Admiration over adoration for Seunggi at Carnegie Hall

*** UPDATED with an edited, non-jerk sounding post ***

So LSGfan ended up seeing Seunggi at Teacher Sunhee’s Carnegie Hall concert…

Originally, I wasn’t going to be able to make the concert due to a vacay that was planned prior to the announcement about Seunggi.  Had contemplated trying to bail out of the trip, but honestly I was really looking forward to hanging out with friends in sunny tropical weather versus a chilly winter NYC (omg, Airen fans don’t hate me because I felt that way!)

Eventually, I found another friend to go in my place.  But after making a new years resolution to focus on my studies, a fun beach vacay seemed really inappropriate!  So now I was freed up, but still, for some reason, as mentioned before in previous posts, I just didn’t sense a big urgency to see Seunggi in person just yet.

But to my TOTAL surprise, my friend bought tickets for us!  Woah, was not expecting that at all!  Since it was Lunar New Year, he said it’d be a great way to celebrate in a Korean cultural sort of way since we Korean-Americans don’t really celebrate that holiday in a big way here in the U.S.  His older sisters were big Lee Sun Hee fans.  Plus, both our parents were like you guys have to go, saying Lee Sun Hee is a legend.  And it really made no sense not to go to a one-time concert here like that.

So, LSGfan ultimately ended up going to Carnegie Hall and got to see Seunggi sing live.  He was wearing all black, slim-fit and looked great!  And hearing him sing live was great too.  Although it’s definitely hard to compare against Teacher Sunhee who seems to sing in perfect pitch ALL the time!

As much as I adore and admire Seunggi, seeing him in person definitely confirmed for me that LSGfan may not have the privileged distinction to qualify as an official Airen fangirl.   Everyone knows how much LSGfan hearts Seunggi, but I think it’s definitely more of a Seunggi “admiration” thing for me moreso than a Seunggi “adoration. ”  Seeing him in person made me admire him all the more, rather than let’s say, feel all heart-racing crazed.

I have never seen so many ajummas horded together in one place before!  Granted, I’m sure many of them were Teacher Sunhee fans, but based on the screaming and major breaking-of-strict-Carnegie-Hall-rules of no camera flashing when Seunggi appeared on stage, I’m thinking a lot of them were there to see Seunggi more!  Even Teacher Sunhee asked the crowd if they missed Seunggi when she came back out on stage!  My friend was like, dude, Lee Seung Gi is so popular!  Hahaha. Actually, I think he was sort of jealous!

Anyway, more details later about the ments/talks and other stuff since there’s a lot of other things that need to get done!  After seeing the notoriously diligent Seunggi in person, LSGfan had the urge to wake up before dawn, get started on some work and writing, and now plan to get bundled up for a cold jog outside!  Seeunggi always says jogging and exercise is what kept him focused, lucid, and productive!  So very true!

Oh one thing… Seunggi sort of referenced the situation about the Japan debut rumors in an indirect way.  In one of his ments/talks, he said that he was really touched by the letters, and support and love from Korean fans outside of Korea and international fans as a whole.  And I don’t remember his exact words, but something along the lines of promising to work hard in Korea always and that he would never waver on that. He also prefaced that by mentioning 1 Night 2 Days and if we knew about the show.  I felt like he was trying to quash any rumors about him leaving 1N2D.

Didn’t take any photos during the concert (because LSGfan is sort of like strait-laced Seunggi in that way!), so here are the scans from the program booklet.  I really wish they hired a fluent Korean-English speaker/translator to do the write ups!  But still nice write ups.  Since I had no cool actual photos, I had to at least watermark the program scans! Hahahaha.  I like the The Saem photo they used for Seunggi…

And it looks like the concert sponsor, Korea Radio Broadcasting of New York had posters printed out with Seunggi and Lee SeoJin in it too.  I guess it would’ve been too much to include their photos on the official Carnegie Hall one!

See related posts:

• Hook’s hoobae Lees (Seung Gi and Seo Jin) show support for senior sunbae Lee Sun Hee, Carnegie Hall wrap-up
• Top-secret plans (rumors) on Seunggi’s Japan advancement
• NYC hotel and shopping recommendations for Seunggi during his “Diva of the East” Teacher SunHee’s concert
• Hook’s Lee SeoJin & SeungGi to guest at Carnegie Hall
• Seunggi in the City [Feb 3, 2011, New York City]?
• NYC snow blessings for Seunggi’s 25th Birthday
• Seunggi sings and talks on Chocolate [videos]
• Perfectly themed My Girlfriend is a Gumiho OST songs
• Seunggi & Teacher SunHee on Hodong’s Knee Cap Guru