Two teenage girls ran away from home in Pakistan and travelled more than 750 miles in a plan to meet Korean pop sensation BTS.
The girls, aged 13 and 14, went missing from a town called Korangi in Karachi City before they were found hundreds of miles away in Lahore, which is near the border with India.
After the pair went missing, cops searched their homes and found a diary revealing their intention to travel to Korea, a journey of more than 3,500 miles, said senior police superintendent Abraiz Ali Abbasi.
“From the diary we saw mentions of train timetables and that they had been planning to run away with another friend of theirs … who we then interviewed,” Abassi said.
“We started tracking them aggressively and found out they were in custody of the police in the city of Lahore where they had traveled by train.”
Abbasi said arrangements have been made with Lahore cops to bring the girls back to their home in Karachi.
He pleaded with parents to "please monitor their children's screen time".
Culture journalist Rabia Mahmood referred to the girls as "stans" as she said the teens were just doing what mega fans do.
She said: “It isn’t a surprise that two teenagers took this risk because ‘stans’ are capable of doing this for their idols.
“But if we had more safe organised fan-girling spaces, younger fans could engage openly and freely with each other about their favorites instead of taking such risks.”
K-pop's influence has breached borders, with fans hailing from across the world but with a particularly large concentration across the whole of Asia, including South Asian countries like Pakistan.
BTS posters are available all over the country, with Korean dramas also beginning to surge in popularity.
The pop band stopped performing last year as its oldest member, Jin, 30, started military service on December 13.
His mandatory commitment will last 18 months, CNN reports.
Other members will also be called up over the next few years and the band plans to use the time to pursue solo projects.
