Celebration Week

Last week was a big week for Korea University.  It was IPSELINTI week which all I really know about it is that it is one big week of celebrating.  Monday was like a huge convention where a lot of outside companies came in an set up booths.  They handed out a lot of free stuff.  There were also some game booths and food tents set up.  On Tuesday, all of the international exchange students ran a fair where every country represented had a table to show off their country's culture and food.  It was fun I guess.  I did not participate in setting up the USA table because of the person they assigned as the leader, and the table was pretty disappointing.  On Wednesday, the big part of the day was the universities' League of Legend (video game) tournament finals.  I have no idea how to play this game, so I had no idea what was going on.  However, the event was pretty hyped, so it was fun nonetheless.

 The best part of the night was the concert afterwards.  EXID is one of the most popular girl Korean pop groups.  They only performed a couple of songs, but they did perform two of their most popular songs: "Ah Yeah" and "Up & Down".
Ah Yeah         Up & Down
I posted links to the songs if you want to hear them.

Thursday was another concert, but I ended up not going because of some homework I had to get down.

On the other hand, Friday was a big day because of the big IPSELINTI concert.  It lasted from 1pm-10pm.  The first part of the concert is the first half of the school celebration songs.  Each song comes with its own dance that all of the students learn as freshman.  The whole concept is kind of hard to understand.  It's like your school has 20 school songs and each one has a dance and you do them at every major school event.  

After the celebration songs, a couple of student bands performed for an hour or so before we did the second half of the celebration songs.  

After this round of songs, the concert part of the evening really began.  There were 3 big headline artists performing.  The first was Orange Caramel.  They are a relatively popular girl pop group, but their most famous member is most known for her acting career than her singing.  They were good nonetheless.  Catallena

My Copycat

I've posted some of their most famous songs too.

The next person to perform was Baek Ji Young.  She is very famous in Korea.  Her career is very rare because she has been a solo pop artist for over 15 years.  Solo artists by themselves do hardly exist in the Korean pop industry, so for her to have a career like hers for so long is pretty amazing.  

Hate

This is her most famous song.  

The finale of the concert was the most exciting performer of all.  This final performer was Psy.  He is known for his world renown song "Gangham Style".  His part of the concert was awesome, and I cannot believe I got the chance to see him in concert at all.  The rest of the artist this week would have been enough but getting to see him was unbelievable.  

Of course, there is no better way to end a "summerish" evening than with fireworks.