Korean Fashion Brand: Pancoat

                                    please ignore the snow drop on my beannie   

Sebenarnya sudah lama saya ingin menulis at least satu post saja tentang fashion Korea, selain karena saya senang sekali mengamati dunia fashion, pastinya akan menarik untuk melihat trend fashion apa yang sedang berkembang ketika saya tinggal di Korea Selatan karena perbedaan musim atau trend dengan Indonesia. Tinggal di tengah-tengah anak muda Korea yang sadar fashion sedikit mewarnai gaya berpakaian saya, bagaimana tidak? Karena barang-barang fashion yang dijual di Korea rata-rata sesuai dengan trend saat itu, jadinya apa yang saya beli mau tidak mau mengikuti trend yang sedang hype.

Meeting EXO: Fans's Dream Come True

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,

L's Bravo Viewtiful

Horeeee…akhirnya L’s Bravo Viewtiful saya sudah sampai ^^

jadi, L’s Bravo Viewtiful adalah photobook yang dirilis oleh L alias Myungsoo, member boyband INFINITE.

hobi photografinya menghasilkan karya photo essay ini (ah tapi pasti Woollim ikut turun tangan untuk meng-KOMERSIL-kan hobi foto-foto L, yaaa kan Woollim selalu mencari celah bagaimana caranya untuk menguras kantong fans INFINITE), btw he’s the first idol who release his own photobook. as a fan, I’m kinda proud of him.

Selain dapet photobook itu sendiri, jika membeli photobook ini maka akan mendapatkan:

1. poster (males ambil fotonya gede banget)

2. DVD 

3. Sebuah notepad dan 7 lembar photocard

Di dalam photobook ini, ada beberapa foto yang L ambil selama 93 hari, tidak hanya foto semata, namun L juga menuliskan sendiri komentar-komentar tentang masing-masing foto serta tanggal diambilnya foto tersebut. hehehe, banyak foto Sungjong di photobook ini :3

Baiklah L, tetap berkarya ya, saya tahu skill fotografi kamu bagus kamera kamu mahal banget makanya hasil fotonya bagus bagus.

semoga kalo rilis photobook lagi nggak mahal harganya T_T