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jiminssmile · 8 years ago

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MY KCON NY 2016 EXPERIENCE

I don’t even know where to start. Those two days were hands down the greatest days of my life. I met so many new people who loved kpop and it was just a great experience to share with my own friends. We had to wait in line for such a long time to check in to the convention but it was so worth it because my friends and I @flitwicksgleeclub @bangtanfluffs interacted with the people around us and played kpop music and the game f*ck, marry, kill. One of the main highlights was when my friends and I sat in a circle after receiving our fan engagement passes. We decided we were all going to go one by one and scratch off the pass to see who we got for our 2 hi touch audiences and hi touch itself. Long story short- my friends and I all got BTS hi touch and we literally started jumping like crazy people from the pure shock. We went in to the convention with accepting the fact that we wouldn’t get any BTS or Seventeen fan engagement and came out with an Ailee hi touch audience pass, a BTOB hi touch audience pass, BTS hi touch, and Saturday red carpet pass. Here’s the thing though- that wasn’t even the best part.

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DAY 1-

• BTOB fan engagement- they were angels

•We acquired 3 seventeen audience passes in these ways: a really nice lady gave us hers right before btobs hitouch, we started yelling if anyone had one after the btob hitouch, and my friend bought one for $30 (note to self/everyone: most people would give you passes for free or trade so don’t spend so much money/try to bargain unless you’re desperate because someone else offered us one later for free and we were so disappointed that we gave in so quickly)

•The seventeen hi touch was right after BTOBS so we stood in a line for over an hour with a bunch of great company (seriously being stuck in a line is a great excuse to make friends at kcon) whom we bumped into later too surprisingly.

• Ok so I was so chill when we got inside like idk I guess it didn’t hit me yet that I was going to see 12 (poor wonwoo) of my loves for the first time???? Anyways I took a video of the entire hitouch and it’s seriously the funniest thing ever because you can just hear my friends and I screaming a bunch of nonsense like specific members names and our attempts at trying to get the members attention in the back.

•Let me just put this out there: they are all freaking beautiful. Guys guys guys you don’t understand the pictures don’t do them justice AT ALL. I didn’t think it was possible but they are far more attractive than you think so that killed me.

•Joshua was glowing and mingyu was legitimately the hottest guy I have ever seen and they are SO tan- it’s disappointing that their pictures get whitewashed.

•Also can I just say that Vernon is eVEryThINg that I imagined if not more and he’s such a meme and a sweetheart and I just couldn’t handle it.

•Obviously I lost my chill when they came out and it would have been enough to just see them doing hi touch and see the concert but nope the greatest moment of my life (oops is that sad) happened later that night.

Enough about that though.

•Oh since we all received Ailee hitouch Audience passes we saw her for a few minutes and she’s an absolute sweetheart.

• We met JRE from JREKML (YouTube channel) and he was so nice and ugh what a kind soul

• We got passes for Friday’s red carpet but we came late and missed seventeen but the other groups were still cool to see obviously

I’m just going to skip to the concert because that’s where things get interesting -ooo la la-

•We sat in p1 seated and I was practically crying because we were so close to the stage and the best part was that we saw the backstage area and the area where all the groups and people who were just on stage would walk off of to backstage so remember that because holy shit things went DOWN people things went DOWN.

•I’m chilling now you know like this entire thing hasn’t hit me at this point and then all of sudden freaking Ailee and namjoon came out like it was normal for them to be there and I lost my chill.

•I was not expecting to see namjoon till the next night so my heart wasn’t prepared for this. His English pronunciation is hysterical btw I live for it.

• Oh and yeah low key my friend @flitwicksgleeclub walked up a few stairs in the p1 section to where you could see behind the curtain to backstage and freaking jeonghan (her bias!!) and scoups were there practicing and dancing and we were waving like a bunch of idiots and wait for it THEY SAW US AND WATCHED US AND WAVED BACK MULTIPLE TIMES AND IT WAS FREAKING AMAZING!!

