Anonymous asked: Hi Selina...I'm a new follower here....thoroughly enjoy your blog

Love it that you answer any type of questions....so I have one for you.

May be because I only follow very very very few Kpop groups....Big Bang is one of them.....actually the only one right now.....I've noticed that usually only the mothers and siblings show support at concerts. Since TOP is my bias, I've never seen his father's recent picture with him at the concert....or any where.

So please forgive my ignorance, but I would like to know if this is the Korean culture where the fathers are very reserved? From Big Bang documentary, we've also seen that at first Daesung's father was initially against him training to be an idol. Are idols not seriously considered as "good choice" career?

HIHIHI :D hahahaha thank you (:

HAHAHA i follow really random blogs hahahahah xD but most of them are bigbang. 

well for top, he personally HATES his personal life being revealed, so he doesnt even invite his family for most concerts. im not really sure about his father, but im assuming that, like you said, he’s really conservative. korean men are either really flamboyant or really reserved o_o hahahahahahahahahaha xD 

nono! dont worry hahaha (: and its not an “ignorance,” its nice to have questions hahahaha ♥ yeah the fathers are really conservative. welp. usually. my dad isnt conservative at all. 

and the idol question: SI. almost none of the parents want their children to become (try to become) idols.

• its hard to be one, and only a few actually become successful
• some antis are extreme. like that anti who tried to poison dbsk’s leader :(
• even if you succeed, theres a HIGH chance that it would be like SPARK! then gone (the longest any groups ever been together so far is 5 years)
• korea’s really big on education, and parents are really competitive about their children’s grades, and they feel almost inferior when the other parents go “oh yeah my son won this and this scholarship” and they got nothing but “my son’s still training..”
• training is usually really long and rigorous, not to mention that most companies dont give (alot of) salary for the training
• you have to be under stress constantly
• there’s no U-turn—when you decide you dont want to be an idol anymore, its too late, because you’ve already skipped half your school days through all your years that theres really no college or job to take you
• aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand even if you overcome all this and actually become super famous and what not, if you’re under SM entertainment you barely get any money from all the work you do. 

so yeah.