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destinygyo · 8 years ago

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[FA] 040217 Shinhwa’s Unchanging Concert in Taipei

Hi! It’s me, Dee! It’s been a while after my last post about Snob’s comics (well I only do translation these days lol my bad ability to make gif doesn’t allow me to update other things in here) and now I am back to share my experience watching Shinhwa’s concert again!

It will be a long post and a lot of pictures inside, so bear it!

And I might forget about some parts, so please forgive me hehe

(PS: Do not reupload, edit, or crop the pictures inside. I know my own pics so well.)

To be honest, I was hesitant to go to Taipei’s concert because the venue still in Nangang Exhibition Center. When I went there on 2015 for Shinhwa’s concert too, the seating plan was too bad (no raised seats) so it’s hard to see them clearly. And the sound system was quite awful for me, I cannot hear their voice clearly because of the echo and sometimes the music sound was harder than their voice (I want to hear Hyesung’s and Dongwan’s high note come on)

But well, Shinhwa has too much attractive points after that. And yes, I am willing to rip my wallet for them.

The stage plan and seating plan were surprised me to be honest since on 2015, there was no long extension stage like that. So I guess there will be more interactions between fans and Shinhwa? (i will tell you about this later)

And this organizer worked harder and better than before (it’s different organizer, named No Fear). They gave some benefits for every people who will buy the ticket. Like for VIP ticket owners, they will get T-Shirt, poster, VIP pass (it’s only a card after it), photo cards, and orange (literally orange lol with the sticker of shinhwa’s unchanging concert logo this time).

I don’t have that much money to get VIP so I chose to buy B area which was quite close to the extension stage. However, getting a good place in B area was not easy too. After a lot of attempts on the ticketing day, I didn’t get the seat that I want. But my friend got one for me in B2 area with a good place, so well, HERE I AM FOR SHINHWA’S CONCERT.

I will skip everything about my accomodation and visa thing, since that’s not really important hehe. But if you want to ask, you can tweet me!

I arrived at Taipei on Feb 3rd, 22:35. I took a bus to Taipei Main Station and walked to my hotel, finished to clean up everything before going to bed on Feb 4th 1 AM. I was literally dying inside when I woke up, too tired to do everything. But hey, I need to get up and meet oppas, right?

After planning to meet my friends at 10 AM on Taipei Main Station, I cleaned myself up and walked to the nearest Family Mart to print my ticket (and buy my breakfast there, I miss Family Mart’s rice ball so much!) and I walked to Taipei Main Station to meet my friends.

It was the first time for me to meet them basically. We usually chat each other only on KKT and we finally met in Shinhwa concert! Always feel nice to meet new friends in concert time hehe.

We arrived at Nangang Exhibition Hall on 11:30? We tried to arrive earlier than before to line up for merchandise (starting on 12 PM) but well others started first lol. When we arrived there, there was a looooong line already with weird state (4 short lines and 1 freaking long line). I looked around to ask someone about merchandise when someone saw me and said I need to go to the end of long line to queue for merchandise.

Damn. Really really long tho.

After the door opened at 12 PM for merchandise, we were lining up to get in and ended to go to the 4th floor to buy the merchandise. The merchandise shop was on the front of venue’s gate so when we were queuing, we can hear the sounds from inside of venue. I can see the flower wreaths from some fansites such as ShinhwaTW. The staffs also were putting the gift boxes in front of the venue’s gate with cute sticker for each member on each box. I can see the sincerity of them working for this concert.

2 hours waiting and standing in the line to get Shinhwa’s merchandises. I bought two, a bag and T-Shirt for my friend who can’t go to Shinhwa’s concert this time (she went with me on 2015).

Too tired of standing and queuing, we looked for some place to sit and eat. We ended sitting on a German cafe in Nangang Exhibition Hall, eating and talking to each other before going to the concert.

5 PM. 1 hour before the concert. I can hear the staff’s voice screaming to let us know it’s the time for us to enter the venue. We went to the toilet first (arrived at MRT’s toilet at the end lol others were too full) and we walked inside of the venue at the end.

This was my view from my seat. Quite close to extension stage indeed.

I can find a banner on my seat with balloon pasted behind.

The concert should be started at 18:00 PM local time but I knew they will be late lol. After around 10 minutes late, the light went out, and the fanchant, “Shinhwa San!” started.

