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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 15:38:57 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   In South Korea and China, celebrities can be quickly ruined. I’m still very sad over the case of Zhang Zhehan who was a rising star when his career was extinguished over posing in a photo in front of the wrong shrine. And then Lee Sun kyun who committed suicide because, despite testing negative for drugs, felt that his illustrious career was completely ruined and his family bankrupted.

   https://open.substack.com/pub/jaehakim/p/why-are-korean-celebs-apologizing-for-dating?r=ksrb&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 16:10:20 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Secret 3rd South African

     @monsoonrains Yes it’s terrible. So many Korean celebrities have killed themselves over this intense pressure. :/

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     Secret 3rd South African (monsoonrains@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 16:10:22 JST Secret 3rd South African

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     @liztai Oh wow. That is intense.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 16:11:23 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Katja

     @Kaetchi It doesn’t make sense to those of us with a shared heritage either. Or maybe because I’m too old. I suppose the closest i can think of is The Beatles. I wish this culture can be abolished though … it’s just not healthy for anyone.

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     Katja (kaetchi@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 16:11:24 JST Katja

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     @liztai for an outsider it makes no sense, fans going mad, deciding who their idol should work with etc, also commenting on looks, degrading or defamatory messages in mass social media moves, and ZZH one example I guess, only got to know as I was trying to learn the language🤷🏽♀️, unexpected things you get to know when discovering new language and culture