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[⚠ important! ⚠] if able, please consider donating towards purchase of poet | artist. @jonghyun_search has been conducting donations and mass co-purchases for the album since july. their goal in doing so is to raise the sales for the album as to secure it’s shot at being given a physical bonsang at the upcoming 33rd golden disc awards (which will tentatively be held in january). according to the account, the album is currently roughly seated as the eleventh best selling album of the year. though not confirmed for the next ceremony, the usual number of physical bonsangs given is ten. given how close the album is to meeting that number, any and all donations or purchases are appreciated. along with this, it has also been stated that if the november group order for the album is too small the manufacturing company will not be able to make enough albums for the december order (as they produce albums based on demand, and small demand means a small number made). for those interested in donating: donations can be directed sent through paypal. brief instruction can be found below: paypal: [email protected] send via friends and family option if possible. any donations made today will be put toward the current co-purchase period, which will come to a close at the end of today (november 8th) kst. any donations made after today will be put toward the december co-purchase period (which will be held between december 4th - 8th).
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gaon has released their album chart for the month of october. poet l artist brought in 5,563 in sales for the month which brings the grand total in sales for the album this year to 202,210. with this, it not only continues to be the best selling solo album of the year, but the highest selling shinee release in terms of single year sales. it is also the first shinee release to break 200k+ in sales in a single calendar year. (source)
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a follow up to this post: above is the english abstract for jonghyun’s graduate thesis, “the study of imagery performing art stage”, for his master in film and music major through myongji university. more information on the thesis, along with a link to the full thesis in .pdf format (in korean), can also be found at the linked post.
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for those interested: shawols have discovered that jonghyun’s master degree thesis is publicly available through riss interational to be read online. the thesis was written for his graduate major in film and musical studies through myongji university. titled as “the study of imagery performing art stage”, the sixty-five page thesis was finished in february of last year. though the thesis itself is entirely in korean, the abstract is available in both korean and english at the linked. a general description of the thesis can be found below: the thesis primarily focuses upon the comparison of stage musicals and pop concerts. (“in this study, i tried to find the difference between the stage aesthetics difference of musicals and music concerts. the stage aesthetics of the musical is more spectacular than that of the popular music concert. these differences stimulate audiences, and may even lead to differences in the audience base.”) in doing this, he compares the musicals aida and black mary poppins with concerts held by exo and shinee (specifically the shinee world v tour). enxrima on twitter provided a further details on this: he explained when shinee world concerts started and what the nicknames of each shinee world concert has been. at one point, he specifically mentioned taemin within the work. he explained what the functions are for opening and closing vcrs, and the stage lighting and laser use during “trigger” performances. he discussed exo’s origin story, their concept as a group, and the concept of their concerts. he did this with the two musical examples as well, providing in-depth analysis’s of both. between both, he focused upon five topics: the stage, stage lighting, videos, songs, and storytelling. he pointed out that musicals have a wider audience overall than pop concerts, and expressed his wish for pop concerts to develop a wider audience as well. he also expressed a wish for pop concerts to become as story driven as musicals. within his research data, he used age and gender chart data from concert ticket sales for both exo and shinee to showcase their audiences that their concerts have drawn in. to download the full thesis (in korean) in .pdf form: click on the little button near the top of the page that reads 원문보기.
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Shawols definitely know all these songs 😂😭😂😭
cr: @HanNaChoiMing
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through the above instagram post made by esquire, it has been revealed that the organization created in jonghyun’s name, 재단법인빛이나, was launched yesterday (september 6th) through a small foundation ceremony headed by jonghyun’s mother, lee eun kyung. going by the english name of shiny foundation, lee eun kyung revealed in her speech at the foundation opening that she hopes the foundation will not only touch upon young artists going through similar to what jonghyun did, but that she plans to help out young artists who are going through difficulties in general. she also stated that, though it still hurts for her when she hears jonghyun’s voice playing somewhere, she is thankful that there are still many who enjoy and share his music. further, she revealed that the she will be undertaking on a scholarship project together with art high schools where the main objective is to establish a psychological counseling center for young artists who are forced to go about hiding both their smaller and larger struggles during their public activities. it was also revealed that there will be a music and art festival held every december in honor of jonghyun. “though kim jonghyun has left this world, his music has still remained. shiny organization will be operated based on the royalties of the music left by kim jonghyun. we still remember the shining kim jonghyun, who will always shine bright.” - esquire below is the official logo for the foundation, and you can find a direct link to the official youtube channel here.
