UNEXPECTEDLY CRAZY ABOUT KOREA!

FIRST OF ALL, I kindly please you guys not to judge me... Before this thing happened, I always thought I'd hate myself if I ever like KPOP. BUT IT TURNED OUT THAT I LOVE MYSELF EVEN MORE HAHAHA! So it was surprising for me just as well!

I WAS an ultimate kpop hater. Actually, I was being too quick to judge towards kpop. I had never given a try to listen to any of the songs, watch any of the dramas, the variety shows, even when LITERALLY ALMOST EVERYBODY AROUND ME talks about korea so intently. It's not that I haven't heard or watched any korean, but every time people make me to do so, I already had this negative thoughts about them, so basically nothing had succeeded to get me into korean.

One of my closest friend (just call her K) was also a hater of korean stuffs. She was one of the hippiest girl I've ever know, so you would never imagined what happened to her next.

Here's what happened...

SHE BECAME A BIG FAN OF KOREA! She literally did! She was exactly like how I was back then, saying bad stuffs about korean, saying that the guys are so girly and everything. Now? She likes korean dramas, have watched a lot of them, variety shows, make a lot of korean songs her favorites, LEARN HANGUL, and WATCHED A FREAKING KOREAN CONCERT! She got all crazy about Korea so I attacked her with mocks because it's just so funny how things turned out for her.

But that was what happened to me too... When she found out that I liked KPOP, she seemed so glad to finally be able to do a bit of a revenge and mock me all day.

It all started out like this.

I once accidentally found this Korean Channel, Channel ONE, on my tv. Long story short, me and my youngest brother ended up watching an episode of Running Man, and we were pretty pleased because it was so funny and entertaining.

A while later, my family went on a Bandung Trip. One night at the hotel, when we were looking for something to watch, we found that Running Man is currently airing at Channel ONE! So we got excited and watch it. It was Running Man vs BIG BANG. I heard about big bang a lot, and seeing them there, I can't help not to brag about their colorful hair HAHAHAHA. But the episode was so funny, and all the big bang members seemed so nice and have such good sense of humor... I started to notice their names and I started to think that the Taeyang one is very cute, and that the one called Daesung is such a funny man. So I pretty much enjoyed the episode.

Then, one day when I had nothing to do, I decided to watch the second part of the big bang vs running man episode on youtube. AND IT WAS ANOTHER ENTERTAINING EPISODE! I laughed so hard throughout the episode, and I started to grow interest to big bang!!!

After I watched that episode, I went very curious, so I searched Big Bang on youtube and watch some of their videos. My reaction was that they looked so different in those videos!! Looking so cool and all, such a contrast to their personality when they were at Running Man.

The next day, I told my friend Chenny that I watched Big Bang and told her that they were good. Apparently, she told me that they were just having a come back from two years! And they were currently in the process of finishing their newest album. She then told me a lot about Big Bang, write me Big Bang songs to listen, and when I got home that day, I immediately listen to all the song she told me to check out, and within a week... I became a very HUGE fan of Big Bang!

some of their songs

It's lucky for me they still got one EP unreleased, its the 'E' EP. I remember looking forward for the day it came out, and when I watched the videos the minute it got out, I CAN'T HELP BUT CRYING MYSELF TO DEATH BECAUSE THE VIDEO WERE JUST SO GOOD and I was literally filled with excitement!! There I learned how big of an affection I grew towards them.

Time passes by and I started to watch some variety shows too. I keep watching more and more Running Man because not one episode did they fail to make me laugh. I also started to watch the Return of Superman. It started with a video suggestion on YouTube titled Taeyang of Big Bang Visits! Taeyang is apparently close to Tablo, Haru's father and I thought how pretty Haru is. The next time, I found myself have watched almost all of Haru's episodes on Return of Superman. Now, I also watched a lot of other kids' episode on the Return of Superman, but Haru is still my favorite girl.

About my progress towards K-Pop, I have watched like a bunch lot of live videos and behind the scenes about Big Bang. I really-really love Big Bang now. I'm trying to memorized their songs (which is hard) so I can enjoy their music better. But now I also start to listen to other bands, such as EXO and BTS. BTS are nice, but nothing has yet got me feeling as crazy as when I listen to Big Bang.

now i'm studying korean!

So... Yeah... Life could be very surprising, right? Never have I thought of myself watching korean stuff on YouTube all day. But hey, they unexpectedly make me happy! I say you should try and be open about new things, and there you could feel new emotions you never thought you would feel! All is well.