Concerts

I've been actually quite busy lately due camps at the work and such BUT also because of Beast comeback. Although, because of work I cannot go anywhere, I just go to concerts. Beast x2, last Sunday was Shinhwa, Thursday will be K.Will and later this month is BAP. And in September there will be Beast in Busan.

That is shit load of concerts and very expensive but it's only once I live here and can go. I am pissed off though that due the work aka sitting and doing nothing in office stops me from going to the events that has Beast. Sigh.

No new news on bf field although friend promised to set me up with someone. I mean, it cannot be that hard to find tall, athletic guy in here -.-;; maybe they just loathe the idea of dating a foreigner. I think it is just that.

I went to FC Seoul vs Suwon Samsung Bluewings football match. I am Suwon fan but my friends are Seoul fans so I was stuck in the Seoul side, their fan section at the end. First of all, they were standing all the time so I couldn't see the game, their cheering was so loud that my ears hurt too much (fucking vuvuzelas are allowed here!) and in the end we lost 2-1 so I was theonly depressed on that side.

And I've gained a lot of weight so I need to find a way to lose it. It's really hot too, every day over 30 degrees. BUT I can suffer through it for my boys.

K-culture expert tour guide

Another update right after the other but hey, I've been neglegting this blog. I'm sorry guys ;~; I wanted to update too but I've been really busy.

Anyways, I've been appointed as official Korean culture expert by Seoul Tourism Organization. Their marketing team contacted me after I left application. And part of the whole thing is to promote it as well so here I am talking about it.

Basically, I can make a tour about KPOP that includes but is not limited to karaoke, visiting the companies, their official stores, eating where idols eat/idol owned restaurants etc.  Now I have one week to design the tour so I need to think about the options.

If you would take part of a KPOP themed tour, where would YOU want to go? Let me know in comments

Guerilla concerts

What I really love about Korea is the free concerts they have once in a while for album releases and comebacks.

On 15th June I went to B2ST's B2UTY PARTY guerilla concert. I went there 9am to wait for a ticket and the concert was at 8pm. I got home part 11pm that day.

The thing is, if you first tihnk free concert or guerilla concert you get this image of a small concert at some street corner or park, no? But as it is Cube Entertainment and B2ST is huge, the whole guerilla concert.. well, it was concert. 3500 fans came and you know it's free?! I just kept thinking how much the cost is for the company. But it was amazing, definitely one of my best days in Korea by far.

More my photos at my Tumblr or Naver blog

Another guerilla concert I went was Skull and Haha's in Hongdae. And that's what I would call guerilla as well. It was small stage in a street, intimate and really a party. LOVED IT.

And the best part is that Haha actually replied to me on twitter after it :D

More pics will be on my Naver blog

Dream Concert and Dream Team

Let me start with how amazing b2uty is. No kidding. Our cheering for other groups was much more than I thought, also cheering for Tiara and not participating to the black ocean which most seemed to participate. Tiara's fanclub even thanked us for that. Inspirit said they're envious about Cube artists because b2uty cheered so loudly for 4minute too. 2AM's Jokwon even tweeted a video of b2uty singing 2AM's song so loudly that the fans actually covered their own voices. B2uty stayed back to clean up the arena too. Makes me a really really proud to be part of this fandom who started and still does so many amazing things. B2ST and B2UTY shine together to the end.

Other than that, the b2uty zone and my seat was way too far to even see anything, the screenwork was awful so it didn't really help and the screens were small too. I need to go and review the photos from fanclub girls, they are amazing as always.

Yesterday, there was finally another Dream Team filming and hello Dongjun. So no matter how tired I was from the concert, I took subway and bus to the Dream Team filming in Uijeongbu. 500 or so photos and 5 hours in blazing sun. I really need to buy a scarf to wear but totally worth it.

Coffee

haven't written here in a while. It has been a blast really. Changed host family and work and yeah, just generally veru busy. But also there really hasn't been a lot to update.

Korea, also loves coffee like Finland. But the coffee they love is coffee mix with instant coffee,sugar and milk powder. This is somerthing I cannot drink.

Because of that, I have looked through the coffee section for some black coffee to have at work. And I will do reviews about the coffees while I try them and get new ones.

First is this.
HiKoco gourmet black coffee.
It was 3000won and has 3 bags of coffee. It looks like big teabag so I was a bit vary about how it'd taste.

Well, even after 10minutes of soaking the liquid (cannot be called coffee) was still very mild and vaguedly brown. To be honest, it was difficult to drink it. But there is still two more bags so next time I try with a bit less water

White Day

Have you heard of White Day? Maybe not. It is a day celebrated in Korea and Japan, icreasingly in trendy parts of China and Taiwan too, I believe. It is Valentine's Day, well another one of those. 14th of March, the White Day is when the boys give candy or chocolate to the girls. Basically that means, if you are dating you get candy anyways with some small gift. But, if you confessed on Valentine's Day, unlike in the west, you have to wait whole month to see if he gives you candy back or not.

For me it is just another reminder that I'm alone. But, thank you Korea! There is another day for us singles. Black Day in 14th of April when singles get together and eat delicious jjajangmyeong (noodles with black bean sause).

Co-workers were nice though and brough us girls some chocolate. <3

Oh fuck this

You know, I don't get annoyed that easily but being ignored and not having working internet really does things for me. No matter what I say, they don't care to fix the internet in my host family. Which means that I cannot call home (did I want or not), I cannot pay my bills or transfer money from Finland cos too afraid to use the online bank as the internet works on 3 minute intervals. Also, cannot watch anything online. It took me 4 days to try and watch one episode of Running Man until I finally gave up and never watched it. As the net keeps going off every fucking minute, I cannot even dl it.

I'm pretty much ignored in the office. New intern, who just got there received Infinite H and CN Blue albums. I've been there a month and never got anything. Hell, good that they say 'hello' to me during the whole 7h I am there. Good thing I'm working in 3 places now, at least the other two are friendly and have nice people who actually bother talking with me.

I just want to change the host family asap. One big reason is the internet. I really need it to do things. I cannot do secure online banking from public free wifi's on cafe. No way! But also I work 6pm/10pm on Friday nights so I cannot even return home after that. And on the funny side of this family, I has elastic wrap up on my whole forearm and partially on my palm for days and no one even asked what happened. While I had small pain batches on my wrist at work and everyone asked what is wrong with my hand. That's how much I'm cared about here. Just, I want to work again on the bus next Friday so get me that damn host family, okay?