Since is almost end of the year, so I am thinking why don't I write an article to conclude my idols related activities in year 2017~ Since the start of year 2017, I told myself that I will not go Korea from January until June, to fully focus on my career, then only take a long holiday at 2nd half of 2017, to go to Korea for around one to two months during SONAMOO comeback, to be there to support Minjae for the whole promotion period. As a consequence, I missed the January comeback of SONAMOO and AOA, also I missed the debut of DREAMCATCHER........... During this year, Choa also left AOA. If you read my memories with AOA articles, you should know that my bias in AOA is Choa. That time when I first found out that she left AOA, frankly speaking I didn't feel sad, instead I felt like a large stone was gone from pressuring my heart, since Choa didn't want to stay at AOA, just leave then. My personal opinion though~ During June however, I broke my promise to myself and flew to Korea for three days. I was very busy that time, so I reached Korea at Friday, joined the Makestar lunch with LABOUM at Saturday, then I left Korea at Sunday. Starting July, I was anxiously waiting for announcement of SONAMOO comeback, then I can take a long holiday to go Korea for one to two months. However, what I excepted didn't turn out. Yes, SONAMOO did announce a comeback, but is HAPPY BOX PROJECT. Three times short comeback, then only a proper comeback with full album! That time I was thinking....... so SONAMOO will release one song per month? August, September, October? Which meant I need to stay Korea for so long? IMPOSSIBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! So, I didn't go to Korea for SONAMOO "Friday Night" comeback at August. Instead, I went to Korea at end of August, to join the Makestar tea time and lunch with SONAMOO. Since that time I still expecting SONAMOO will release one song per month, so they should release the 2nd song at September right? I took a long holiday to plan to stay at Korea for the whole September. So yeah, after the Makestar event, SONAMOO had no news at all................... all the things again didn't turn out as what I expected~ Eventually GOOD DAY debuted around that time, so I went to see them just to spend my times at Korea. Okay, GOOD DAY's songs are so good~ Their fan managers even treated us very well~ So I followed GOOD DAY for their whole debut promotion period, until early October only left Korea. Originally I flew to Korea for SONAMOO, but most of the time at Korea I was seeing GOOD DAY, yeah life is just unpredictable~ Since I went to see GOOD DAY music shows recordings starting from debut stage until goodbye stage, my attendance was so high that I am NO.1 with another Korean fan, so both of us received some prizes, including Video Message and Morning Call MP3 File from a member that we chose. At the end of October I started to blog, originally just to record down my past experiences of seeing idols at Korea, all of a sudden most of my favorite groups are either joining The Unit or MIXNINE, so I started to watch all these survival shows. For year 2017, for things that I regretted the most, are that I didn't go to see Choa for one last time during AOA January comeback, also, I didn't see BERRY GOOD at all. The happiest moment of year 2017, are Makestar Special Fanmeeting with SONAMOO and LABOUM~ Also, first time for me to go to support debut group GOOD DAY, during their debut week, only three fans came to the Music Bank recording including me, it was a very special experiences~ For the coming year 2018, I wonder what will I be experiencing? Frankly speaking, I did get tired of going to Korea for idols, so I don't think so there will be a lot of new memories next year, this blog will still be mainly based on my past memories~ Oh yeah, HAPPY NEW YEAR~ Thanks for reading.
