How 12 year olds see SHINee in Korea o.O

Questions will occasionally pop up via ask.fm about how SHINee is perceived in the general Korean populace. I should start off by saying I hate generalizing people. I feel really stupid if I try and speak for an entire group, because there's always going to be people who have a different opinion on the situation. Truth is unless we take a poll of the Korean population we're not really going to know how popular SHINee is but I'll try and give you a vague idea from my own observations.

Key's completely awesome and here's a few reasons why.

Been writing a lot of research-y fandom issue serious business posts lately so I wanted to do something a little fun. I've been rewatching a few old fancams lately and decided I wanted to compile a few videos I totally adore so here we have it: The Key appreciation post ^.^

I have a lot of love for the rest of SHINee so I think I'll throw together a few posts like this for destress purposes in the future. ^.^

I dunno about you guys, but one of my favorite things come concert time is anticipating what sort of solo work SHINee's going to pump out. I'm very rarely disapointed. When SHINee World Concert 3 rolled around and there was no solos I couldn't actually bring myself to be too upset because we got solos at SHINee's Anniversary showcase and The Wizard.

Why everyone hates WGM

A lot of people asked me questions about this a few months back when the issue re-exploded over the Taemin Nae-eun advertisement in the Korean subways. Basically a group of TaeEun shippers chose to take at an advertisement in a large, very public subway station congratulating Taemin and Nae-eun on their ‘one year anniversary.’ Maybe this post is a little late, but I still get questions about We Got Married to this day so I figure people are still confused. As always, I hope this post doesn’t reignite any hate or drama: we’re hoping for the opposite. A little understanding of where people are coming from on all sides can only help, right?

I've seen this question answered a few times but there's still a lot of fans who are confused as to why We Got Married is despised as much as it is by certain circles of Korean SHINee fans. And really I don't blame anyone for being confused because I've never seen a fantastic explanation in English. So I'm going to attempt explaining as best I can after asking around a little and gathering a few different sources. This might be a little late but I hope it helps people understand just why Korean fans are so upset at supposed WGM shippers and the We Got Married franchise in general.

How International Fans can protect SHINee and their privacy

Before I even write anything more about this I want to make it clear that I really don't want to incite any hate or drama. I started this blog so I could share information and talk about issues within SHINee's fandom that are important to me. This is NOT a call to war or an invitation to attack anyone I mention in this post. I don't want people to spread hate or get angry. I'm hoping that people can become very aware of the behavior they are enabling by reblogging certain materials.

And now, for something different: A day in Apgujeong Garusogil

People ask me for recomendations in my ask.fm of places to travel in Korea every now and then and I can't say I'm much of a foodie expert nor do I think I can contribute much more to the numerous lists that exist online about awesome places to check out in Korea. But as someone who might share a few more interests with the average SHINee/k-pop fan travelling to Korea I thought I might share a few places I personally like to hang out.

I'm a Key bias, as most of you already know, so it's probably no surprise that I really like shopping and fashion. I also really like interesting foods so that's mostly what I'll show off. Me and a friend hit Garusogil for the day and walked all the way up to Apgujeong Rodeo. Quite a lot of walking as you can see:

So this is what our daytrip looked like on a map. Pretty intense right?

(Warning: picture heavy post ahead)

Why writing fan accounts is really hard

So this post is something I've been thinking about for awhile. I need to get some worries off my chest regarding fan account inaccuracies and why writing fan accounts is sometimes really complicated. I don't want this to turn into a pity me fest, I just want to confess a few things. I've been writing fan accounts publicly for only a few months now. I don't have too many followers on twitter, but I am aware that my fan accounts are spread in forums, re-tweeted and translated into different languages. The problem is that I make mistakes. I make typos. In the heat of the moment I write something and mean it one way, and without meaning to my words can have a different interpretation. It's something I've begun to really worry about as I see the problems bad fan accounts can cause.