SMTOWN 2023 Live SMCU Palace Jakarta

 Finally, after 11 years, SMTOWN Concert is back in Jakarta.

As SM stan, of course i didn't want to miss this chance. Still a little bit sad coz EXO didn't join the concert, but still happy and got excited to meet other SM Artists, especially NCT and Super Junior.

The concert is held at Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium Jakarta. It's huge stadium and so many options about where to sit but you should win the ticket war if you want to get the front seat and of course with more expensive price. As for me, I got the ticket at around IDR 1.700.000 (already include tax), well it's quite worth because even though i sat in the GBK tribune, I sat in the front row, so it's good enough to see the stage and the big screen in front of me. Here are some fancams and photos that I got from SMTOWN 2023 Concert Jakarta:

Our ticket

The stage

My NCT Lightstick

Entering the concert venue

Adios. See you at the next concert :)

Seoul World Cup Stadium Tour

Watching football is great. Especially when you watch it live at the football stadium. You can feel the euphoria and the energy from players and supporters there. If you come to Korea, there is a football stadium that I want to recommend to you if you want to experience watching football in Korea. Yes, it is Seoul World Cup Stadium, also known as Sangam Stadium, which is located in Mapo-gu, Seoul. 

Seoul World Cup Stadium is the second largest Stadium in South Korea. This stadium has its historical value because it was first built for 2002 World Cup, which means a lot for South Korean People, especially because at that time the South Korean football team made it to the semifinal. Besides, as for the facilities, in my opinion, this stadium is really huge, very clean, and very organized. The seats are very comfortable and overall, the facilities are also well-maintained. 

If you are a football fan, you will be happy because this stadium is also a headquarter of FC Seoul, one of well-known football clubs in Korea. Some of FC Seoul matches are held in this stadium. As an international fans, you can buy the ticket directly at the stadium ticket counter or at fcseoul.com or interpark.com websites (you can see the price on that website). However, if there is no match at the time, you can still visit and have a tour around the stadium, just go buy ticket directly at the counter. The price of the entrance ticket for a tour around stadium was really cheap (only KRW 1.000 per person). Some of you who are not a fan of football may also visit this stadium for a Kpop concert. 

To go there, I think the easiest way is to go by subway, then you can get off at World Cup Stadium station. From there you can just walk to reach the stadium. 

I myself have two experiences going to this stadium. First, I went to visit and have a tour around the stadium, then the second experience is when I went here to watch the Dream Concert. Really sad because I never experienced watching football here. But I will surely come again to watch football match here and to meet our one and only Maknae Hyung, Lee Kang In :)

Here are some photos from my trip at Seoul World Cup Stadium:

Volunteer in Korea (KDI School Volunteer Club)

In this episode of blog, i want to share about one of my favorite activities in Korea, that is volunteering work.

In Korea, you can see people volunteer in many activities and volunteering in Korea can be performed by almost all age groups. Even if you are still elementary students, you can join volunteer works and I heard that even the Korean students can get the points by doing volunteering works, so that when they collect many points, it can help them to enter the university.

 

In my Graduate School, there is also this club called "Volunteer Club". This is really a good club because you can do a good deed while in Korea by participating in this club. Other than that, doing volunteer work can also give plus points for your resume. The thing that I really like from this club is we can do many different activities and at the same time interacting with Korean people directly. This because the volunteer works that we did is aimed at helping or providing benefits to residents or the local community in our city (Sejong City). 

Here are several volunteer works that me and my friends did in Korea

Entertaining the elderly people

The first time of my volunteer work in Korea is to entertain the elderly people who stay in Sejong Evergreen House. I heard that some of the elderly people stay here were sick. That's why we came here to make them not feel lonely and to entertain them in order to make them happy:) We danced and played games together. There is one Korean student from our school that helped us by being a translator. But anyway, even though these elderly people can't speak english and we barely speak Korean, we try to understand each other, especially with the body language lol. We ended up laughing together and having fun together.

Singing together

Now we are not awkward anymore :)

Good job for today

Cleaning Sejong Lake Park

This volunteer work requires physical work and extra energy. Why??? Haha, from the title, maybe you guys already know. This because we need to clean the Sejong Lake Park by picking up the trash. This was actually pretty simple work. However, I still remember at that time it was summer and me and my moslem friends were fasting. Wow, that's quite a challenge but still we had fun though. And the thing that made me remember this work the most was because it was sooooooo hard to find trash here lol. Really i didn't lie. Sejong Lake Park was already clean from the first time so that our task is more like to find trash rather than to pick up the trash. This because we barely find trash. But, finally, I was succeed to find trash (and that's a lot of trash in one trash bag which was left near the bushes). Maybe it came from the people who picnic there. I also didn't know where the trash came from but somehow I feel succeed because finally I can help to pick up and throw that trash >_<

Registration first

Fill the registration form

Imaginary rubbish??? Coz I cant find one

Where to find rubbish. Its already clean.

Finally we pick up trash and throw it to where it should be

Finally doneee. Good job for today too :)

Planting flowers in orphanage

This time, we came to an orphanage which was located in Sejong City. There, they already provide us the flowers and the gardening tools, so we didn't have to bring anything from school. When we arrived, first we were introduced about the orphanage by the staff there. After knowing a little bit history about the orphanage, then the real work was started. At first, I didn't know at all about how to plant that flower because gardening is not really my hobby haha. Luckely, my Korean friend and the staff were able to teach us about how to plant the flowers. After a little bit of tutoring, then finally I was able to do it, dig dig dig the soil and plant the flower. It was not that hard actually. Just had a confidence to do it and you will made it lol. And there were the kids from the orphanage that suddenly came surprised us and helped us. Gomawoyoooo gwiyeomideul. It was tiring, but after all, our hard work was paid by the pretty orphanage garden :)

Let's Go to the Orphanage

First, we were introuduced about the orphanage

Let's start, dig, dig, dig, plant, plant, plant

Another help from these handsome boys

Flower ready to be planted, let's continue this, we can do it

Our hard work

Today is a good job too :) Thank you all.