They started with Opening VCR, with organizers logo and name inside of it. First thought was the organizer made this but well, they might use it for every concert after this I think hehe.

And the concert began!

They showed up from behind of the opening LED screen, and the aura that they had was no joke. I screamed so hard that time and kept saying, “OMO OMO OTTOKE” like a crazy ahjumma and they started the concert with singing Brand New.

First Ment

After singing three songs, they started the first ment on the main stage. Eric opened the ment with a hope that we will have fun until the end while Junjin said his ment with Chinese (full if I remember it correctly). Even though he read the prompter, he did it quite smooth.

Hyesung did his ment after, reading the prompter so obvious and at the end he tried to say his ment in English (Steve Jung, everyone!). It was not complete English tho haha he just said, “Hi, Taiwan orange. Hello Taiwan orange. You are so beautiful, Taiwan orange. Junjin is beautiful too. Thank you.”

Minwoo did his short ment in Chinese and Dongwan too. Dongwan said “your thought and my thought is same” in Chinese as the end of his ment, made everyone laughing since he said it already for three times (three concerts, 2012, 2015, and 2017).

Andy was the last, asking people to be ready for the next song. And the lights went off once again, signalling the next show will start.

She Said, Acquainted Man, Young Gunz, and Orange. For Orange, they went to the extension stage in the middle, having some interactions to other fans. Dongwan kept flapping his hands like wanting to fly and I can see Minwoo played with Hyesung, Eric, and Andy, tried to show their skin slightly lol. Dongwan hugged Hyesung too low, and after that he said “sorry” in Chinese to Hyesung afraid to get hit. But since both of them stood close to my area, I can see Hyesung’s happy face and he said, “It’s okay, what’s wrong?” and he hugged Dongwan at the end.

Ah, in Orange, we had an event holding the banner.

VCR 1

It was similar to Dec concert, the teaser for their new variety show in February (V+).

Next song was Wild Eyes and gdi Dongwan killed me so hard in this song. The camera loved him so much and his expression showed a lot on the big screen in front of me. I can’t capture anything about his expression since I died a little that time.

Ment 2

Minwoo asked about how their performance was (Wild Eyes, and other songs). He said they started Wild Eyes a bit late, because the staff asked them not to come out first (but the lights turned on already). However everyone said it’s good, and suddenly Junjin mentioned about the Wild Eyes performance that they had on Weekly Idol (2x speed dance). He spoke his opinion how it turned to be better than others expected when suddenly fans yelled to show it again on the stage. Junjin was flustered, and Minwoo suddenly said “VCR!” with Junjin following behind. Fans booed, and Junjin reacted so funny, “If you all want us to show it again now, we won’t be able to sing next songs.” LOL

Next song after Ment 2 was Stay. Hyesung danced it with Eric, seems like it will be a tradition for them on Stay performance (?). For How Do I Say, they walked around to interact with fans while Hyesung started the thrusting dance following the beat, others followed him too at the end -_-

And started from How Do I Say, I saw Dongwan throwing water a lot to the mosh area XD the fans screamed but it’s mostly because he threw the water not because he came to their side lmao

VCR 2

This one was about behind the scene of their promotions. They added MV, Promotion, Fansigns and Concert behind the scene from Dec VCR which showed us more cute sides of Shinhwa :)

After VCR, they sang ballad songs, Heaven and Like A Star. It was really beautiful, the lighting, their voice, everything was just so good. Indeed, Shinhwa is good in ballad.

Ment 3

Ending ment. Everyone were standing beside each other and said their last words. They reminded all that they still have Busan and Daegu concert, with Seoul Encore in their plan. They were feeling so thankful for fans who came to their concert and Dongwan mentioned how Taiwanese sweet potato tasted good (he ate it before, did FB live for it?) But Minwoo said Taiwanese chicken cutlet is more delicious and he mentioned how it’s chicken and pie just because the Chinese pronunciation sounds like chicken pie.

After Ending Ment, they sang Touch, Sniper, and TOP as the last song before encore.

ENCORE

Can’t say anything for their encore. It was superb like always~ They mostly performed in the extension area near my place and the staffs allowed us at the end to move and get closer to the stage.

as you can see, we had another event to raise the balloon on the concert.

