[LA November 2019] K-Content EXPO 2019 Kpop Concert Experience

This LA trip has been very special; I blogged about my time in Koreatown here, greeting Lovelyz at LAX here, and the K-Content EXPO here, and below I'll be blogging about my experience at the Kpop Concert!

First off I'm really grateful to get to cheer for Lovelyz along with three really great Lovelinus! One is my dear Woollim stan friend who I first met at KCON NY 2018, one is my Lovelinus friend who I first met at KTMF 2019 when we coincidentally had tickets next to each other in a swarm of SHINee and Super Junior fans, and lastly is my Lovelinus' friend who I'm so glad to have met at this event! It's just such a magical feeling being surrounded by Lovelinus in real life, rather than just casual fans or general Kpop stans; there's this connection, especially when shouting the fanchants in unison.

The artists performing were Lovelyz, JBJ95, and Heize, and to my surprise, a lot of the audience truly stanned at least one of these artists. As a free concert, I thought many casual fans would come, but I was proven wrong with all the stans! It made me so happy seeing so many Lovelinus (a lot of guys) with their lightsticks and slogans.

The host came on stage and introduced a special MC, none other than Yein! Yein spoke entirely in English, hyping the crowd, and explaining the expo and special guests sitting in the reserved seats. As special MC, Yein was on stage for just over 2 minutes.

Then a VCR of Lovelyz played, however it kept glitching. Lovelyz were waiting on the right of the stage, and ended up just going on stage in getting in formation, paying no mind to the technical difficulties. To my surprise, they began with "Hi~"! This is one of their hardest fanchants, and after trying to learn it for KTMF, I gave up on it and hoped they wouldn't perform it this time. I tried to chime in while other Lovelinus performed the fanchant.

Not even 3 seconds after Lovelyz finished performing "Hi~", the next song already started playing; it's unfortunately that they were really rushing the girls throughout their set. The next song was "Now, We", my favorite Lovelyz track (thankfully with a straightforward fanchant!)! I'm so happy to finally see this performed live. I screamed my lungs out with the fanchants and cheering, along with my Lovelinus friends; we were so in sync and hopefully loud enough for the girls to hear us!

Surprisingly they didn't let Lovelyz have an intro ment yet, giving the girls just over 10 seconds before "That Day" starting playing. Us Lovelinus chanted the girls' names perfectly at the beginning; it felt so magical performing the fanchants with others in front of Lovelyz! Not to mention "That Day" is my second favorite title track, so I'm really happy they performed this one too!

After 3 songs, the girls finally got a breather and had time to rest and drink some water while the host came back on stage. The host gave the girls a brief interview in Korean while translating in English for the audience.

Q1: How do you feel meeting your fans here in the US?
A1: [Yein, in English] What's up LA! We're so happy to be here and we were here in April...[Cheers] Do you remember?! We're happy to meet our LA Lovelinus, so nice to meet you!

Q2: If you have anything to say to your fans, please do.
A2: [Yein was about to speak, then Mijoo spoke instead! In English] Sorry, I don't speak English, but really I love you so much! [I think Soul spoke next in English] See you later! [Another member] Love you~

The girls got into their next formation and one member said "Are you ready?!" Then "Beautiful Days" began playing! Out of all the fanchants I had prepared, this was the ultimate test, especially with the intense name chant in the middle! I had practiced this one with one Lovelinus friend, but the four of us never practiced it together. This was definitely my proudest moment as a Lovelinus!

After "Beautiful Days" was a long pause (meaning 25 seconds in between songs instead of 3) so the audience started cheering. But then a member (Yein?) said "Next song is 'Rewind'"! I was pleasantly surprised their set wasn't over, and on top of that they'd be performing a b-side! Another song that I didn't practice the fanchant for, which meant I could simply focus on their beautiful vocals. They continually gave fanservice, sending hearts to the audience! I'll also take this time to point out that everyone remained sitting throughout all performances, which was really great so that we could see the artists well!