•Coups kept waving every few seconds you don’t understand I was hyperventilating at this point okay and jeonghan was wearing a striped suit and was gorgeous even from afar and personally I missed it but my friend said that he was dancing so well and just holy shit I never expected that to happen to us. I’m pretty sure I have video of this happening too but it’s probably filled with my friends and I screaming and freaking out. (Update: found the video, and yes there is lots of screaming)

•The concert starts and of course it’s seventeen first (they’re trying to kill me at this point) and I know I said that before but here is where I mean it: I.lost.my.flipping.chill. I have never been more hyped up in my life.

•Again they shocked me by how beautiful they were and can we take a moment to appreciate their dancing??? I know they’re good at dancing ehmpff obviouslyehm but to see it in person was insane. I don’t think I can describe it to be honest I was just really impressed.

•Now their voices. Oh lord. Just. Holy crap. You don’t understand how good they sound live. Actual angels.

***Things that really stood out to me from seventeens performance: voices, dancing, MINGYU KEPT SMILING YOU COULD SEE HOW HAPPY HE WAS TO BE ON STAGE HE WRECKED ME, legs, thighs, seungkwan is EVERYTHING I WANTED HIM TO BE I LOVE YOU DIVABOO, hoshi is sooo hoshi it made me very happy, Vernon is my one true love I don’t want to talk about it…..

• throughout the concert/ after every act the group walks down the stairs from the stage to the path to backstage I mentioned earlier (the path my friends and I can see) so we would walk down to get as close as possible and when people passed we called to them and waved and they waved back (I have this on video it was glorious) shoutout to all the groups for making my life

• THIS IS IMPORTANT- @flitwicksgleeclub Saw jeonghan walking bye and she just yelled out “jeonghan saranghaeyo!” and he LOOKED AT HER AND DID A CUTE SMILEY FACE AND WAVED WITH BOTH HIS HANDS AND HE LEGITIMATELY HEARD HER AND RESPONDED AHH

• Coups had a glorious moment with @bangtanfluffs where he waved directly at her

•Ok so every member (except Vernon) has pretty much acknowledged my friends and I because we were sitting right near the part of the stage where they had to walk to get to other part of the stage and it was great because they ALWAYS looked at our section and for some reason everyone in our section sat down so the only people who were standing and getting excited were me and my friends so we were the most noticeable and anyone who walked by and looked at our section noticed us first and we waved and did signs and they waved back at us and it was beautiful.

•I don’t really listen to btob, I know a few songs and I was in the audience for their hitouch but eungkwan is just WOAH. This kid was catching my friend’s and I attention CONSTANTLY. We were the only ones jamming out and thanks to our tame section he totally noticed it and probably thought we were hardcore fans hahahaha. He waved at us, he smiled at us, he gave us hearts, he danced for us, etc this boy did it all.

• to be more specific my friend @bangtanfluffs did a little dance and made those cute hearts and he DID THE EXACT SAME DANCE WITH THE HEARTS IT WAS ADORABLE I LOVE YOU EUNGKWAN

• Ilhoon and @flitwicksgleeclub enough said ;)

•I didn’t think I would enjoy btobs performance but I really got into the music and I want to hug eungkwan so badly haha.

•Ailee. Ailee freakin Ailee. She slayed. She just knows how to work a stage. And I really really had a lot of fun listening to her and watching her.

•Oh and there was a technical difficulty during one of her songs and she went accapela and holy shit she sounded AMAZING. She was so cute afterwards and she said to pretend she didn’t just sing the song and redid it. Also she kept saying how much she enjoyed being back home and performing and I really appreciate her as a person and as an artist.

•Crush was cool and dynamic duo was lit af.

• @bangtanfluffs is a HARDCORE dynamic duo fan and they gave her a head nod because they’re so cool and ugh A HEAD NOD PEOPLE A H E A D N O D

•After all the main acts performed Seventeen came back out in MILITARY UNIFORMS and my heart couldn’t handle it because they were so hot and I was legitimately screaming so I sincerely apologize to the people in my section because this group is everything to me and I thought I would never see them again and ugh yes.

•So we get more attention from the members and Dino even gave us a giant heart and lots of waving from everyone but Vernon still never did anything and I was so upset because he’s my bias and I wanted something out of him.