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mid year round up! it has been just over six months since the release of poet | artist, and as many are aware, the sales have been very impressive, and heartwarming given that all of the proceeds go toward a good cause. as of right now the album is seated just above 100k sales on hanteo, and just over 192k on gaon. it is currently in the top ten best selling albums of the year on gaon and top fifteen on hanteo, as well as being the best selling solo release of the year on gaon thus far. taking these facts into account: the album has a very good chance at securing a few year end award show wins, namely a bonsang through the golden disc awards. seeing that the golden disc awards relies 80% on physical sales (based on gaon chart results) it is important to continue spreading word on the album so sales will keep on rising as the year goes on. this, of course, is not just about winning awards. it’s also about contributing more money to the cause that jonghyun’s mother has been working on. all of the below listed are accredited shops, meaning that they are officially recognized by hanteo and gaon. please continue to spread word on the album, and consider ordering a copy (or encouraging those who can afford to order a copy) if you have not already, even if it means buying alongside the story of light (in which you can find order information for here). 💿 korean 💿 11st (international shipping) aladin (international shipping) apple music bandi lunis cooltrack gmarket hottracks kyobobook leesmusic synnara (international shipping) yes24 💿 international 💿 catchopcd choice music la korea star plaza kpopmart kpopplus kpoptown ktown4u music korea music plaza (also found on ebay) yesasia (with poster)
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160902 - 160904 SHINee World V + Global Package Experience
Hello! It’s been over a week since SHINee World V and I’m so grateful for being able to attend the concerts in Seoul! Yep, I’ve finally accomplished one of my biggest dreams ever since SHINee held their 1st concert in Seoul.
Through this post I’d like to share my concert experience and SMTown’s Global Package! At first I kept on contemplating whether Global Package was worth the money or not since it’s considerably expensive ;_; Last year I experienced the difficulties of finding tickets for SWC IV in Seoul (which I didn’t manage to go in the end). Thus, I was positive of getting global package for SWC V because it was too risky if I ended up going there without tickets. In the end I only managed to get 2N3D course (concert on 3rd September). I’d love to get the 3N4D course (concert on 3rd to 4th September) but it was already sold out. It’s still alright because I at least managed to secure one day ticket.
Thankfully I managed to get tickets for other two days with a help from my friend :)
1st day of SWC and Lining Up for Merchandise
You might wonder why I lined up for merchandise when there’s MD pre-order service for global package purchasers. It’s true but I personally wanted to experience lining up for merchandise in Seoul concert so, haha. A lot suggested me lining up on the first day concert is the best because there won’t be a lot of people (they have work/school) and there are more stocks available since it’s first day.
I arrived at Olympics Gymanstics Arena around 9AM. There were SHINee concert banners along the road to the venue which made me sooooo excited and still felt it was surreal that I finally made it to the concert venue.
Too excited that I took a selca in front of Minho banner hahaha
Finally arrived in front of the venue!
The lines when I first arrived. I should’ve gone to the venue earlier!
They started the sale at 10AM so I had to wait for one hour until it opened. Then I had to line up for another approximately 2 hours to enter the counter.
SWC V goods display!
After 3 hours of queueing, I finally managed to get the goods I wanted: lightstick and eco bag. I also bought Minho T-Shirt through global package MD pre-order because I’m afraid it got sold out fast. There were goods that were already sold out when I entered the counter though: Keyring, hand mirror, and ticket book were sold out.
