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OBSESSED with JIMIN
Jimin is a member of BTS, born in Busan, South Korea, in 1995.
Through the years, he has earned the love and support of millions of people, of all ages, around the world.
But in this case, the attitudes of this person who claims to do out of love for Jimin are highly questionable.
Oli London is a man born in 1990, in London, England.
Currently, he calls himself a KPOP artist.
He made his debut on February 3, 2019 with the song "Perfection."
But in reality, he became controversially "popular" for his obsession with BTS's Jimin.
According to him, his interest in KPOP began when he traveled to South Korea to teach English in 2013.
As many people know, that same year BTS had their debut, so Oli followed the group since its beginnings.
Like anyone who is interested in a group, there is always a member that attracts your attention the most.
That happened to Oli with Jimin.
But ... in an unusual way.
Oli:*screams* "BTS! Jimin! Oh my god, I love you!"
Oli: "Jimin, I love you."
Oli: "I love you so much. Saranghe BTS."
In this video, I am going to narrate the particular actions that Oli London has performed under the justificaction of loving Jimin.
We will also analyze if he is a sasaeng, and the comments that he himself has said about all this.
Oli: “I want to be him, but I also have a crush on him”
His popularity began to rise after appearing on the British show called "HOOKED ON THE LOOK" in October 2018,
where he revealed that he had spent more than $100,000 on plastic surgery to look like Jimin.
In an interview with Daily Star, he commented:
"I've done my nose five times. I had cheek bone reduction. I've done jaw bone surgery.
I've done chin surgery – two operations on my chin. I've done my eyes.
I've done my chest, I had gynecomastia, like man boobs, I had that removed and my nipples adjusted– that was painful.
And I had liposuction on my chest area as well."
When he saw Dr. Phill in January 2020, the sum of money he spent on surgeries increased to $ 150,000 in just three years.
He spent $ 20,000 on his lips alone and receives injections to maintain them every three weeks.
He also commented that from all the surgeries he has, he does not feel his face
Oli: "I had so many procedures that like my whole face is numb, but I love it, it's such a great feeling."
Oli: "My chin, I can't even feel. Just feel the metal inside my face."
But he did not stop there,
since he regularly updates on his Instagram account about the plastic interventions that he has.
The last time was in June 2020, where he commented on having performed a jaw contour,
a rhinoplasty, a cheek reduction and cheek contour, a facial symmetry and an alarplasty on the nose.
In January 2020 he made an Instagram post that disturbed some people, because he showed his face with bl**d and commented:
"Skin whitening injections to help my skin look more Korean.
My skin tone is not as pale as Jimin's
so I have had some Glutathione + Vit C-Peptide injections with microneedling
to help make my skin whiter."
It's very popular in Asia for people to undergo this procedure to reduce hyperpigmentation
to even skin tone and make skin more white."
In September 2019 they made a sequel to that program that made it recognized "HOOKED ON THE LOOK".
Along with public recognition, he also received many comments giving their opinion on his personal decisions.
Oli: "I'm not actually changing my race. It's cultural appreciation not cultural appropriation"
Oli London probably has a misconception of cultural appreciation and appropriation.
Cultural appreciation is about experiencing and learning about a culture.
Cultural appropriation is about reducing a culture and its people to a stereotype,
taking for one's own use a cultural trait from a community outside of yours, either consciously or unconsciously,
and obtaining some benefit from the use of the cultural component.
While cultural appreciation gives credit and does not take away anything from any culture,
cultural appropriation damages the autonomy, the image, and the attempts at self-representation of a culture. (source: presmarymethuen.org)
The terms of cultural appreciation and appropriation may be easy to distinguish in theory,
but in practice it is much more complicated. This may be why Oli does not interpret her actions as appropriation.
But also, what Oli is doing can be understood as "acculturation".
Acculturation is the permanent and global cultural change as a consequence of contact,
in other words, when an individual or group 
introduces cultural characteristics of others
by direct and constant contact with social groups that have different cultures.
