After Joining V.Friends Season 3

KG, the admin of V.Friends Season 3 has just announced the winners and grand winners of the final mission. It means this event has finally ended. Unfortunately I didn’t win this time. I already got a feeling coz my review was not so good last time.

When it finishes, it reminds me how I could join this event. I joined because of an article in AllKpop. I just tried to register without too much hope. Then I got an email that I was chosen as a part of it. Even I forgot that I had ever registered for this event. I never expected to be chosen before because they actually needed people who have special KPop account and have many followers on their social media. My social media account doesn't have even 1k followers but I'm still accepted. So, I felt so lucky and grateful.

To participate in this event, I only need to make review of the content they ask to us. At first I actually wished, it will end very soon coz I’m embarrassed to write the review about Kpop in my IG account. However, when it finally ends, I’m so sad and tbh I’m crying (lol). It because I had so many good times being able to participate in this event. Even though I and other participants never meet and only chat through our group chat in Line, I feel happy to know them who come from all over the world because we can share about Kpop and stuff.

From this event I feel grateful being able to train myself writing in English. Something I only did when I was in English course. I also finally could make reviews again after a long time a long time ago I wrote some book reviews. It was such a good chance to practice my skill again.

I always wanted to get a package from overseas and God granted by this event. They always give us good gifts if we win every mission. They shipped them from US. By this event, I already won 3 times out of 7 missions they gave. On my first win, I got a gift card from Allkpop and it changes into a sweatshirt and tote bag. The sweatshirt is actually an outfit that I always dream and now it becomes my favorite outfit. I got GOT7 signed CD and my last win I got official merchandise from Bigbang.

Since this event has finished, maybe it would be hard for me to get the gifts from overseas again lol. But I should continue a good side from this event. I should write more again to maintain this good behavior.

Well the grand prize of this event is a pair of tickets trips to Korea. I didn’t expecting this prize when I join this event. But the prizes of weekly winners, monthly winners, and even the grand winners already give us courage to make good reviews. I also thought it could be my chance to go to Korea. So, I tried my best. Unluckily, I didn’t win the grand prize, so I will search another chances. There will always way to go to Korea and to go abroad, I believe.

Finally, I could say, being able to be chosen as a part of V.Friends Season 3 is one of the happiest moment of this year.

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V.Friends S3: My Favorite Episode in August

BTS Bon Voyage Season 2 (BV S2) has reached its end on August 15. They have already completed 8 episode for BV and 8 episodes for Behind Came. BV is a program by VLive, that BTS have a special tour abroad. They have to take care everything during the tour by themselves without helps of their managers. Previously, BTS had BV Season 1 in North Europe and for this Season, they went to Hawaii. 

Hawaii was the place they wished when they were asked, where they wanted to go, if they had a chance to have a tour. Because most of them answered that they wanted to go Hawaii, the BV S2 granted they wish. 

From episode 1-7 they had so many awesome and fun experiences in Hawaii, such as seeing sharks, seeing volcano from helicopter, go surfing, go to Dinosaurs Museum, etc. The last episode or episode 8 is my favorite. They didn’t go to any tourism places but having their time together in the cruise.

In cruise, they got a video gift from the staff. The video was about the BTS’ journey since their debut until their 4 years. When they got all the 1st time winner, in music show, rookie award, daesang, and BBMA. They felt touch and didn’t believe they could go this far and felt so thankful to their fans. 

After watching the video, they moved to the outside of the cruise to read letters. The letter was made when they were still in the lodge and were asked to write a letter for a member. J-Hope wrote a letter for Suga, Suga for Jin, Jin for Jungkook, Jungkook for Rap Monster, Rap Monster for V, and finally V for Jimin.

They said, they felt cringe to write a letter for a member, since they lived together for more than 4 years including trainee time and it was such a long time ago they wrote to each other. But they still do it. 

By reading all the letters, we could know how BTS’ member love and take care of each other. They said about how they felt about that member, gave compliments and also suggestions. Among the letters of all the members, V’s letter to Jimin was very touching. Even he can’t help but shed a tear.

He said in the letter that he felt grateful for having Jimin always by his side in ups and downs since they were trainee. Jimin’s response to V’s letter was also made you feel the warmth of their friendship.

I really love this episode because I can see how the friendship in BTS not only about a group music who only sing and dance in the stage, but they also take care of each other. Making me envy to have such brothers or sisters like them. 

 If you want to watch BV S2, you need to purchase this on VLive+. They already made a package from episode 1-8 and also the behind came for each episode and also memory film that give you photos of the members during the tour. It’s so worth to buy.

