My ridiculously long report about Asia Song festival w/ pics & forgotten names of performers

2007-09-23T17:41:44Z

8:00am - alarm went off

8:45 - got up and showered

10:00 - left for the World Cup stadium with a gaggle of foreigners. How this happened, I do not know but once I saw how many I was traveling with, I started to plot ways to get rid of some of them. Srsly rollin' with 15 foreigners is not a good idea. I don't know how many times I have to stress this so people that I hang out with will understand. It just attracts too much attention.

Before getting to the subway in Shinchon, we lost some of the extra foreigners and cut our group down to 7 because we walked. During the subway trip to the World Cup stadium, we met a frog. We had to transfer at Hapjeong and whilst walking to line 6 there were two girls and one was dressed as a frog...I don't know why. She asked if we knew how to get to the world cup and found out we were going too and she was all like "찐자? 같이 가" (Really? Let's go together). WTF?!? So like not only was our group full of obvious foreigners (non Asians) but we also picked up a frog and her sidekick. It was so ridiculous, I couldn't help laughing. Hey stares! When we got to the world cup stadium girls went running to the stairs. Now remember this concert didn't start till 6:30 and it was like 11-ish. Right outside the station there were a bunch of old men selling light pens, dbsk/suju balloons, and ft island flags. I bought a light up pen and 2 balloons for 3,000 won though really I don't know how it is possible to use both at the same time. I am not that coordinated. Do people even do that??? When we got to the top of the stairs, I was scared and this fear continued for most of the day. So many crazy girls.

Okay so like I just saw the girls at the top of the stairs, I wasn't even up the stairs yet to the level that the World Cup Stadium was on. And there were little girls everywhere. While trying to walk up the stairs the JunSus came across. That shit was scary there were like 10 of them. They all were wearing animal costumes and JunSu masks. They had like various faces. I just remember one that had a ridiculous happy JunSu on their face. That shit was scary. And they were blocking my way so I had to wait for them to pass. I was talking to my friend and I was like "what the hell is this?? omg what the hell!"

See that shit! They were waiting for tickets to open! It was really confusing because there wasn't anyone who worked there out and about or at least you couldn't see them in the mass of rabid teenage girls. While trying to figure out where foreigners go we saw the frog pass by. Turns out she was in FT Island's fanclub which confused me even more as to why she was wearing a frog costume.

To figure out where foreigners go we just went up to the gate where they were letting in FT Island fanclub members at and tried to go in. LOL. They told us were to go, it was all the way in the corner. Of course! What was I thinking! From being in this country what I have learned is that if there is something for foreigners it always as far away from where the Koreans need to be as possible. The foreigner line was so tiny or at least I think it was I could have been confused because of the massive line that didn't seem to have any sort of formation that was the Korean ticket line.

While standing in line I met a boy from our school that also lives in my dorm. He was funny, but I was surprised at how hardcore he was about the whole thing because he is a boy and dbsk are boys. I mean I guess it makes sense for boys to like them too, I was just surprised. I just I am just shallow. I like their music, but the fact that they are ridiculously attractive helps too. Anyway when it came time to actually get tickets which occurred 2 hours before what they said on the internet, we all just gave the boy our passports and he went up. They took pictures of all of our passports. I don't know why. I don't like it either. What the hell are they going to do with my passport?!?! There is a lot of information on that thing. I am still slightly distressed over this.

When we left the ticket line, we got in another line even though we were told that it we couldn't get in until 5:30. We asked the girl at the gate if we had to stand in line because our tickets had numbers. She told us no and that they were our seats and we couldn't get in till 4, so we left the line, but then another guy from the line that we got the tickets from told us to go get in line because the numbers didn't matter and to get better seats we needed to be in the line. Damn! So we got back in line. Well I didn't, I went for food. It was supposed to be quick, but there were so many people that it took an hour. When we returned our friends were gone to another line. And we waited in the other line again and we started playing a phone/txt game trying to figure out exactly where they were. Right before they let people seat, we got a girl to let us through and we met up with our friends who were at the front of the last line you had to be in. So basically we got to cut a bunch of people. \(^o^)/

Our original seats sucked, it was in R6 so we didn't sit there. We sat in R4 because they wouldn't let you sit up front on the ground without having a ticket for it or at least if you did, you had to be super stealthy about it which I am not. We sat by the thing that they have the camera on to record with. This would've been fine if it wasn't for the fact that later when people came out who people actually wanted to see they rushed that area and blocked our view.

