literature recommendation: "Fettnäpfchenführer Korea" (eng:To avoid unpleasent situations in Korea)

literature recommendation: "Fettnäpfchenführer Korea" (eng:To avoid unpleasent situations in Korea)

by Rosalie 

 

 click for german version!!

Hi Lovelies,

at the moment I have summer vacations and in this time I am able to read more often. While I read this book I thought about you and now I will do a short book recommendation for you. I hope you are interested in literatur about asia?? :)

I plan on writing more about book's with the content of Korea and Japan, since I always wanted to travel to Korea one day.

So it was one of these fine day's when I wanted to start doing something for my plan. Because of money and not beeing fluent in language I am a bit inhibited so I decided I shoulld start my plans with buying a guidebook. At the book store I found this book to avoid unpleasant situations, wich is kind of written as a storry. I was so excited that I bought it right away... :D

Text on the backside of the book:
It can happen that in Korea people trow salt at you, or your boss is feeding you or some strangers in public transportations will take away your bag - all neat thing's, these people simply wanna make you more compfortable. Men with make up are not rare, but dog's  to eat are not common. Andyou should always take your deodorant with you on a trip to Korea because you will be the only person hwo needs this. Korea is a unknown place for us (in this situation I think he means the german people haha) and it is absolutely common for us to get into unpleasant situations. Also collage student Julia and internshipmen Nico are really bballi bballi as the korean people would say be because of the every day life in Korea. They come from temple to wedding to burial to red-light district. In these situation's it is pretty normal to do something wrong. But luckily the korean people are really friendly and forgive these mistakes. Because you also know: even a monkey can fall from a tree.




 It's a bigger book serie where each book is about a different country. In the picture abouf you can see as an example the China version and I also have read the book about Japan. 

 

In total there are two story's, from Julia and from Nico. And I think they have they're problems in the beginning but in the end they have grown a lot and are able to understand the korean people so much better. They are so sad after they have left Korea.

 

This book is written in german language, but I don't really know if you can buy it in english, too. If you know please let me know!! Or do you have similar book's in your country's language??

In the beginning of the book is also an map of Korea, where you can follow in the story and see where our hero's are right now.

In the following you can see how the capitle is: 

In the end it is always interesting to see wich mistakes Julia or Nico have done. Sometimes you realize that they have done something wrong but couldn't say how to make it correct. The writer of the book also has 3 different headlines for "good job" "you can make it betther" and "everything went wrong" in korean language. It's really fun.

In general korean people are different to german people in lifestyle, speaking, family, wedding, culture, history... but especially in the last point I also could see that there are some similarity's. The people there are always nice to Julia and Nico. They help them and forgive mistake's. Because of this book I am more and more willing to travelk to Korea one day but time and everything... who can know this right now??? :D
But I will inform you about everything! <333

Also I am planning on reading more book's of this row. I am really interested in Vietnam and Thailand. I hope these book's are as much fun to read as this book was.
 

I hope you like this literature recommendation. If you also want to recommend me some book's just let me know. I want to write about the Japan and China book as well so not miss this post make shure to follow me on  facebook and twitter. <33


 

B.A.P WORLD TOUR PARTY BABY FRANKFURT 05.05.2017 concert diary

B.A.P WORLD TOUR PARTY BABY FRANKFURT concert diary

by Violetta

Hey Loveliez!

What a wonderful day it was, when my sister, my friend and I started early in the morning to go to Frankfurt am Main to visit the B.A.P WORLD TOUR PARTY BABY CONCERT.

Awww it was so early in the morning ... we started 4 am, to be in Frankfurt at 8 am to get a good place in the first row. As in the last year, we "just" got a GENERAL ADMISSION STANDING ticket, which was around 100 €. There were 6 different ticket categories, 4 in the party pit, where you got different extras, from a photo with the members and hand shaking event and also some merch, and 2 categories in the general admission, standing and seated.
Since we wanted to party together with B.A.P, we wanted to stand as near to the stage as possible. *.*

After 4 hours driving, we made it to get really good numbers, as you can see. ^^
The whole numbering was organized by fans, because the event organizer didn´t wanted to organize it. But I personally think this is a really good thing, to prevent people camping infront of the hall and that the people don´t have to stay the whole day just there. (Because you all know there are fans that would do that, me too.)
And here I really want to say thank you to these awesome people, who spend the whole day organizing everythink infront of the hall. You all were always kind and everything was really great time mannaged.

