Day 12
Mata Hari musical in Itaewon
I went to watch Mata Hari musical on wednesday with Anniina. I knew something about the story but I basically didn't know what to expect at all. I chose this musical because one of main characters was played by my all time favorite idol VIXX's Leo and other cast was amazing too (like Shin Sung Rok who played main villain in 'you who came from the stars' series). |
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We left something like 12pm? It was pretty easy to go to Itaewon from Hyehwa but we had to change subway lines like 3 times.
Musical was held in Blue square samsung electronic hall. You get there by subway line 6 (brown line) and getting off at Hangangjin station. I don't remember exit but station is connected to the hall so you don't have to go outside at all.
Because counters were still closed we decided to look around. In parkinglot behind the building, there was some VIXX Leo fans waiting. It's veeery popular in Korea to wait for your idol to arrive and to leave because these are the only few situations you have permission to take photos of the idol in question. Sometimes it gets a bit crazy because fans rush and run after their idol...
We didn't stay in there though, we were a bit hungry so we left looking something to eat. After being confused about direction where is Itaewon's center we found main road and started looking a place to eat. We found one delicious Seollongtang (설렁탕) place like 100m away from Blue Square. I can recommend it to everyone! It looks expensive but actually for foreigners 8000won isn't that much. The restaurant is located on main road, walking towards center of Itaewon it's about first restaurant you encounter in left side of road. They had excellent customer service and delicious soups! And they speak english even though we spoke korean to them :P (Seollongtang is ox bone soup but it tastes a little like finnish meat soup).
After eaten ourselves full, we headed back to Blue Square. We picked up our tickets finally~ And I met one friend there who I originally met on one facebook site and we talked awhile. I also took couple photos of Mata Hari posters and ended up buying myself one. They usually sell merchandise at musicals so it's nice~
We got in half an hour before showtime. Our places were quite high up (cheapest tickets were 47€). I would have loved to see it more closer but tickets to first rows were about 140€ so me and Anniina said no thanks.
During show, photos were strictly forbidden. There was staffs who were keeping watch about that. Musical itself was enjoyable, I was amazed about the set especially. And o.m.g cast can sing like I was really surprised in positive way. I have seen and heard Leo live twice but in this musical he shone and dem high notes :D Shin Sung Rok was amazing, he has really deep voice and it's totally captivating. Lead actress was the most amazing with high notes although it hurt my ears because she went so high and loud lol.
After musical we rushed to back because I wanted to see Leo up close. Yeah I'm a bit of fangirl :P But it was crazy there. Too many fans... and why oh why would you need a small chair when you're already in front row!! Seriously they were blocking view from us in the back. I got few photos from Leo although he mostly looked away.. that lil... After getting into a car Leo opened window and waved to fans. Some fans were crazy and started to run and follow his car... seriously crazy..
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| But of course he had to look away when he was right in front of me :,D |
I had fun day and we left towards Hyehwa really hyped up. We were a bit hungry so we decided to stop in one cafe in Hyehwa before going to sleep. I wanted to try famous rainbow cake :P so I ordered that~ We spend while in there and then said goodbyes and went to sleep.
Rest of my korea trip diaries coming in few days (have about 3 days left to tell about)
Leo bby ;W;
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