The girls said "thank you" while continuing to wave, then (I think?) Yein said "Our last song is 'Ah-Choo'. Enjoy with us. Thank you". This is definitely a great way to end Lovelyz' set, especially since the mall had been playing this MV on loop since the previous night! I do admit I fumbled a bit on the fanchant...the girls then said "goodbye" while continuing to wave.

Right after Lovelyz exited the stage, they stood in front of A for about a minute, sending hearts and waving to fans as their "Ah-Choo" MV played on screen in a faster speed. We shouted the fanchant while waving to our girls!

Honestly with the lack of sleep and frustration that came with this event, I wasn't able to fully pay much attention to the other artists. But for JBJ95, there were two fans right behind us who seemed like they flew from Japan just for this event, and it was great hearing their super loud cheers and fanchants. It felt really special being with such passionate people! I do recall that JBJ95 had much more time in between songs to catch their breaths and talk to the audience.

Heize performed last, and I feel like her fans had the most luck. Heize gave a lot of fan service, giving fans in the first row of B (which of course were the reserved seats) bottles of water, signing for a fan, collecting a sign and stuffed animal from fans, and even bringing up a fan to sing a duet with her on stage! That fan turned out to be the one venting her frustration to me earlier that day, and she had the aisle seat a few rows behind me. Also as Heize began one of her songs, the sound system crashed, which was when Heize did some of her fan service and really extended her time on stage.

Afterwards, our Lovelinus group ate at Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong (KBBQ). This was my first time here and I can't get over how amazing the food was there. And to complete our evening, they played a b-side from Fall in Lovelyz (blanking out on which one...) and Infinite's "Tell Me"!

Overall, despite the circumstances, I'm so happy Lovelyz performed so many songs and that there were so many Lovelinus! 2019 was my year to see Lovelyz in the US; I hope next time I can see them at a solo concert in Korea or on a world tour!

My Mini LA Ktown Haul! and Upcoming Choice Music Package (And Confirmation that I'm Whipped for Golden Child)

I had it all planned out on how I would collect all of Golden Child's photocards and special photos from their latest album Re-boot, however my plan quickly backfired when Kpoptown "forgot" to send me 2 normal albums and said they would resend them but never did (that was over two weeks ago). Furthermore, hardly anyone is trading or selling the photocards or special cards. I haven't seen anyone selling the deluxe special photos and with the deluxe albums out of stock online, I'm starting to lose hope in completing this collection.

Prior to this haul, I had 3 Deluxe and 3 Normal copies of Re-boot in my possession.

Choice Music had a Cyber Monday sale where I ordered 3 Deluxe and 2 Normal, however I'm still waiting for this to be shipped. I learned that there are two different systems between Choice's physical store and online store, hence there are price differences and inventory differences. The same applies to Music Plaza.

My brother visited Music Plaza on December 7th and found these treasures for me: 1st Look Vol. 186 (featuring Golden Child), Lovelyz in Winter World 3 Kihno Video, and Golden Child's normal version of Re-boot. The worker confirmed that there were only 2 copies of the normal version in stock, and the deluxe version was sold out. I'll have future posts about the magazine and Kihno.

I really wanted to cap my brother's Re-boot buying spree to just 1 Deluxe and 3 Normals for this haul, but then at Choice we had a revelation: for the normal version, you can actually partially see the top and right edges of the special photo.

Because of this, we compared the special photos I already have along with what I could find online (which was quite hard; I found all but Daeyeol's). For example, Seungmin is the only one with red on the edge, so it was obvious that the first copy has his special photo. The others are much harder to see though, and it also depends on how far in the special photo is placed within the folder. I felt horrible figuring this out since it should be randomized, however I was only going to buy one more copy at Choice when now I got four more copies at Choice; so in the end because of this, I bought more copies.