•As the encore was ending my friend @flitwicksgleeclub and I walked to the edge of our section which was right near the stage and I told her to try to help me get vernons attention and she said she would unless jeonghan came along haha.

VERNON MOMENT-

•So members of all the different groups walked by and finally Vernon came and I was screaming his name and he still wasn’t looking and I was ready to give up but my friend @flitwicksgleeclub who is really tall got his attention and he waved at her and I’ll admit my heart broke a little because I thought he would walk away after that but apparently my friend started pointing at me (she told me this after) and he legitimately turned and LOOKED at me and we flipping made EYE CONTACT and I kid you not happiness and shock filled me and I sheeply smiled because I was embarrassed and I waved and I made a heart with my hands and I think he noticed how much I loved him because i conveyed it in my eyes (HE IS BEAUTIFUL BTW LIKE WOAH AND HIS EYES ARE SO WARM TO LOOK AT I FELT SUCH A STRONG CONNECTION WITH HIM I HONESTLY CANT EXPLAIN IT) and he smiled and mouthed ‘thank you’ in a very Vernon like meme manner and made a heart back HANSOL VERNON CHWE AND I HAD A HEART EXCHANGE. IT WAS THE GREATEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE I WILL NEVER FORGET IT. THE MOMENT IS ENGRAVED IN MY SOUL.

*UPDATE: I found a video of the heart exchange Vernon and I had. Bless the person who caught it on camera

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DAY 2-

• BTS HITOUCH BABY

• it was really weird to walk up to them though because I’m so used to only seeing them through a screen so it was strange to be standing right in front of them in person it didn’t seem real

• they are so handsome and beautiful and gorgeous and I just can’t even explain

• I yelled out Jimin and he looked over and I screeched and he smirked and goodbye world

• I tried preparing what I wanted to say to each member but that didn’t work lol because I totally blanked when I walked up to them

JHOPE: He is so bright. Like he legitimately radiates sunshine. I didn’t know what to do or what to feel so for some reason without thinking as I was walking up the stairs of the stage I jumped at the last step to him and he made an O face and smiled and I high fived him and ahhh

JIMIN: ladies and gentlemen this boy was the death of me. He is my bias and I smiled so big and hi fived him (his hand was so soft fml) and I said “Jimin I love you” and made a heart with my hands (like I did with Vernon) and he did this sly smile and nodded his head a little and k bye I cried I died you know it’s all good

RAPMON: I wanted to tell him that I respect him and love his music so badly but I had no time and I blanked out so I only high fived him but guys can we just acknowledge how handsome he is???

JUNGKOOK: lord have mercy this boy is my bias wrecker and I had no idea how to approach him because I looked at him and my heart stopped like I almost stopped in my tracks when I had to walk up to him but then I remembered where I was and all I said was hi jungkook waved and hi fived him

JIN: remember how my friend @flitwicksgleeclub helped me out with vernon? (she pointed at me and that was the reason why he looked at me in the first place) well jin is her bias and she was before me and she told him that she loved him so when it was my turn i pointed at her and said “she really does [love you]” and i totally dont think he understood what i was implying but whatever i did it because i wanted to help a sista out

SUGA: this boy. This BOY. I love suga so much he is the member that I relate to the most and I have such a soft spot for him like you don’t understand. I said hello suga smiled and high fived him (I wish I did more) @bangtanfluffs had a little moment with him and cupped his hand with both of hers and said “you’re my favorite” and he smiled at her!!!

V: he smiled at me and my voice got so high pitched when I said hello I’m still laughing about it

I met bts no biggie

• we had another friend join us for Saturday and she got MAMAMOO hi touch and we found audience passes

• @flitwicksgleeclub befriended a security guard so after MAMAMOO hi touch we stayed behind and talked to him and whenever the other guards told us to leave he said that we could stay and he was the best ok such an amazing person

• we also befriended the press (specifically people who work for dramafever) and they saved us a spot and because of the security guard friend we got to be early to red carpet so we got the BEST view aka center

• lord have mercy the people that walked out on red carpet were beautiful

• Eric nam called out my friend @flitwicksgleeclub . YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT PEOPLE

