charismatic leader 
Do you have any idol?
How do you admire your idol? 
By appreciating their work like buying their album, watching
their movie, or get inspired by their fashion style?
Having some of their posters on your wall?
Having their biography?
Buying all the magazine which contain your idol?
I was into kpop, yeah I'm still listening to kpop sometimes but not as
much as I did in the past 2 years.
I still remember during early days when I was a huge fan of
some kpop group, I was crying while watching their concert or music video from my computer screen, deprived of meeting them in real.
But what dragged me into kpop was not because of the beautiful
face of the member, I like listening to music a lot (who doesn’t tho?), my
playlist had been changed several times as I grew up. From hip hop to punk, metal,
electronic pop, brit pop, it changed annually. Oh, and liking boyband isn’t a
new thing for me. When I was 7, yes...7 years old, I was a huge fan of
Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, and Westlife. I got influenced by my sister, she had all the cassete of those boybands. And when she played the cassete on player in
our room while she was studying, I was dancing along the music as if I was one of
Backstreet Boys’s member or back dancer at least, lol.
Back to kpop, I was really amazed by their choreography and
the catchy beat of its music, it was something fresh to me. So I started liking
and digged out more about kpop, not just 2 or 3 boybands that I had follow...but
more and more and I even knew the newest group that appear in kpop industry.
Then I started to buy their original albums, if they
released new album I always tried to order in the first batch in order to get the
limited original poster. I also bought the korean magazine which has them on
photoshoot and interview session, did I read them? No, I was blind about korean
back then. Just looking at the pictures and touching the paper and knowing the
smell of its magazine made me happy already.
I covered my wall with their posters. When I saw them,
sometimes I thought when would I meet them, it seemed impossible since I don’t
live in Korea and if they have concert in Indonesia there’s no guarantee that I could watch them, and even if I come to their concert we will still have a
distance between the stage and audience.
But who knows about what will happen in the future?
I thought going to South Korea was something impossible for
me, but apparently God gave me that chance.
Tbh, watching kpop concert was on my last list when I was in
Korea, I was planning to watch SMTOWN Week of EXO (one of the rising boyband at
the moment) on christmas, but because I was really busy and my interest towards
kpop had been decreasing few months before I came to Korea, I decided to cancel
buying the ticket.
Surprise surprise, when I went to Incheon Airport, I saw
many girls with their dslr camera and expensive lenses were waiting in front of
arrival gate, they were soooo many, some of them were standing above the chair
and some of them were bringing their own folding chair in order to be able to
see the idol when they come out from arrival door to take some good snaps for their fansite (fansite is a website managed
by fangirl where they post the pictures they took of their idol).
I eventually found out that EXO will came out soon,
