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[Acct]'Trip of Rain's Footprints'_01: Gwangju
Please do not edit the pictures in this post, thanks~
Time flies~ Rain has already been serving in the army for 100 days which means I have already been home for more than 3 months from Korea. It seems like I have to start writing my travel notes otherwise I wouldn't remember all the little things that happened during those days. Since there was something that I had to deal with in Hong Kong and I was planning to join Rain's concert tour starting from the concert in Gwangju all the way until Oct 5th, the day after he enlisted to the army(the rumor in those days was saying that he'd enlist to the army on Oct 4th), then I would go back to Hong Kong to stay for another week before going home. Therefore, I asked to take a full 5 weeks off from my job. Two and a half weeks for Hong Kong and two and a half weeks for Korea, what a perfect plan I had. However, when I was in Korea in the beginning of October, Rain suddenly announced that he postponed his enlistment date for a week to Oct 11th, also there would be a production press conference in Busan for his upcoming movie 'Flight: Close to the Sun' on Oct 7th and he would be performing for Gangnam K-wave Festival (A.K.A. Rain's 'Last of the Best Concert') on Oct 9th. Oh man, what should I do? Then, I decided to change my return flight to Hong Kong and to stay in Korea for another week until Oct 12th, the day after he enlisted. That's why, I stayed in Korea for almost 4 weeks but I didn't waste any time. Gwangju, Daejeon, Seoul, Busan, Gyeongju, Incheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Gangwon-do, Gyeonggi-do, each of my day in Korea was spending on places related to Rain. The places I visited each day were either places Rain had been to or places he's going to show up. Because of that, the title I give for this trip's travel notes is 'Trip of Rain's Footprints', which is shortened from the whole title: 'Trip of Searching for Rain's Footprints'
Alright, back to the topic, 'Trip of Rain's Footprints'_01 -> Gwangju
At the night of Sept 16th, I took a midnight flight from Hong Kong to Seoul with 3 Chingu (means 'friends' in Korean). Everytime when I was on a flight to Korea, I would like to search over programs and songs in the TV monitor for my seat to see if there's any 'Rain' was travelling with me. On this flight, I found BTTB, cool~
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The dinner menus for flight to Seoul were usually chicken and Bibimbab. No matter if I was travelling from USA or from Hong Kong, these were the two choices I could pick from, nothing new.
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This was my first time taking a flight from Hong Kong to Seoul. I was either had to have my meal or had to fill out paper for customs in every one to two hours, so I definitely had no time to get some sleep. Do you believe that this 6 hours flight to Seoul was much less comfortable than the 15 hours flight that I usually take to Seoul from USA? It's unbelievable, right? When we arrived at Incheon Airport at around 5am, I was so tired and sleepy. Luckily, our Rain was welcoming us at the airport that made me awake from sleepy.
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We took airport bus directly to Seoul National University of Education Station which was the meeting point for the coach to Gwangju organized by Korean Clouds. We arrived there at around 7:30am. Most of the stores were not opened yet because it was too early in the morning. After searching around, we finally found a bakery to have our breakfast and we stayed there to wait for the coach and other Clouds to arrive. After we got on the coach, Korean CloudS gave each or us an sandwich and a little box of milk. I didn't have them because I had just eaten but I appriciated a lot for Korean Clouds' thoughtfulness. The coach departed around 20 minutes later than scheduled because someone came late. Driving from Seoul to Gwangju needed to take around 4 hours, no need to eat and no need to fill out forms, gosh~ I finally got time to have some sleep. I didn't know how long I fell into sleep, the coach stopped at a resting point by the highway. After I went to ladies' room and got some snacks to eat, I went back to the coach to have my second round of sleep. Then the coach sent us directly to the entrance of Yeomju Multipurpose Gymnasium, the venue for Rain's Gwangju concert.
