Long but Interesting fan account :) our boys Effect...... in the end of the night Yoochun really won her over :D [FAN-ACCOUNT] Big Bang fan attended JYJs Gangnam Kpop Concert & was blown away ^__^ I have no idea how to start off this post. Before going to the JYJ concert I had always 100% respected their history, achievements, and struggles that they went through, but I never really got into them because I don’t tend to get into ballad-type music. After the concert I wanted to apologize to the world for not enjoying them sooner. JYJ is so amazing and I feel like I have wasted years of my life by not properly enjoying them when I should have! I never would have imagined what a life changing day this would turn out to be! Let me take you to the beginning. On Saturday I discussed my game plan with Julia (since she is a true JYJ fan I wanted to get advice from her) and I decided that I would arrive at KEPCO where the concert would be held at 2PM because tickets were going to be distributed at 3PM. However, Sunday morning rolled around and I saw this. The concert would be held on Sunday but fans started to camp out on FRIDAY. I decided to quickly get dressed and head over there even though it was hours before my plan. I ended up getting to KEPCO at noon, and the girls at the front of the line looked dead tired. The line kept going and going. The crowd was a really diverse mix. There were many foreigners from all over the place, of all races and ages. I saw girls in hijabs and an old white woman who was using a walker. It was especially confusing because there were two lines. One for official C-Jes fan club members (the company that JYJ is under) and one line for regular citizens like myself. Many girls were smart and brought umbrellas with them to protect themselves from the sun. While I didn’t prepare an umbrella (I ended up taking my flannel button down shirt off and using it as a head scarf), I did bring my tablet so I could read, various snacks, a water bottle, and my portable battery charger for my phone. The concert was supposed to start at 7PM and finish at 9PM so I committed myself to waiting all day. As soon as I found the end of the line a girl next to me said “Oh! Are you here by yourself? Let’s stay together!” And my first friend of the day was made ^_^ Her name is Cathy and she is from Taipei. She was visiting from friends in Seoul and decided to come to the JYJ concert but her friends didn’t want to go. We had a great time talking (her English was excellent) and it was nice to have a line buddy because I was able to go get drinks for us from a coffee shop and we were also able to go to the bathroom in shifts (the port-a-potties they had were trailers with full sinks and had classical music softly playing from built in speakers, the first “only in Gangnam” moment of the day). Immediately after we got in line three girls got in line directly behind us who also happened to be from Taipei! They were not confident in speaking English, so sadly we didn’t talk much, but that didn’t stop us from becoming great friends (I added all of them on facebook and they want to show me around Taipei when I visit Taiwan for Lunar New Year). I have to admit that this one of the the things that I love most about K-Pop. Even though we couldn’t really communicate with each other in words, our common love of music united us. I think friendships like that are really special! The three of them did tell me that they came to Seoul specifically for this concert because they are all big JYJ fans and they speculate that this could have been JYJ’s last concert as a group before they start enlisting in the military. When they said that it really struck me. The historical impact of this concert really sunk in, and it also made me realize that Big Bang will be going through this within the next year or so also. It’s going to be a sad, sad day in my life when that happens. It also made me realize that I had to savor each and every second of this concert! Shortly after getting in line a few Korean grandmothers and grandfathers came around selling various things. Cathy and I each bought a piece of foam to sit on for 2,000 won (which was SUCH a good investment), and I also bought an unofficial JYJ lightstick so I would be 100% ready for the concert. At 1:45 a couple of the JYJ fan club girls (since this concert was free the staff was limited so the fan club members took on much of the organizational tasks) started to come around and write on our arms so we could prove what place we were in line. I pulled off a miracle and was 1,322 in line out of 35,000 people (although it sounds like 50,000 people attended). All concerts in Korea rely heavily on the number system when it comes to standing sections to ensure fairness and convenience (so for ticketed concerts if you are standing section you only need to arrive an hour or two before the concert because your entrance time/place is already determined instead of waiting in line all day for a good spot like we have to do in America). All five of us were starting to get hungry. I shared the goldfish that I brought with me (thank you Mom and Dad for sending them to me) and they were really excited to have an American snack, and they shared their chips with me. We plotted to have jajangmyeong (black bean