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"FANACC" Lunch with KARA 120903

Here's roughly what happened. About 8-9 students from Yonsei University had the opportunity to attend a lunch meeting with "SBS K-pop Star." That's what the person in charged told us, but the "star" remained a secret. Each of us represented our country.

We were supposed to meet at a station exit and someone will pick us up from there to the "top secret location" =.= So this person arrived, paid for the taxi fare to the location. We were all sooo curious - WHO IS THE STAR. There was another guy from another university and 2 other girls from another university.

Started introducing ourselves & I was curious who are their favorite K-pop group. 99% of us were girls. Their favorite groups were Big Bang, Super Junior, EXO, SS501 etc etc ... All boy groups ... And the lady in charged told us "Sorry ... it's a female group." LOL awww

One thing that really ticked me off was when I had a conversation with one of the girl & I said I like SNSD! & then she replied "Oh! They can't sing at all! Like what? Only 2 of them can sing & the rest can't. They're just pretty etc"

I stopped talking to her, walked away. If you can learn to respect other race, religion or culture, why can't you learn to respect a fandom/other people's preferences/interests?!! What do you mean "They can't sing"? Honestly, I've never heard of your favorite boy group SS501, but I was open to your interests. I did not say anything negative about them. Anyway, I shall let this pass ... no time for this.

So, when we got to the place, we saw banners of KARA's Restaurant. Immediately we knew it was KARA ... The restaurant is at the basement level/underground, in a secluded area. The taxi had to zigzag to find the place. There was another 20 other Korean students. They looked like high school kids, or probably younger. We went into this small cozy/intimate restaurant setting & I could see all the chefs preparing our meals. It was like a semi fine-dining thing.

12:30pm-1pm, a lady MC was talking in Korean and entertaining us. I heard that she's the wife of a very famous MC and all the Korean school girls were taking "selca" with her during the break. Oh before that, we were told to come up with questions to ask the "star", but after knowing it was KARA ... most of the exchange students were more interested with the food ... >.<

1pm, they played KARA's Pandora on the screen, and then KARA walked in. Like OMG O.O It's KARA!! But, everyone clapped "decently", no wolf-whistling or crazy moshing/pushing. Very calm situation. I recognized Gyuri immediately & then I saw this other cute member LOL One of the exchange student from Japan was telling all of us who is who & she thinks KARA is more famous in Japan compared to Korea. So, I know that cute member's name is Hara ^^

They talked for a bit & then it was lunch time. We were told not to take any pictures at this time & there will be a photo session later. They were speaking in Korean the whole time. And then ... KARA STARTED SERVING THE DISHES TO US LIKE W. T. H ?!?!! OMG?? WHATTT?? One by one coming to our table (all the foreigners were seated in the center, and 10 Koreans on the right table & 10 on the left table)

I was sort of seated in the middle of the table so the KARA members from behind & front came in suddenly ... OMG ... The cute member HARA came & put the dish down & said Annyeong something something Gamsahamida LOL So one by one, all the KARA members served us lunch ... Gyuri came from behind me *chills* & again Hara came omggg O.O This can't be happening LOL Imaging if it was SNSD ...

I wanted to capture the moment with a picture or something, but all exchange students were like "Wow, the food is so nice! Can we take a picture of the food?" =.=

Okay, cut story short. We wallop the food nicely, then Q & A session for half an hour, which I recorded some fancam. I'm surprised nobody else was taking a picture because I understood that we were allowed at this time. And I was right in the middle, fancamming so obvious, all the staffs behind me & nobody said anything. Finish Q&A, then group photo time. After photo time, we exchanged contacts & I was surprised the DSP Media guy addressed me by my name & he was like "Ohh, so you're Jamie!" LOL must be the phone calls earlier XD And he asked me to stand in the middle etc

This morning, someone linked me the news on that Allkpop site thing =.= Yeah, it's up there -.- Anyway, here's the first part of the fancam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXmXsmi-iys&feature=youtu.be

Stay tuned for the second part, which has more of Hara in it ^^ So in total, I saw KARA 3 times in 4 days =.= Sorry for any typo/grammar error etc Gotta run for class ^^ "FANACC" specially for @pearoro K bb