While waiting, press was walking around filming people...foreigners from what I could tell. They filmed that boy in front of me. I don't know what they asked because I was way too busy trying to not be on camera and also for them to not notice me. I guess it worked, because they didn't ask me. They asked a lot of other foreigners near me. Maybe they could see that I wasn't interested by me staring at the floor and looking away when they were in front? Or maybe I didn't look good enough to be on tv? XDD

Basically the audience was Cassiopeia. The majority of the seats not on the ground were red; it was just a big fucking sea of red. FT Island's fanclub was like this little yellow corner. And SuJu's fanclub came in like right before the concert whereas Cassiopeia was filing in early like the rest of us at 4. They scream so much; maybe it is their youth that gives them energy (I sound so old for a 20 yr old XD). I swear they screamed for those 2 1/2 hours before the concert began. They sang Balloons like 3 times. There was also a point when FT Island fans tried to scream, but Cassiopeia started screaming and just drowned them out LOL. Before the concert started, a guy came out and mentioned the fanclubs and asked them to also please cheer/clap for the other artists too LOL.

When that concert started at 6:30 it was people talking about something the concert and countries coming together and stuff that I don't remember. All I remember is that the actual concert didn't start till 7:30. When it started it was a performance with traditional instruments. It was cool, but I have seen that for the past 2 days so it wasn't something that shocked and amazed me.

Oh I forgot to mention that right before the concert 'started' Kara and some other guy performed. That was a surprise.

Also, I don't have decent concert pictures because my camera can't handle night with flashing lights/fireworks and distance. I didn't even try during DBSK's performance because that would've distracted me from flailing.

Okay so first was Hyori. The fans cheered a lot for her. She came out and did what she does and then she left after three songs. Then there were a bunch of people who performed who I had no idea who they were. Golf&Mike sang something. Two songs I think? I don't know any of their songs, I just know of them. So let's skip to someone that I do know-FT Island. They came out maybe 5 or 6th? Anyway they sang one song! I was shocked! It wasn't even one of their singles. I thought if anything they would sing '사랑앓이' but they sang Primadona. I feel bad for their fanclub, just one song. Hell, I felt bad for me too! I don't even like Primadona.

Moving on~I am just going to skip to SuJu because honestly I really didn't know any of the people there besides the Korean artists. SuJu I couldn't see. Fangirls appeared out of thin air and were standing on a box that was near the camera stand and in the aisle and like on top of each other. I am not that tall (5'3 1/2") So this shit was not cool. So I maneuvered to a place were I could see the screen and their legs and occasionally I saw people. I noticed HeeChul because that hair is fucking bright! And then I saw the violinist clearly enough, but I thought he was just some random Suju member because really there are 13 so why wouldn't there be a violinist? LOL. Only after coming back and reading about their new MV did I learn that he wasn't a member. Oh Well.

It started to rain too at one point, well many points, in the concert. I so got ripped off by an ajusshi! He sold me a raincoat for 5,000won because it was raining at that point but before the con those things were 1,000won. So as the concert progressed after a band would finish there were chants for DBSK to come out, I felt the same way. I started to feel that thing was never going to end, especially around 10 when there were still people who weren't DBSK coming on stage. I also started to wonder when it was going to end because trains stop running around midnight. Anyway, I thought that DBSK was coming out soon so I moved, but I was wrong and lost my seat because of my folly. So I needed to find a new seat. Remember I mentioned I came with a gaggle of foreigners? Well two of them had a seat near them so I took it, though it wasn't easy since it was in the middle of a row. While making my way to my seat, I lost my free poster! This made me really sad. Speaking of seats. The girls in the middle were crazy. They kept scooting their seats up and eventually filled in the aisle so that confused the shit out of people who were up for whatever reason.