noodles) delivered to us in line after we got our physical tickets. Sadly, we could not complete that plan. A few minutes after 4PM we were given wristbands which would serve as our tickets. You can see that I was in B1 which was such an awesome spot to be! We were so close to the stage! I was starting to get really excited! The other side of the wristband. Almost immediately after we got these the fan club girls started to move us because we would be let into the concert area shortly. It was kind of chaos at this point, so the five of us who became friends linked arms so we would stay together and got back in line in our number order. I seriously felt like I was living in the drama Reply 1997 (this is seriously one of my favorite dramas of all time and I recommend everyone watch it) at this point. We were slowly~ slowly~ starting to file into the concert area. You could easily tell that there were thousands upon thousands of people here by this point, but for the most part everyone was very orderly and respectful. One last selca before the concert! We could hear JYJ starting to rehearse (the stage was on the street that they had blocked off) and the fans were starting to go crazy! You could feel in the air that this was going to be a hot concert! Another look at how orderly everyone was in line. While we were in this line staff members came around and gave each of us a bottle of water. And it wasn’t just any water, it was sparkling water (the second “only in Gangnam” moment of the night). After the concert I saw a girl using all of the strength she had in her body to try and rip the JYJ flag down so she could keep it. We got to our section of the pit around 6:45. It wasn’t too bad before the concert started, but as soon as JYJ came out it started to get intense. My four friends and I linked arms again, but we got separated into two groups. I’m not kidding in the slightest when I thought to myself “I really don’t want to die by being crushed to death at a JYJ concert”. A dozen or so people couldn’t hack it and left our section of the pit. Here is an overhead shot. Keep in mind that this is probably a fourth of the length of the concert area. Probably ten seconds into the first song I knew I would never be the same again. Each of them was so handsome in person, and their voices…. At this point in my life I’ve gone to a decent amount of concerts, and aside from Big Bang’s Daesung, I’ve never heard anyone as flawless at these three. Listening to them sing is like hearing what singing is supposed to sound like. At one point I thought “Why do other singers even try?” Not only are they incredible vocalists, they are fantastic dancers, and you could tell they all really enjoyed themselves. There were numerous group songs, and each of them did three solo songs. For each solo song I kept thinking “Oh! Jaejoong is my favorite!” Then would Yoochun would come out I would think “Wow! Yoochun is my favorite!” And of course when Junsu would sing I thought “Oh my god! Junsu is my favorite!” By the end of the night though Yoochun really won me over. I am begging each and every one of you to watch at least ONE of the following fan cams to get a sense of the talent that JYJ possesses. https://youtube/watch?v=dCONi6orLW8 This “Be the One” fancam is great if you want to check out their dance moves and listen to some serious fanchants. Fanchants are certain lines or words in the song that fans will repeat or sing which is a ton of fun to listen to and even more fun to partake in. https://youtube/watch?v=L17FjF3tUe0 Watch this “Let Me See” fancam if you want to get a grasp of their flawless vocal (as I watched this fancam before adding it to this post it may or may not have brought tears to my eyes). https://youtube/watch?v=AI2Akxb8JU4 Sadly I can’t find a high quality fancam of Junsu’s solo song “Incredible” but this was one of the highlights of the concert because it was so high energy and the lighstick choreography all of the fans did was mind blowing and an honor to be a part of! https://youtube/watch?v=Q0PXxSAQ7gc This “Be My Girl” fancam is Jaejoong focused, but it was the only good fancam of the song that I could find. I had to include one because during this song I made extended eye contact with Junsu! I also made eye contact with Jaejoong during the concert! https://youtube/watch?v=LDKmZU9pP7g And of course this post would not be complete without a “Backseat” fancam! The concert ended at 9, and I’m lucky to live so close. I took the subway back home and I stopped to grab dinner— five giant steamed beef dumplings with three bags of pickled radish (for only 3,000 won), and at the grocery store to buy yogurt and I was still in my apartment by 9:45! This was seriously one of the best concerts of my life, and I am always going to be so happy that I went and had such a good experience (great proximity to the stage, and I made such great friends). At work today during my research and development time I spent the entire two and a half hours listening to JYJ and reliving the concert. I hope that I will have a chance to see JYJ perform again because I need to experience their perfect vocals at least one more time in my life! Credit: seoulenvy Shared by: Tv5xqForeveraktf . . . Winter Rose
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:30:02 +0000