After Shooting Star rock version, Venus rock version, and Yo!, they ended the concert with each ment once again. the most interesting part for this part was when Hyesung translated Junjin’s last ment in English. Like... all of them are wrong. lol “Korean fans, Taiwan fans, came came together, good”. Well up to him, he still looks good after that silly thing lmao.

Hyesung also said his ment with “Hi, Taiwan orange. Hello Taiwan orange, I Love Taiwan orange. Thank you Taiwan orange” something like that. And Eric who was at the last in order parroted Hyesung before they did their last signature pose and went out from the stage.

ERIC’S BIRTHDAY EVENT!

To celebrate Eric’s birthday, the fansites who organized it wrote the information on the back of slogan, saying we need to sing the happy birthday song in three languages (Korean, English, and Chinese) on the encore part. But when they did the encore talk, NO ONE SANG THE SONG. I was singing so hard till my lung hurt so much, but they still went out from the stage, leaving the stage without any notice to our song. But fans didn’t move at all, tried to sing harder and asked Eric to come out.

After screaming his name and singing the song for almost 10 minutes, they finally came out again!

I forgot who said it, but I think it’s Junjin? “Why don’t you go back everyone? The concert ended already.” and the fans started to sing again in random order. They tried to understand the situation and slowly Minwoo grabbed the situation and said, “Ah, Eric’s birthday.”

They went to the center of extension stages and Eric sat in the middle. Minwoo asked us to sing once again and we sang the song once again to him. Eric said thank you for it, and he joked how he didn’t get any birthday cake from us. It made a fan throwing a birthday cake hat to the stage and Dongwan grabbed it, asked Eric to blow the candle and make a wish.

Andy asked Eric what he want to get and to do in this birthday. He said he didn’t think about that much, when suddenly fans screamed “KISS KISS” to them. Eric was flustered, and they asked, “From who?”

Well, like others guessed. We screamed for Hyesung. But Eric mouthed Andy’s name which made Andy kissed Eric on his lips (not directly, he put his thumb before kissing Eric’s lips). After that, we kept screaming for Hyesung. But Eric said, “If I don’t want to get from him, I can reject it, right?” After that Eric asked Junjin to kiss him and Junjin licked Eric’s cheek at the end.

It was an amazing moment with them indeed. Eric mentioned about iPhone 7 as his birthday gift that day, and he said thank you for it. They stood up after that, signaling it was the real end for their concert. Before they went back to the backstage, Eric said let’s have a big bow to fans since it’s still on Chinese New Year vibe.

And the concert ended around 9 PM. 3 hours?

Last Comments

I watched their concert for two years already, 2015 and 2017 in the same place, Nangang Exhibition Hall. So I think there are positive sides and bad sides for this year’s concert. For me, it’s more in positive one?

1. The sound system

If I compare it to 2015, this year’s concert has better sound system for me. Even I was quite far from the main stage, not like on 2015, I can still listen their voice clearly (not with echo or loud music). But yes, some of mics were turned on late so I cannot hear some members voice at some point.

2. The arrangement

Better than 2015 for sure. The organizer had a lot of events to get a lot of audiences, which made it succeed than 2015. VIP events, door prize things, and even the official merchandise. It was good, even though they were quite rude to respond fans who might be new for Shinhwa’s concert.

3. The audience

Damn. I really want to talk about this. I am disappointed with 2017′s audience. After 2015 concert, I was soooo tired and freaking lost my voice. The vibe was very high, and I can feel Shinhwa really enjoyed it until the concert ended 3,5 hours. Fans shouted the fanchants, even when they didn’t know how to do the fanchant, they sang along which made Shinhwa’s voice cannot be heard clearly.

But on this year, the audience was... too silent. Even until Minwoo kept screaming and asking us to give them some noise. Not many people sang along with Shinhwa, which made them getting an empty noise and no response a lot of time. It was so upsetting looking that to be honest.

I guessed it’s because too many new fans coming for this year concert. The scream was so loud for Eric, but not for other members. Well, maybe new Eric fans because of OHYA and 3MAD?

However if you want to watch their concert, can you give more effort to learn their songs first? It is better to do that I think, so you can sing along and enjoy the concert more than others.

And that’s it. My second experience for watching Shinhwa’s concert! I promise to myself will watch 20th anniversary concert in Seoul so let’s save money more and work harder than before!

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