no sympathy, standards, & they are always right/most important. Sorry ain't going to cut it at this point.