My brother looked at the 2 sealed Normals he purchased at Music Plaza; one was dark blue all around, so it could either be Tag, Jaehyun, or Daeyeol (as we didn't know how his looks like); the second was light blue in the left corner, then white all around. The second had blue in the top left, so we thought it could be Y, Jibeom, or Donghyun. After my brother came back, we opened the albums together to see how well we did with our selections. The first ended up being Daeyeol (mystery solved on how his special photo looks like!) with the Y photocard and the second was the Donghyun special photo with the Joochan photocard. So far, Donghyun and Y are duplicates for me.

For the 4 Normals from Choice, we opened the albums in order of confidence. We knew for sure the first album had the Seungmin special photo; it also came with the Seungmin photocard. The second album had dark blue at the top left, top right, and all along the right; we figured it was Y, and it ended up being Y with the Seungmin photocard. For the third album we guessed it was Joochan, and it ended up being Joochan with the Y photocard. And lastly we were debating if this would be Jibeom or Donghyun, and it ended up being Donghyun with the Bomin photocard. Now I have a duplicate Seungmin photocard, and two duplicate Y photocards and Donghyun special photos.

Choice had a total of 6 Normals and 2 Deluxes in stock (some were in the back), and I ended up with 4 Normals and 1 Deluxe. Here is my pull for the Deluxe; now of course for this version it's completely unknown, so I'm relieved I pulled someone I didn't already have.

Currently for the Deluxe special photos, I have Y, Tag, Jibeom, and Joochan.

For the Normal special photos, I have Daeyeol, Y, Tag, Seungmin, Donghyun (x3), Joochan, and Bomin.

For the Normal photocards, I have Y (x3), Jangjun, Seungmin (x2), Jaehyun, Joochan, and Bomin.

Reflecting on all of this (having 9 Normal albums, 7/10 special photos, and 6/10 photocards), I figured that I really shouldn't keep the 2 Normals I had ordered from Choice. I called them and they happily modified my order, including the shipping cost. I'm thankful that they're pretty backed up in shipping out their Cyber Monday orders. Once my 3 Deluxes arrive, I'll update this post with my pulls.

Update: I continued calling Choice Music about my order, and eventually on December 18th they said that their shipment of Deluxes never came through, and they refunded me. While they were quite friendly, it was honestly really frustrating that they were selling albums that they never had in stock (and the site did say "in stock", not "preorder"). And of course they have no more Deluxes in store. At this point, I think it's a sign that it'll be almost impossible to collect all the Deluxe special photos!

[LA November 2019] K-Content EXPO 2019 LA

K-Content EXPO has been held previously in around the world including Indonesia, Thailand, Dubai, Mexico, and more. And in November 2019, K-Content EXPO was held in LA! This expo seemed pretty discreet, with the event's Facebook page's first post on October 1st showing a poster of the events including a Kpop concert on November 9th, and then on October 10th a poster of Heize, Lovelyz (!!!), and JBJ95 for the concert. More details were slowly revealed on their Facebook and Instagram pages, and the organizer sporadically replied to users' questions.

Each location operates its events differently. For LA's concert, tickets were free and made available only through Makestar via a pre-order link. The tickets were broken down into four sections: A (far left; 260 sets available), B (middle left, 245 sets available), C (middle right, 245 sets available), and D (far right, 260 seats available). The number of available sets was known once ticketing began, however prior to ticketing the seating chart looked like the middle sections had the most capacity. Each account could purchase one set of tickets, and each set came with two tickets, meaning a total of 2,010 seats. Ticketing began on October 28th at 7PM PDT. Generally if you had a stable internet connection, you'd be able to log in, access the link, select your zone, and check out, though there were errors due to high traffic. You should receive a confirmation email with your reservation number, which is needed to redeem for your two wristbands and seat numbers.

There were of course many questions on exactly how receiving physical tickets works; here I'll explain how I went through the process and my experience ticketing at the venue. My friends and I were able to secure 5 sets of tickets in C. You can change the recipient name for each set at any time, even if it differs from the account name.