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It was around 2pm when we arrived at Yeomju Multipurpose Gymnasium. The selling of 'The Best Show' concert's souvenirs was supposed to be started already as per the schedule in Cloud Notice, but when we arrived there, they were still setting up the booth for it. So, Chingu A and I decided to take all of our luggage to the guest house we reserved to do the check-in first and Chingu B & C to wait at the venue for buying concert souvenirs for all of us. When Chingu A & I returned to the venue, B & C were already done with shopping souvenirs. The weather was hot and the sun was up high in the sky, so then we met with some other Clouds we knew and went to a restaurant around the venue to avoid the sun.
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The restaurant we picked serving western food like pastas and burgers. The waiter who served our table also spoke little English and he was so thoughtful enough to bring us the only one English menu they had in the restaurant, thanks and we appriciated. We ordered different kinds of food individually and all of us happened to say the food we ordered was so delicious in favor. The food was good and even the little things like napkins holder and small plates on the table were cute too. Nice~
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I read a news article few days before going to Korea said that due to the weather was too hot, the demand for electricity exceeded the power supply capability of the network caused power outages in many regions in Korea. Who would know that when we were enjoying our delicious meals, the restaurant's power suddenly went out. We were so worried not for the restaurant but for Rain's concert that would start in the next few hours. We were like: "oh please, please don't let what happened at Taipei Arena to be happened again tonight!!) (FYI: the power in Taipei Arena suddenly went out in the middle of Rain's Rainy Day concert in 2006). We were a little bit relieved when the power came back after 10 minutes but then the power went out again after few minutes. Although we knew there should be backup power at the concert venue but still... please, no blackout at least for tonight~
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More and more people arrived when we got back to the venue after eating. Then we started doing our job, searching around to check for Rain's leaving exit and direction after the concert. Once we confirmed our after concert getaway 'Plan B', we started lining up for entering the venue.
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We got the Cloud fan club seats for this concert and the numbers were a bit behind, so we didn't expect a lot of having good seats. Suprisingly, when we found our seats, we were on the second row facing the center of the stage. Not as standing, there was nothing blocking in front of us. We could see the whole stage from the back LED to front of the extended stage and from top to bottom clearly. What a perfect spot for photo taking and video recording. The only thing I wanted to complain was the whole row of seats were attached and the floor was not fixed concrete floor because the section of our seats was something like flexible seating system, when they don't need it, they can put the whole seation of seating into garage, so the floor moved when someone in the same row was walking or moving. Therefore, while video recording, even myself didn't move a lot but the video I recorded was shaking a lot because the whole floor of the row moved when someone on the same row moved, too bad~
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I believe a lot of you have watched a lot of fancams from others already, so I'm not going to talk a lot about the details of the concert, just pick out some points those I think are interesting with some fancams and photos I took. I felt Rain's condition wasn't that well in the beginning of the concert. He seemed tired and his voice was a bit hoarse, but then his condition was getting much much better after few songs.
When he sang "Only You", he unexpectedly said "Sarang hea Yo~ (I Love You~)" in the middle of the song and felt embarrassed right afterward. He couldn't help laughing and so did we~ His facial expression was so... ...cute~
P.S. I didn't mean to share my fancam to the public by the time I recorded it, so I had never stopped myself from singing and screaming with him and it's impossible to keep myself quite at his concert. Please excuse my voice if you think it's disturbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUUCv_tN_6g&hd=1
The below clip is when he sang '알면서(I Know)' and '광주여자(Gwangju Woman)'. If Rain didn't mention it, I wouldn't know the temperature in Gwangju of that day was hot as 33°C. See, that's why we had to stay in a restaurant to avoid the sun. I love the song 'I Know' a lot. It reminds me the scenes in drama 'Sangdoo, let's go to school'. This was the first time I heard him singing it live in the concert I attended. I was touched and wanted to cry when I saw his facial expressions during the song with his voice plus the scenes of the drama I had in my memories. Then when Rain sang '광주여자(Gwangju Woman)'. He found there was a mid-aged man sitting on the right side (our left side) of the stage giving him no response. Rain tried his best to act silly and cute, was trying to get some responses from that man but that man was just sitting there no matter what Rain did. After he finished up the song, our 'unhappy' kid walked back to that man and asked that man why giving him no response but just sitting there. LOL~ He's so cute~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYUTIhPVqGI&hd=1
After he sang '널 붙잡을 노래(Love Song)', there was a little funny scene of Rain. There was something like hair went into his mouth from the mic on his headset, then he took it off and used a towel to clean it. While he was cleaning it, he was trying to explain a bit about the headset mic he's using, suddenly there was a female's voice from his left side saying "I know that!". Rain's facial expression immediately acted awful like saying "What?" and he faced to that side and asked "Who is it?" Then he raised the left side of his red suit up a bit, turning his butt to that lady and asked her: "This, what about this?" "You know what is this?" "You know what is this?" "What's this?" "What's this?" LOL~ He was trying to beat her like that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSgl3cZnDxg&hd=1
After that, he talked about himself and life seriously, then he started singing 'My Way' and the LED on the stage started showing a video made of photos of Rain from when he was a baby to recent. Since my spot was perfect enough to video record the whole stage with both Rain the whole LED on the back, so I wouldn't miss the chance to keep this precious video for myself. Listening to 'My Way' with this video, so touching~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7venEzPDduY&hd=1
There are so many things about the concert I want to share but I afraid if I bring all of them out, I have to use a month to finish writing this account, so I would like to stop here and share some photos instead
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After the concert, we went with our 'Plan B'. We went to the backstage exit and sent him off. My camera was out of batteries so I have nothing to show you about this.
After Rain left, because the guest thouse we stayed was not far from the venue. It's just 30 minutes away by walk and just needed to walk straight along on the main road in front of the venue. We checked to see if there's any restaurant was still opened when we were walking back to the guest house. We finally found and walked into a Korean restaurant. We didn't know the restaurant served pork and pig organs only until we went over the menu at the table, but it's OK for us.
After dinner, we went to a convenience store for our dessert, ice-cream, then we walked back to the guest house to sleep. We had Rain, had food, had dessert, and had time and place to sleep, what a perfect day in Gwangju~
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9.18
The coach to Daejeon organized by Korean Clouds would depart at the hotel they stayed at 10am, so we woke up early and left our guest house to their hotel after breakfast at around 9am. It was too early and not too many people showed up when we arrived at the hotel, so Chingu A, B and I left our luggage at the lobby and walked around in the area to see if there's any convenience store that we could get something to drink. After we bought our drinks, we found a place called 'Gwangju Bridge'. Since we stayed in Gwangju for a day only so we definitely had no time to visit attractions of Gwangju other than Yeomju Multipurpose Gymnasium. Gwangju Bridge, as per its name, it should be found in Gwangju only, so it should be one of the attractions in Gwangju we thought. Therefore, we stopped by there and took some photos to proof we've been to Gwangju. The river under Gwangju Bridge looked like 청계천(Cheong gye cheon) in Seoul some how. I wondered if this river would have colorful lighting at night as 청계천(Cheong gye cheon)?
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After taking some photos at Gwangju Bridge, we walked back to the hotel and got on the coach for Daejeon. Korean Clouds were so thoughtful again to ask if any of us wanted sandwiches for breakfast, I was full so I didn't take anything, thanks anyway. Besides of that, another Korean Cloud onni (means 'older sister' in Korean) brought a big roll of Gwangju posters onto the coach and gave them away to each of us. "Oh~ good to see this handsome guy in the morning, today should be a lucky day!" Then this coach of Clouds departed as per scheduled, leaving Gwangju to Daejeon to continue searching for Rain's footprints~
'Trip of Rain's Footprints'_01: Gwangju ~Ended~
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22.Jan01.12[video][MBC][Section TV]Shin Se kyung send Message to BI Rain ' oppa fighting !'
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oppa fighting !!! Good Girl !!!
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