Why do you like BYJ?

This is a place where people who like BYJ gather, isn't this.
And, this is also a place where people who are interested in (BYJ), if not in favor of him, would gather.
Although I cannot visit here often, I am amazed whenever I come here.
I am saying this because the standard of people who post writings or post multi-media works is not amateurish.
In particular, when I read writings by people who translate foreign languages or who post replies in foreign languages, I am amazed at their standard, despite the fact that I, myself, has sense of confidence to a certain extent in several foreign languages. Thus, I would think that Mr. Bae Yongjoon is a really fortunate person.

Then,
Occasionally, thought like this comes to me.

'Why do they like him like this (much)?'

Male fans like me cannot have feeling of dear love, like Mr. BYJ's many woman fans who visit here.
What I am saying is that (men) would see, judge, and feel Mr. BYJ from perspective other than opposite sex.
We cannot experience moments of fluttering heart, and not only we cannot experience ?wet eyes (¾È½À), as emotion wells up while thinking of him, but also we cannot jump up and down on our feet repeatedly saying exclamations at his appearance showing up in front of our eyes.
Because of that, we can approach BYJ, a human being as well as an actor, with this and that analyses and also with inquiring merits and shortcomings.

Actually,
There must be such a stupid question as to ask a person who like an opposite sex person, why do you like that person.
On the contrary, it might be strange to like a person with reasons.
Just like a (script) line that appeared in the Winter Love Song, one cannot tell the reason why they like (a person).
That should probably be the heart that genuinely love someone.

I, a man,
am a case who becomes a fan becuase there are reasons.
Personal nature of man called BYJ, attitude toward his own works, distinct own philosophy and sense of value, ability of being able to accomplish all by himself the work which 100 diplomats were not able to perform, sincerity and hardworking, which clearly differentiates him from other entertainers, and attitude of treating his fans like family with all his true heart and good faith, not just calling them (family) by lip service alone for showmanship, etc., etc., there are many reasons.

The same may be true for media.
The media in various Asian countries where popularity of BYJ is high, have been working hard for several years in order to analyze secrets of his popularity.
I am aware that they are writing all sorts of articles to analyze whty many women living in their countries are fascinated by an actor called BYJ from Korea.
Of course,f rom a standpoint of having to write articles for readers who are curious of those reasons, they might have to write up this and that articles analysing him because they have sense of burden to get out analyses with something of persuasive power.
At times, they have to unreaslonably combine this and that.

However,
It is not easy to study and analyze people's mind.
Although it might be easy to do psychoanalysis or analyze reason for typhoon, it may be impossible to study and analyze typhoon of emotion that blow violently in person's heart.
Although they wree able to realize that one cannot tell reasons for liking (other person) if they watched the WLS in details, they don't seem to have realized it because they were only studying why BYJ's popularity is shining brilliantly through the Winter Love Song.

Probably because they are tired as they cannot find definite answer no matter how much they study, even the Japanese media, who are second to none as far as analyzing works are concerned, seem to report as things go on with dropping both hands(without studing any more) by now.
I am saying that they don't seem to try to interfere (make obstacles).
Rather, they seem to recognize substance of 'Yon-sama' and calmly accept that at present.

Because I live overseas, information on BYJ can be obtained only by 2 forms, what are wriiten in writings and what is seen by visual images.
I am saying that I see and judge him only by newspaper articles or writings posted by his fans in places like here and VODs or dramas & films.
Because the forms of obtainable information is simple, I have to depend on articles reported in newspapers in many occasions.
Because my life is not so leisurely as to be able to go find news on him one by one, and also because I am not a fan who is so enthusiastic about him as to spare much time (on him), I use a function that delivers to my mail, whenever each newspaper reports on him.

As I have been doing like that, I see that titles reported in each newspaper are listed clearly at one glance, and while looking at those, many thoughts come to me.
As ways to put headlines are different according to each newspaper medium, even though those are the same articles, I see them with entirely different feeling if I see only titles, and also I can know that each medium deals with articles with ceertain kind of preconception  on Mr. BYJ.

For example, here is one.
If they report articles about othe male entertainers who are popular in Japan, the media favoring sensational titles will put titles like followings.

-Lieu Shiwon, popularity in Japan is similar to (that of) Yon-sama!

-Kwon Sangwoo, gone over Yon-sama. First place in popularity vote by Korean Current magazine in Japan,

-Kwon Sangwoo, first place in popularity among 'Korean Current stars' in Japan taking over BYJ

-Song Seungheon, defeated BYJ?