• she made a goofy face at him and the mc asked him what he thought of the fans and Eric looks at my friend standing next to me and says “well she looks dope” and copied her face and we just lost it

• when bts walked out I obviously lost my chill AGAIN

• I yelled out Jimin and he looked and I screamed “he looked at me!” And the person from dramafever turned around and said that was good because she caught it on camera and they might use her video and I screamed on the inside

Skip to concert

• IT WAS SO LIT

• MOONBYUL WAVED AT MY FRIEND

• MAMAMOO ACKNOWLEDGED US SO MANY TIMES I LOST TRACK

• IM TALKING ABOUT US WAVING AND THEM WAVING BACK

• MY FRIENDS AND I MET DANNY FROM KCONUSA (he did all the weekly videos) AND HAVE SELFIES WITH HIM

• @flitwicksgleeclub TOOK A SELFIE WITH JUNCURRYHAN THE VIOLINIST AND ALSO ACCIDENTALLY TOOK A VIDEO WITHOUT REALIZING BUT HE NOTICED AND DID THE CUTEST WAVE

• THIS POST IS SO LONG IM SORRY ILL SKIP TO BTS PERFORMANCE

• THIS NEEDS TO BE ALL CAPS BECAUSE HOLY SHNITZELS PEOPLE

• BTS IS SO WORTH IT

• SUCH A GREAT PERFORMANCE W O W

• THE DANCING THE SINGING THE EXTRA

• SUGA WAS SOOOOOO EXTRA WHEN HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF I KNOW YOU SAW THE VIDEOS I KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT

• FIIIIIIIIIIRE WAS LIT AF

• JIMIN WAS ALONE ON STAGE IN THE BEGINNING OF SAVE ME AND I SCREAMED “ I LOVE YOU JIMIN” AND IF YOU GUYS WATCH JREKML’s VIDEOS YOU CAN HEAR THIS MOMENT ON HIS VIDEO https://youtu.be/umg2t9Tdu6w start watching at 4:20 and my scream is around 4:24

• JUNGKOOK CAME TO OUR SECTION AND DID THIS SICK DANCE AND I WAS READY TO RIP MY HEART OUT

• I flipped out when cypher pt 3 came on. Basically the entire day I was telling people that the one song that I wanted to hear the most was cypher pt 3 but I thought they wouldn’t do it but THEY SURPRISED ME AND I WENT INTO A TRANCE LIKE I REMEMBER IT BUT SOMETHING OVER TOOK ME AT THAT MOMENT WHEN I HEARD THE FIRST BEAT AND I COULDNT REGISTER ANYTHING

• APPARENTLY JIMIN CAME OVER TO US AND LOOKED AT US ACCORDING TO THE VIDEOS I DONT REMEMBER THIS

•REMEMBER THE ERIC NAM MOMENT WITH MY FRIEND @flitwicksgleeclub? Well guess what? HE REMEMBERED HER. He was walking backstage and he look at us and waved and did the silly face she made and this is caught on camera and it still makes me so happy to think about

• rapmon genuinely smiled at @flitwicksgleeclub and waved at her!! The girl be getting all them kidols

• at this point we are just going to skip to the ending stage when everyone was walking and bts was walking back and I tried so hard to get their attention but my friends and I got Jimins attention (IMMSORRY I know how annoying I must sound but I remember Jimin the most) and my friend @flitwicksgleeclub did a heart (the kpop heart thing) and he looked at us with a blank stare and then smiled and did the heart thing back and while i was evidently screaming at him and waving like an idiot as this was happening he smirked and walked away SMIRKED HDHFCHGFCSHHRVHFFASHJFV

•THEY DABBED SO MUCH I THOUGHT THEY WOULD GET WHIPLASH

• it ended with momma Jin gathering them all up and sending them backstage

• after the concert we met kennyboy slay from YouTube and terry he (we didn’t know who he was at the time but apparently he did panels and was the mc for the day6 hitouch)

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The two days of kcon ny were the best two days of my life so far. My friends and I got everything we wanted and my mother was updated with phone calls of me blubbering on like a fool about how great of an experience it was.

If anyone wants videos/pictures I can post those too

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