So more people performed and FT Island's fanclub mostly left (I would've too if I was them and you know they are all like 12 anyway). F4 came out but they didn't perform. They talked. Or at least I don't think they all performed. Vaness (sp?) performed though for sure. And finally SG Wannabe came out though it kind of pissed me off because damnit I wanted to leave and I was hoping that they just didn't come. I felt bad for them though because during their performance Cassiopeia kept looking towards backstage and screaming which caused other people to stand and try to see why they were screaming. Supposedly they could see DBSK walking around, I don't believe it. But it was very rude to SG Wannabe.

Okay so finally DBSK came out. Had to get my game face on! In preparation, I tied my light stick around my wrist so it wouldn't fall off in my flailing to a beat. My balloon was abandoned in the quest for a seat. The girls behind me had it, but that shit was troublesome so I let them keep it. DBSK rose out of the ground and I commenced to screaming like everyone else and doing the whole up-down waving motion thing with my glow stick. They are so attractive! I basically kept my eyes going between YunHo and JaeJoong the whole time. I also realized that they dance near each other a lot during Rising Sun which was very convienent for me. Now YunHo isn't my favorite member, he is just kind of there for me and he talks for them. But for some reason being there and seeing him live, he was sexy. So very sexy. Even his dancing spazz thing that I normally make fun of all the sudden seemed so cool. *o* And JaeJoong. I don't like his hair color...or at least I thought so, but it looked so pretty. I honestly don't even remember what Junsu looked like. LOL. And I like him a lot!!! Changmin's hair was fucked up! When I saw that I was like "What happened to him?" It looked like he had been through something. It was like a mane and it didn't really move. How did that happen?

Now JaeJoong easily had the most banners (I counted during that time from 4-6:30...I was so bored). There were more that aren't in my pictures. Even though JaeJoong had the most banners, YooChun easily got the most screams out of all of them. Shoot, I screamed every time JaeJoong sang or danced in the front! And I screamed a lot for Yunho too! ^^ I didn't really know the second song, but I still continued to scream and wave my light stick. YunHo sounded so nice in that song too *_*. I swear this concert has turned me into a YunHo fan. When they mentioned the 'TVXQ Fly' thing, I looked though I had already seen it. I feel like they said it was cute. I feel like they said it in English, but maybe not? I dunno it was loud. When they talked after the second song they sounded weird. They sounded different then during the intro part or maybe my hearing was fucked up. YunHo's voice sounded really soft.

When they got in formation for their 3rd song, I started screaming because I love O! I screamed along to the lyrics and fervently waved my light stick up and down. My arm hurt so much. The whole tying thing was a good idea in theory, but it made it so I couldn't switch arms because I would have to unwrap it and then wrap it again causing me to lose precious watching time. So I sucked it up (I sound crazy, don't I). The opening part was so cool! YunHo did something different than blowing feathers. So I screamed my head off! After that song they were like, 'peace' and walked off stage even though people were chanting for an encore. That one girl got to sing 4 songs, why not them! After sitting through 4 hours for them. T_T Even though I sat through the boredom and the rain, the 3 songs made up for it. Seeing them live is amazing! It is hard to describe.

Anyway, we booked it when they got off stage. I didn't see the award thing or whatever because I didn't care? I needed to get home! It was already 11 and I wasn't sure I'd make the first train. Well, I decided I was getting on the first train; I was going to push my way through. But see, what I wanted didn't really matter. I was pushed on the train by a massive of people. I have never experienced something like that and I have been on crowded trains. When it came time to change at Hapjeong, I was pushed off much in the same way that I was pushed on. Almost tripped too getting off. And then I had to run to the next train so I could get on too.

And that was the Asia song festival. 12 hours at the World Cup Stadium, around 4 hours waiting for DBSK, 15 minutes of magic (LOL) and then pushed on/off a train.

I've been writing this for over an hour, it is now 2:34 am. Wow.

//edit: I totally just realized my mistake in complaining about how someone else sung 4 songs to dbsk's 3. Oh well...

I deleted the original post by accident ㅋㅋㅋ

2006-11-04T02:04:17Z

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My ridiculously long report about Asia Song festival w/ pics & forgotten names of performers

I deleted the original post by accident ㅋㅋㅋ