Airport Chaos Raises Questions About Idol Security and Fan Boundaries

By Jieun, Baek

Jun 11, 2025

Airport Chaos Raises Questions About Idol Security and Fan Boundaries



The safety of illegitimate children, idols, and everyone is threatened.

JTBC 'Case Team Leader', which aired on the 10th, dealt with a recent incident in which a bodyguard of the girl group Harts-to-Harts, which was controversial online, assaulted a fan.

In the released video, Harts-Tujats traveled to catch the airport shuttle train. Fans who saw the members followed them in unison, and bodyguards "Don't ride together. Please come out," he said, protecting the members. Then, when he saw a female fan trying to board the shuttle train with the members, he was angry, saying, `You're crazy, what are you doing?' This woman "I have to go, too. I have a ticket, and the bodyguard says "Oh my gosh. Why are you hitting a member?"




The place where the incident took place is the shuttle train platform where you ride when you go to the boarding building after completing the departure screening at Incheon International Airport. It is estimated that there were many ordinary passengers with plane ticketsIn the video, which was filmed when Hartsutu Hatsu left for China on the 8th, the bodyguard led a member and suddenly pushed a woman's body with his arm and hit her in the face with his elbow. The bodyguard and the woman continued to haggle even on the shuttle train."

Airport Chaos Raises Questions About Idol Security and Fan Boundaries
So far, it seems clear that the bodyguards are overprotective. However, if you look at another video taken from a different angle, the direction of the incident is completely different.

The woman in question squeezed the members' gaps and hit them on the shoulders. There was a camera in his hand. It's the infamous 'Issaeng'. The woman claimed to be a regular passenger with a plane ticket, but in recent idol editions, she often pays a broker to take out her favorite singer's air boarding information and book the same flight, so it is hard to believe what the woman says right away.




'Case leader' measure 'More footage shot from different angles came up. Then a different response came out. (The woman) bumps the shoulders and digs in. The bodyguard pulled it out when he saw that."

Airport Chaos Raises Questions About Idol Security and Fan Boundaries
In this regard, Harts-to-Harts agency SM Entertainment (SM) continued to try to contact the members even though the manager and bodyguard verbally restrained them several times by repeating the so-called sasaeng continuously pushing the members from the entrance of the airport. Since then, when he moved to a relatively quiet place to reduce the inconvenience of ordinary passengers, he suddenly pushed the members and tried to contact them again, and the bodyguard immediately applied physical force while trying to stop the unexpected behavior.

He then complained to the security company and the security guard, thinking it was an excessive response. We will make more efforts to maintain order when moving artists in the future."




Netizens expressed various opinions, such as 'It is true that security is too much, but the members were also in a dangerous situation' and 'Wouldn't it be convenient for each other to build a separate gate for celebrities?'

Of course, under no circumstances should a person inflict physical violence on another person. However, celebrities also have the right to be guaranteed basic safety. For the sake of the safety of celebrities, fans, and each other, shouldn't we avoid excessive invasion of privacy.





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