#seongsu bridge

[nineteenfiftysix]

Gangbyeonbuk-ro/Seongsu Bridge (Seoul, South Korea - 2023)

[f-ngrl]

Under Seongsu Bridge

... is a Korean music crew. Their name refers to Seongsu bridge in Seongsu-dong, which is the neighborhood they’re from. They have 6 members, are part of FLOCC and have Paloalto (who also lives in the area) as their biggest supporter. They released a collab album in 2021 which is hiphop and r&b (song recs at the bottom of the post).

It is said that they met in middle school where 365lit was bullied by the other members and then they became friends (?) - however, the crew wasn’t founded until 2019.

From left to right: 356lit, BIRTHDAYCAKEiii, Jupiter Kim, Ray Shin, web., toigo

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They have a crew youtube channel where they post vlogs and MVs. If you spreak Korean, you can watch the vlogs and find out more about them.

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365LIT

김민성 (Kim Min-seong) | 1998.04.09 | ig, soundcloud

he is a rapper and his style is energetic rap/hiphop

he participated in smtm 9 and 10

he has many connections and friends in khh and features often with other rappers

jupiter kim is his older brother

song example

BIRTHDAYCAKEiii

이정빈 (Lee Jung-bin) | ig, soundcloud

his music style is indie pop and indie rock, example mv

he mostly works with the other crew members or alone

Jupiter Kim

김목성 (Kim Mok-sung) | 1996.07.10 | ig, soundcloud, youtube

(on the right in the photo - left is 365lit)

he is a rapper, singer (?) and producer

he recently changed his rap name. his old name was (just) jupiter

he does different styles, you could call it an experimental/artsy kind of hiphop?

he was briefly on smtm9

apart from the crew members, he often works with zene the zilla

he was in the military 2021-2022 and missed dearly esp. by 365lit

365lit is his younger brother

song example

Ray Shin

신준현 (Shin Joon-hyun) | 1998.12.14 | ig

he is a rapper

he is relatively new as a solo artist

he released his first EP “Denim Dream” 5 months ago and only collaborated with crew members on it

song example

web.

ig, (no info? :()

he is a singer and his songs are r&b and ballad style

he usually works with the other crew members only

he has quite a few MVs and visualizers on usb’s yt channel, example

toigo (토이고)

주병우 (Joo Byung-woo) | 1998.07.24 | ig, soundcloud, twitter

he is a rapper, his style is active & fast hiphop, example

it’s very hard to find him not wearing a hat

he’s a bit of a comedian and very active on twitter

he was on smtm9, 10, and 11 and like 365lit is relatively active in the khh scene

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The crew will release their new collab album “UNDER SEONGSU BRIDGE II” in May. The song “Seongsu Freestyle” by Jupiter Kim, toigo, 365lit was already pre-released recently.

If you don’t know where to start, here 2 song recs:

[goodbyeapathy8]

Today is the 10 year anniversary of the Sewolho Tragedy (세월호). 10 years since the day I have so many thoughts still, and the grief and anger that bubbles up but... there is one thing that I cannot forget and that still causes me incredible amounts of anger.

In the aftermath, it became clear that there were multiple fuckups on multiple levels by the government in the rescue operations as well as the accident happening itself.

Grieving parents began hunger strikes.

And somehow... somehow the grief over their dead children became a political issue, not a humanitarian one.

A group of conservatives called the ilbe, took it upon themselves to demonstrate some of the worst hatefulness I've seen from people. TW below for hate against grieving parents.

During the hunger strikes, they ate in front of the parents.

If that wasn't bad enough, they specifically ate fish cakes.

Why fish cakes?

The ilbe "joked" that fish ate the dead schoolchildren and that now they were a part of these fish cakes.

And it never stopped.

Ilbe members continue to harass parents who (rightfully) continue their activism to this day.

Most people outside of Korea don't know or remember this. What they remember is only the beauty of Korean people, protesting in the millions and successfully impeaching President Park Geun Hye who was missing for 7 crucial hours after the accident. ("Fun" fact? A lot of 4B movement activists regard her as their role model. Yes. Still. In 2019, feminist group WOMAD even took out an ad in Times Square to demand her release from prison.)

