A few weeks ago, one man experience very strange thing. One day people called him as ‘ Be damned to you’, but when he woke up next day people called him as ‘sacrificial lamb’. Just in one night he became a pitiful man from bad man. He is not the fantasy character he is real man and very famous entertainer in Korea. He has fallen under suspicion of tax dodging, when this news was spread, his other property-related things are revealed too. But did we have the right to reveal their private life? Did they have the responsibility to show even their private things to viewers?

         To answer that question, it is important to define who is ‘public figure’. because someone maintain that entertainer is public figure so they have to show their private life. Actually, according to law, entertainer is public figure. But it is limited certain very famous entertainers and the boundary between famous and unfamous is not clear. So famous is not the proper criteria to define public figure. The first thing to consider is authority. We give politician authority which is difficult to change. But we didn’t give entertainers authority but give them a love which is very changeable. So they are not public figure but just people who make other people fun.

         Before they are famous or influential entertainers, they are just human being who has the right to protect their live. We as a viewer don’t have the right to enter their life and force them to what they should do. Someone said they can become famous and get more money because of people who love them, so the demand of viewers is reasonable. Then if you get much money and become famous thank to other’s help. Then you have to notice your whole life even private thing? You do that?.

Of course, they are very visible and their behavior or thought are very influential. So they should really careful about what they do or what they say. But viewers are mistake that they are not character who is made and act as character not themselves. Actually viewers hope entertainers do what they did in media as very adorable and gentle. however when they are not match with your wish, you estimate them with very strict moral standard. It is very unreasonable.

People thought that public figure has responsibility to live very integrity than the general public. It is right, but why they have to do? Because they authorized by people and people have the right to monitor them. but entertainers is not given it. Therefore although they become famous because of viewers so they should live up to viewer’s expectation, people as a viewers don’t have the right to step in to their private life.