After greeting Lovelyz at the airport (read about my experience here), a few friends and I carpooled from LAX to the expo venue, The Source OC at Buena Park. We arrived after 6pm, and the expo was still going on until around 7pm, though it was quite empty by now.

The expo only had one row of booths at the mall (part of the expo took place in downtown LA), with standees of Kpop artists that had Makestar projects (no Lovelyz ones though). There weas one display showing a collage of past Makestar events, including Lovelyz' photobook fansign event.

One of us didn't have a set of concert tickets, so we tried to help him gain a ticket. There was a raffle where if you collected a stamp from all the booths, you'd be entered for a drawing at 7pm. The four of us completed this (by the way, the booths were a bit disappointing; one had VR equipment that was down, another had a tattoo maker that was very limited and slow) and gave our entries to the one without a concert ticket. He went to the raffle booth and out of the four raffle entries he had, he was the 6th, 7th, and 8th winners, and received concert tickets for B-131 to B-136; many participants had already left at this point and the staff was unbothered by one person claiming so many concert tickets. These were wristbands with handwritten seat numbers. My friend and I thought that these tickets are such far seats, especially when on social media the organization said that it was first come first serve from the front row to the back; we were bound to get better seats.

We parted ways at around 8pm, and it was now only my friend and me. Ticketing began on the 9th at 9am at the first floor ticket booth. Just earlier the organization sent an email about parking, along with a map of the mall and ticket booth location. We saw makeshift tents that weren't set up yet.

Around the mall we saw a huge poster for the concert. We scouted out the venue and saw that the stairs to the top of the parking lot were blocked off, and there was an impromptu stage set up on the very top of the parking lot; we figured this was the concert venue.

With an abundance of time to kill, we went to the food court which wouldn't close for another hour or two, and had dinner while we recharged our electronics. Outside we could see music videos projected! They were playing a Heize one, a JBJ95 one, and Lovelyz' "Ah-choo", the same three on repeat without sound.

At 10pm we loitered around these grand steps that look a lot like inside Coex Mall where Golden Child held their guerilla concert. At this point it was getting pretty cold, especially when I only had my summer clothes and was living off a backpack. We spent two hours playing cards and practicing Lovelyz fanchants. Some restaurants at this mall didn't close until 2am, so there were still several people around. We were hoping the movie theater would have a late night showing so we could buy a ticket to sleep for two hours (also they were showing Parasite, which we wanted to see), but the last showing of any movie was 10pm. At midnight we still didn't see anyone lining up, so we decided to head out and find some place to reenergize and warm up. As we were heading out of the mall, a security guard came up to us. My friend explained how we were planning on camping out, and the guard seemed hesitant. He called his supervisor over who readily agreed that we could camp out. It was really reassuring that we had the security guards on our side!

We went to Denny's, and saw they have a 2-hour maximum, so we stayed here from 12am to 2am, recharging our phones, dozing off, and warming up. We also saw one guy who was also at the airport; it looked like he had the same agenda as us.

We planned to meet my Lovelinus friend (who I first met at KTMF19 where we cheered for Lovelyz together!) so the three of us could camp out together.

The three of us went back to the ticket booth area and saw that the expo staff had set up the tents in a slightly different area, and had already marked the lines for each section. We brought our stuff to the beginning of line C and hung out on the staircase nearby. At this point the expo staff knew that we were first in line; it felt great having this reassurance in case others tried to cut. The staff even offered us energy drinks; they had a whole pallet to pass out later on.

Around 3am another Korean guy with a suitcase came by; I assumed he was just another staff member, but it turns out he just flew in from Korea to see Lovelyz! He goes to many Lovelyz events and will go to Japan the following week for Kei's solo promotions, and has Lovelinus friends with good intuition (for example of what songs they'd perform). He had limited English, and I quickly learned my Korean was beyond rusty, but we all bonded really well over our love and support for Lovelyz. He noticed my friend and I were cold and offered us hot packs! He had won a pair of tickets via an online event and had already received wristbands for 2xx, so he wanted to find someone with an extra ticket. We helped him find someone in C who had an extra ticket.