The fish cake incident was why I wasn't shocked when I saw various videos online of Zionists doing or saying similarly hateful things about Falasteen and Palestinians.

To take a humanitarian issue and twist it into a political one.

I have a lot of feels when people praise the efficiency and technological "forwardness" of Korea when I think of the Sewolho. Because it wasn't the first or last tragedy created by corruption and greed - it is one of MANY manmade disasters (Seongsu bridge collapse, Sampoong Mall collapse, Daegu subway fire, Itaewon Halloween crush, etc etc).

Korea is always one misstep away from yet another infrastructure disaster.

It is a complex country, like any other. There's no conclusion to this post because I struggle with complicated feelings regarding my home country and my own family but I wish people acknowledged the nuances more than look at it with rose colored glasses.

[coffeekyu]

Vanilla Latte (Chapter 3)

Chapter 2 | Chapter 3

word count: 1.66k words

You arrived at the first address on the paper Kyuhyun had passed to you. Surely, it would be easy enough to find the car, or so you thought. Unluckily, the first address led you to a whole ass carpark...

You considered giving Kyuhyun a text immediately to ask him which car it was. But Kyuhyun was probably busy, so you decided to figure it out on your own. This made you begin spamming the unlock button on the car key and pointing it aimlessly in different directions, hoping you were in range of the vehicle. After a few attempts, one car in particular started to wail.

Turns out you had been pressing on the wrong button when it finally came into range. You quickly undid that mistake and looked around to see if anyone was looking in your direction. Seeing no one, you quickly opened the car door on the passenger side. Realising your mistake, you shifted to the driver's seat instead. Thankfully you were here alone. You could drive, you had a license, but you hadn't done it in a long time. You also had no idea why you were being so careful with not being caught - maybe you really felt like a secret agent. Or because you really had no idea what you were doing at all.

You settled down and quickly took a good look at the car you were in. It was a luxury car - an Audi in fact. It was one of your dream cars, and all of a sudden you were about to drive it. The car seemed extremely clean and new, almost spotless, as if nobody has used it before. It had a sweet chocolate or coffee sort of scent. As you sat on the luxurious leather seat, you took great care in checking that none of the buttons on your clothing were rubbing against it.

Bringing up the piece of paper, you entered the second address into the GPS of the Audi, revealing your location to be about 35 minutes away. You began to drive off - and as you exited the dark carpark, the sunlight flashed into your eyes causing you to flinch. You looked around the inside of the car to find a pair of sunglasses, putting them on so you could stop squinting.

Suddenly, in the back of your head, Super Junior's "Black Suit" began playing and you drove through the streets like the main character of a secret agent movie. If you had been on a convertible, your hair would be flamboyantly flowing against the wind as you drove along the Seongsu Bridge above Han River.

Though you started immersing yourself in the feeling of it all, you knew you had to focus on the task at hand.

You started to imagine what the secret was between Kyuhyun and this car. Why does he have a car stashed in the middle of nowhere? What was this mission you had been set to complete and why couldn't Kyuhyun do it on his own or get Yoonjae to do it?

As soon as you arrived at the destination, you noticed several neat buildings located alongside a neighbourhood park. A group of young students walking side by side, arguing over a stick of sotteok-sotteok.

You pulled over slowly while watching them, laughing as you reminisced your childhood back home, when a rhythmic knock on the Audi's glass startled you. Clumsily, you removed the sunglasses to see Kyujin as you scrambled to exit the car, almost not recognising her.

"Kyuhyun said you'd be here. Though you're a little late, let's go quickly. I'll drive." Kyujin's voice was muffled over the window.

Go where? You thought to yourself but quickly kept the sunglasses back into its original spot as you re-entered the car on the passenger side.

You sat in the car silently, picking at one of your fingernails occasionally as Kyujin drove. The silence had gone on for 10 minutes and you couldn't help but notice his sister's random side glares toward your direction. You were about to look to your right past the other cars amidst the traffic to dispel some of the awkwardness in the vehicle when Kyujin finally spoke.

"How old are you?" She speaks clearly while still safely navigating the traffic.