Watch this : http://www.vlive.tv/video/32293/

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V.Friends S3: When BTS Play a Skit

This week mission is a free mission. So I won’t post something related to K-Culture. But instead, I will review my favorite episode in VLive that related to KPop. The reason why I download a VApp is actually because of BTS. They are my favorite boy group that was introduced by my bestfriend.

As I mentioned in my previous post, almost all KPop group have a channel in VLive, so does BTS. Every Tuesday  in VLive, BTS has a special program. That is BTS RUN or BTS GAYO. This time I’ll review one of my favorite episodes on BTS RUN.

BTS came back in VLive for new season of BTS RUN after 6 months of last season. The title of this new season is still the continuation of the last episode. That wass BTS RUN Ep 11. BTS RUN is a program, where BTS is given a mission to do something. The mission could be playing role for a skit or playing other games.

In this episode they appeared in a classroom for playing a skit or mini comedy drama as students. The roles for each member were decided by picking up the paper in a glass. It was actually Jongkook, who ended up deliver the paper for each member. Surprisingly, the role for each member was really fit to the personality of the member in real life.

The sexy brain Rap Monster (Rapmon) played a role as a slow-witted student. He explained that his role was really fit to his trainee period. V got a role as the smartest student in the class, while Jimin played as a classroom leader who has an angelic smile. The oldest hyung Jin, played as the most handsome and popular student. Jungkook played as a cold but kind-hearted student and JHope played as a sensitive student was into literature. The last but least, the most anticipated appearance was Suga. He played as a GIRL transfer student. Yup A GIRL!

In this skit, only the roles and main theme were scripted, the dialogs and how they act was developed by BTS itself. So, before started the skit, they discussed about how and the order of the members to seduce Suga, who will play as a hard-to-get girl.

The skit started by the entering of the classroom leader, Jimin introducing the transfer student, Min Yoongi (Suga’s real name). Suga’s appearance as a girl will really shock you. He was truly so beautiful that made you feel failed as a girl. He looked exactly like a girl, if only his man’s gesture wasn’t there. At the end of VLive, Jimin even mentioned that Suga looked beautiful.

In this skit, all members were trying so hard to immerse into their characters that they way they shocked by the Suga’s beauty were so funny. The first member who started to seduce Suga was Rapmon. He tried hard to be like such an “idiot” student. However his act was interrupted by the smartest student, V, because he wanted to teach Suga English. The third one was Jungkook, who acted to become a cool boy by giving Suga his Jacket.

JHope then appeared by reading a poem for Suga. He even made artificial tears to be more emotional. His act became much funnier when he poured a bottle of water for his fake tears and Suga added by splashing him water unexpectedly. In my opinion, JHope’s act was the funniest, even it made other members burst into laugh.

Furthermore, Jimin then tried to seduce Suga, sadly he couldn’t finish his act because Suga refused him to come and he didn’t know what to do. Then Jimin pleased Jin to start his act.

About the Suga’s act in this skit, all his responses to the members’ dialogs were so slay that made the members taken aback. This is what made him funnier with everything he said.

After the skit ended, BTS shared their thoughts on playing the skit. Suga revealed that his appearance as a girl looked like his aunt. They also picked Jin as the MVP (most valuable person) for this skit. Finally, BTS RUN ended by showing us the behind the scene of the skit. Here, we can finally watch Jimin’s interaction with Suga female version that we couldn’t see in the skit.

All I can say that by watching this program, we can see another side of our idol other than in stage, where we can only see them dance and sing. It was also fun to watch them act like an actor and at the same time try to be funny.

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V.Friends S3: Radio for Musical event in V Musical Channel

V Musical channel has a “regular” show, that is Oh! Carol Romantic Radio. I say this “regular” because I see several videos with the tittle Oh Carol Romantic Radio. This show is like a streaming radio live, where you can see the announcer doing the broadcasting. There is no mixer like in actual radio, they just use V Live as bassist of their live radio streaming.

Usually, this show broadcasts when there is a musical that will be held in specific theater. Like in this video the announcers are going to perform a musical. Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly what musical is because the subtitle didn’t work properly. It didn’t match that much but if it matches, it’s only for several conversations. But they talked about the characters they play such as Esther, Del, and Gabe. When I search on Google, the title “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” appeared. Maybe that is the tittle they are going to perform but I’m not so sure.

There are 3 announcers of this radio and they are the casts of the musical. There are Fiestar’s Linzy and two men who I didn’t know the names. But the man who wore white jacket plays as Gabe in the musical and the pink one plays as Del. In this radio show, they thank fans and viewers who support the musical. They also tell about the characters they play.

Not only talk about the musical, the announcers also show their awesome vocal ability. They sing several songs that will be performed in the musical. They sing with and without instrument. Because Gabe sing with the guitar in this show.