If you want to search for previous chapters, feel free to visit My KPOP Memories Timeline ~ 7th August 2013 (Wednesday) Today Show Champion having pre-record of MOYA stage, since my trip will be ending in just a few days, plus AOA didn't have any other music shows for the next few days, so this might be my last time to watch MOYA performance. Friend K, friend L and me didn't know where the recording was taking place, but since friend Y last week went to Show Champion, so he was leading the way for us. We departed by subway from the guesthouse we stayed, took almost an hour, finally reached our destination station. Friend Y leaded us until we reached in front of a building, which is not very tall but wide. There was a very large poster of a boy group hanging at the wall of the building, and more than hundred female fans were around the building, male? Only 4 of us........... Wow...... Boy group really popular....... We still didn't notice something was wrong that time. 10am,was the gathering time written on the notice at fan cafe, we looked around, only saw all the female fans, none of the AOA fans that we always saw during recording were here. Another 5 minutes passed, still nothing. Okay, now we started to feel something is wrong, so friend Y who was the only one able to surf internet by phone went to check the notice again at fan cafe. "Crap! We came to the WRONG place!" Friend Y suddenly realized that the recording venue changed, not the same as last week, and the correct venue was actually one station away from the guesthouse we stayed, we wasted an hour to go to the wrong place....... So now what? If used subway to go there, we need to spend another one hour, the pre-record might ended before we reached........ The fastest way to reach there, was by taxi! However, the taxi fare was 10times more than the subway fare, and there was possibility that we might not make it to the pre-record, the risk was huge! Friend K and L who were not that into AOA, straight away give up. As for me, since I am leaving soon, so today might be the last chance for me to watch MOYA stage, so I decided to take the risk! So friend Y and me together took a taxi, and rushed to the exact venue! The gathering time was 10am, and we reached there around 10.40am, I prepared taxi fare, thinking to do like what we always watched in drama, telling taxi driver to keep the change because we were rushing, but...... the taxi fare exactly same as how much I prepared, so I didn't have chance to spit out "no need change" from my mouth..... After getting off from the taxi, we quickly searched for AOA line, trying to find the familiar faces of AOA staffs and fans. Then.................. WE FOUND THEM!! We quickly went to the staffs for registration and took our numbers, then line up with AOA fans at behind. Phew............. I felt so relieved after worrying for more than half an hour~ After 11am, the staff of Show Champion came and asked us AOA fans to go into the recording place. I went in there and had a look.... GOOD! My taxi fare was totally worth it!! There were no other people and only AOA fans there, so we took the most in front spot of the standing zone, and we were so closed to the stage! How close? Please have a look:
Guess which fan is me~ Then members of AOA Black went on the stage, the pre-recording finally begun! Same like last time, we did our best to do fan chant when they performing, when recording stopped, we interacted with the members. Of course, I again shouted:"Choa fighting!!" "En! Fighting!" Choa replied while smiling at me, she even did the fighting pose~ Seeing how she responded, I can die without any regret already......... After pre-recording was done, we came out. Since only 5 fans can enter the live recording, friend Y and me were numbered after no.5 since we were late, so we just ended our schedules earlier. Then............ If you watched my memories with SNSD chapter2, you already knew that I had the habit of watching the same musical two times, so after one or two days, I again went to watch Choa's High School Musical. After that, I went back to my country. Just one or two weeks passed after I left Korea, suddenly an announcement was released that AOA is going to comeback with new song "Confused"!! Go to Korea one more time? I just went there not even two months....... So I made a hard decision to give up the "Confused" comeback, and decided next year if AOA comeback again I must go Korea! But yeah.... Life is just unpredictable.... I didn't need to wait until next year, because AOA was going to Singapore! For your information, Singapore is located just beside my country only~ So near, of course must go support! Thus, here begins my memories with AOA chapter5 at Singapore........... Thanks for reading. Teaser 1 - DREAMCATCHER chapter4 A signed gift from MINX & a mysterical message Teaser 2 - LOONA chapter2 Kim Lip beat me............... Teaser 3 - SONAMOO chapter4 Follow-up comeback, coincidentally I was at Korea again........
Guess how much time I spent to watch this episode? The answer is........... ................................. ................................. ................................. just 10 mintues only~ This is because I only watched the female participants parts, so only the first 10 minutes where they revealed the performance results, then closed already. So the ranking for 2nd round performances........... NO.5 , which is the last place:
The team which performed "HONEY" by KARA. The benefit point for NO.5 team is zero, so those members whose ranking are lower, might get eliminated and will not appear at 3rd round.......... Guess I need to say good bye to the cutie Im Sohyeon.................... T_T Then NO.4:
The team which performed "Tell Me Your Wish" by SNSD, Benefit points 3000, might be a slight help for them. Then NO.3:
The team which performed "I'm Your Girl" by SES, Benefit points 5000, I wonder how much it is going to help the members. Lastly, the NO.1 and NO.2 were announced together:
The NO.1 and NO.2 are easy to differentiate right? See the white shirt team so happy~ So the NO.2 is the blue shirt team which performed "Really Really" by WINNER, Benefit points 7000, a strong team which consists of TOP1, TOP2, TOP4..... The team which defeated all the teams and became NO.1 is the team performed "Bad Girl Good Girl" by MISS A! Benefit points 10000! Should be a great help for them~ That's all for this episode, next week should be the elimination episode again........ Thanks for reading.