Koreans loved asking this question. You thought to yourself. You had learned about this habit, or tradition, when you first came to Seoul for an exchange. The hierarchy system was apparent in Korea, and you didn't mind it. Ironically, you liked it.

"I'm 24 this year. International age." You replied in a proper manner. Something about Kyujin just made you feel you had to speak extremely formally.

"Right, they changed the rules this year. We're all adopting the international age now". She mumbles to herself, and the silence resumed. "Anyway, since you're younger, you wouldn't mind if I dropped the honorifics, would you?" She asked.

"Ah, no of course not. I don't mind." You assured her, and the silence quickly resumed again.

You glanced to the sky as it looked slightly overcast. Not a common sight for a season like autumn. You looked back onto the road quickly as another car swerved into the Audi's lane as Kyujin stepped on the brakes, somehow gently but effectively. Good thing Kyujin was driving, you thought. She was quite silent but in the moment you wondered if she would ever curse.

"I'm sorry for asking," you finally gathered some courage to ask as your curiosity took over you more and more as each minute had passed. "But where are we heading to?"

"Why so formal? Don't be so serious. We're just going to pick up groceries." Kyujin reassures you, making you feel stupid all of a sudden. It felt like a bucket of ice-cold water had been splashed onto your face at her comment.

Why did you think you were on some important mission to help Kyuhyun? You realised you were just here to bring the vehicle to Kyuhyun's sister so she could take care of her family chores. Though, this still didn't explain why he had a whole other vehicle - an Audi at that - stashed nowhere near where he stayed, as in Cheongdam, like he'd always briefly mentioned in variety shows.

"Are you hungry?" Kyujin asks.

"Me? Nope, I just had coffee."

"Okay, but coffee isn't food. Let's go get something after I'm done. It's been a while since a homemaker like me got some self-care time."

"Oh, that's fine. You can go ahead, ma'am!"

Kyujin looks in your direction quickly, quite startled and also very amused that you'd call her ma'am. "You... can call me eonni." she let out a tiny chuckle, "Really. Don't be so formal. If Kyu trusts you with this car, he must be pretty fond of you. How did you two meet?" She asks casually.

You were surprised to hear her say that, and a little happy. "Actually, we just met. At a café in Mapo-gu." you reply.

Kyujin jolted and jammed quickly on the brakes. "You... what? He just met you? Like just?" You nodded as she continues, "... and he let you drive this car?"

You paused, then nodded, thinking if something went wrong.

"Apparently so." Kyujin added. Now you were even more curious as to how important this car was to Kyuhyun and why. A vehicle behind the Audi started honking away until Kyujin started to drive again.

"All the more we should have a meal after this." Kyujin says, scaring you a little.

After getting groceries at an eMart and dropping it off at Kyujin's place, you drove the both of you to an Italian café known for very good pasta.

"You seem to know a little about cooking, the way you picked out the ingredients." Kyujin says.

"Mmm." You nodded humbly. "I do some cooking for my family on some days."

"Filial." She comments. You blushed, a little guiltily. You did do some cooking but it had been a while since you actually did it because you became busier.

When your dishes arrived, Kyujin signalled for you to dig in. You both ate at a similar pace, though you were a little uncomfortable eating in front of a semi-stranger. And it didn't help that Kyujin seemed to be analysing you while you ate, with an occasional squint in her eyes.

"So I'm guessing you don't know what you got yourself into?" She says.

"What did I get myself into?" You questioned bluntly.

"Well, one good thing is, he definitely trusts you. The second thing, I don't exactly know what he's thinking but I'll let him do the explaining." she says. She might as well not have said anything because that answer was as vague as ever, though you didn't want to question her.

"Okay." you mumbled, continuing to chew quietly as she takes a sip of water. She fumbled with her linguine for a few seconds, then spoke.

"Are you always this quiet?"

You paused. "Most of the time, yeah. I mean, I don't really know you." You say as her face seemed to show that she took a bit of offence. "Sorry, I mean, I'm really quite... quiet in front of... people I've just met?" You say it in a tone, hoping she wouldn't take it personally.

She nods, understandingly all of a sudden. In her head, all she could think of was how emotionless you seemed to be.

