#ohteenine

[oniontaker]

How does food support by fans work? As in, what does it take to get it happen successfully? I imagine the fandom has to liaise with the agency since the idols' diets are always managed.

Diet isn’t the issue.

You also need to contact the production company.

[sonyuhs]

Hi, I'm wondering if your Princess ElSica edit is the full-sized version. Do you have a larger version? I really love it and I hope there's a bigger one because I just really like good pictures to be in HD and all that. Do you mind sharing a larger pic? Thanks very very much! I really love how Elsa is basically the animated version of Jessica >

hello! okay first of thank you so much for liking my edit that's so sweet. but unfortunately i don't have the larger picture because i make all of my edits to be optimized for tumblr (with a width of 500 px) and i didn't think about making a larger version. sorry o(╥﹏╥)o

[oniontaker]

Talent, looks, character: How important do you think each deserve to be to how popular and well-received an idol is?

Depends, really. But in K-Pop, character is a minimum requirement except in rare cases.

[oniontaker]

Are IU's controversies deliberate plans to break her out of her Nation's Little Sister image that binds her to innocent concepts?

Unlikely. It’s possible to break the concepts with racy music concepts or even better, a racy scene in a movie. You’d be shocked with how much actors and actresses can get away with in Korean movies when idols get killed for so much as a short skirt. No seriously, it’s basically porn except genitals are obscured with other body parts.

[oniontaker]

Sounds to me like in your case, you are treating religion as one way to live your life as opposed to an explanation for why the world exists the way it does.

I don’t think those two things are mutually exclusive but I would agree that I put an emphasis on the former more than the latter. Religion gave way to science a long time ago and is still trying to play catch-up to the point where it’s given up trying to explain as though it can categorically explain everything.

We’re at a point where anyone with half a brain cell will argue that their own Creation story is just a poetic interpretation of how some ancient deity or forces caused the universe to come into existence. Spirituality may be inherent within us to a point where it is beyond our manipulation but religion is a human construct.

In that sense, just like moral codes, and standards and practices, religion is just another way to live life than an absolute truth.

[oniontaker]

I can't find it anymore but I saw screencaps of tumblr comments calling bisexuals fake - because they try to get sympathy & support by trying to be a member of the discriminated LGBT community while enjoying the full benefits of being heterosexual in public - and unwelcome. I'm guessing the comments are from other LGBT groups...tbh I was actually shocked.

Like I said, not all LGBTQ are saints and shouldn’t be seen as such. They’re human beings like the rest of us... and that is exactly why they should be afforded the same rights and protections as all other human beings.

[oniontaker]

Do you think Seulgi is hot?

I think the obvious answer is yes, she is very attractive, but no she isn’t really my type.

I think there’s a danger in people saying “Celebrity A is not hot” or “Celebrity B is unattractive” simply because that person doesn’t tick all of their boxes.

I’m sure that spaghetti bolognese is a very good pasta dish, and it being one of the most popular items on a menu gives it major cred. I like it too, but if given a choice, I’d probably choose a carbonara sauce instead because that’s just what I like.

That doesn’t mean one is better than the other. I just like carbonara more because of what it does for me.

[oniontaker]

Who do you think has the best female idol abs in KPop? For me it's Seulgi, because hers drives me crazy in ways other abs don't lol

I was always under the impression that it would either be Kahi (ex-After School) or Krystal.

[oniontaker]

Idols will inevitably date, have their relationships go public (whether forced or otherwise) and eventually get married. Taking fandom culture as it currently is, what's the best way for idols to manage this process in order to minimise the loss of fans?

Waiting is the easiest. I mean, if you’re an idol aged 35 and still not in a relationship with someone, people might think it’s a little strange because it’s not the norm in Korea. And at that point, most of your fans are already or looking to get hitched. They’re not going to kill you or leave you any much more significantly than if you stayed single.

[oniontaker]

Besides the four maknaes who've graduated, do you know if the others have plans to go back to school one day? I know Sunny mentioned in a show that she plans to go back to study when her idol life is done, but what about the others?

I don’t know. They shouldn’t need to, with the routes they're going but it might become a bit more urgent, if some of them really want to go into a part-time "visiting lecturer" role at universities for performance classes, for a stable income.

[oniontaker]

There are claims that YG doesn't really like Winner - and therefore is half-hearted in supporting them in anything - because back in that first survival show, it wasn't the group YG wanted to debut and he was visibly unhappy when they won in the end. That was the claimed reason why the second survival show was made so that YG could debut the 2 Bs whom he wanted. What's your thoughts on this?

It would explain why I hear more about IKON than WINNER... but I have no idea what the man is thinking.

[oniontaker]

In terms of language, how do you distinguish if someone is talking about the managers that follow idols around vs the managers that make up the leadership hierarchy of every organisation?

In Korean it’s pretty easy because every level of management has its own distinct title that is almost uniform in every company. Meanwhile the English word “manager” is used almost exclusively for the people who do the day-to-day activities with the talent.

When I’m writing stuff online, I tend to call the former managers and the latter management as a whole.

[oniontaker]

How much risk for failure can a country afford in a president though? One mistake in the US and the world, who didn't vote for the US president btw, suffers too. Maybe I'm biased against Trump, but the world isn't out of the woods after the Great Recession yet. Nobody can save anyone from just managing the US government alone. I feel that, unless the next president can work well with other countries, his/her attempt at managing the country will still fail.

Then impeach him. You impeached a competent president that presided over the best period of economic growth and domestic security in decades, just because his secretary sucked his dick. I’m pretty sure that if Trump was a fuck up, it wouldn’t take much for Democrats and a large chunk of Republicans to try to impeach him.

[oniontaker]

Isn't it the case that Donald Trump has had quite a number of failed businesses? The ones that we know are the few that succeeded and hyped about in the media when he became a TV celebrity.

And Lord Alan Sugar, a poor boy from a rough part of town, bankrupted himself several times in failed businesses before becoming a very successful businessman, then was honored as a Knight of the Realm in Britain before being made a Lord.

Samsung has had horrific failed businesses led by its most successful owner and chairman, with the most high profile one being its huge venture into manufacturing cars.

You’re kidding yourself if you want to believe that successful people are 100% successful. Successful people succeed because they take risks and sometimes those risks don’t pay off, but successful people take calculated risks and always win on average.

[oniontaker]

What do you have to say about the rumours that had existed since 2014 that Jessica is the alleged third party behind Tyler Kwon's break-up with his previous celebrity gf? The ex purportedly neither agreed nor disagreed when asked about Jessica by a reporter.

I don’t think it’s any of our business.

[oniontaker]

What is the difference between Jessica & the other members when it comes to persuing their own solo careers that resulted in Jessica being out of the group and eventually SM?

What she and others around her had wanted for her, were slightly different from the norm.