This episode continued with the 2nd round of performances stages. First one was the battle between vocal team, Green VS Yelllow. Green Team Members: 1) NCA 2) Haena 3) Yebin 4) Yujeong (Laboum) 5) Lucky 6) Kang Minhee 7) Seol Hayoon 8) Eun.E 9) Gaeul Yujeong whose ranking kept dropping finally received some screen times:
Yebin and Seol Hayoon even went to spy another team.
Originally Green Team planned to sing "Love In The Ice", Lucky who is born at year 2001 said she never heard the song before~
Generation gap~~~ The part where the teammates tried to mimic Seol Hayoon is quite funny:
Poor Lucky.... the teammates recorded her sleeping face.......... KBS really like to show the "not so pretty" side of the participants LOL Well.... at least they shown that Lucky is good at making PPT. So everything went smoothly, until the middle evaluation, the senior said she didn't sure whether the song is suitable for them or not:
So Green Team now needed to choose another song, suddenly Seol Hayoon having panic attack and was rushed to the hospital. The performance:
Next is Yellow Team which only left with 5 members after the first elimination, the team members: 1) Heejin 2) Yeoeun 3) Woohee 4) Hyeyeon 5) Shin Jihoon The atmosphere was silent and down at first.......... Good Day leader Heejin tried her best to push on the progression of choosing song, won some screen times for herself, Yeoeun also received some screen times:
The middle evaluation：
After the first elimination, the remaining five survivors did the performance:
After the performance, is time to reveal the results：
Congratulations to Yellow Team!!
A tensed battle, the difference of votes were only 54 votes! Ranking inside Yellow Team:
Congratulations to small giant Heejin!! The ranking inside Green Team:
Matilda member Haena and Semmi, seems like they are rising!! Last one is Performance battle, Powerful dance Red Team VS Beautiful dance line Black Team. Black Team members: 1) Euijin 2) ZN 3) Lee Hyunjoo 4) Lee Borim 5) Haein 6) DanA 7) Park Jiwon 8) Yena 9) Serri The team started with self-introduction, the gap of age is around 10 years old:
After struggling for so long, Greyish member Yena finally received some screen times. Then they started to choreographs the dance moves. The moves of the intro part was done quickly with the co-operation of Haein and Euijin:
Haein who likes sexy concept didn't have the chance to show it at Laboum, so now she is like what teammate ZN said: a fish meeting the water~ The performance:
Last one is Red Team, the members are: 1) Hyosun 2) Nari 3) Lee Suji 4) Anne 5) Viva 6) Mint 7) Lee Juhyeon Congratulations to Anne for receiving some screen times:
Among those newbie girl groups which joined The Unit, if Good Day is the biggest winner in terms of promoting their team, then the 2nd winner should be SIS~ The middle evaluation:
Since most the dance moves of Red Team was just copied and not choreographed by themselves, so Rain said that their stage didn't leave anything in his memory, instead the stage of Black Team left an impact in his memory. By the way, seems like Euijin really need to take care of her health, lately she also having running nose while doing V app....
There are so many members in Black Team, I don't understand why PD must aired this................... After the middle evaluation, Red Team re-design their performance, finally went on the stage:
Then is the time to reveal the result:
Congratulations to Black Team!!
Another tensed battle, the difference was only 39 votes! Ranking inside Black Team:
Ranking inside Red Team:
The final winning team was revealed as well:
Congratulations to "Who's your mama" tean~~~~ So Yuna Kim, Semmi and Somyi were safe from 2nd elimination, but I think the one who really needed it is just Semmi........... That's all for this episode, next episode should be about the 2nd elimination~ Thanks for reading.
