SHINee at the Olympic....Pep Rally?

I have a new resolution this SHINee comeback/festival season. I really want to write at least a little on my blog about every SHINee event I go to. Too often I've started writing these long involved blog posts about SHINee events and then never had the time to finish them so now they're super late and I can't remember all the fine details. Not this time! So in the spirit of getting straight into it, I though I'd write briefly about SHINee's appearance at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic....Festival? In Korean it was called a concert for 성공기원 which means hoping for success or something like that. Of course in English the 2018 Olympic Hope for Success concert sounds really strange so I guess it's kind of like a K-pop concert pep rally?

SHINee World Concert V

SHINee World Concert V is over and I'm back at work which is very very disappointing after the weekend we've just had. Fortunately Chuseok Holiday is next week so I only need to soldier on through the next few days!

Jonghyun 좋아 Showcase

Long time no write! I'm really excited to write a blog post about Jonghyun's showcase last night because was such an unexpected surprise. For some context, Jonghyun's first full length album is out this week and last week SM announced Jonghyun would be having a showcase Monday 23rd before the midnight release of the album. The thing with showcases is they're notoriously very difficult to get into. SM basically did this bizarre thing where they did ticketing via yes24 and then selected only 250 of the 500 people who got tickets. When I first saw this I thought I wasn't reading properly but then I remembered the shit show of people scalping tickets for hundreds of dollars for Taemin's showcase and realized this was a round-a-bout way of SM discouraging scalpers no doubt.

Save the Green Earth

Kim Kibum's newest project gets a 10 out of 10, would do again rating from me~ Key's performance of Byeonggu in Save the Green Earth debuted April 12 here in Korea and man was it a rough ride. This play is really confronting and then hysterical in the same breathe so I found myself getting a bit of emotional whiplash from all the insanity on stage. 

Things I took away from Key's The Moment lecture

This is another post I wrote a long time ago and never made public because I didn't finish a conclusion. I wrote it in November the day after Key's The Moment fashion lecture. I'm posting it now because Key is just...I had such a hard time putting into words how humbled and inspired and emotional I felt after hearing him speak at this lecture. It was such a special event and I often think about things he said at this when I'm feeling discouraged or down and need something to keep me going.

Taemin Fanmeet

Taemin promotions for Press Your Number are over. Which is a little surreal and sad because just yesterday we were lightheartedly saying we were looking forward to resting now that promotions are over and now I wish we were going to more promotions this week.

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: