KrauserOppa的小小Kpop天地 / KrauserOppa's Little Kpop World: The best timing to chase idols

Today I would like to write something related with KPOP according to my own experience~

When you started to like a certain idol group,
which stage of career they are at?
Just debuted?
Starting to have a bit of popularity?
After winning trophy at music show?
After becoming worldwide popular?

From my own opinion,
for international fans who do not know Korean language,
and will not purposely fly to Korea to see idols,
the best timing will be when there are kind people who willing to sub for the idol group.
So no matter which variety show the idols attended,
as long as there is sub,
then there will be no problem to understand what the idols said,
and able to fully enjoy the show~~~

However,
for those international fans who always fly to Korea to see idols,
and also local fans,
the best timing to chase idols would be totally different.

So what is the best timing for them?

Maybe a lot of people will think that the answer is when the group just debuted..........
Even me also thought like that at first,
since there are a lot of benefits to chase the idols who just debuted:

1)No need to fight with other fans for the limited fan seats of music shows,
no matter which music shows you are almost guaranteed to enter,
can watch until you get bored and scared to go music shows~
(Yeah is true, I scare to attend the live broadcast, especially Show Champion and M countdown which we need to stand until the end of live broadcast, also Simply Kpop which sometimes took super long time to record. I only scared of live broadcast though, I still like to attend pre-recording~)

2)Easier for the idols to remember you.
Since the idols just debuted, the amount of fans might be less than 10,
so very easy to remember each fan.
Also, the feeling when the idol thanked you for the fan letter,
and said that you are the 1st one who gave her hand-written letter~~~
(My examples are AOA Choa, original MINX members from DREAMCATCHER, SONAMOO Minjae, and GOOD DAY members~

3)A lot of fan services.
Since just debuted,
the company wanted to attract more new fans,
so they will distribute a lot of gifts when you came to join their recording,
for examples like special photocards, hand-written message, signed polaroid and so on.
(That's why I have so many special photocards, I even have more than 10 polaroid photos of an idol group ~)

4) Spent less money.
The fansign event for idols who just debuted usually are first come first serve,
so we just need to buy one album only,
no need to buy a box of albums and pray hardly that we will get picked~
(Plus.... after buying a box of albums, is actually quite troublesome to settle the albums......)

5) Easy communication.
For example when the idols do Vlive or other live shows,
the comments left by you are easier to be read by the idols,
no need fight so hard with other fans~
(Reminded me of the time when DREAMCATCHER re-debut, they read so many my comments during Vlive, now? Too many fans so I don't want to waste my time and energy to leave any comment ..........)

That's all for the benefits of going for idols which just debuted.

Of course,
I wasn't correct.

There is a better timing,
the..........
...........
.........
..........trainee period~

Last time I didn't agree with it,
since you have to sacrifice whole day just to wait for the trainees to come to company,
and it is quite sasaeng.
However,
nowadays there are more and more survival shows for trainees,
I realized that things started to be differently.

For example,
Star Empire Girls which is a group of female trainees under Star Empire Ent Company,
they came out to do busking.
(if you wondering who are them, MIXNINE participant Jang Hyekyeong is one of them~)

Few days before I write this article,
JTG Ent Company (BERRY GOOD company) even give chance for fans to chase the male trainees~~~

How??

Since unit group of BERRY GOOD is having comeback stage at M Countdown,
with this song: (Let me promote BERRY GOOD a bit~)

The backup dancers are all JTG male trainees.
Thus,
not only fan seats for BERRY GOOD fans were provided,
they also prepared fan seats for fans of the male trainees~

The fans just need to clarify that they coming to see the male trainees when registering for recording of music shows at BERRY GOOD official fan cafe~

So everyone go to music shows to see idols,
the fans go to music shows to see the backup dancers~~~

According to my friend Y who attended BERRY GOOD pre-record at M Countdown,
total 40 fans came.
Out of them, 20 are BERRY GOOD fans,
and the rest 20 are fans of male trainees LOL

I think...................
maybe next week JTG will hold a mini fan meeting for backup dancers LOL

Of course,
it is very obvious that JTG did it to promote their future boy group.

By doing that,
JTG also providing chances for fans to start chasing the idols before they debut~

At the future,
will there be more and more companies trying to secure fans earlier during trainees period,
and no need to wait until debuting?

Thanks for reading.