[Part 2] 117. Yiruma in Seosan!

I spent the early afternoon with Young Woong; we had pizza for lunch in Anam and watched Slumdog Millionaire at his place before I met Hyunju unni at Korea University Station at 4pm.

To get to Seosan (Hyunju unni's hometown), which is a city outside Seoul, we took the subway to the Express Bus Terminal Station and then the 5.20pm bus to Seosan for 7,600KRW. We had 30 minutes to kill after purchasing our bus tickets so we shopped in Shinsegae for awhile. I managed to buy red ginseng for her family for 40,000KRW so at least, I didn't go there empty-handed! Unfortunately, I didn't have time to shop much on the 1st level of Shinsegae with pretty sunglasses, accessories and makeup so I've to make another trip there soon.
The bus ride was about 1 hours 40 minutes long and after arriving at the bus terminal in Seosan at 7pm, we were whisked away to the Seosan Cultural Hall in Hyunju unni's father's car with her 2 younger sisters. When I met Hyunju unni earlier today, she asked me if I knew who Yiruma was. Yiruma?!?!?! I fell in love with his playing and songs about one year back and when she told me that Hyunji, her younger sister who's the same age as me, had queued up at 4/5am in the morning to purchase Yiruma's concert tickets at 7.30pm for us, I was so excited! I had never expected to attend Yiruma's concert at all and I actually got the chance to do so, here in Seosan! What a pleasant surprise :) Despite the heavy traffic along our way to the Hall, we made it in time and our seats were great, much thanks to Hyunji! I could see Yiruma's face quite clearly and it was his first time in Seosan too. After his last official piece for the concert, he allowed the audience to take photos (we were prohibited from doing so initially), and I took videos too so...enjoy!

After the concert, I wanted to get his autograph and a photo taken with him. Unfortunately, the queue was so snakingly long and we were famished because it was 9pm+ and we hadn't had our dinner yet so we left :(

Dinner was delicious! We chatted and stuff and I also met Hyunju unni's youngest sibling, Jaehwan who's quite cute and really good in English!  After dinner, we had Jeju tangerines before eating sweet potato with makkori.

Hyunju featured in the local Indian newspapers when she was there 2 years back.