EXO held a concert in Jakarta, Indonesia for their EXOplanet #2 World Tour on February 27, 2016. The concert promoter, Mecimapro, was responsible for the security check that made the EXO-Ls feel very uncomfortable. Below is a list of rules that was supposedly the "reason" for the body check at security.
Now, some of the rules are a bit extreme like no photography and videography (OK, I get it, in a way you should be more focused on enjoying the concert for yourself, but some people love capturing the moment), but the rest of them are acceptable. However, at security check, the guards went overboard while body-checking the fans. Below is a complaint from one EXO-L who felt violated:
"Hopefully @mecimapro can be better. I'm still traumatized at @pelopor_guard security while they do body checking groping my 'vital' part."
In another Tweet, she went on:
"My v is groped by a female security guard at 7th hall gate, i'm wearing skinny jeans, it'd be visible if i was hiding anything (underneath)"
"I was very shocked, i can't think during the body check, they groped me twice on my v!"
V=private area between her legs
Another EXO-L screenshot and tweeted a conversation she had about the whole violation:
Tweet: "I'm too lazy to type so i captured this. This roughly what happened yesterday. I'm afraid. Traumatized.. My mother is very angry."
Screenshot:
- I don't like how they check me to my private area. to me it's a harassment even though it's done by another female
- The front of my bra is pulled so my boobs spilled out of my bra
- And there were many male guards looking (at me)
- Plus I'm wearing short skirt. my crotch was groped and pressed
- I was mad, struggling and crying. I
was shaking. I was never treated with such obscene by anyone. while I
was crying this male security said to me
- "Shut up, be glad it's done by female, not me
- that moment I'm about to throw fits but my knees were weak due to that body check
WHAT. THE. F***!?!?
But, wait, there's more! Someone tweeted a screenshot of a groupchat between Tike Priatnakusumah (CEO of Mecimapro), Ima (promoter's staff), and another unknown staff member. Apparently, Tike openly expressed regret for what happened to the EXO-Ls, however, this shows he honestly doesn't give a s***.
Ima : Please eat
Tike Priatnakusumah : Go get some rest, it's a sign that you're a human dear not super hero... but you are a super hero for those ungrateful koreaboos
Ima : Even if you're stressed, force yourself to eat. don't delay your meals.
Tike Priatnakusumah: We're about to get to our finish line, then we go on victory lap around ICE (venue) field
Staff : I haven't eat since morning
Tike Priatnakusumah: please eat, don't dance around (joking)
Trans by heyspica
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This is honestly disgusting to read. To pay probably a lot of money to only get sexually harassed...forget sexually harassed, that was sexual ASSAULT. And I don't care if a woman was doing the body check. Those fans felt uncomfortable with it and that's what matters. If I had been one of those girls, I would have made it so whoever was doing a body check like that eat their food through a straw.
Also, SM Entertainment isn't to blame here. I'm sure they were not privy to what the security check had planned, or else, SME would not have hired them in the first place. The only thing I can think of that SM Entertainment can do in this situation is to fire Mecimapro and make their bad reputation public. I am really sorry to have read this about these girls and I hope they get compensated in some way.
