Kpop

Yes to all of the above.

My favorite vocalist of all time is Rainie Yang.  Sadly, I couldn't afford the trip to NJ when she performed there a few years ago.  Since then, however, I've managed to make it to a couple of Kcons (both LA) and a couple of other shows (APink in Dallas and Band-Maid at Sakura-con in Seattle).  Still hoping that Rainie will have another show in the US at some point, though I may have to travel out of the country to see her.

I want to go to kcon I wish kpop bands came to Houston

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Well, Got7 was just there a couple of months ago, and K.A.R.D. will be there in May, but I get it - they mostly stick to LA and NY, maybe Chicago, maybe Dallas, maybe a few other cities.

At least you get kpop concerts in your state on occasion, though.  I don't think a single kpop idol has ever even set foot in NM, unless it was during a layover at the airport.

I agree with Omnipaul, G-Pop was the best!

Yeah. I need to follow the bands more often to see where they are. Are the tickets really expensive?

Well, I mainly look at the more expensive options - if I'm going to take time out of work to travel out of state, I might as well pay the extra money to get better seats and more interaction opportunities.  Then again, I can afford to do that on occasion; I can understand if other people's options are more limited.

From what I can tell, tickets tend to be as low as $50 (distant seats, no special benefits) to over $200 (front row seats, photo ops, hi-touches, perhaps other interaction opportunites).  It doesn't look like the K.A.R.D. prices are available, yet.

Looks like this site (http://www.subkultureent.com/wild-kard-usa/) would have information on that when it's available.  It also looks like they've arranged to have a few other concerts in Houston in the past, so it might be worth bookmarking their page or signing up for their e-mail list, even if K.A.R.D. isn't someone you're interested in seeing.

thanks a lot for the info. I look into it later. one more is kcon worth going to and which is better LA or New York?

Well, I've been to KCon twice now, and I feel it was definitely worth it - multiple concerts, opportunities for fan engagements, merchants selling Kpop cds, and a chance to meet other people that are as passionate as you are about Kpop.

It seems that LA is typically better than NY, though that would also be up to individual tastes.  LA tends to be bigger since that's where it started - NY tends to lag year or two behind LA in terms of what happens.  Probably because the people running it are based out of LA, but also it gives them a chance to see what new things work locally before trying them out in NY where they might not have as much control or as many connections.

As a few examples:

LA had a dance club night before NY did, and when NY got one, the LA one got bigger and included two special guests

LA might be having 3 concert nights this year, whereas NY didn't even get 2 concert nights until last year

The con part was still outside in NY as of last year, whereas LA moved inside at least a couple of years ago.

Last year, LA had close to 50% more artists even though both NY and LA had 2 concert nights

is English spoken by the artist? kinda a weird question

I just asked because u said there are fan engagements

Some of the artists know how to speak english, although there is always someone officially there to translate back and forth.  During the concerts, they go back and forth between Korean and English, and there are screens all over the place that have translations.

You should be able to find some video of fan engagements and performances from previous years on youtube, if you want to get an idea of what they're like.

ok thanks so much. when buying kcon tickets how do u do that? I looked on their site but it was confusing. is it around 15 dollars for the con and a different price for the live performance or what?

It depends on which Kcon you go to, and whether they're moving NY inside this year or not.

Since NY has been outside (and generally open to the public), all you needed to buy a ticket for was the concert venue and you show that concert ticket to the Kcon staff in the convention area to get all the extra perks.

Since the convention at LA is inside and there are different companies that run the convention center and the concert hall, you need separate tickets to get into each of them.  In that case, the convention tickets I think have been about $10 a day, or $25 for the whole weekend.  You still get the perks associated with the concert tickets, and you pick those up from within the convention center.

Regardless of which Kcon you're looking into buying tickets for, the main tickets you'll be looking for are the concert tickets, and those are sold by a third-party vendor dependent on where they're holding the concert - for LA it's been axs.com.  I think NY last year was through ticketmaster, though I can't recall for sure.

Either way, tickets aren't available yet.  Now that Kcon Mexico is over, they might start ramping up for the US Kcons.  Typically they have several weeks of live-streams on youtube where they give us information of who is going to be the special guests, how and when to buy tickets, and other information such as if they have any specials for hotel rooms or whether there's other events associated with the con going on.  I don't know when they're going to start doing those live-streams, but I suspect it will be sometime in the next month.

great thanks for all the info

Sorry, I'm APO - All Popped Out. (As was this post 3 years ago!)

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