Korean Christmas 2

Last year I wrote a painfully uninteresting and undetailed account of my Christmas. But this year, don't fret my friends, I had a particularly interesting Christmas, so I'm in a gooooood mood, and I'm ready to share this all with you.

As I had mentioned before I got to attend a bunch of cool events last week, starting with Fever Seoul Live and ending with the T Social Party. I'll review these events and include some pictures and videos for all of you to enjoy.

Fever Seoul Live was interesting. It was much shorter than I anticipated, but it was pretty cool. It was definitely centered upon bboying, which I liked, but I would have liked to see more dumbfoundead and less Jay Park. Don't get my wrong, I like Jay Park, but he seems to me to be just pretty good at everything and not particularly awesome at any one thing. He's a pretty good bboy, he's a pretty good singer, he's an okay rapper, but nothing he does makes me want to jump out of my seat. Korean people like him because he's cute (but his ears are distractingly large) and he speaks Korean and English (wow). Dumbfoundead performed She Don't Care acoustic with David Choi on the guitar, and Manifest beatboxing. He also performed Liquor Store Blues with David Choi, which isn't my favorite but that's okay. And he did Bullets of Truth which is probably my favorite of his old songs (download it y'all! Support him... he's dope). And he did Clouds with Jay Park which has a dope verse by dfd, but Jay Park's verse is kind of lame compared to his other stuff (I actually really like Bestie, which he performed)

DFD (left) and Jay Park (Right)

I went there with my friend Dre, which was fun. I hadn't hung out with him in a long time.

Then on Friday after school I basically sprinted home (okay, so I didn't actually run anywhere, I took a taxi) to get ready for the T Social Christmas Party. The party began at 8 p.m. and was all the way in 강남 which is pretty far away. I thought I was really lucky because my co-teacher got invited as well and she would drive me. I got off work at 4:15 (yay sneaking out early!) and she was going to be at my apt at  5:20 so I had to book it home and get ready. I wore this gorgeous new Lanvin <3 H&M black one shoulder dress with exposed zipper and some new heels I got in 이태원. I unfortunately don't have a picture of the whole outfit, which is super unfortunate. I did my make-up blingbling-tastic (that was the dresscode... bling bling). I forgot to put on mascara in my run out the house a full 5 minutes late. I was supposed to meet my boyfriend in Gangnam at 6:45. Unfortunately, we got stuck in some really horrifyingly bad traffic. Basically, it would take about 50 minutes to 1 hour to get to Gangnam from where we live, but since it was rush-hour on a Friday which also just so happened to be Christmas Eve, after one hour, we were still in Incheon, barely to Bupyeong. I was really really upset, because I didn't want to be late, and it was really boring. I could have just taken the train and it would have been easier. We finally got moving only to get stuck in even worse traffic in Youngdeungpo, which is about 10 minutes driving (usually) from Gangnam. After sitting in that traffic until about 7:00, I was like fuck this. I told my co-teacher that I would find the subway and take the subway. I got out of the car in the middle of the street, and crossed through oncoming traffic in -15 degree Celsius weather, hailed a cab and had it take me to the closest subway station. It took me another 30 minutes on the subway (i had to transfer twice), but I still beat my co-teacher by something like 2 hours. She evidently took a wrong turn and got onto a highway headed to Busan (the southernmost point on South Korea basically... not good). I met my boyfriend and we walked to the club (after a minor detour where we got totally lost and I had to call Mina to get directions). Got to the club, with unusable fingers due to the cold, and was really snappy to my boyfriend (Sorry BOOOOO!) but then we were inside! We didn't miss anything except 360 Sounds' DJ set. We saw Leessang (리쌍) and Se7en (세븐) and GD&TOP. Our view wasn't the best, but since we are both really tall, we could see well enough, in spite of being a bit far from the stage. The performance was a little underwhelming, because there were too many people at the club and people were acting really stupid. But Se7en, GD & TOP were all really awesome. Se7en sang Digital Bounce, I'm Going Crazy, Better Together, LaLaLa, and 열정(Passion, my FAVORITE). And GD came out and sang Heartbreaker, and TOP sang Turn It Up and then they both came out and did High High, Oh Yeah and 뻑이가요 (Knock Out). OMG SO FUCKING AWESOME.

Then boo and I took a taxi back home and ate McDonalds.

I will tell you about my actual Christmas more specifically later!

New Things

Tonight I'm going to a big b-boy event in Seoul. Also, Dumbfoundead, David Choi, and Jay Park will be performing. I'm really excited about this. The unfortunate thing is that the event starts at 7:00 on the complete opposite side of Seoul from me. I checked the subway distance, and it looks like it's about 100 minutes via train (but it should be less given that I'll be taking the rapid), but that's really far, and I have to be at work until 4:30. So that means, I have to haul ass to the subway station after school is over in order to make it in time to meet my friend. I'm currently looking at time tables and route information to determine if I can go home or if I have to go directly to the concert... hmmm

Anyways, I'll take lots of pictures and videos and post them tomorrow hopefully.

Also, in other big news, my GD/TOP cd giveaway entry period is almost over, and I currently have some 120-something subscribers, so I will be doing the giveaway as planned. Just gotta reserve the cd sometime soon and go pick it up on the 24th or 25th. ^_^ yaaaaaaay! Hopefully I can get two copies at once. idk how that works.

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A

Jay Park Fan Meeting

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A

VLOG!

I'm gonna start vlogging because I think it's cool.



I hope you enjoyed it. More to come!

