This is quite hastily edited because we had to re-edit when the program crashed… nooo. If you are only interested in travel in Korea skip the concert montage and if you are are only interested in iKON, skip the travel bits if you want.

So some extra stuff about the concert: Daegu was very different to Seoul. It was a smaller, all standing venue. The crowd was a lot younger in general and there were many families. Lots of kids. It wasn’t organized as well and there were many young girls who hadn’t been to a proper concert before and were lacking some concert etiquette. It was really pushy at the start! There were also many people who were new fans or maybe got free tix so didn’t know that much about iKON – like didn’t know the Show Me the Money stuff. BUT it was still very fun. Awesome concert! I’m sorry my camera work was so shaky, like I said, it was more pushy. A lot of the footage is the encore where they run everywhere which is why we were moving around at that time. That’s the end of the concert when everything gets crazy. The moment where B.I stuck his face into the crowd was longer, but I almost dropped my camera, so cut all that hahaha. Security also did not care about filming at all… in fact there was hardly any security at all.

With these types of vlogs I hope to show international fans the whole experience of Kpop concerts in Korea. There isn’t any lining up from morning as all the floor tickets have a number and people line up according to that number. My ticket number was standing section A 288 and I was about 3rd row in that section. I could see really well, except for when they were on the middle stage. All the fans around me were really lovely and it was no where near as pushy as other concerts I’ve been to in Australia.

So why am I this into iKON? I didn’t expect to like another Kpop group this much again, especially at my age. I have been a BIGBANG fan for many years and was interested when YG Entertainment started talking about debuting new groups a few years ago. I remember watching WIN: Who is next TV show before we moved to Korea and was impressed by Team B (iKON before they were iKON) the most. One of the reasons why I tend to like YG artists is because they have to be part of music creation, while other Kpop companies rely on other songwriters. Back then as Team B they were still kids but showed amazing talent. Even though Team A (the YG group Winner) won back then, it still made an amazing chapter in iKON’s origin story. And that’s one of the things that gets me more excited about iKON rather than BIGBANG these days, I became a BIGBANG fan in 2010 and was a bit late to the party, but with iKON I know I’ve been there from the beginning and seen them develop. YG is very good at creating a narrative around his artists. So of course I’ve followed them through the MIX & MATCH show and Bobby and B.I through Show me the Money, the rap elimination show, and then was blown away at their first ever debut concert. Around that time I had some pretty serious health issues and received some bad news about my long term health so listening to music and getting excited about something actually really helped me focus on the positive instead of the negative. So I’ll always be really thankful for that.