[Fanaccount] MBC Korean Music Wave in Google - The Prep!

The News + SMTown Concert

Yesterday was literally the best night of my 3 years of being a Kpop fan 20 years of life. For two years, I have looked forward to come to any Kpop festivals or especially, SMTown (SM Entertainment artists that include Super Junior, SNSD, BoA, TVXQ, SHINee, and f(x)), but I never got a chance to meet any of the artists until last night. In 2010, I was sooo dying to see SMTown, who came to LA for the first time, but since I had just arrived to the US and needed some time to adjust myself, I refrained myself from watching. In 2011, SMTown returned to US, and this time to New York. Due to distance matter, my plan for going was cancelled. In 2012, the latest SMTown was to be held again in LA, but due to financial matters, I failed to go again.

http://www.kpopstarz.com

But the good news came in late April. The news that really made my night. When I said I was literally jumping up and down to find out that Kpop artists were coming to Mountainview in a concert sponsored by Google and Youtube on May 21 (a few weeks from when I first discovered the news), I was not lying (ask my roommate). I contacted my friends who had discovered the news in prior for confirmation. For your information, I live 14 minutes of drive away from Mountainview. Yet again, the artist lineup as I read it was beyond overwhelming as there would be Super Junior, SNSD, Wonder Girls, TVXQ, Kara, Sistar, f(x), Beast, and MBLAQ.
 

For a second, it sounds quite impossible for big Kpop stars such as, were coming to the Bay Area. It still makes sense if they have a concert in San Francisco, which is the closest big city from smy place, Cupertino. But Mountainview? I mean, please, it's Bay Area. I always think it's the last place in California big Kpop stars would ever drop by at. Mountainview is not even a big city, not as big, entertainment-focused as LA or New York! Guess I should say that Google was lucky (and rich) enough to invite them to their base located in a quite remote place in the Bay Area?

However, my happiness soon sunk when I started to worry and later find out that the concert was private and only open for Google employees. I actually have sensed a glitch about this concert, like lack of information, the ticket price, when the tickets would be up on sales... I was worried the tickets would be given away in a lottery kind of system and I'm really bad when it comes to luck. When I figured out the concert would be only for Google employees, I gave away my hope to see my Kpop idols (out of the artist line-up, I mostly anticipated Super Junior, given that I have been an ELF for 3 years now and they're the first Kpop artists I know). My friend didn't give up though, and said that she'd try to seek for tickets from Google employees or otherwise, we would just have to wait for the artists at the airport for a free glimpse of them. I said, I didn't care. Seeing them for a few seconds is enough to make me swoon.

A week later, an update of the concert was released, saying that the concert was now open for public...and amazingly...for FREE. People would have to request the ticket on May 12 on Powerhouse website. Again, I spread the news to my friends and arranged a plan and strategy how to request for the tickets to make sure we got them for real. Getting a ticket for free online would surely not be easy, considering that Kpop fans ARE crazy. They're willing to sacrifice anything (even school or midterms) just to see their favorite idols in action.
 

The Ticket Reservation

The D-day of the ticket reservation, I gathered with Sammi, Indri, and Silvia at Indri's place. Each of us has a laptop, with the browsers nicely set on Powerhouse website. Seeing it would be hard to get the tickets in an instant, we tried to get 4 tickets from each laptop. One request can only reach to maximum four tickets, and if you want more than four, you have to make separate transaction. When the clock struck 7, we were crazily refreshing the website to get into the request form. But of course, it wouldn't be that easy. For an hour or so, four of us only got a “server crash” page after million times of refreshing the page. The furthest I could ever go to was the request form, where I typed in all the simple information like crazy, hit submit, only to see that my request was not sent because the server crashed again :(. We were darn scared and nervous that we wouldn't get any single tickets.

Suddenly Sam squealed and showed me a confirmation slip page on her screen. SHE GOT 4 TICKETS!!! She turned to me and said: “We're officially going!!!”. It took me a while to absorb her words before I got to understand that I was officially going to the MBC Korean Music Wave concert in Google with her!! Yes, she confirmed that I was one of the ticket holders!

We literally went nuts to know that we were going to see our idols in just A WEEK! I was more exhilarated by the fact that for the first time ever, I would see my most favorite Kpop artists, Super Junior, live. I couldn't bear the fact that I would see them for real. Even just knowing I would meet them in a week was too overwhelming. I needed some time to calm down.

However, I attempted to do some more requests from my laptop, and still failed. I was actually looking for extras for my friends in case they didn't get any. Trust me, I didn't sell them. In the end, I still failed to request tickets from my laptop, so are Silvia and Indri who had been kind enough to help even though they wouldn't come. In the end, I got none from my laptop, but Sam got 8 more. In total, she got 12 tickets! Now she was ready to spread the tickets to those who need them

So the ticket has been settled. I didn't care that I didn't get the tickets under my name, at least Sam has reserved one of the tickets she had successfully requested for me. That's all that matters.

See you in a week SISTAR (Bora, Hyorin, Soyou, Dasom), Beast (Yoseob, Hyun-seung, Jun-hyung, Dong-woon, Gi-kwang, Doo-joon), MBLAQ (Seungho, G.O, Lee Joon, Thunder, Mir), Wonder Girls (Yubin, Sohee, Yenny, Hyerim, Sunye), Kara (Jiyoung, Nicole, Hara, Gyuri, Seungyeon), f(x) (Victoria, Amber, Luna, Sulli, Krystal), SNSD (Taeyeon, Jessica, Tiffany, Sunny, Yuri, Hyeoyeon, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Yoona), TVXQ (Yunho and Changmin), and...Super Junior (Leeteuk, Yesung, Shindong, Sungmin, Siwon, Donghae, Eunhyuk, Ryeowook, Kyuhyun!!)

Wow that's a lot... O_O