From 3am to 4am, Mijoo and Myungeun began a surprise audio vlive, which we all listened to, then one of the Golden Child music trailers came out at 3:28am, then Myungsoo held a surprise vlive; there's so much content if only I were naturally awake during this hour all the time!

Around 4am, a few more people got into line, for sections B and C. We asked who they were here for, and majority of them were for Heize. Here was my view from the front of C.

By 7am, the first person for D lined up while A was still empty. We quickly learned that he is a Lovelinus, as well as the first person in B. We were so excited to have all Lovelinus in the front! Soon the middle sections started filling up while D had several people in line, and by 9am the first person for A got in line. Right at 9, the staff said they were finalizing the seating map, and the first guy in D asked, "isn't the map already known?" We didn't think much of it. Soon the staff let us get our tickets.

My friend went to the booth first, and the first available seat was C-141, in row 11. She was able to select the seats, so she chose the seats closest to the center aisle. I chose the next seats in the same row, C-143 and C-144. The worker said that the first 10 rows, as well as another set of rows in the 200 count, were reserved for VIP (special guests and family, as well as raffle prizes). We waited all night, first in line, only to get seats worse than those won from the raffles. Even worse, only the first 10 rows of sections B and C were reserved; those in A and D were able to choose the very first row. So for those in A who waltzed right into line at 9am, had the best seats.

Even worse, I couldn't argue with the staff because this was a free event; they could easily just kick me out. We decided to go around the expo to try and win better seats. We went to one booth where if we posted on Instagram, we could enter to win concert tickets. The staff said that the tickets were very good, but not the best, yet I saw the tickets they had, including one at 233 and another at 348. We decided to give it a shot anyway. We got our raffle ticket and they would announce the winners at 4pm. The stamp raffle we did yesterday also said that they were no longer giving concert tickets.

We decided to take a breather from the toxic feelings of the expo, and go out to refresh and re-energize ourselves from our camp out. We came back to the expo just in time for the Random Dance Play at 3:30pm which had special guest JBJ95. They played random Kpop music videos (none from the three performing artists or any Woollim artists) while attendees danced together in the main plaza. At 3:27pm, JBJ95 came onto the stage and danced to (I think?) "Spark". I was surprised that without even really trying, I was pretty close to the stage! They danced for about 1:20 minutes.

Then JBJ95 gave their introduction and ment in Korean. After over a minute, the MC came up to the duo, then Sanggyun began to speak in English. Kenta spoke next, "I...don't speak English. Sorry! (x4) I love you! Thank you." And he was apologizing to everyone on the floor as well as on the balcony of the second floor, then made a big heart. The duo said their goodbyes in Korean, bowed, and waved to fans as they left the stage. They were on stage for under 4 minutes. I don't pay attention to artists outside of Woollim, but Kenta really caught my attention, especially since he's close with Jangjun and Jaehyun. When he said he didn't speak English, it made me really want Jaehyun here even more to help translate!

JBJ95 stayed on stage for just under 4 minutes. Afterwards they continued playing more music videos for attendees to dance to, but everyone dispersed. Of course now is when they play Lovelyz songs; "Wag-zak" and "WoW!" I was a bit shocked because I thought these would be the two title tracks they'd least likely perform.

At 4pm they ended up handing out wristbands to all raffle holders, but they were worse seats than ours. Later on, staff walked up to us handing out blank wristbands; they had lots of seats left and were trying to fill up the venue. We held onto the blank wristbands and walked back to the ticketing booth to see what seats were left, but they were very far away. We decided to settle for the seats we had, and with my extra ticket I offered it to our Korean Lovelinus friend as he received a 16x seat.