"Hey, he's not paying you for this right?"

"I don't know". You replied because you really still didn't know what was going on.

"It's not much, but this meal's on me." She flashed a smile, and you thanked her gratefully.

Right when the both of you were almost done with the meal, Kyujin's phone rang.

"Mm, Kyu. What is it?" She answers. She quickly looks up at you. "He doesn't even have your phone number?" She directs the question to you, slightly taken aback. "Yes, Kyu, she's with me still." she continues, "Mmm."

Kyujin passes you the phone with Kyuhyun still on the line. "Yours."

You took the phone awkwardly and spoke. "Hello?"

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to be continued Writer's note: aaaa I'm having so much writer's block with this series already. Though I have some fun future plans for it already, it may take a few chapters for Kyuhyun and Juyoung's relationship to get to that point.

Chapter 2 | Chapter 3

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.21 (after 1950)

1950 – Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces and North Koreans during the Battle of Yongju. 1956 – The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated. 1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. 1965 – Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun. 1966 – A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren. 1967 – The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon. 1969 – The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration. 1971 – A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland. 1973 – Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. 1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. 1979 – Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs. 1981 – Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces. 1983 – The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. 1984 – Niki Lauda claims his third and final Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by half a point ahead of McLaren team-mate Alain Prost at the Portuguese Grand Prix. 1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991). 1987 – The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian peacekeeping forces in Sri Lanka, killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses. 1989 – In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa. 1994 – North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. 1994 – In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses. 2005 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery. 2011 – Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year. 2019 – Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2019 – In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government 2021 – A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.

[wookmun]

2023.05 UNDER SEONGSU BRIDGE “UNDER SEONGSU BRIDGE II” Compilation Album Art Direction by Me & USB Design by Me

[inhwa-kim]

October 1, 2019.

Seongsu Bridge, Han RIver, Seoul.

[reelydope]

BIFF 2018: House Of Hummingbird

House Of Hummingbird is like an anti-Ladybird: a heavy coming-of-age drama about a middle-school girl in Seoul.

Sometimes you can see great movies coming months in advance, and sometimes they land in your lap without you noticing. For me, Kim Bora’s feature debut House Of Hummingbird is the latter—I had no idea about this movie before I sat down to watch it at the Busan International Film Festival. All I knew was that it was a coming-of-age drama about a middle school girl in Seoul, South Korea. While the…

[f-ngrl]

Under seongsu bridge album was released btw! (I haven’t listened yet)

[kfash1on]

365LIT

Source:Instagram

[stephanocardona]

Night of Seongsu Bridge by SHIN-e

[soraenun-archive]

[letter-0526]

SEUNGKWAN

28.07.2021 (11:28 PM KST)

○ one seongsu a day

- bridge

WOOZI: ㅋㅋㅋㅋ yah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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my guess is that wz must’ve thought sk meant seongsu as in pledis ceo not the seoul district JSSJSJJSSJDJSJSJ

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.21 (after 1950)

1950 – Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces and North Koreans during the Battle of Yongju. 1956 – The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated. 1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. 1965 – Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun. 1966 – A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren. 1967 – The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam organizes a march of fifty thousand people from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon. 1969 – The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration. 1971 – A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland. 1973 – Fred Dryer of the Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game. 1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. 1979 – Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs. 1981 – Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces. 1983 – The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. 1984 – Niki Lauda claims his third and final Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by half a point ahead of McLaren team-mate Alain Prost at the Portuguese Grand Prix. 1986 – In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991). 1987 – The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian peacekeeping forces in Sri Lanka, killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses. 1989 – In Honduras, 131 people are killed when a Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Toncontín International Airport near the nation's capital Tegucigalpa. 1994 – North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections. 1994 – In Seoul, South Korea, 32 people are killed when a span of the Seongsu Bridge collapses. 2005 – Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery. 2011 – Iraq War: President Barack Obama announces that the withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq will be complete by the end of the year. 2019 – Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. 2019 – In Canada, the 2019 Canadian federal election ends, resulting in incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remaining in office, albeit with the Liberal Party in a minority government. 2021 – A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.