JungMichan

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Name: JungMichan
Alias(es): Miechan, Meichan, yiling98, jongdaezd
Type: fan writer
Fandoms: EXO, SHINee, RPF
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JungMichan (also Miechan, Meichan, yiling98, midaexiu, and likely jongdaezd) was a K-Pop real person fiction fan writer, best known for her EXO and SHINee fanfiction. She was active between 2015 and 2022, starting out on AFF, later on crossposting and posting works to AO3 as well. As of 2024, she is still on AFF under the handle midaexiu.

She published over 50 stories for EXO and SHINee, with Jongdae/Minseok being the ship she was most known for. Jongdae was often a main character, as Michan was Jongdae-biased[1]. JungMichan was also a co-moderator of the Jongdae-centric fest Hail Chen[2]. In February 2022, it was discovered that several of her works were plagiarising traditionally published books and short stories. Upon detection, she deleted both her AFF and AO3 accounts, deleting some of the works while leaving others orphaned on AO3.

History and methods

On 27 February 2022, a few days after several of her plagiarisms had been anonymously reported to tinysparks and Hail Chen, JungMichan deleted all of her fanfiction accounts along with her twitter account. Despite the majority of the evidently plagiarised works being more recent works, one fic posted to AFF in 2016 also turned out to have been copied off a short story, implying that the majority if not entirety of JungMichan's work might have been plagiarised.

A medical writer by profession[3], Michan put her skill to good use. Quite a few of her works that are suspected to be original (mostly canon fics) feature medical emergency situations. Her editing skills must have been helpful to fall back on when she plagiarised books and short stories. This resulted in a—especially in the last few years of her posting works—high output of long works in a short span of time, with a wide range of styles and genres, and writing that was often perceived as high-quality, polished and near perfect. Notable is that all of these works contain parts that seem in comparison to the originals unskilled and dull, marking where Michan rewrote or inserted small passages of her own, along with haphazard adaptions of books located in the U.S. to South Korean settings. Since she plagiarised many different writers, the spelling in her fics was inconsistent and often wavering between B.E. and A.E. spelling.

Despite Michan being aroace[4] herself, a trademark of her plagiarism was the over-indulgence in deeply traumatic experiences to the point of trauma exploitation, often related to the main character being gay, as well as the active erasure and removal of acceptance, community and comfort regarding their gayness from the original texts[5].

Several of her works Michan reposted in different fandoms, with little more than the names (and if applicable pronouns) replaced.

Plagiarised works

Due to the swift deletion of JungMichan's accounts, only the at that point existing 29 AO3 works could be downloaded; half of those turned out to have been plagiarised. Although evidence suggests that most if not all of her work was plagiarised (canon fic potentially aside), sources for the other works could not be identified. Many of them had been submitted to EXO fanfiction fests[6]. The affected fests were, besides the Hail Chen fest[7] JungMichan was co-modding: tinysparks[8], EXO Monster Fest[9], Love Shot Fest, Kaifectionery[10], EXO Seasonal Fest[11], Vargavinter Fest[12], SnowSpark Fest[13], and Shall We Chen Fest.

List of plagiarised works[14]

Date published Title Fandom Pairing WC Fest Plagiarised sources
30 June 2016 Still Awake SHINee, 2PM Minho/Nickhun 2.4k “Stay Awake" by Dan Chaon
20 November 2016 (backdated work) The Way We Rise EXO Jongin/Sehun 42k "Lost in Translation" by Michael Lowenthal, "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss, "Delicate Monsters" by Stephanie Kuehn. Also contains passages from "A Blaze of White Light", an old deleted Big Bang fic by JungMichan.
9 December 2020 Hospital 365 EXO EXO/OCs 342k Chapter 3 taken from the book “When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery” by Frank T. Vertosick Jr
28 April 2021 Maybe That's How Spring Comes EXO Jongdae/Minseok 38k SnowSpark Fest One scene and a few scattered sentences: “(after a while) you learn” by curledupkitten (chanyeol)
May 2021 Let Out The Beast BLACKPINK Chaeyoung/Jennie 6.5k “This Whole Demoning Thing” by Patrick Ness, published in the anthology “Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales”
4 July 2021 I Think We'll Be Shining EXO Chanyeol/Jongdae 74k EXO Seasonal Fest “Beyond the Rising Tide” by Sarah Beard
6 August 2021 The King and the Soldier EXO Jongdae/Minseok 1k tinysparks “The Queen and the Soldier” by Suzanne Vega (improper credit)
13 August 2021 Great Aspectations EXO Jongin/Sehun 11k kaifectionery “This Whole Demoning Thing” by Patrick Ness, published in the anthology “Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales” (reworked BLACKPINK fic)
21 September 2021 Creature of Ash and Twilight EXO Jongdae/Minseok 42k Shall We Chen Fest “The Will and the Wilds” by Charlie N. Holmberg; folktale "The Fox Bead"
9 October 2021 More Than All the Grains of Sand EXO Jongdae/Minseok 72k EXO Monster Fest "The Bones Beneath My Skin" by TJ Klune
10 October 2021 Enemy of my Enemy EXO Jongdae/Minseok 47k Love Shot Fest "Where Death Meets the Devil" by L.J. Hayward
29 October 2021 Maybe It's Magic EXO Jongdae/Yixing 10k Hail Chen "A Little Village Magic" by ‘Nathan Burgoine
31 October 2021 Three Minutes and Thirty-Eight Seconds EXO Chanyeol/Jongdae 6k Hail Chen "Negative Space" by ‘Nathan Burgoine
11 November 2021 Drive Me Crazy EXO Minseok/Sehun 1k tinysparks "Saffy's Angel" by Hilary McKay
23 December 2021 Crush... on You EXO Jongdae/Minseok 3k Whinery Christmas Exchange "Floodgates" by Mary Calmes
25 December 2021 Oh No, Only One Bed EXO Jongdae/Minseok 2k Hail Chen "Trope: Only One Bed" by C.S. Poe, published in the book "Interlude (Snow & Winter)"
22 January 2022 Deliver Us From Evil EXO Baekhyun/Jongdae 39k Hail Chen as jongdaezd: “Splintered - Criminal Delights: Obsession" by Tal Bauer
12 February 2022 Don't Worry, Be Harpy EXO Baekhyun/Jongdae 15k Hail Chen “Wings in the Morning”, published in “Monstrous Affections”, as confirmed by the author Sarah Rees
26 February 2022 Drawn Together EXO Jongdae/Minseok 36k Vargavinter Fest "Mended with Gold" by Lee Welch (minor edits); this Atlantic article

References

  1. ^ Interview with Michan and co-author Minji, 14 February 2021
  2. ^ Hail Chen mod statement, 28 February 2022
  3. ^ Interview with Michan and co-author Minji, 14 February 2021
  4. ^ Interview with Michan and co-author Minji, 14 February 2021
  5. ^ Erasure of positive queer experiences for trauma exploitation, 2 March 2022
  6. ^ List of plagiarised works, 28 February 2022
  7. ^ List of plagiarised works submitted to Hail Chen, accessed 9 March 2024
  8. ^ Statement by tinysparks, 28 February 2022
  9. ^ Statement by EXO Monster Fest, 28 February 2022
  10. ^ Statement by kaifectionery, 1 March 2022
  11. ^ Statement by EXO Seasonal Fest, 28 February 2022
  12. ^ Statement by vargavinter fest, 28 February 2022
  13. ^ Statement by SnowSpark Fest, 28 March 2022
  14. ^ List of works plagiarised by JungMichan
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