Another concert post~ and it was another weekend with concerts both Saturday and Sunday. (I was tired.)
On Saturday the 8th I went to Seoul World Cup Stadium to see SMTown Live. SM Entertainment is a huge entertainment company here and there are quite a few artists signed under them - including SHINee and EXO, as well as two of my favorite girl groups. I've actually seen this concert before - they came to Madison Square Garden back in 2011. I think it was the second kpop concert I attended. EXO hadn't debuted yet, and f(x) still... existed.
I got there early because there were a ton of things to do before the show - they had a whole area of tents set up with activities. There was even a karaoke tent. It was raining on and off all day, so I had reason to buy the SHINee rain coat I'd been eyeing up a few months ago.
Ticketing for these shows is a bit different. There were 10 groups/artists who performed and each artist has their own fandom, so before ticketing takes place they release basically a seating chart that says if you're in this fandom buy your ticket in this section, so that fans of each artist are sitting together. The show sold out before I could get a ticket. I actually got my ticket about 2 weeks after the show sold out by being on the website at 1 am when luckily, for some reason, a seat became available. I ended up being in what was apparently a multifandom section for people who were just lucky to have gotten tickets - perfect. EXO section was to my right and SHINee section was to my left, so I held my EXO lightstick in my right hand and my SHINee lightsticks in my left hand and just went crazy.
OH! The most amazing thing happened! One of the members of Super Junior recently did a collaboration with a duo called UV, who are not in SM Ent., but they performed at the concert. I was not expecting it at all. They had this amazing entrance on stage and I was just like, "..no way...". After they performed the new song with the Super Junior guy they did Itaewon Freedom. Itaewon Freedom is my JAM and I never, ever thought I would see it performed live. This happened like 3 weeks ago and I'm still not over it. I was, without a doubt, the loudest foreigner in that stadium during Itaewon Freedom. I can't post my fancam of it because it's just me yelling.
I forgot that this concert is like 9 days long... and almost didn't make the last bus home. Actually I totally missed the last bus home. The subway stopped running, too, so I took a cab to Gangnam, because I figured if I was going to spend the night chilling in a 24-hour McDonald's waiting for buses to start running in the morning, I should be in a Gangnam McDonald's. Luckily I made it into Gangnam in time to catch a different bus that goes to the town I live in but drops off on the other side of town. So I eventually made it home after a long walk across town at 2:30 am.

After barely making it home Saturday night, I got back on a bus to Seoul on Sunday to see Guckkasten play Olympic Park Hall. Another band that I've liked for years but never thought I'd have the opportunity to see live. I don't even have words for how amazing the vocalist of this band is.