→ Anonymous shouted : hi... dumb question, but why do music shows need pre-recordings when they have lives later on? i don't really understand the whole pre-recording + live aspect of music shows... there still seems to be blunders (shots of the wrong members, shots showing choreo mistakes, sound problems,etc) during music shows. if those were pre-recorded, couldn't they be edited out?

So that the live can run smoothly, so groups that can’t be at the live later can still be on the show, so more of a group’s fanclub can get in to see them, etc etc… There are all sort of reasons.

Most of the mistakes would be ones from things just during the live. Though showing the wrong member could just be because they decided to shoot that member, or choreo mistakes because otherwise the rest of it was still better than other takes or someone didn’t notice it.

→ Anonymous shouted : Is it a plus or a minus to be white in korea?

Minus. Big minus.

I might enjoy the attention, but most people don’t. And not all of the attention is positive, so…

→ Anonymous shouted : Do you ever get tired of living in Korea?

I might get a bit tired of it, but I don’t want to go back to the US, so I’m content. :3

→ Anonymous shouted : OMG where did your friend meet Eli? fanmeet? does he know her personally?

At a fansign today, and she’s one of the Kiss Mes who goes to pretty much everything.

She asked me to not give out information about her, so that’s all you guys are getting. :3 No more questions.

→ Anonymous shouted : oh god, please change back to your old theme, the white hurts my eyes

I like it though… it’s more organized… ;o;

→ Anonymous shouted : you met leeteuk?? details!

Here.

He went to Kona Beans. Took orders. I ordered and kept my friend from running away. Went back to our seats, I wrote a quick fanletter and tried to give it to his mom to give to him, she was just like OMG NO GIVE IT TO HIM PERSONALLY and made him pay attention to me and my friend as we gave it.

At the MBC Music Festival on January 31st (which for some reason I don’t have a fan account up for? O.o) the stairs to get off stage were right by me and the same friend. Super Junior came down there. I called out for Eeteuk. He looked and got an “OMG YOU GUYS :DDDD” look on his face and grabbed both of our hands to shake and smiled warmly. :3

→ Anonymous shouted : You know how for music shows, particular fandoms will line up for the particular group they would like to watch right? But how bout those that don't really have much fans yet? especially with unpopular rookies? Do other fandoms watch them or what? :S

Groups that don’t have many fans generally don’t have a prerecording and are only in the live. In the case that they have a prerecording, several groups that have not as many fans will be put together. This often happens with girl groups.

If you get into the live, you have to watch everyone.

→ jadeetoken shouted : Saw your post on EXO! SM must make a heck of a lot of money from their intl fanbase, it feels like they put so much effort/money into producing/promoting EXO, yet they're not very popular in Korea. I'm assuming SNSD has a really big fanbase both in and out of Korea though? Also, crazy new Inspirits are scary. I see now why you're not totally excited to go to their comeback performances and all ;A;

I’m sure they’re sort of counting on it, haha… For SNSD I don’t know for sure the comparison between the size of their Korean and the size of their international fanbases… But for Super Junior, even though they have a ton of people at music shows (300~400 regularly which isn’t quite so abnormal now, but was back during Mr. Simple/A-CHA) a lot of the people were foreign, and their foreign fanbase is even larger. @_@

Also, yes. :| Excited for the comeback. Excited to watch the comeback performance. Not excited for the process I will have to go through…

→ Anonymous shouted : Reading about how you have been living in Korea, learning the language, and attending idol events makes me want to do the same. The only problem is that I'm a really slow learner and I think I read in your other post that you said it was difficult. Do you think I would be able to attend the language school even though I may not be a fast learner?

The language school goes at a pretty fast pace, especially in the A course. If you really want to I’d say give it a try for at least one term, but if you’re a slow learner you’d have to put in extra effort to make sure you were learning the vocab and grammar as you go.

I’m able to keep all As without studying because languages are what I’m good at and I’m going out and using the language all the time, but I know some people who study hours and hours a night. If you do try, find what works for you and stick with it! :3

→ Anonymous shouted : blog(.)daum(.)net/nu_est/22 here~

Thank you! Source now added to the post… haha.