The saddest part of the Krystal thing was when Jessica said its okay, we will be free soon.
I'm guessing Jessica is leaving SNSD and Krystal will leave SM.
But other news...I never seen K-fans so upset.
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live in Korea. So does the other girl those tweets belong to.
Every ****ing day we try to attend an event it is literally hell for us because we are not official fans. We cant be. No one can because SHINee official fanclub membership has been closed after the 1st time it opened. There are a few hundred "active" official fans, fans who joined in ''08 and are still attending events. But everyone else who became a fan after that are unofficials. SHINee has gained a **** load of fans since 2008 obviously but all those fans get the shaft at every single event because they dont have the title "official fan".
I'm now going to attempt to explain to you how being a fan in Korea works if you're a fan of an SM group. For those of you with limited reading abilities or those who simply don't like to read lots of text despite being in a written online forum, you might skip these.
To attend a music show:
or SM groups,
1) you need to follow the official site every second
2) as soon as the notice for a music show goes up you need to jump on a train and go to the broadcasting station,
3) find a tree that has a piece of paper on it,
4) take a selfie with the damn paper,
5) send it to the number on the said paper and receive a number.
This usually takes place 3 days before a music show.
Then you need to go back to the same place for 2 days to "check-in" which is basically where the girls who do the paper thing have a list of everyone who sent their selfies and got a number. They read those names, you say "here" when you hear yours and then you go home come back the next day, do the same thing, if you're late or if you don't show up your name gets crossed off the list.
On the day of the show you go there at 4am depending on which music show it is, do another check-in, and wait outside until 10am. If the previous night had a check in and the early morning check in is before 5am when the public transport is not working, you usually need to stay outside the whole night waiting for the next mornings check-in.
So after all that you've waited until 10-11am or later depending on the show, they seperate the line into 2 groups.
Officials and non-officials.
And you receive a number on your wrist.
Now here's the fun part.
While you stayed outside for 15 hours in the freezing cold of November, an official fan can literally come 5mins before the recording and still get in line in front of you.
And here's an even better fun fact.
Music show studios are all different sizes. If on a particular day more than 300 officials show up, non officials cant go in because there isnt enough space. Officials get the 1st dibs on everything. So even if you spend 4days running from check-in to check-in, stay out in the freezing cold for 15 hours, an official who shows up right before the recording is gonna get in front of you and might be the reason you can't go in. Because she's an official.
It's really all sorts of exciting when after all the **** you had to do, right when they start allowing people in they count everyone and cut the line 2 people before you and you realize of the 300non-officials there only 6 have made it in after the official fans.
Now add to all this the fact that there are 4 "big" music shows a week. All have the same system. So during a promo period all the non-officials are running from one end of the city to another trying to make it to different checkins on time to see their idols.
Whereas offocials just have to show up on the day.
To attend an SM concert:
Tickets go on sale the day before the actual day they go on sale for officials.
Its so much fun when you stay awake at a PC-bang because they have fast internet and maybe at least there you might have the tiniest chance of getting a ticket, the site opens on the day and you see that all the tickets are already sold out because officials bought all of them so you never stood a chance to bein with. Fun.
Concert goods? Special "officials only" concert merch.
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A mess.
I guess I'm the only one who isn't interested in such obvious gimmicks. Orange Caramel's whole shtick doesn't work for me.
