Hanryu Pia Magazine October 2018 Review

I bought Japanese magazine Hanryu Pia's October 2018 issue from Seattle's Kinokuniya Bookstore on December 17th for about $20 USD. Earlier that day I had received my Ktown package which was supposed to contain my Golden Child's 2019 Season's Greetings, but instead received Exo albums due to Ktown's incompetency of properly fulfilling orders. Anyways, the only reason I'm bringing this up again is because I'm really grateful to have found this magazine for Golden Child in absence of my season's greetings.

I initially bought this magazine for Golden Child's feature, though Infinite's L as the cover and other members' photos throughout the magazine were quite the bonus! It was really fun going through the magazine and spotting all the familiar faces.

Right away on the backside of the front cover is an advertisement for Hoya's drama "Radiant Office"!

The opposite page is an attached folded poster of L. This is a double-sided poster, with the other side housing an image of CNBlue's Kang Minhyuk.

Following the poster is L's feature story.

L's feature is 10 pages long.

L always looks especially handsome in blazers!

And here's L looking soft in another outfit.

It's interesting to see how L's autograph has evolved over time, or perhaps depending on if he's Infinite's L or Kim Myungsoo.

And here's the last page of L's feature, along with his image on the table of contents.

The following section shows idols and actors at various events. L makes his appearance again, here at the MCM event!

Woohyun is also featured in this section, for this Second Write.. mini album showcase.

And to my pleasant surprise, Dongwoo's here as well!

Actor Hoya makes another cameo (bottom right) with a page for his drama "Two Cops"!

And now Golden Child's feature, "Golden Time"! This magazine is really smart to have Golden Child's feature be spread out over several issues, so that only about four pages featuring Golden Child are in each issue. Here are the first two pages.

These two pages show a lot of Y and Bomin, along with a selca of the two (and Tag in the bottom left corner!).

There are only five pages of "Golden Time", but there is so much going on. They are all so adorable in their overalls!

The second two pages show Jangjun, Tag, and Joochan (with crouching Y hanging out on top!). Drawings of the members are also shown on the left.

I don't usually see Jangtaekchan (?) together, but they really are so cute together! And if anyone's a fan of the show "Fuller House", this is like the she wolf pack^^

Also there is just so much cuteness here, from Jangjun clutching Jootaek's legs to the three peeking over the white wall to their portraits to Tag looking really handsome with his blue hair.

I think my most favorite part is that the members are holding up placards for the page numbers!

The fifth page has a group image as well as advertisements for receiving additional Golden Child content. This concludes Golden Child's segment for this issue, with a continuation in next month's.

Actor Hoya makes his last cameo for this issue, this time for his drama "Devilish Joy".

Towards the end of the issue are the Polaroid events. There are four autographed Polaroids of L.

For Golden Child, there are two autographed Polaroids of Jangtaekchan and two of Boyoon (?).

And lastly there is one more section for L.

As I mentioned, "Golden Time" is spread out over several issues of Hanryu Pia, at least from September 2018 to February 2019. This past weekend I went back to Kinokuniya and found issues December, January, and February. I don't know if I'm more frustrated at myself for falling into this trap and buying this magazine, or for not paying attention to which issues Golden Child was featured in and ending up only buying October, December, January, and February. I'll be blogging about these issues in a future post!