Super Junior‘s Kyuhyun was left alone in a burning building after his staff had gone to Starbucks that night.
Fans are furious after reports of Kyuhyun being left in a burning building surfaced online. The singer had been in Taipei for a concert and had been up late making preparations for the show. However, he was surprised when he awoke in his room full of smoke, and his staff nowhere in sight.
Fans first found out about the fire and that Kyuhyun had been sleeping inside the building when Kyuhyun was attempting to sing “At Gwanghwamun” at the concert the day after the fire but could not due to the damage from inhaling too much smoke.
After his heartbreaking confession, fans discovered that Kyuhyun’s staff had been at Starbucks while Kyuhyun was still inside the fire.
“Seriously why did you guys even follow him there, are you tourists? Are you the artist? Kyuhyun had to get injections into his vocal chord to perform at his concert because he slept in that smoke. He was crying saying sorry while singing “At Gwanghwamun, do you know how heart breaking that is for fans.”
– Kyuschedule_bot
“You had time to hashtag yourselves #Starbucks#Kyuhyunstaff while Kyuhyun was sleeping in smoke and you didn’t have time to evacuate Kyuhyun you bastards”
– Kyuschedule_bot
#스타벅스 #규현스텝 이렇게 해시태그 쓸 시간은 있고 연기 속에서 자고있는 규현이 대피시킬 시간은 없었냐고 이 잡것들아 pic.twitter.com/77FJwCUMSu
— 행복아 규현해 (@kyuschedule_bot) February 25, 2017
A small fire in one of the hotel’s stores had caught fire during the night. Photos of the fire also surfaced online, showing that immense smoke that had built up from the fire.
“Look how much fire there is”
– Kyukenhof
불이 이렇게 크게 났었는데 pic.twitter.com/dZH1AdkoNI
— ㅎㅍ (@Kyukenhof) February 25, 2017
“The hotel staff said they needed to use flashlights ignorer to evacuate and it was a struggle. Two foreigners who were sleeping at the hotel are suffering bodily aches due to inhaling too much smoke….. I cannot comprehend that there was a “safe room” inside that and that the staff left Kyuhyun in there.”
– SmileAgain
호텔 직원들이 대피할 때마다 손전등을 켜고 손전등을 켜고 무사히 대피할 수 있었다고 한다. 외국인 투숙객 2명이 짙은 연기로 몸살을 앓고 있는 것으로 나타났다…
저 안에서 ‘안전한 방’이 존재했다는 게 사람을 그 안에 방치했다는 게 납득이 안 됨 pic.twitter.com/Moa7dMEaP5
— SmileAgain (@smileagain_8) February 25, 2017
As fans’ angers towards the staff grew Kyuhyun explained what had occurred the following day at his concert, noting that moving to his room had been his choice, and asking fans not to misunderstand.
“I think there’s a misunderstanding over the fire in Taiwan…In short, I was with my manager & staff in my room to go through things to say at the concert and we missed the time to evacuate. Meanwhile, we had heard that the fire was taken care of and rather than going down the stairs and inhaling smoke I chose to stay in the room.
Everyone except me, stayed outside for three hours after leaving under guidance from the hotel…I think the fault is mine for working when there was clearly a problem thinking that it wasn’t a big deal. I don’t want controversy happening after a good concert…have good night!.”
– Kyuhyun of Super Junior
대만 화재로 오해가 있는것 같아서요.. 짧게 얘기 하자면 저는 매니저&스텝들과 그시간까지 공연 멘트정리를 위해서 방에 남아 있다가 대피할 타이밍이 늦어졌는데 화재는 진압되었다는 얘길듣고 나서 계단 내려가며 화재 연기를 마시느니 방에 남는걸 제가 택했고
— ChoKyuHyun (@GaemGyu) February 25, 2017
제 방의 인원을 제외한 전 스텝들은 호텔 지시에 따라 내려가서 밖에서 3시간가량 대기 했습니다.. 문제가 있다면 별일 아니겠지 하며 남아서 계속 스텝들과 작업했던 제가 문제인것 같아요 좋은 공연 후에 논란이 생기는건 원치 않습니다..좋은 밤 보내세요!
— ChoKyuHyun (@GaemGyu) February 25, 2017
Furious fans are demanding to know why Kyuhyun was not evacuated from the building and moved to a new location, although Kyuhyun still managed tearful apologies at his performance the next day.
Kyuhyun did continue to have his performance, and fans were proud of his ability to sing through even some of his more difficult ballads.
170225 #Kyuhyun solo concert in Taiwan – 不为谁而作的歌 (Twilight) #규현 #圭贤 round of applause for Kyu ??? such a difficult song but he made it! pic.twitter.com/8tI3nhqozh
— Star Kyu 스타 규 (@StellaTWloveKyu) February 25, 2017
Source: OneHallyu