Since we went there by car, it was really easy for us to store our bags and jackets somewhere before the concert. Since we came so early, we didn´t had to pay any parking fees. I saw later, people had to (but I don´t know how much).

As last year, the entering was a bit hectic. The official entering time was 18 pm, but the diamon ticket owners (the ones who could take a photo ith the B.A.P members) were admitted half an hour earlier, because I think they took the picture before the concert (but I don´t kow exactly). That´s why the rest of the audience where admitted a bit later, which first doesn´t sounds so bad, but if you were awake since 3 am in the morning and standing for a view hours in line, your legs are tired and maybe, you want to visit the toilet. So yes, in that moment, half an hour feels like 5 hours. :O
After the gold ticket owners entered, there was a bit chaos which caused that all cathegories left entered at the same time.
Maybe it was the first time, that the security personal ahd to deal with so much different cathegories

But again, the fans were really kind to each other. We also met one girl who gave us some dextrose, packaged super cute with a picture of the members. She was so cute.

That´s the thing I like about kpop fans, they also care about each other and know what it means, to get the chance to see ones idols maybe just one time only in life.

They also offered merch in front of the hall. This year it was less chaotic than last year. You could also buy some concert bracelets (fan organized) and light sticks, but the latter jut with preordering. As you may know (if you also read the concert diaries from last year) I already had my lightstick. Rosalie bought her beforehand on Daebak (click for the link), a german online store for kpop merch and such stuff.

Comming to the concert itselfe, it was  A M A Z I N G !!!!!!

The concert hall itselfe has a really good size. it was more wide than long, means everyone was standing quite nead to the stage, which was really broad itselfe. So I think the view was good even from the rear standing areas. The seating area was on a platform, so that they also had a really good view I suppose.

Himchan Instagram update #GERMANY

Since the motto was "PARTY BABY", they chose songs that are typical. They also started the concert with kind of an opening act of the DJ "B.SHOO", which was kind of nice, but since he just played american music, it didn´t matched my music taste, but it was ok.

Same as last year, when the boys get on stage, I was flashed how beautiful a human being can be. It´s so unbelieveable.

So the songs all had kind of a "party" feeling, chosen really good in my opinion. The only disadvantage is, that they didn´t came up with songs like "Warrior", "Young, Wild & Free" or "1004 Angel", not even "With You". That was a bit sad, but they did songs like "Hurricane", "No Mercy" and "Feel So Good", also some of their latest songs like "Skydive" and "Awake".

They said, they performed "One Shot" only in germany, because of the reaction from last year. (As they said, they didn´t performed it in other countries, but that is really sad, because this one is one of my favourite songs.) 

They also did a bit more special effect on the stage compared to last year. The confetti, smoke and lights gave us a really party like feeling.

During their first talk, they also tryed to speak german. Was so cute. They had a really good pronunciation, if you ask me. Please watch the video above to hear for yourself. *.*

Since I preparred myselfe with some ear plugs, I understood their talk really good. But with this trick, I also heared all the songs much better compared to last year.

B.A.P also planned a special event. Beforehand they announced, that Baby´s should dress up in certain party outfits as the members explained on thei social media. What we didn´t know: One of the members is choosing one Baby out of the audience, to bring her on stage and well ... has a little chat with her. ^^

In germany, it was Zelos part. It was soooo cute, he chose one girl from the party pit area and beside some loveshots on stage, he became her boyfriend. It was so crazy, just as if a fanfiction was comming realty.*.*

cut out from the video Zelo gave to her

Nicole, the girl chosen, stayed really cool and as a present, she got the whole meeting on stage with the members an a video. Zelo said he also was a bit nervous (nervous enough to drop his drink). ^^
In the end, Zelo kindly accompanied her back to the auditorium. So cute. 😍
Since she also is such a beautiful girl, I think she represented the german Baby´s really good. ^^

~~~ such a lucky girl ~~~

All in all, the concert was really amazing, and is also worth it if you can only buy the cheaper tickets as we did. B.A.P made some careful intimations, that they´re coming back next year, but that´s not set yet. I personally really hope so, because this concert was one of the best evenings in my live. (The other one was the concert last year. ^^) So if B.A.P is coming next year again, I hope there is nothing standing in my way to attend it then.


Thank you for reading. I hope you liked it. If you are interested, please read our concert diary of the B.A.P concert last year (click for the link). If you have any further questions, please ask. We are always happy to chat with you in the comments.

Please click to have a look on our PRE CONCERT DIARY of this year. You can find there details like ticket prices and so on.

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