...Hallyu began roughly 12 years ago when the rest of Asia discovered Korean soap operas. One of the breakthrough dramas was a series 'Winter Sonata' starring Choi Ji-woo & Bae Young-Joon. After that, more Korean dramas saw their way to foreign shores and Korean films and music started to follow suit. Korean marketing people started to see a Korea-centric trend. They dubbed this flow "The Korean Wave" or Hallyu....
26.4.10
2010 JKS Asia Tour in Singapore / Fan Account – Ally [2]
Ally's fan account-- Part 2
by Ally @soompi.com
The Duck, the Bugs-Bunny-like person, the bear/indescribable animal person, all carried baskets of candy. Since they were walking at the front of the stage, they threw the candy to the people in the priority seats. [For sharp-eyed people, the camera consistently focused on the person in the Bugs Bunny-like suit, so it was easy to guess…]
Then they all went up on stage. Bear/indescribable animal took off his head. Not Sukkie. Bugs Bunny turned to the Duck. Duck just stood there. Bugs Bunny whacked Duck on the beak. All the fans giggled. Duck meekly took off his head – okay, not Sukkie. Therefore—
Bugs Bunny-guy is Sukkie!!!!
Fans were screaming already. Bugs Bunny-guy pretended to take off the head – but only partway, just so you could see the smile and the chin!!! Then he put it back on again!!!!! It was Sukkie – he has such a distinctive smile and chin!!! And so characteristically mischievous of him!
Finally he took the head off and revealed his face – screaming and shrieking hit a crescendo. Sukkie was laughing, his grin stretched to its widest and his eyes sparkling with mirth. He waved to the fans, who screamed and cheered.
Sukkie had to be helped out of his suit and he wore a black top with rolled up sleeves (I remember one side looked sleeveless but the other side had a sleeve). He looked all sweaty and really hot. Hot as in he was perspiring and strands of his hair clung to his face. His first hairstyle was the one where it’s parted on the left, and he has to keep pushing back the hair on his right so that it won’t keep falling into his face. He has the rest of his hair tied up in a little knot at the back of his head.
Anyway, Sukkie didn’t speak at first. He just grinned and waved. Then he went to this little table that had been set up on stage. It had about 3 large grey trays on it and some electronic equipment which was made of metal, strangely-shaped and had wires sticking out of it all over.
Then Sukkie dipped his hands into the 3 large grey trays one by one – guess what? He started taking out his bracelets, his rings, and putting them on his fingers and wrists!!! That means he had to take them off when he was in the Bugs Bunny-like costume!
Then he put on his portable microphone – the one where you have a little box clipped to the back of your pants and the hands-free mini-microphone that’s attached to your shirt in front.
Sukkie waved to the (still) screaming fans: “HI, SINGAPORE!!! IT’S SHOWTIME!!!!”
Then suddenly music began to play as he bent over the electronic equipment – so he was spinning music for fans, like a disc jockey (DJ)! He spun several different beats and rhythms together – it was like being in a club, only without the dancing. The music, the beats, the rhythms, the lights – it would have been great if all the fans could have danced to it! (Not just wiggled a bit to the beat…)
Sukkie spun the music for about 6 minutes, I think. Then he stopped. The flashing disco lights disappeared; the stage lights went on. All the fans sat down. There were 3 people on stage, perched on seats – DJ Ken, Sukkie and a female interpreter.
Handshake between Sukkie and Ken.
DJ Ken: “Hi! Welcome to Singapore!”
Sukkie smiles, waves: “Hi, Singapore…”
DJ Ken: “Many fans here…”
Sukkie: “Amazing!”
DJ Ken: “So this is your first time in Singapore?”
Sukkie: “Yes. At the airport… fans were there…to welcome… wow…”
DJ Ken: “So you didn’t know you were popular?”
Sukkie: “No…”
DJ Ken: “You DIDN’T know you were POPULAR?” [No need to shout, DJ Ken...]
Sukkie: “…no, because… first time this year… in Asia…Taiwan, Beijing… how does so many people know, about me…”
DJ Ken (to fans): “You all watch the You’re Beautiful show right?”
Fans: “Yes!”
DJ Ken (wagging a finger): “You all download!!! But must go and watch You’re Beautiful showing on Starhub starting May 19!”
Fans: “Yes!”
DJ Ken: “Internet.”
Sukkie: “Oh, Internet!”
DJ Ken: “People know from the Internet!”
Sukkie: “Oh!”
DJ Ken: “So, A.N. JELL, are you close to the members?”
Sukkie: “Yes, we’re friendly. Ah, Yong Hwa –“
Fans in the audience screamed and squealed.
Sukkie: “He’s busy, in Korea, with music. And Hong-gi –“
More screams in the audience.
Sukkie: “He’s in Japan. Hong-gi, he likes me. He always calls me ‘Hyung, hyung’ and asks me to give him alcohol. So I bring him alcohol. Alcohol.”
[I think for Sukkie, it’s a guy thing to enjoy alcohol. Like clubbing. He’s young and lives life to the fullest, so alcohol and clubbing are 2 very cool, very guy things to enjoy in Korea, maybe?]
DJ Ken: “Oooooooh. Any more dark secrets?”
Sukkie: “Oh. Oh. A.N. JELL, Hong-gi is no-good dancing. So we have to change places, like, the band.”
DJ Ken: “Hong-gi is no good at dancing!”
Sukkie: “Yes. He’s not good dancing.”
DJ Ken: “You’re better than him?”
Sukkie: “Of course!” Sukkie proceeds to wiggle his body – while seated – in a few hot dance moves.
DJ Ken: “So what did you do after this show?”
Sukkie: “Well, I stay home, read book…”
DJ Ken: “You like to swim?” To fans: “When he came here, Thursday, he went to his hotel midnight until 3, he swam in the hotel pool!” To Sukkie: “You like swimming?”
Sukkie: “Yes. Swimming… I like…”
DJ Ken: “Ah, you have muscles on the arm!” [I think he meant that swimming gave Sukkie nice biceps…]
Sukkie laughs a little, and makes a muscle.
DJ Ken: “I know you’ve prepared a lot for this fan meeting to show fans.”
Sukkie: “Yes, I want to show fans everything about me. EVERYTHING!”
Fans cheered and screamed.
So it was time for Sukkie to go backstage to change. Before he left the stage, he blew a kiss to the fans: “I’ll be back!”
When Sukkie next came out on stage, he had done his hair differently, in the hairstyle that Ko Mi-nam likes on Hwang Tae-kyung. Fans, needless to say, were absolutely delighted.
Sukkie sang his song from Beethoven Virus. His voice, as always, was beautiful, rich and deep in tone (though it was a bit drowned out at points by the accompanying music). Fans who knew the words sang along – you could hear the faint echoes of their voices in the audience.
DJ Ken: “So you said you’re going to show us EVERYTHING.”
Sukkie: “Yes.”
DJ Ken: “EVERYTHING? Take off your shirt?”
Sukkie, catching on: “Uh.” Sukkie looks down his shirt. “Oh no, no, no. Not my body. Just… me. Everything about me.”
DJ Ken said something about Sukkie from the time since he was a child and told the fans they were going to see things from Sukkie’s childhood.
Cue slideshow!!!
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