#korean vip

[oneofadragon]

Us IVIPS need to find some way to repay you for all your hard work! I actually have a question that is the opposite of what you might expect. Since you've been talking with us for several months now and understand us much better than other KVIPS, what are some of the IVIPS habits that you actually like and wish the KVIPS would adopt? Perhaps you could convince some other KVIPS to start international blogs as well and we can start dialogues about how to work together!

I like that international fans are usually fans of more than one group. There are not many Korean fans who are fans of many groups, most of us are only in one fanclub, at most two. International fans on the whole also seem to be older than Korean fans. I think you also have fewer stalker fans and sasaeng fans, of course we keep very tight control over our stalker fans but it is better if we did not have any. I will look for more English speaking VIP, we have more people who can speak Chinese or Japanese but more English is good too.

[oneofadragon]

how are kvips reaction over media called winner as second bigbang? and how do you feel about their soon enlistment? do you have any uneasy feeling about disbandment or you feel safe since they are all in good terms and love music so much? thank you ^^

I do not follow news about Winner but I think it is rude to say anyone is the second BIGBANG. No one will say this is the second Kim Yuna, Kim Yuna is still here. Why do we need a second BIGBANG when we have the original BIGBANG? Female BIGBANG, second BIGBANG, I am tired of YG constantly using BIGBANG’s name for his other groups. BIGBANG does not only belong to YG but to us, to VIP as well. Those years when we walked beside Jiyong and Youngbae when they went home every night exhausted, giving them food and encouraging them. Those long months after their debut when everyone was criticizing and laughing at BIGBANG but we stood outside YG company writing messages of support and people walked by and spat at us. Those endless times when we have protected BIGBANG from journalists and the public. The times when we have gone without food or new clothes to save money for their solo promotions. Maybe it is easy for others to say there there will be a second BIGBANG, but not for us. 

I am not worried about BIGBANG disbanding, they are a group that does not need to be together always to create music, so there is no reason for them to leave each other because they are already apart from each other as much as they want. Since every Korean man must spend his time in the army I am a little sad but also proud that they will do so as well. Two years is not so long! 

[oneofadragon]

I've heard that many girls (idols, models, actresses etc.) are trying hard to become close to the members of BB. Always around them, flirting and stuff, because BB are famous, influential and rich. It's obvious, they are gold diggers, but how boys react on this? And doesn't it annoy you, vips?

That has always happened, we do not really worry about it because the members are clever people, they have been in this field for very long now, they know very well what to do. They often surprise us with how clever they are. Besides, it is no use being annoyed, our job is to protect their privacy, not choose their girlfriends. 

[oneofadragon]

For most I-VIPs, the songs that are very special to us are LIES, HARU HARU and UNTIL WHENEVER. So for K-VIPS, what are the BIGBANG songs most of you consider very special and why?

I think the same. Lie will forever be the most special for us, it was the song that made them beloved by a whole nation. 

[oneofadragon]

it would be nice if k-VIPs wrote "baseline rules" for every i-VIP, explaining what k-VIPs' main objective is, how and why protecting BIGBANG is so important, and how i-VIPs should act and what they should or shouldn't talk about. you know? because it's also unfair of you to expect i-VIPs to act a certain way, and also to expect them to have deep knowledge about what's fine and what isn't in korean culture. i know you don't mean to say it like that, but it's an idea that i think would be cool

We really only have one important rule: protect the members’ privacy at all costs. That is our first and last rule, everything we do is for this. I think international fans understand this very well. The only difference is that in Korea we have an organization powerful enough to enforce this rule on the fans, I hope there will be one in the international fanclubs soon. 

[oneofadragon]

How do KVIPs view IVIPs? Are we liked or disliked?

We haven’t really thought very much about international VIP in the past, though now we are beginning to, since BIGBANG is spending more and more time abroad. I think that there are some things that international VIP do not understand about BIGBANG or BIGBANG’s history, so there are more likely to be misunderstandings, or the international fanclub may not be as united as the Korean one. There are also cultural differences so that what we see as most important, which is protecting BIGBANG, may include more things than what international fans think is necessary. That is why I am here to explain many things that are confusing!

[oneofadragon]

Do KVIPS and JVIPs co-ordinate at all and share information or do the fans and official fan clubs act independently? I recall one time KVIPs complaining about too many jVIPs going to Korean concerts.

We are completely independent of each other. 

[oneofadragon]

Was there any time, when Vips were not glad with whom the boys dated? Just thought she doesn't fit him well

Not that many VIP know when the members are dating. Of course we love the members dearly so there have been times when we thought that the girl is not treating him well enough, but it is like when your brother has a girlfriend who you don’t think is good enough for him. In the end it doesn’t matter.