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Celebrity worship is a tendency to formulate an over-close identiffication with a celebrity, leading to dysfunctional behaviour (Rojek, 2012). Based on the fact in the field, shows that celebrity worship still appears in early adult K-Pop fans. It can be see through the K-Pop fan activities that sometimes deemed to be over, obsessive, possessive, and delusive while expressing their love toward K-Pop idol. Celebrity worship has the potential to hamper the early adulthood developmental tasks to build intimate relationships with others. This study aims to find out the description of celebrity worship on Balinese K-Pop fans. The method of this research was qualitative with phenomenological approach. The data were collected from in-depth interview, observation, and visual material collection on four Balinese K-Pop fans. All of them are females and age between 21-22 years who were selected by purposive sampling technique. The results showed that celebrity worship in early adult K-Pop fans contain the reason for liking K-Pop, idolization motivation, and idolization activity. The results also found a supportive idolization as a new stage of celebrity worship on early adult K-Pop Fans in Bali.

Gambaran celebrity worship pada penggemar K-Pop usia dewasa awal di Bali