Another important point of this radio show is the announcers invite three guests from their musical casts alternately. With the guests the announcers also sing together and there is also same time when only the guests sing.

I think the existence of Musical and also the Oh Carol Romantic Radio is really good to promote the musical that are showing in Korea. It helps them to gain more participants and also feel appreciated.

watch here

http://www.vlive.tv/video/21536?channelCode=EDE229 

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V.Friends S3: Interview with the casts of Korean Musical Death Note

If you are a fan of Death Note manga, movie, anime, or even the Japanese Drama, you must be will love Korean Musical Death Note. The Korea Production of Death Note Musical is also based on the manga and anime of the same tittle. The casts of Korea production are Kim Junsu as L, Han Jisang as Light, Park Hyena as Rem the death god, Ben as Misa, and Kang Hong Seok as Ryuk the death god.

This time I will review a video from V Musical Channel about Death Note. It is not the musical, but it is just like an interview of the casts of Musical Death Note without MC. Luckily, the subtitle in this video works really good. So, if you don’t speak Hangeul, you can understand the video with the subtitles that are available.

By watching the video, you will know the casts’ stories about the musical. For example, the hardships of Park Hyena and Kang Hong Seok who must wearing heavy make up for the musical because of their role as the death god. It takes around 40-70 minutes to put on the makeup. It also takes several time to remove it.

The casts are also sharing their feeling about the musical and their funny moments. They also praise of each casts effort for musical and they share their thoughts about the role they play. It’s like they can understand the feeling of each characters, such as how and why Rem so care about Misa, despite of her identity as the death god.

An event couldn’t be successful without the presence of participants or viewers. Through this V Live, they also read the comments by the viewers. At the end they thank to the audiences who came to the show and people who support them. However, they also feel pitiful that the show have to be finish and wish it can be extended. Unfortunately because of Junsu’s enlistment in military they can’t do that.

If you’re Korean or live in Korea and already watched the musical, you got to also see this video. Because the video will show you like behind the scene and the casts’ thoughts during the musical through their talks in this video.

 watch here:

http://www.vlive.tv/video/21536?channelCode=EDE229

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V.Friends S3: In The Heights Showcase of V Musical Channel Review

This is my first time to post a review in English in this blog. So I've choosen as a part of V.Friends Season 3. V.Friends is the ambassador of V apps from South Korea. In the previous post in my other social media, I reviewed some videos about V Beauty Channel. Now I got a new mission to review a video from the channel of V Musical.

I already heard many times about musical but I never watch it live or on TV. I also like listening to the music but I didn’t pay much attention to musical. I think, in Indonesia musical is not so well-known event for mostly people if we compare to concerts, except for several people who like this kind of event.

Since the title of videos on this channel mostly is written in Hangeul and also mix in English, so I picked a random video and BAM. I found video with SHINee’s Key on it. Since I like SHINee, his appearance made me more excited to watch the video.

The title of this video was “Musical In The Heights Showcase”. This is the showcase of Korean Production of Musical “In The Heights”. This musical was originally based on the Broadway Musical that premiered in March 2008. It tells the story of the life of immigrants living in Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan, which is known as a largely Latin American neighborhood of New York City.

The video starts with the entrance of the casts sing & dance together for a few seconds. On the stage already set numerous seats for those casts. As they sit, SHINee’s Key stands up and starts to sing a song titled “In The Heights”. Key is not the only Idol who plays in this musical. There are also Infinite’s Jang Dongwoo and Kim Sungkyu. Yang Don Geun, J-Min, and Oh Seo Yeun also take a part of this musical.

Because this is just a showcase and not the actual event of the musical, this video only shows us the songs that will be played at the musical with little acts from the casts. The played songs are In The Height, It Won’t Be Long Now, 96.000, When You’re Home, Sunrise, Carnaval Del Barrio, Champagne, and Finale. Of course, all these songs were played based on the original musical.

If the original musical was delivered in English and Spanish, the songs in this Korean productions are delivered in Korean and mixed little in Spanish. Despite of it, the melody is still influenced by Latin American vibes. They also sing various genre such as rap, hip hop, and pop.

Even though the showcase and even the musical already played several months ago, the video of this showcase is still worth to watch because all the casts has amazing vocals and their acts on that small stage are pretty cool and funny. The songs are also easy listening. I enjoyed listening to the songs.

Only watch the showcase made me curious to see the real musical. The channel V Musical also has the preview in 30 seconds of In The Heights musical. The stage and the performance in that short time made me curious even more.

the link:

showcase: http://www.vlive.tv/video/17474?channelCode=EDE229

teaser musical:  http://www.vlive.tv/video/17481?channelCode=EDE229

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