Since the queue was long they gave us goods booklet so we just had to mark which goods we wanted to buy on the booklet then show it to them on the counter.
After I collected all the goods, I went to SM Coex and checked in to my GP hotel (Peyto Hotel Gangnam), then I came back to the venue again around 5.30 PM. Found out that there were no lightsticks available anymore! I was surprised since they usually had more stocks for lightsticks.
Inside Olympics Gymnastics Arena & my view on the first day!
2nd day of SWC, Global Package tour!
Yay it’s time to talk about global package tour! The SM CC booth at the hotel started to open from 8PM, but I managed to collect my global package stuff on midnight because the 1st day of SWC ended late. I picked up my GP merchandises, pre-ordered concert MD, and of course concert ticket for 2nd day concert!
Global package goods + concert ticket!
(minus poster tube, pre-ordered Minho T-Shirt, and fan letter papers)
We gathered at the hotel lobby at 9AM for the GP tour. I didn’t get enough sleep on the night before due to concert so I was honestly tired, yet so excited for the tour!
I didn’t manage to write fan letter on the night before so I had to write it quickly, like 20 minutes before the tour started.
My fan letter to SHINee in (broken) korean. Wrote it 20 minutes before our GP bus departed.
My GP bus! We took that bus throughout the tour. (Backstage tour, Shilla Duty Free, SM Coex, and concert)
The first GP tour stop was backstage tour! It was definitely the best part of GP tour. I couldn’t believe that the backstage tour was included in my package and thought only premium GP purchasers were able to get the tour, but turned out everyone who purchased GP were getting it as well.
We were informed about the backstage tour less than two weeks before checking in to hotel, meaning that I got to know about backstage tour after I purchased GP. I think the details of tour will be different for each global package.
Entering the venue again for backstage tour!
We couldn’t take pictures inside and the guide told us they would put stickers on our phone camera, but they ran out of stickers during our group tour. The guide was like, “I have told you 100 times, but no photo and no video please!” Hahahaha.
I need to tell you that I GOT SO THRILLED when I was about to enter the concert venue (again!). Plus this time I didn’t enter as an audience, but I got to set foot on the CONCERT STAGE. Yes, I got to stand on the same spot as where SHINee had stood for 3 days straight. The feeling was SO AMAZING it almost felt like a dream ;___; I was able to experience the view from SHINee’s perspective every time they hold concerts. I couldn’t stop saying how amazing it was, really.
We didn’t stay on the stage for long though I wish we could. They took a group photo of us on stage as well. Despite not being able to take pictures, I’m glad there’s something I can keep as a memory of standing on SHINee’s stage.
Our group photo on the stage where SHINee held their concerts! They gave the prints after concert.
We also entered SHINee’s dressing room through the backstage. (Again, it was also amazing because I got to see the backstage that I usually see on concert DVDs with my own eyes).
SHINee’s dressing room was actually smaller than what we usually see on concert DVDs or photos. I just thought it would be slightly bigger?
Anyway, their concert outfits were all covered when we were there and we weren’t allowed to touch anything. There was fan letter box where we put our fan letters to SHINee placed inside the dressing room.
The final part of backstage tour was taking pictures with SHINee standees! There were flower wreath with congratulatory messages for SHINee behind the standees.
Didn’t get to take photo of Key’s standee since the staff rushed us to exit quickly. I didn’t remember exactly if the standees were life-sized, but I realized Minho standee was a lot taller than me (lol).
The backstage tour felt really quick and they rushed us from one place to another in the speed of light. The guide felt sorry for that, “I wanted to let you guys stay longer but there were a lot of groups touring at the same time.”
The next stop is Shilla Duty Free! Basically they just dropped us there for an hour to shop or just relaxed at rooftop cafe if we didn’t want to shop. The GP tour staff gave us SHINee passport case after we’re back to the bus from Shilla Duty Free.
SHINee passport case! Got it after getting back from Shilla Duty Free
Then they took us to SM Artium at COEX. Before entering COEX, the staff gave us SHINee The Horror Show bookmark. I originally got Key and traded it for Jonghyun. Sadly I didn’t get Minho, but it’s okay!
