#and how adorable Hongseob was at the group photo

[mr-linmo]

i'm sitting in the bus back home and i already want to cry so bad because i miss them, they were seriously amazing and i want to see them again ;;

[kotitko-blog]

24K in Prague 2018, my experience

So it’s more than a week since 24K came to Prague and I thought that I’ll be able to write a nice post with my experience and memories from the concert.. but I still don’t have my thoughts organized and I don’t think I will ever have... But I want to write something, so that I can read it later and remember how amazing that day was.

The whole event started with fansign. We lined up in front of the venue and went to the boys one by one. That’s when I started to feel kinda nervous, but still ok. They were sitting behind the table and I saw first fans getting their albums signed by the members. When it was my turn, I got the 24K’s album from the staff and a little post-it. At that moment I wasn’t only feeling nervous but I also started panicking inside and I remember how I hurriedly stuck the post-it on the album and wrote my name on it and then I suddenly stood in front of the first member... aaaand it was Cory. Cory is not only my bias in 24K, but overall a guy I really REALLY like, admire and adore, so you can imagine how nervous I was :D He’s fluent in English so I initially thought that I’ll try to talk with him a little bit, but in the end it never happened. I smiled, handed him my album and said “Hello”. He greeted me and asked whether my name is pronounced like [i:va] or [’eva], I answered and he started to sign the album. I quickly looked to the left and saw other fans with the members signing their albums when I heard Cory was talking to me. So I turned my head and saw him looking at me, waiting for my answer... but I was totally lost, I didn’t know what he asked me and I suddenly forgot every English word I know. I think I looked like I can’t count to 5, ‘cause I only said: “..eh.. w-what?”, so he asked again: “How you doin’?”. “A-ah..Goo-good”, I stuttered my well thought out answer and he just smiled, nodded his head like he understood and said “Alright, alright. It’s nice to meet you”, and handed my album to next member.

Next member was Jeonguk, he smiled at me and said “Eva?”, I only nodded and remembered to myself that I have to smile at him back, not only stupidly stare and then he surprised me when he lifted his hand. I thought he wants to do hi5 with me, so I gently touched his hand, but he interlocked his fingers with mine and held my hand for a second, smiled at me and said “Nice to meet you”. I was totally surprised and just said “Thank you” :D I was dying inside.

I don’t remember who exactly was next, I think it was Jinhong. He looked a little bit tired, but he was still very nice and asked me how am I doing. I was able to answered without stuttering this time, so it was all good :D He held my hand for a second too and then handed my album to Changsun.

Now let me tell you, I liked Changsun before... but when he said my name and looked at me with his bright smile... I fell in a trap. He totally got me. This boy is the actual Sun when he smiles. And he smiled at me like that again when he interlocked his fingers with mine, I almost didn’t want to go to the next member :D

After the Sunshine was the youngest member, Kiyong. another cute boy.. I started to feel weak thanks to those guys. I just wanted to patted his head and tell him how cute he is, but I couldn’t say anything. I only stood there, I don’t even remember anymore whether I smiled at him or not.. I just interlocked fingers with him too and went to the last member.....

And it was Hongseob. In that moment I just wanted to cry, he smiled at me, said my name. I was taken aback a little bit, cause I couldn’t believe how handsome he is in person. He wanted to shake a hand with me... that moment was little awkward, ‘cause I have a little handicap, I can’t shake with my right hand so I handed him left hand, he said “It’s nice to meet you” with smile on his handsome face.. I only said “Thank you”, quickly grabbed my album and left.

I was incredibly happy but also mad at myself, that I wasn’t able to tell them anything, not even thank them for coming to Prague. I was just a dumb and awkward potato :(

We waited in line after the fansign again, this time for hi5. Unfortunately, I don’t remember that much from it, but I remember Cory was trying to be funny and moving his hand to all sides, so fans had to “catch their hi5″ :D But he was nice to me and just gave me a proper hi5 <3 This included also a group photo. We still don’t have the actual photo, but I found this. Here I am kneeling down, the potato on the very left. (photo by Asianstar.cz)

