Monday, May 21, 2012

MBC K-pop Concert in San Francisco

I'm watching it live on YouTube though the video keeps stopping. It says there are 95k+ people watching right now... crazy. Sister is performing Alone... finally got to see them semi-live. Ugh, now I'm down to 240p...

The lineup is sooo much better than KMF last month since it's focused on K-pop:
- Super Junior
- Girls' Generation
- Wonder Girls
- KARA
- BEAST
- MBLAQ
- Sistar
- TVXQ
- f(x)

Even at 240p the video is not streaming properly. Probably didn't expect 100k viewers online.



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Hmm, viewer count seems to have stabilized at ~100k and the stream, now at 360p has been about 90% stable. Sistar performed 3 songs and now it's f(x). Krystal and Amber are speaking lots of English to the audience.

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Oh, I just remember that SMTown was this weekend in LA. That's why Super Junior, SNSD, and f(x) are in the US at once.

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KARA is up right now. They performed Lupin, talked for a bit (with Nicole translating), and now it's Mister and the butt dance!

BTW, Tiffany and Taeyeon of SNSD are MC's. Tiffany is speaking a lot of English, unlike at KMF where it was all Korean. The sound engineering also sounds a lot better; it sucked at KMF/Hollywood Bowl. Dang it, I wish I could have gone tonight. :(

Wonders Girls and SNSD are up next after BEAST.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

how come the concerts up in SF seem better than the KMF? i remember you wanted to fly up (was it to see BEGirls?) you would think that k-town in la would be bigger than k-town/sf. what gives?

totochi said...

I think it's because the SF concert was sponsored by MBC (Korean media company) and Google. KMF in LA was sponsored by Korea Times, primarily a newspaper company. Also SMTown was just in LA so you had all the SM Entertainment groups over here already (SNSD, Super Junior, f(x)).

I do think there are more Koreans in LA than in SF though.