I’m not going to talk much about SM Artium because I’m sure there are already many reviews out there. We also only had one hour in SM COEX.
Another lucky thing was SM decided to extend SWC exhibition! The exhibition is located on SM Town Artium COEX 6F. It was originally until end of August, but they decided to extend it until 4th September (that was when I came there, now they extend it again until September 18th)
SHINee’s concert outfits from SWC III to SWC IV
Lastly, they took us to eat lunch before taking us back to the hotel. For lunch, the staff asked us if we were vegetarian or not. There were two meal options: bulgogi and traditional bibimbap.
The Korean restaurant we were having lunch at was in COEX mall. The restaurant played SHINee songs inside haha I think it’s because the restaurant was reserved for SWC Global Package.
I had traditional bibimbap for lunch. It tasted good!
We stayed in our hotel room for 30 minutes and then we got ready for the concert! My seat for the 2nd day concert was on 2nd floor. It was based on ticket drawing, did it at the same time I picked up my GP goods.
I realized when I watched the first day concert that Minho was on the left side (from audience view) more, which was unlike previous SHINee World concerts. The ticket I got from GP was the opposite side, thus I had this sudden urge to trade my GP ticket. Thankfully I managed to trade it 20 minutes before the concert started.
The staff gave us mineral water with SHINee members’ face on the bottle before and after concert.
They also gave us a (SHINee World V) box of cookies. How thoughtful of them giving us a lot of things full of SHINee.
My view on 2nd day concert! I also got to see SHINee on moving cart upclose from here :’)
They took us to concert and venue, so of course they took us back to the hotel after concert! The guides would be outside the venue giving us signs for our way back to the bus after concert.
Overall, I’m very satisfied with Global Package tour and would love to do it again. It’d be great if I can get 2-days concert package next time (hopefully I have better luck with GP tickets as well lol). Though I don’t know if I’m fine with the repetitive SM COEX tour.
3rd day of SWC, saw SHINee after concert!
I barely got any fansite freebies on previous days, thankfully on the last day of concert I managed to get some! Oh and sadly I couldn’t manage to get more lightsticks because again, it got sold out when I came there ;_;
The fansite freebies queue was very long! It’s also hard to tell which fansites did people line up for if the queue is this long, lol. Some of the fansites need us to show our tickets and some others don’t :)
Minho, Jonghyun, and Onew freebies! I’m a happy Onjongho fan.
I got 3rd floor on the 3rd day concert, haha. It’s fascinating how I was able to experience all floors on SWC :)
The 3rd day concert didn’t end very late so I decided to see SHINee coming out from concert venue. It was quite crowded when I arrived there, I got 3rd row from the barrier.
I saw everyone (the orders were: Jonghyun - Minho - Taemin - Key) except Onew (he got injured that day ;_;). I took fancams but the quality was so bad, haha. I posted Minho one, though.
That was the same door where I went out from the backstage tour.
Those 3 days of concert was one of the best moments in my life. It has been my dream to see their solo concert in their home country. I’m happy to have finally accomplished it 5 years after.
I’ve got to tell you that there’s significant difference between seeing SHINee perform in Korea and other countries. They are pretty comfortable to say anything in front of Shawols. It almost looked like we felt close? and just casually chatted with SHINee. ;_; They were pretty thankful about the fan projects we successfully did during those three days.
They were also thoughtful for responding to what we did, like when we sang Love Like Oxygen together before encore. They were impressed with us singing along to LLO (plus mentioning about Onew impersonating Jjong’s adlib there).
I’ve got to say fanchants are the best in Korea. The fanchants were so loud and always hit the right timing. If there was no fanchants, Shawols just sang along to the songs and we did that perfectly as well!
It was an all-seated concert, yet we only used our seats during VCRs before waiting for the next performances. Whenever SHINee performed or did their ments, Shawols stood up, all geared with their lightsticks on and chanted for SHINee!
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