SHINee 7th Anniversary Picnic

Prefacing this post: I wrote a large portion of this the day of SHINee's 7th Anniversary Picnic cruise after I got home and rather than editing it I'm just going to leave as it is and then add on the end ^.^ Here we go:

The Story by Jonghyun Epilogue

It's been such a long time since I've written here! I started writing something about Key's The Moment lecture but I was suddenly swamped and never finished. Hopefully I can dedicate some time to writing that up later. In any case, here we are post Jonghyun's Epilogue concert! As many of you already know, Jonghyun performed 12 solo concerts back in October titled The Story and this weekend just gone he put on an additional 5 shows which brings his total to a phenomenal 17 shows worth of joy, misery, wonder and just plain old emotion.

SHINee fandom - English Speakers

I got this question via ask and since it's so long I thought I'd put my answer here since I think it's a really interesting question.

10 Music Show Recording No-nos

I started writing this a few weeks ago during View promotions, but it got a little away from me and I needed to take a breather from it. Since it's summer break and a lot of tourists are here and looking to head to music shows, especially with SHINee's repackage 'Married to the Music' coming up, this is probably good timing for this anyway. So here we have it, your master post on rules when attending Korean music show recordings. I feel like this is really important to address because lately we've been having a lot of problems with rule breaking at music shows.

9 reasons photo taking is banned at SHINee events

Moving right into post number 2 for the day. Another one important for fans visiting Korea and wanting to go to events. I think it's something a lot of people online struggle with as well and that's why we are not supposed to take photos and post them online at certain events.

I know this upsets a lot of people and it feels like the staff and fans in Korea are purposely trying to not include international fans but honestly this is NOT the case at all. This rule is not at all motivated by any desire to not share things or not include anyone. As an example; the fansites in Korea make their money selling their goods to mostly international fans, so of course they're all about spreading photos online when it's allowed. But here's some reasons photo taking is generally forbidden:

SHINee does care about fans

There are a million things I'd rather be writing after SHINee's goodbye weekend but seems there's a situation that needs some justifying ^.^;;; The fan system in Korea is really really complicated and while it's possible to have a shallow understanding from other online sources, since it's summer and I know a lot of people are hoping to visit and see SHINee at this time I feel like this is important information for not only people planning to go to events but also for fans online who are confused about why drama arises in certain situations. I think I'm going to pump out a few posts
covering a few topics this morning hopefully but here's number 1. This is a case example of how the system has been painfully misunderstood.

BOLD FOR THE TLDR

Regarding this dumbass article translation

So overnight kpopfans blog vlah thing posted a translated naver article about how a source says that a boy group member has come out as gay to his group members and all of them suspected it since before debut. The group is meant to be known well for synchronized choreography.

SHINee's Tokyo Dome

I started writing this post weeks ago and honestly I've been really frustrated with it. I'm just kind of posting, even though there's more I'd like to say, but at this point I think it's just mad ramblings. A lot happened in the space of two days and it was an amazing amazing experience, so I think I'm struggling to put it into words well. Please forgive me for not writing something more interesting or eloquent~

Jonghyun Base Fan Meeting

As most people reading would probably know Jonghyun debuted with his solo album Base this week and Sunday was his first Inkigayo stage as well as his first solo fanmeeting.

I'm hurt and annoyed. part 525

So I got an ask.fm question this morning and since there's a word limit I thought I'd throw it over here and write out an answer because I wanted to get really wordy about this since it....ignites passion in my soul to say the least.