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A

So I lied

I said my next post would be about my school trip. Well, frankly these music videos were TOO crucial for me not to share. While I was gone on my school trip, I missed a whole slew of music world releases. Plus there is this one song I knew before I left but basically fell in love with while on the trip. So, for your listening/viewing pleasure:

1. f(x)- Nu-예삐오 (NU-ABO). f(x) is a group that hasn't really made it into my top k-pop list until now. They released a couple okay songs not too long ago, including the popular lachata. However, this song absolutely blows me away as it is the catchiest damn thing I've seen in about 5 years. Also, I think if I were a lesbian I'd totally want Amber, the kind of guyish one. Seriously, everyone in Korea is up in arms about whether she's a guy or a girl (obvi she's a girl) and then if she's a girl whether she is gay or not (who effin' cares? she's hott regardless). Anyways, I'm gonna see this group at Dream Concert on Saturday and I think I'm most excited about this one.



2. Jay Park- Best I Ever Had/Whatcha Say. Okay, so Jay Park is my newest love after f(x). I mean, sure, maybe he's not the greatest rapper to ever spit 16 bars, and no, maybe he isn't the best dancer since Michael Jackson hit the stage with his siblings. But, he is the finest piece of Korean ass I've ever seen. And he is legitimately a great dancer and a very talented singer. He is going to star in a movie about b-boys called Hype Nation and he's coming back to Korea in a few weeks and I'm pants-peeing excited about possibly seeing him. Granted, so is every Korean girl between the ages of 11 and 20, essentially. This video isn't his best, but good god is he fine as ever!



3. Dumbfoundead- Mr. Nice Guy. My favorite rapper absolutely kills this track. Just fucking smashes it. I love him. He's coming the same time Jay Park is here and I can't effing wait. If I don't get to meet dumb, I'll pretty much be devastated. I'm not crazy about the beat on this song, but dumb's definitely been gettin his bars up, as he likes to say. *^___^*



4. Big Bang- Tell Me Goodbye. My beloved boys are finally back with a new song, which is the title track for a Japanese Drama. The song is only in Japanese (with the exception of a few snippets of English). Seriously though, they sound effing amazing (god, they have gotten so much better) and all of my boys, especially Daesung, really ramped-up the handsome-ness for this video. So classy, so sexy, so serious. G-Dragon is especially handsome and I continue to fall more and more in love with Taeyang and Daesung as the days go by. The only downside is T.O.P.'s weird-ass gray/red hair. If you watch this video, you'll see what I mean. Seriously. Why?

NEW JAY PARK VIDEO

So here's the new Jay Park video. He does some sort of flip jump thing I don't know the name of. He raps a verse and then sings the chorus of BedRock by Young Money. Then he covers Usher's Foolin' Around. Then there is some clip where is friends/roommates scare him while he is eating some Pocky.



Oh and one other thing, I LOVE JAY PARK.

Also also, if a bunch of tweeny Korean middle schoolers make me miss out on seeing Dumbfoundead, Jay, and some really kick-ass breaking at R16s, I'm gonna punch someone in the damn face. For Real.

April is filled to the brim with celebrations

This month not only has the birthdays of myself, three of my best friends back home, three other people who teach English in Incheon, three other people who play frisbee with me in Seoul, and four other people who I played frisbee with back in Gainesville, but also contains the birthdays of one of my favorite 교포, singer Jay Park, or in Korean, 박재범 (yesterday, April 25), and the funniest jokester of them all and member of my all-time favorite k-pop idol group, BigBang, Daesung, or more formally, 강대성 (today, April 26).

생일축하합니다! Happy birthday! Feliz cumple! rah rah rah.

And to celebrate, I figured I would include some pictures of my two birthday boys, plus the newest release from my boy Dumbfoundead, collabo with Clara Chung (winner of Kollaboration 10) and Jay Park himself. Called Clouds, the song is absolutely beautiful and dfd kills it, as usual. Clara's voice is also impeccable. Enjoy!

p.s. Daesung is the first three pictures, and Jaebeom is the smokin hot bod in the last two. *melts*

Word.

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A

OMG OMG OMG

This video just went up on Jay Park's youtube account, and it's AMAZING. He is singing a cover of Frankie Valli's classic, "Can't Take my Eyes Off of You" which naturally sends me back to that time I visited Amy in Chicago and saw the Jersey Boys musical and fell head over heels (again, considering I was brought up on that music) for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Seriously, this made me miss Amy and the LOEF a whole hella lot.

God I love Jay Park

Seriously though. Park Jaebum (박재범) was the leader of Korean super group 2PM until information leaked that he had written negative things about Korea on his personal myspace (he was born and raised near Seattle, Washington, and moved to Korea after auditioning for JYP entertainment). He is famous in Korea for being quite possibly the sexiest man alive, as well as his impressive singing and dancing abilities.  Anyways, now everyone hates 2PM (myself included) because JYP recently announced that Jay will never rejoin 2PM and members of 2PM (especially my once beloved Taecyeon) said some shitty things about Jay that simply can't be forgiven.

Anyways, he's back in the states and living in Washington again. He was recently at Rutgers for a major KSA thing, and he has been working the dance crew Art of Movement, and he is supposedly starting university in Washington (at some small school) in the fall. He recently started a youtube channel, which I am already a subscriber, and I just found some videos from his time at Rutgers performing, and OMG AMAZING.







Can I just effing marry him now? Seriously.


So that's all for now y'all.


Oh, and p.s. I got a macbook and it is tiiiiiiiight. Now I'm up for some seriously skyping because, you know, my macbook is amazing


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A