After this we went outside and waited for the selfie event. Yes, I was one of many fans who bought a selfie ticket with a member... and you can guess it right - I took a selfie with Cory. I thought about it whether I should upload the selfie here or not, because I’m always so ugly on photos, but whatever... you can just look on the right side only, at this incredibly talented and handsome guy. This is Koti & Cory for y’all :D (please, excuse my lazy eye... it’s even worse ‘cause I was tired from the waiting and the hot weather :( )

After that we waited for the actual concert. The whole event was delayed because of some technical issues, but it was worth all the waiting. During the concert I stood on the side but in a first row and the venue was small, so I was just two or three steps in front of the dancing members. I was so excited! I never scream, but this time I just had to! They were perfect and when some of the boys greeted us in Czech “Ahoj!” all the fans went even more crazy! They were so surprised to hear such a noise from relatively small crowd of people. I’m proud of us, we welcomed them so warmly and we made them happy.

Their performances was real fire. The ones I remeber the most are Super Fly, Still 24K, Bonnie N Clyde, Bingo, or performance of the Dance Unit was really fun (part 1, part 2). I also remember lots of other moments.. for example the always brightly smiling Sunshine Changsun, he was smiling at us even while he was dancing hard. The legendary “Ladieeeees aaand Gentlemennn!” by the new MC Hongseob. How we cheered loudly for the new cute and shy youngest member Kiyong. The silly banana Jinhong. How Cory was killing me with his perfect voice in Vocal Unit and then with his rap in Hip Hop Unit. Jeonguk killing us with his dancing, rap and abs :D Or how we sang together with 24K and sometimes were louder then the music.

You can find more videos from the show in Prague on youtube. I’d like to thank to all the fans who recorded performances and talking parts <3 Thank you so so much <3

This concert was so meaningful for us, Czech fans. They are the first kpop group to include Prague on their tour and I’m so happy that it was 24K. Now we have beautiful memories together and I really wish they will come here again <3

Well, that’s probably all I’m able to write :D I apologize for my English, I’m sure there are some serious gramatical mistakes.. this post is long and my English is bad. But hopefully it was at least understandable :)

[mama-kisu]

Fanaccount of 24k in Romania

Ok so hear me I had a VIP ticket and we went to take photos first. We had a hi-touch, I held both of their hands and talked a little. In order: I told Hongseob he’s cute BECAUSE HE FUCKING IS HE WAS SO ADORABLE and he said thank you, my friend gave him a present and he was so happy, Hui was a little like a lost puppy, I told him to rest well but he didn’t understand so I told him to sleep a lot after, he smiled and said he would. 

KISU. THIS MAN. HE SAID HELLO IN ROMANIAN AND I BABBLED AND SAID “you’re so freaking/ fucking (I can’t remember honestly) beautiful irl” and he said “no swear!” and then thanked me. (he’s such a freaking mom istg) 

The next one was Cory, I said “I hope you enjoyed the horă” since he danced last night to a romanian dance named “horă”. He laughed and said he really did. 

With Jinhong I did a short “Hi” “ily”, CHANGSUN. MAN. CHANGSUN WAS THE CUTEST LIKE HE GRABBED MY HANDS AND STARTED TO MOVE THEM LIKE WE WERE FANGIRLING TOGETHER. He was so cute and he has the nicest smile. 

Jeonguk hair is honestly goals. Like it’s so fluffy and cute and looked so natural and I told him I love his dances and he thanked me, he looked so happy to hear that and ahh. We took the group photo, it was them and another fans, I stood in front of Jeonguk/Jinhong and I’ll post the photo right after I have it. 

So the concert started, they did the same songs like the other shows. BUT LET ME TELL YOU, WHEN OASIS STARTED, I LOST MY SOUL AND NOW I AM EMPTY. I think while they sang Heaven, Kisu came in front of the place I was, I was sending him kisses and hearts like mad and HE LOOKED ME IN THE EYES FOR SOLID 10 SECONDS LAUGHING. He also ate my heart. 

They talked to us, Cory and the translator did the translation job, but they said a few words in romanian, especially Kisu that said 2 times “Îmi va fi dor de voi.” which means “I’m gonna miss you.”. I cried. Three times. Changsun said he really enjoyed sarmale, a romanian food, he loved it and Kisu and Hongseob did approving moves, like pretending they’re eating. 