We went through security (bag check and metal detector), then walked a couple levels of the parking garage to the very top. Even though the concert would begin at 5pm, the sun was already setting so the lightsticks would shine beautifully.

There were folded chairs with seat numbers. Here is the view from behind the last row of C.

Here is the view from my seat. While of course we were all disappointed at not being in the first row despite being first in line, our view wasn't too bad. There was nothing else left to do but cheer for our girls!

The same three music videos were playing on the VCR; we kept practicing the "Ah-Choo" fanchants and made it quite apparent that we were here to cheer on Lovelyz!

The concert started late, at about 5:30pm. I'll have my concert experience in an upcoming post!

[LA November 2019] Greeting Lovelyz at LAX

My biggest regret of 2019 was not going to LAX for Kei's arrival back in late April. I was too scared to go alone, despite mentally preparing myself and even writing a fan letter to pass onto Lovelyz. This time, I would be arriving into LA a few days before the K-Contents Expo concert, and knew I couldn't let myself down again.

On Friday November 8th, I brought the fan letter I had previously written, along with a new fan letter (on such ugly paper and as a first draft...I really didn't plan this through), had my Lovelinus fourth generation tote, and was ready to greet Lovelyz. At the terminal, we saw officials from the expo holding signs for Lovelyz, JBJ95, and Heize, as well as a handful of fans for Lovelyz with large signs, gifts, and letters to give to the girls.

Of the three artists, Lovelyz came out first. Sujeong and Myungeun came out together first. I was too dazed and could only gasp and tear up; this was the closest I've seen the girls in real life, and Myungeun's my bias; it all became so real, yet it felt like a dream. My friend told me to go toward them as we were on the opposite side from where they were headed. I headed toward them but Sujeong and Myungeun were focused solely on the officials talking, so we weren't able to interact with them. I just stood there staring in awe, trying to blink away my tears as we were just a few feet from them. They just looked absolutely perfect and it felt so surreal.

Soon Sujeong and Myungeun headed to a waiting area and I was torn on where to go next. But then Jiae, Jisoo, and Soul started walking out, and again were being directed by the officials. However I still had my fan letter to hand out, and the girls seemed more open to their surroundings.

I didn't even realize Jiae made eye contact with me!

Then Jisoo passed by me, and I took my chance and called "Jisoo~!" She turned toward my direction and instantly turned from a serious expression to a smile. When she saw I was handing her a letter, she struggled because she was holding her luggage and winter coat, but she was so sweet to take the time to free her hand to collect my letter. Before I knew it, Soul walked right past me and the three continued to where Sujeong and Myungeun were waiting.

Since I was walking with Jisoo for a few seconds and had stepped further away from the initial arrival area, I didn't even realize Kei was already passing by me too. She was smiling and head-nodded to fans as she walked by. I kept excitedly (and probably creepily) saying "Kei~ Kei~" and she also slightly bowed and smiled at me.

Each time every member passed by, I was always too dazed to comprehend if I should continue with them or wait for the next members to come out. But then Mijoo and Yein came out and my attention averted to them. It was hard to see Mijoo's facial expressions but she still seemed so bubbly and energetic as she was pushing her luggage, and she accepted a fan's gift bag.

All this time I forgot how to speak, but as Yein followed closely behind Mijoo and as she was the last member out, I finally said "Yein 안녕~" in a super high pitch voice, and she looked a bit startled but nonetheless turned to me, smiled, and waved. Mijoo and Yein continued on to join the rest of the members in that waiting area.

The members stood around with the staff, but Soul was facing us fans and continually smiled and energetically waved at us! Then one of the fans indicated that she had something to give and started walking toward Soul, and Soul came forward to receive a box of letters meant for each member before retreating back. Afterwards the girls started heading toward the exit.

