Jo Hyun Jae

DISCLAIMER: This is not a complaint.

Remember the story of Joseph interpreting the Pharaoh’s dream in the Bible – 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of famine?  Well, we’ve had 2 years of famine followed by 2 weeks of plenty, and then…..famine again!  I’m referring of course to news of our Jo Hyun-Jae.

The two years JHJ was in the Korean military have been understandably bereft of news.  This has been over-compensated for in the deluge in the two weeks following his discharge on June 19.  So many photos, so many videos, so many news stories!  And then…..silence!

We’re told JHJ’s first public activity will be the Japan fan meetings in Osaka and Tokyo in August.  So what is JHJ doing?  Is he prepping for these?  Is he going to surprise us with new songs?  Is he shooting a new photo album?  Or is he (as a fan confides to me her dream) learning Japanese?

Hope you like these photos.  It is almost impossible to find any photo of JHJ that has not been recycled 100 times.

In the KOW I see fans getting impatient with JHJ’s silence* (See below.)  This reminds me of the real-life story of a friend of mine.  She’s been going out with this man for 7 years — not her ideal type but whom she hopes to mould into her ideal type.  I keep telling her she has to love him for what he is, not what she wants him to be.  So you can guess how the relationship ends — in a split up, initiated by the man. 

JHJ is what he is — if you don’t like him for what he is, you don’t really like him at all.  You can’t expect him to be high-profile, to be making waves, to “expose” himself on all sorts of occasions — because that’s not him.  He is probably studying scripts at home.  Nothing will be announced until everyone has signed on the dotted line.

So we have to learn to live with the silence.  You can be assured JHJ is not wasting his time.  Just because he does not tell us what he is doing does not mean he is doing nothing.  But have mercy on people who are running JHJ blogs.  I’m racking my brains about how to fill this blog.  I don’t want to publish any more recycled discharge news and photos.  I’m sure readers are saturated with these.  Well, at least I managed to fill another post — for today!

* P.S.  We’ve had some of the comments (in Korean) on the KOW translated (the Chinese ones we can read) and are shocked to find some fans are very vocal and aggressive, putting undue pressure on JHJ, to the extent that the Administrator had to answer them.  For example,

What are you doing everyday, JHJ?  How long are you going to rest?

Even if it is just one word, one glimpse, one hair…..let us see you.

We are tired of waiting.  Can we stop the countdown now?  Give us some news!

and more such gibberish…..

KOW Administrator replies: ” Please be patient.  JHJ is working hard to appear at his best before you soon.  Announcement will be made as soon as possible.”

Speechless!!!  Are we “little green frogs” now?  (Please see other post today “With a cheerful heart…..” for explanation of this term.)  Are we no longer mainstream JHJ fans?  Whatever happened to the matured, well-educated, well-bred, polite, patient, devoted, self-effacing, uncomplaining JHJ fans?  Are you still there? 

(Credit: Photos from Param of CarpeDiemJAPAN.  Thanks!)