They invited 3 fans on stage, a girl named “Ioana” whose name was mispronounced “you wanna” like 24 times. After this they kept making jokes about “You wanna? CAUSE I WANNA”. There were 3 teams, Team You Wanna(Ioana, Jinhong and Changsun), Team Cora (also named team “SWAG” by Cory) (Cora, Cory and Hongseob) (and yes Cory DID made puns about how Cora and Cory are almost the same name) and Team Victor (they did mispronounce with Bictor a few times but they were so cute) (Jeonguk, Kisu, Hui and Victor). 

When Hui saw how well Ioana danced he went to their team and Kisu screamed at him “Get out!” but Hui screamed back the same. They were cute. Cory and Kisu made fun of the maknae line a lot about the girls. Cory said romanian girls are really stunning (thank you Cory). Cory and Jeonguk had a rap battle that left me breathless, Changsun with Hongseob did a dance battle that was declared a tie by Jeonguk, then he came and danced too. 

We bought them a cake and they really enjoyed it, after a short video with photos and fanarts (they saw my fanart I’m gonna post it soon here too). Cory said “How are we supposed to perform now after this?”. We got one of the flags wrong, sideways, and they asked a lot how it is supposed to be “because we don’t wanna be disrespectful” -Cory. They were so sweet honestly. I still can’t believed I saw them. They were perfect.

TL;DR

Kisu looked me in the eye for 10 second and 24k are flawless human beings that we don’t deserve, stan them.

[louquis]

24K ‘Still With 24U′ Concert in Bucharest, Romania (Fan Account)

I've been a Kpop fan since 2011 and this is my first concert experience with 24K in Romania. First I have to say that I didn't know much about the group, I knew that they had some great songs but I didn't know the names of all members and even though I had a VIP ticket. The venue wasn't easy to find because Google Maps led me to a location 500m away from the concert hall and I spend about an hour desperately running the street up and down thinking that I would miss the concert because I couldn't find the number of the house. I finally made it 30minutes before the start of the show. There were booths that sold posters (signed ones for 30lei aka 5,50Euro, unsigned ones for 5lei, about one Euro – surprisingly low) and other goods and I brought an unsigned poster, relieved that apparently in the end I still got a way to get something signed. I waited for a few minutes and the doors to the concert hall opened about 18:45, 15minutes before the concert. The weird thing was, no one checked for my ticket. I could have been coming without a ticket and would have had no trouble getting in or even standing right in front of the stage.

Then the concert started. First of all, I don't know what I've been expecting, but they all had insanely good proportions.  They weren't that tall (I was in the sixth row so I can't say for sure but I thought they looked all in the 170-179 range, leaning more towards 170) but their faces were really small in comparation to the rest of their bodies and their shoulder-hips ratio was perfect, especially the visual one (though they were all on the smaller/lither-framed side). I wondered how their agency found so many guys with really good proportions though they were so small. They were slim but didn't look skin-and-bones. The most fitting description would be that they had model-esque builds only without model-esque tallness.

I didn't recognize the first song but the second one was Oasis, my favorite B-side track. The standout was Cory. At the beginning of the concert the girl next to me asked me who my bias was and I said Cory, thinking that he'd be the one I was most likely to recognize. Cue to the concert start and I find myself thinking that two of them look like Cory and I won't be able to put a name to the face of any of the boys. The next moment their visuals hit me hard and I'm already swooning. For those of you who haven't seen a Kpop group live yet, the synchronisation and the quickness/fluidity of the  dance moves (at least in this case) are absolutely mesmerizing in the first minutes. Looks way more impressive live than on screen.

The first talking segment is the introduction and the crowd is cheering super-hard whenever a member speaks up. During, I think, Kisu's turn, Cory asked us why we were shouting after he (Kisu) was speaking since he was pretty sure that we don't know Korean. Then we shut up whenever the other members talked.