The final consequence of this continuous change is the acquisition of new patterns.
Specific traits will be lost and new ones will be created
both endogenously and as a result of external contacts. (Source: gaoantropologia.wordpress.com)
As I said earlier, Oli lived in South Korea and may have gotten used to certain things of the culture there.
Everything may have started because of it, although as we can see, he took it to an extreme.
How did you get all that money to do all these operations?
Although it is not our business, as far as it is known, he works as a model and is an ambassador for various brands dedicated to aesthetics,
such as Medictel Korea, View Plastic Surgery, Paris Hilton Skincare UK and Dominic Paul Cosmetics.
In addition, from what can be seen on his Instagram account, he is constantly contacted by various brands to advertise them,
which bings another great income.
Many of Oli London's actions are highly questionable.
On his Instagram profile he shares every news published about him. He has everything in his highlighted stories.
Also, on his YouTube channel, he has kind of strange video titles, as if to make sure that his name and Jimin's name appear together.
And he also shares news segments in which he appears.
Also, a known fact about this person is when he "married" a cardboard cutout of Jimin in Las Vegas, United States.
Oli: "Jimin, cheers to our wedding."
Oli: "Congratulations on getting marry to no other than me
Oli: "So let me give you some champagne to toast on that, I'm so happy my husband..."
Many people feel that Oli London is actually just doing this for attention, and seeing as it works, he keeps exaggerating it.
Is Oli London a sasaeng?
This is something that has been debated, both in Korean and international forums.
And most of them have agreed that no, Oli is not a sasaeng.
That term is used for aggressive and extremist stalkers of members of KPOP groups.
He is not one of those people who bought information about Jimin to chase him, meet him or contact him,
because according to what he said, he never saw him in person.
He confessed to going to different places where Jimin is "said" to like to visit, but that is something that many KPOP fans do.
The fact that Oli has changed his physical appearance does not affect anyone but himself.
Also, many people think that Oli's attitudes are actually much more like what is called "koreaboo."
What is a koreaboo?
Oli: "I actually look Korean now."
"I actually look Korean."
"You put me a Korean inyection, I feel Korean, wow."
"Just like Jimin."
Oli: "Well, I'm not exactly changing my race. I'm not saying I want to be Asian as such."
"I'm always gonna be a British caucasian
"But I would like to look as close as possible to Korean and Korean pop stars and Jimin."
Koreaboo comes from the word ‘Weeaboo’,
that is how a person who prefers to consume articles and content from Japan is called,
even if they do not have descendants from that country.
Koreaboo are people who are obsessed with Korean culture,
to the extent that they renounce their own customs and traditions to follow the canons of conduct of Korean society.
They want to look like Korean, live like Korean, and be Korean.
They try to modify their appearance with makeup and surgeries to look like Asians,
they use very exaggerated gestures and in their vocabulary they use words in Korean. (Source: nacionrex.com)
And clearly, that definition is more suited to everything we saw about Oli London.
He does not seem to be an evil person... but only in need of self-love.
In Dr. Phill he said
"I'm always trying to change, I never feel good enough.
When I look in the mirror I never feel beautiful...
I get so much hate online as well and it just adds to that feeling."
There are people who consider that Oli is only looking to be loved.
Seeing the love that Jimin receives, he just wanted to be able to reach the same
and the way he reasoned to get there is by imitating his appearance.
Maybe he wasn't a fan of the group from the start, but wanted to have what Jimin had.
And seeing that in this way he receives attention and, among all the hatred, also praise and support, he keeps doing it,
because he thinks the reason for all of it it is that he "looks like Jimin".
It is really sad and somewhat concerning
because, in reality, he doesn't follow the concept of self-love that BTS promotes at all.
But he is a person in his 30s, so he can do what he wants and take charge of his own decisions.
That's all for this video.
Thank you for watching!