'Serviceman' Song Seungheon took over 'Yon-sama'

-Japan media, 'size of number of Song Seungneon's Japanese fans coming to Korea, goes beyond BYJ'

There are media which must always mention (BYJ's name), probably because they believe that people would read those articles only when they put name of BYJ, or because name of BYJ is something that one can make light of (¸¸¸¸ÇÑ Äᶱ).

In roads, there are people who created them, and are people who use them.
Although people are using already created roads everyday, most occasions they cannot have appreciating heart for people who created those roads.
No matter how popular other Korean Current stars may be in Japan, we know very well who is the very man who opened the road to enable them to be active freely like that and to gain popularity.
It seems that entertainers who advanced into Japan probably see the object they have to be thankful about as a mountain they have to overcome.

We call a person, who first time made a road that we had to go around into the one we can go straight or person who first time created a road enabling us to go to a place where we did not know how to get to, 'pioneer'.
The pioneers are not objects to overcome, but to be thankful about.

Also, as I, a man, see, between popularities of others (entertainers) and popularity of BYJ, there exists difference that cannot be explained at all by numbers only.
From the difference of eyes of fans looking at them, BYJ and others were definitely differentiated.
I would say the difference is, while one side of affection mixed with admiration, the other side, in contrast, was simple affection.
Although I can see other differences beside that, I will omit them because I am going overboard.

May I take another example?
There are media companies who makes titles of article like followings.

-BYJ, 800 million profit from portrait right of 'WLS Pachinko 2'

-BYJ, due to plummeting stock price, 100 billion (won) was thrown into an empty void

-BYJ, owned stocks nose-dived, lost 89 billion won.

-BYJ, 'to conquer popularity in Japan' with mobiles, full-scale service in December

When people, who are totally ignorant about information on BYJ, read titles, they would know that BYJ is a person who does business in Japan. Also, in addition, a stock investment specialist.
Even then, they may mistake him that he is an enterpreneur who is not much respected and hated by people.
Instead of saying that he suffered a loss due to plummetting price of stocks he owns, they say he ''threw into' 'empty void'.......

They put titles as if they are gloating over his loss.
While they could simply write that he will launch mobile service in Japan from December, they would put the title that he will conquer Japan with popularity so that they ended up putting him to carry a burden of warrior for Republic of Korea.

He may take unlimited responsibility if he fails to conquer.
What is the reason to make shoulders heavier for the man who is feeling keenly sense of his own responsibility even without those....
I wonder if if this is right that those newspapers are published in Korea.

Beside those, there are many this and that outrageoust titles.

-[This and that profile at Jang Shinyoung wedding] Kwon Sangwoo attended, BYJ not attended.

Kwon Sangwoo, who attended, is a good person and BYJ, who did not attend, is a bad person, aren't they?

-Japanese married women, go to Kirgyzstan to see Yonsama 'TWSSG'

-'BYJ stocks' also landed Japan, would 'bid-handed' married women move

Although I am a man, I really like them to please take out word of 'ajumma(married woman)' from articles.
This world of 'ajumma(married woman)' always attached to articles on BYJ's fans as it it is an heirloom sword.
I cannot understand their intention to match with specific age group called 'ajumma(married woman)', while it is all right to express simply as 'women'.(In Korea, there are barely anyone who think of young ladies upon seeing or hearing expression of 'ajumma(married woman)')
Despite the fact that he is not populary just in specific groups of women as far as I see and also I know.

Of course,
Press media are guaranteed a freedom to make titles and edit at their wills.
And, it is not abosolutely that BYJ alone is sacrified his name by media hacking like newspaper titles like those.
There are many occasions that names of many entertainers and politicians suffer from such cases.

Howeveer, my wish is that they restrain themselves a little.
I wish that they also have sense of pride a little bit at the fact that a person was born, who makes no less than over 70 pages of search result when his English name is typed on Google (search word), in a country where there are not that many world-wide recognized names.
And, I say that they would deal with his name even a little bit more preciously.

I remember that a Japanese woman fan told like this in an interview article with BYJ fans in Japan that I read sometime ago.
(I remember this) because it made pretty deep impression on me.

'I did not come to like BYJ because he was a Korean, but after I liked a male star appearing in a drama, I found out that the man was a Korean. Thus, I became fond of Korea."

It seems that there are many people who still do not understand what this saying means.
They are dumb, aren't they?