In the meantime, what did Sungmin do? Other than SM’s press release, he didn’t say anything to fans. While he remained silent, he liked a blog post by one of his fans. Because it’s very long, I can’t translate everything, but the main point was, “This might be the end for some fans. If so, let them leave and let’s move on.” And there was some stuff about Sungmin, not SJ, fans. The content itself is okay under normal circumstances, but the timing to like it was bad. At that time some fans might have been disappointed or heartbroken (and resentful of how Saeun is taking advantage of the situation to promote herself), but no Korean fans blamed him and said they would leave because of his dating. They just wanted him to explain his past behaviors and calm them down. Do you think that was too much? He didn’t have time to leave a short message on his blog, but had time to like such a post? Is he saying fans should just shut up and leave? Korean fans were stunned and confused. This made a lot of them believe that Sungmin didn’t want to communicate with fans. After realizing his ‘like’ caused a commotion in the Korean fandom, he cancelled it later. He knew what was going on in the fandom, but didn’t try to reach out.