Korea Wave
'Psy, 빅뱅, EXO, 동방신기, 소녀시대, 슈퍼주니어......'
Have you ever heard these names before? If you have interest about Korea music, above names will be very familiar. They are famous Korea singer and groups. These days, such Korea music has become popular not only in Korea but also outside of Korea. They called Korea music as K-pop. We can easily see that lots of foreigner fans are enthusiastic to them in overseas performances. Many foreigner fans are even coming to Korea to learn Korean and Korean culture through K-pop. Today, I will focus on those passionate K-pop fans in this posting.

Fandom of K-pop
Fandom is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of empathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest. In music, the people who love same singer make fandom and call themselves as unique name like 'Bigbang': V.I.P, 'Shinee': Shinee world, 'Super Junior': Elf and so on.... In Korea, fandom culture becomes huge in size and scale, and foreigners also actively participated in K-pop fandom.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKx3kZAsOCQ
Positive
Some fan's excessive gift for star has been issued. One fan club posted advertisement in bus or subway to celebrate their star's events like album releasing, birthday. Its expense exceeded 100 million won. Another case was Super Junior got pure gold trophy that costs also over 100 million won from Chinese fans. Chinese rich fans often present expensive gift like building, apartment...to their star.
Nowadays, such gifts are experiencing change of form. Many fans are donating for their star's name in some speicial day to increase their star's reputation instead of just giving high-price gift directly. Such change is spreaded and makes good impact not only Korean fans but also oversea fans, and now many donating acts are done throughout the world.
Negative
Anti-Fan

Stalking-Fan
Korean famous singer especially some 'Idols' are suffuring stalking fans. They are violating star's privacy and give big damage to their daily life. Right picture is one of fan trespassed star's home and took his sleeping picture. Also, they sell star's underwear that stealed from their home, hair, personal information and so on. Other country's stalking-fans are also being serious. They spent lots of money to see Korean stars, so they think principal and acts more mindlessly.
As Korea music(K-pop) gets more popularity, more various mondial fans are loving them and its number will increase for many years to come. That much, we need to establish sound fandom culture for development of K-pop.