At this point I was back toward the front where Sujeong was leading the group, yet I just stood there in awe as each member passed by, and ended up in the back. Sujeong waved at a fan while Myungeun and Soul continued on. I called Jiae just as she looked over and waved at me despite having her hands full! (She waved with the hand that was pushing her luggage! She let go of her luggage just to wave.)  Then Jiae smiled as she looked toward others; Jiae's eye smile is so pretty^^

Jisoo and Kei walked past me, then I turned back to see Mijoo and Yein taking the back, with Mijoo waving at fans! I ended up staying behind Yein as the girls navigated around the arrivals area (which was under construction, hence a more complex exit plan and more time the girls had to wait for their ride). Mijoo looked so adorable pushing her luggage up the little ramp with all her energy. By this time, the members were waiting in line for their ride, along with others, and fans had concregated around them, putting me in the second row from Lovelyz. Others were asking who these girls were, so we explained that they're Lovelyz (with a 'z'!).

The girls had to wait for their shuttle for quite a few minutes. Soul was so friendly to continue looking around, smiling when she spotted fans, and waving toward them. She even gave out a finger heart!

Then Soul looked my way and saw me and waved at me!

After Soul shifted her attention away (along with Myungeun, and Sujeong on her phone), Kei looked over this way! She was waving to fans with a big white rabbit candy plush in her hand, then lightly bowed again.

Myungeun was rather reserved, but suddenly she turned to the two Korean fans in front of me and they started having a conversation! In the middle of all this, Myungeun and Soul ended up waving at fans too.

Then my friend took the chance to try and talk to Soul in English. Soul couldn't hear well, so she went closer to my friend and spoke in both English and with hand signs. Myungeun continued waving to a few fans, then as she was turning back around, she looked at me for a split second!

While my friend was paying attention to Soul, Mijoo who was right next to us playfully flung a stuffed whale plush she received in front of my friend's phone, then pretended she didn't do anything! She then had a conversation with Mijoo.

Then I think Myungeun looked my way again and waved at me!

Soul looked back at fans to smile and wave! Jisoo quickly waved too, and Yein looked around and smiled while waving at fans. Myungeun spoke with the Korean fans again as she waved.

My friend then asked Mijoo in English what they'd perform tomorrow, and Mijoo leaned in to clearly listen, then replied, "aww, secret!"

One of the organizers said something about JBJ; also based on another fan's report and a fancam I saw, JBJ95 had just walked right behind Lovelyz and got into their ride, however no one really noticed. Myungeun quickly did a head turn, making her hair sway so perfectly in unison. Then Soul turned around and did a double take as she spotted me and waved to me!

Then Myungeun was looking in my direction and started making cute gestures! Later on the Korean fans in front of me started talking to Kei while the other members diligently waited to get onto their shuttle. Then they started talking to Yein. Jiae then looked around and even made a V sign towards the Korean fans. Soul then talked with the Korean fans while Jisoo smiled and listened in. Soul was so cute, pointing toward her head while explaining something. Then Sujeong started talking with them...wow these two Korean fans are really winning today!

Myungeun then looked toward a fan and made more cute gestures. And she continually nonchalantly did hair flips that made me melt a little every time!

Then the girls were listening intently to the staff, until Soul turned around and the Korean fans started engaging in a conversation with her again.

Just then the shuttle arrived, and the girls slowly made their way in. The Korean fan spoke to Sujeong. I knew this was my last chance to say something, so I awkwardly said "내일 봐요" but no one heard.

The girls waved to the fans as they boarded. Soul saw me and waved to me again! As Jiae walked by I finally had my normal voice again and said "Jiae 안녕~" and she turned around to acknowledge me. My voice got awkward again as I rushed out a "Mijoo 안녕~" and she quickly turned and waved.

Even after the girls were on the bus, they continued waving to us and sending us hearts! Soul even started passing out the individual fan letters she received from a fan earlier while it looked like other members were reading our fan letters.

This has definitely been my best airport experience so far, and I hope the girls felt the love we have for them and our excitement for Lovelyz to come to the US and perform for American Lovelinus!