barbara

I can'r believe no one posted this - and I've been out in the ether for a day! 9KInd of home - some of me is in tomorrow and some of me is somewhere over the pacific. Exhausted.

I won't even click any stories that mention nj. I wonder when their schedule set up months ago will end. When will they be on their own and see the insanity of their choices? Maybe Yoon and mhj can be cell mates. on the shuttle to the airport now and will leave afternoon but arrive before I leave. I think Tae would have done a Live if there hadn't been the week of mourning.

He's national champion 9 consecutive years -

So when was Hobi in that studio? Busy boy. Kai chose US over Korean citizenship? That seems a curious choice. (I didn't get on ny flights - going home tomorrow -)

I thought Seoul was already experiencing extremely cold weather. And it snowed today. Ouch.

You guys need to cross your finger harder, Maybe finger hearts. Did not get on the first flight and waiting five hours for the next that also has only three seats open and I'm the fifth non-rev.

I believe Kai has duel citizenship- so he wouldn't have to serve BUT it would kill any career in Korea.

It may be in there somewhere, but it's not the opening. I'll watch later - and oddly not available in Korea on the 4th but maybe that's because my VPN was in the states. And Tae won't have time for anything more than a one episode appearance....who knows when they'd even start shooting the next season. Coffee and then Incheon. I'm a wreck. I LOVE the ARMY bomb leading. But, of course.

I'd move to Korea in a heartbeat if it wasn't for my two dogs, one who is 13 1/2. Cost of living here is much better: it's safer; more civil. Of course, learning the language might be a help. (I'd also move to an affordable part of Canada, if there was one, or Scotland, or the west coast of Mexico- all in the mix. But my dogs. )

I'd rather not live in trump's America.

Hunger Games, Blood will flow. We just have to hope - and I do expect - that they will have multiple shows in every city they go to. Tey know they can fill the stadiums and know ARMY is beyond thirsty.. It's really a smart strategy to go with the 10th anniversary of The Most Beautiful Moment in Life> They can safely perform stuff they are familar with and ARMY will not be expecting a whole new set list. They'll be able to drop in some new stuff, a bunch of the solo work and some old favorites. Whatever- I don't care. I just need to see them.

I wonder if they'll be better with 2024 sales. RPWP has to be double what Indigo was. And there will be Jimin Muse and Hobi "Hope on the Street", Tae, though Friends was really a single, and, of course, Happy. That Jungkook over 3M is for 2023 - what took them so long to announce it? The continued lack of respect us really annoying.

This is so sweet -and sad, at the same time. https://www.instagram.com/p/DEOxr_oTcaG/?igsh=MWxtamtya204cmk5OQ%3D%3D

And they call them a "pop" group. Not a K pop group and not a "boy band". Finally getting the recognition they deserve. I trust that the company and/or managers give them this info. And Happy New year! Sun is up and the comeback year is officially here. 💜. keeping fingers crossed I get out on my flight on Sunday- 🐇🐇🐇

I read about this. BTS was performing for free and BigHit was fronting the cost of production. Yoon has been corrupt from day one. We know that BigHit can absorb the cost, but it's such BS. May he end up in prison - Here's a nice post for Tae - (and I'm still freaked out about getting home...all everything is impacted by the week of mourning. Fingers crossed....)]

There has been a one week national period of mourning declared so no Tae birthday related content and all scheduled music and variety shows will not be happening. The Korea Herald says that k-pop stars have expressed condolences but I have seen only one. I'm sure that they, like everyone in the country, are still in shock.

My dad, who traveled a lot, said that they happen in threes. And that it's always safest in the back of the plane. Fingers crossed for me that I get n my flight from Seoul to SFO on Sunday. Not just Boeing - they wouldn't have made the engines. That will be Roll Royce or another company. Boeing does not manufactur their own engines.

It's hard to click the "heart" and like these posts. I did see video of the likely bird strike and one engine "puffing" but cannot imagine how that would have impacted the landing gear. And it only needed one engine to land. Something was up with the hydraulics- they have the black boxes but it takes weeks, minimum, to determine the cause (unless you have shrapnel holes in the fuselage because the Russians thought you were a drone and shot you out of the sky-). The mention of "bad weather" is ridiculous if you see the video. No landing gear and evidently no brakes, either. I don't understand why the pilots didn't try to turn it a little and go off the runway because they had to have seen that concrete barrier coming at them.

At least 149 dead in the plane crash. Unlikely that there are more than the two survivors already pulled from the tail (of 181 total on board.). Both crew - so would be the flight attendants who would have been sitting on their jumpseats at the very back of the plane, behind the lavatories at the emergency exits. It doesn't look like they opened the exits, but were pulled out by rescue workers. I had just booked my flight from Jeju to Seoul on Jeju Air. So awful.

I'm glad he took the time necessary to recover from whatever was impacting his health. Maybe depression, but a piece of me wonders if he, or any other idol, suffer from an eating disorder/ It would seem like something that could afflict people trying to stay rail thin. However, if that's what it's been, I would think they would eventually address that as a service to MOA. Jimin and Jungkook won some awards last night. I watched part of the red carpet live but left when it ended and didn't watch any of the actual ceremony, The wording of JK's award lead me to believe that it's sales that drive these particular awards. But who knows.

Cannot wait for part 2. I don't think Jin knew they were going to do a scary one, but Hobi is being such a good sport about it all, especially since he had been discharged the day before (and they shot that little dnace challenge the same day - same outfits.) Suns in western languages are FINALLY up on the last Live. This is just funny - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD9tQfYTSie/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA%3D%3D

I think that creating JinB was excruciating for Hobi. He lost weight, was isolated - so obsessive and such a perfectionist. Maybe he has reflected on that and recognizes that he did it and doesn't need to do all that again. He values the members and their contributions more than he had before he was in the military. Time of reflection. I somehow don't seem him doing a lot of American/British composers and English lyrics but maybe one - Merry Christmas - it's a lovely., non-windy, sunny day on Jeju.

This is Christmas Eve in Korea and it's exactly 14 years since Hobi arrived in Seoul and the dorm. Hobi and Jin grabbing each other's super valuable tree toppers is a reminder for us of how their lives have changed. All that hard work and deprivation (and too much chicken, Jin would say), squabbling over dumplings, sharing clothes and that pile of shoes at the entrance of their room to now, when baubles are worth 100s of thousands (and JK moving into his insane new home.) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD7PbMqPB0A/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA%3D%3D Also, Merry Christmas from me, who along with @amylance1215, will be the first among us to enter Christmas day.

The most encouraging and hopeful quote I've seen so far. OT7 will be back!

And I had FINALLY gotten my weekly (Sunday!) call from Chris and a drunk Lexie - at midnight their time - Facetime so I didn't get the notification which is just one more reason to not like her....I've read a lot of the twitter threads bit can hardly wait for the subs. I wonder what they could do as a sub-unit. Hobi did have JK on I Wonder fo his album. He maybe has some Jin as backup on his new album. This is nice - acknowledgment from Bing Crosby's family. I hope Tae gets to see these.