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6. Basic Decency and Respect
In 2026, when awareness surrounding women’s bodies and human rights has changed significantly, we never imagined that several security personnel would surround a single female concertgoer at a venue, search even intimate areas of her body, and humiliate her.
What is even more shocking is that this happened repeatedly across multiple cities.
This forces us to ask whether Asian female fans are being treated as easier targets for this kind of excessive conduct.
Would security personnel have carried out body searches that included touching the groin and chest, and coercive checks and photographing of personal information, with the same lack of hesitation if the concertgoers had been of another race or gender?
Since our faces and identifying information have already been photographed and shared, we know that making this statement public may expose us to further repercussions, and we are prepared to accept that risk.
Even so, we are speaking out because we do not want this to happen again to another fan at another concert.
Someone has to say that this was wrong. Violating a filming policy does not give anyone the right to touch a concertgoer’s body without justification, access their personal information, take their property, humiliate them, or threaten them.
Nowhere on the tickets that cost us more than $1,000 did it say that we would have to endure human rights violations like these.
We are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for the minimum level of respect and reasonable treatment we deserve as concertgoers.
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2. Invasive Searches of Our Belongings and Bodies
Even after we had surrendered our cameras and memory cards, and even after searches of our bags found no additional equipment, security personnel continued searching through all of our belongings because they suspected we were hiding additional memory cards.
They even opened and inspected our sanitary pads one by one.
The searches then escalated to our bodies. Security personnel put their hands inside our pants pockets and swept across our groin areas. They pressed and touched our cleavage and bra bands and searched around our underarms.
We were made to place both hands against a wall while our shoulders were pressed down to prevent us from moving. We were also ordered to put our hands behind our heads while our entire bodies were searched.
We did not resist. We had already surrendered our equipment and agreed to leave. Yet we were physically restrained, touched in intimate areas, and treated like criminals.
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We can’t survive without bees.
We can’t survive without forests.
We can’t survive without healthy oceans.
We can’t survive without clean rivers.
We can’t survive without fertile soil.
And somehow…
we still act as if humans exist separately from nature.
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How beautiful is the back of one
Who leaves knowing clearly when it is time to go
Scattering falling blossoms…
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(*It’s from a popular Korean poem)