Hui said he hoped the snow would substide once the concert was finished. When Hongseob was beginning his speech, someone shouted 'I love you' to which he replied 'I love you too'. Two members started with 'Buna Seara', the Romanian greeting

I'm a person who hates body rolls and overly sexual dance moves in boy groups but halfway through the concert I started noticing that I was choking whenever Cory rolled his hips (and he did it often). HOLY LORD JESUS that guy is a born performer. I googled 'facts about 24K' to get knowledge about the group and somewhere I read that Cory was the worst dancer of the group. BITCH FIGHT ME! That body rolls were a gift send from heaven and overall, he seemed like he was the most into the choreography. This doesn't mean that he was the best dancer (I don't know shit about dancing but he didn't have any solo dance parts), but his dancing during everything revolving hip movement came off as a tad more aggressive/exaggerated than the others. During one slower and less choreographed song he was the only one to mildly hip thrust during the chorus. He just came across as born for the stage, like he was absolutely into it and wanted the crowd to be into it, too. He was always moving and comparatively often at the center. I then knew I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

After some more dancing they have a segment where they split into tree teams and dance the chorus of Bingo together. When Hui, Kisu and Hongseob (?) search for a participant from their left side of the stage, they ask the crowd who of them thinks that they are the prettiest in this room. Selected is a boy and one of the members Kisu spend the next segment talking about his beauty. At one point he even goes down on one knee in front of him and raises his hands as if in a proposal!!!1! Turned out there is another girl on team right side who's far the better dancer though so Hui oop Hongseob (80% sure it was him) goes to the right side in an attempt to change teams and Hui ? pretends that they don't take them back. Cory then grounds him into the corner of the room with 'Stay!'.

After that came the subunit stages. First was Cory, Kisu, the visual guy and somebody else singing a midtempo song which I personally found pleasant but generic. Then there was the hip hop stage which was OMG ONE OF MY FAVORITE PARTS because there was Cory and someone else (probably someone who's name starts with J) and there was rapping, good rapping and the beat was good too and I became so pumped! It was something aggressive and Cory's expressions were to die for, and I thought perhaps I actually died and I didn't know it yet. At the end I was turning to the girl next to me who asked for my bias at the beginning because I couldn't contain my emotions and shouted 'Oh my god I love him! I absolutely love him!'

Then there was the dancing, it was 1 vs 1, and a third member was holding a sign with 'round 1' written on it. Changsun and another member were doing some awesome dancing/fighting moves and I would have been absolutely thrilled if the hip hop stage hadn't been right before it. Afterwards another member danced solo and was then joined by the both of them as kind of back up dancers.

I'm not sure whether it was after these stages but there was also a segment where they said they'll be now playing songs that everyone knows from other artists. Well, first song starts playing and I don't know it – and it also doesn't look like anyone around me does. The chorus was entirely English (I think), I could barely make out the verses. Second song was 'bang bang bang' but it takes me till the chorus to realize it's not fxxk it.

After the solos they had another talking segment where they brought a Romanian flag on stage. Fans (?) had apparently written '24K Romania' with sharpie on it and it turned out that the writing was wrong (when read from left to right, the colours blue and red from the flag were on the wrong sides, when the flag was correct, the writing wasn't). Cory seemed visibly bothered/concerned by it and mentioned something about 'not wanting to cause misunderstandings'. I think he was actually ranting for a bit. At a later point in the concert he also told a member who didn't 'get it' to turn the flag around so that it showed the 'true' color order. It kind of felt like he was worried about a witch hunt. We also made a photo with a big heart pose together.

After that talking segment 'Superfly' was played. Another one of my favorite moments of the concert was the unison shouting of 'YANANANAH!” and 'I said follow me!' in/before the chorus. The choreography was super fly (forgive the bad pun). I was super pumped up, the people around me too and the group was dancing crazily.

After a couple more songs they said that this one would be the last (I went to other concerts and I loved that they didn't announce 'okay, five songs left' 'four songs left' every couple of minutes. Everyone was saying their goodbyes and I don't know, I somehow got really emotional. First one was Changsun.

Cory was the fourth one, he said that he was actually supposed to go last and that it would probably confuse The Visual One that he's speaking now but he wanted to say that the whole tour and everything was just possible because of us, the fans (AWWWW!). I know that every group is supposed to say that and all but the way he said it I just found it incredibly touching. I was really anxious about showing up to the meet and greet without an album but at this point I was just like fxxk it, I'm definitely going and I tell them that this here made me become a fan.

During this segment Hongseob was sniffling often. His behaviour was playful and he didn't look like crying but he frequently scrunched up his nose. It was kind of adorable.

