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| we probably worked all day until dinner time this day. There was a predicament, there was another big Yoo family dinner at that Chinese restaurant and an interesting opportunity to see a hip hip concert cuz Hyun Jeoung works for them. We managed to go to the dinner for an hour and see an hour of the show. Thanks for the tickets Hyun Jeoung! |
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| this guy was like an eminem no flash lyricist type rapper. A few times he would crouch down and pretend like he was freestyling or raw mic'ing verses and then he would stop and say he can't go on as if to stir up some drama. |
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| These guys were my favorite of the night, YTC4LYF. They were kinda like Flatbush Zombies, jumping around and rugged and raw and rowdy. What they didn't have was American style swagger so this whole concert was funny to me. Korean hip hop, bangin' beats, questionable swagger. The scene is funny to Western raised peeps like myself. Dank beats and flows (The Korean language lends itself well to rapping). I don't speak enough Korean to get most of the lyrical content. But the swagger, oh the swagger is hilarious to this American. They did their thing despite one guy looking like a Korean nightclub waiter from the 90s and another looking like a jumping spider(I get it it's cool to Koreans but hilarious to me). This is a complicated cultural onion. Can America call istelf the gatekeeper of hip hop(and other things)? Can you be hip hop if a large chunk of what makes up the lyrical content of American hip hop is illegal/doesn't exist in your country? Also wtf everyone was so we'll behaved at this concert and they served no alchohol, only mountain dew as given out cuz they were the sponsor. WTF! |
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| This guy who looks like a Korean John Denver sweet boy would make his voice get really weird and demonic |
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| yes thank you! I wish NYC had this so you're not freezing in the summer time. |
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| Next day we went to Amazing Brewing, a place Stacy and Phil wanted to go to so we drank a few in their memory. |
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| They started just a year ago and we were there for a while and ended up meeting Taekyung the owner who came to talk to us. |
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| 638 days, the amount of mandatory Korean military service every Korean dude has to do. |
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| can art by Korean artists Zipcy |
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| we ended up buying a lot of cans of their yuzu beer and here they are putting the lids on the cans. |
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| On to Hongdae, I don't know if all these nighlife pics are the same night or various nights or what. Korean friend chicken is the bomb although I don't know why this one was flaming. |
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| just me and Jen at Noraebang until 4am. When in Korea |
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| a super authentic Australian meat pie shop, the originators of meat pies (Steven hates that). |
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| lunch at this hidden really cheap place in Hongdae was like $6 . |
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| Cheongnyun Dakbal by our airbnb in Yeonnamdong, a chicken feet and old school pojangmacha themed place that was open late and full of people and fun. They even have oden fish cakes in kettles |
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