Kisu held his microphone in front of his face like a moustache. When it was Hui's turn, he said something along the lines that he hadn't high expectations for Romania (LOL) but he was proved wrong and absolutely liked it here. Two things that stood out for him were a Romanian dish called Sarmale [cue cheering crowd – I personally hope he ate those with vita de via (green ones), since they are even so much more better than the usual ones] and a flashmob that happened that morning. Someone (I forgot who, either Kisu or Jeunguk) also said 'I will now talk in Romanian' and said a whole sentence, I couldn't make out what though. Anyway, I'm super happy that he tried!

They performed their last song and went off stage. The crowd then started chanting '24K! 24K!' and after a few minutes they came back! They performed two more songs and it was absolutely crazy. Cory's expressions drove me insane.

Someone (dark brown hair but shorter than The Visual One), took a water bottle and dowsed the contents over his head. He started shaking it and droplets flew into the crowd. It was glorious. He did it for a second time and that time water droplets actually HIT MY FACE! I was in row six and I absolutely didn't expected it! I died for a second time. Non. Nichts. Nada. Finish. There was only a shell of my former self left. I don't think the encore were title songs, I recognized the second one as a popular b-side. After performing they went backstage and the concert was over for real.

Now to each member:

Cory's English was really good to understand, even as someone who has difficulties understanding spoken foreign languages. He was basically the MC of the concert and he did his job so well, it was absolutely amazing. I loved his angry expressions at songs like 'Still 24K' and his hip hop stage. His voice is very pleasant to listen to SO ABSOLUTELY SEXY OMG and I felt he always tried his best to hype the crowd. He often dipped his head back and let me tell you, he has a reallllly sexy neck and adams apple, I absolutely loved it. He also wore the most eye make up, I’m not sure but sometimes it looked slightly as if he was cross-eyed. I didn’t care though, I absolutely loved him. I think he’s the most talented, his singing and rapping was the bomb and he actually had a lot of parts compared to the little screen time he’s getting in MVs.

He had at the first talking segment a tissue which he would use to pat his forehead carefully with. In the second talking segment he didn't have a tissue and motioned one of the assistants behind the scenes to come on stage hastily and give him a tissue which he also used to wipe off sweat from his forehead and neck. There were a few times when he looked into my direction and I thought that he was really staring at me (i cheered really hard so I don’t think it’s impossible. when they chose a person for bingo it seemed that he was staring right at me for about two seconds and I thought I die and my heart ached in my chest). Hui also seemed to look once directly at me.

Kisu has a really high voice and often stood on the right side and between two others. I remember him having very big eyes and lots of black eye shadow. He did a few antics with the mic. His face looked rounder than on the pictures I’ve googled after the concert and I also think now that he’s terrible at talking selfies because he looked much better in real life.

Changsun was literally ALWAYS SMILING. Like what did you eat to be so happy??? His eyes just scrunched up and tbh my cheeks hurt just looking at him. He was one of the tallest and had chubbier cheeks than on pictures. He also stood a lot at the far left of the stage so I didn’t saw a lot of him.

Hui is the person that voice I love­ in the 24K songs belonged to! He is the smallest and I didn't see him much in the center. But I think he was absolutely adorable when he talked (the snow, sarmale - he mentioned specific things about Romania and it made me swoon) and my favorite talker after Cory. The blue of his hair really suited him.

The visual was the tallest member with the tannest skin and hands down, the most handsome face. Like ugh, his face was nearly perfect. He seems to be the official visual, too, since he was often the center and has the first part in Still 24K (I looked it up and it turns out to be Jinhong!) But the search results really don't show his handsomeness at all. Seriously, he more tanned, has GODLY proportions like how can a person like this exist and his face was so GODDAMN handsome, I’d believe you right away if you told me that he was the nation’s heartrob or the nation’s son-in-law. He was part of the vocal line. In the beginning songs I thought that he'd become my favorite but then came Cory's hip thrusting and expression and everything and he was demoted. Still love him, though.

There was one member with a weird parted haircut and at the end of the concert his face seemed the most glistening with sweat. Google search now told me it was Jeunguk. In the beginning I thought his hair wasn’t suiting him but by the end it was falling in his eyes and looked good, especially while he was dancing. I’m not 100% sure but I think he was the one with the water bottle? He is the only one who fits that description/mental image in my mind. If he was then: that guy was absolutely getting freaky on the end and shaking like crazy. I was in the freaking sixth row and still getting hit by the water droplets that came from his hair. CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH HE WAS SHAKING HIS HEAD? It was as if he was possessed and he managed to tear away my eyes from Cory. Hongseob was another one of my favorites! He sometimes seemed a bit fidgety while the others were talking. I’m also pretty sure he was the one that abandoned his team after the guy couldn’t dance Bingo. He was also smiling a lot and I was sure that he was the maknae just by looking at him because he really seemed younger than the others. He was adorable! He was the most tanned one after Jinhong and also has a really long neck.

The boys had real mics (the big ones) and were singing live with a backing track, I think.

The fans were okay-mannered. A lot of them had really fashionable, distinctive styles (hair, make up and clothes). I was right at the middle gangway and of course the fans from the worse seats gathered there instead of staying in their seats. When I entered the concert hall, someone actually had put their clothes on my seat but removed them once I entered. The girl in front of me had a light stick (they were gigantic and looked like they belong to a Star Wars cosplay) but she didn't wave it. At one point a girl that stood in the pathway sat down/leaned on my seat where I had my poster and jacket. I grabbed my things and she quickly stood up. Overall, they were very loud but most people kept their hands down, even during the more hard hitting songs.

After the encore the concert hall cleared pretty quickly. I was excited to meet the group so I went to the staff in the front. When about 2/3 of the fans were out, I saw two  totally in red dressed paramedics coming from the exit doors, used the side entrace to the stage and went backstage. First I thought that a fan might have fainted because there was a group of fans talking animatedly to the backstage people but it turned out that they just wanted signed posters (I think there had been an issue).

First no one really noticed me, then a man told me to go to a staff member at the side of the stage who was discussing with two fans, one of them sobbing. I went there and found out that meeting the group wasn't possible anymore! NO ONE told me that – not the woman on the telephone who called me twice to check my ticket purchase, it wasn't written on the site where I bought the tickets and it certainly wasn't written on my ticket either!

We pleaded for a photo but the woman said no, they are all sweaty right now. Another man said they couldn't let us enter because we couldn't prove that we haven't been backstage yet (mind you, one girl was crying - and even if that's the case, THEY had the responsibility to check that every VIP only goes backstage only once, they could have a list with the seats that were backstage already or write something on the tickets, of course we can't prove we haven't been backstage). She offered us that we could get letters written from them and I said yes euthusiastically (the other girls also agreed).

Now comes a kind of serious and speculative part because I think one of the 24K members had perhaps some kind of serious health issue after the concert. The staff assistant asked us for our favorites, the first one said Jinhong. The second one named another member, I couldn't hear the name but the woman said that he's not available so the fan had to change her pick (she then named Jinhong, too). I picked Cory and in that moment I was really anxious about him being the unavailable one but it turns out that he was okay! She asked us for our names and we wrote them down on her mobile, then I and the sobbing girl gave them out posters for them to sign, too. She went backstage and we waited.

She came back with two posters for us and Din-A4 papers with our names and an autograph of our biases. I thanked her and went outside while other fans approached her about their issues (I think there were more VIPs that weren't aware they had to come before the concert). In front of the concert hall was another crying fans and several fans complaining in Romanian. It was a bummer that the concert ended that way.

On my way home (same street as the venue) I saw an ambulance coming from the direction of the concert venue though the lights were turned off. When I came home I checked the posters and every member signed them so I was curious why that one girl couldn't get a mention from her bias but he could still mysteriously sign two posters? I don't know if any of them really got sick or if they were just too tired to sign posters but something didn't add up. To be honest, I think they exchanged the posters with two pre-signed ones. I was concerned because everyone knows how overworked idols are and the thought of me enjoying their performance when they might have not is a bit disheartening. I hope the members get the rest they deserve once they go back to Korea.

tldr: Overall, great concert. I was surprised because it exceeded my expectations. Fell in love with Cory but there were misunderstandings with the VIP seats. Edit: here are some photos