(left to right: Sun Mi, Ye Eun, Yoo Bin, So Hee, Sun Ye)

Wow! Just wow. There’s a lot that happened today but I’ll let the other bloggers take care of putting together a full write up. I just want to lay down some quick thoughts down before getting some much needed sleep and introduce some of the videos and photos we have.

Even though it was put together by the Korean Produce Association, this was far from a farmer’s market and more like Woodstock. The first person I met while getting backstage was an Officer David that works in special ops for NYPD. Didn’t know they had a special ops division in NYPD.

So far this is the biggest event Ningin has covered. I’m guessing about 7500 people must have came out to the Eastern most tip of Queens throughout the day. Some other people say 10,000. Others say 30,000. It’s a big park so I dunno. New York Anime Festival next weekend should top that though.

JYP really wants to break into the American market. A lot of the questions we asked in our interview were along those lines. But is he doing enough to make it happen? Is anyone helping him? I hope the answers are yes and yes because it would mean more stuff for Ningin to cover!

It’s been awhile since I listened to KPOP girl bands. Things change when you listen to artists live and meet them in person. Now I have some Wonder Girls songs on my shuffle and will probably buy their new album when it comes out.

Fangirls are kinda scary. People were climbing fences to get better views and when JYP was on his last song, the crowd tried to rush the stage but was held back (barely) by the army of security personnel hired for the event. I was taking photos right in front of the stage when that happen and my life flashed before my eyes.

Turns out one of the backup dancers for JYP is an old, old friend of mine named Jason Lee. When I was a senior in college, I organized a big cultural show and hired Jason Lee’s dance troupe, Company Soul to be the main attraction. Randomly, many years later, we meet again and he hasn’t lost a step!

Reunited with Miss Info. Some interesting stuff came up which I’ll hopefully be able to blog about more later.

Twice now I’ve had the chance to work with JYP and his people and twice they’ve treated Ningin really well. I guess it was good karma for putting together the Rebuilding the Bridge charity event. Many, many thanks to Hana for making things so easy for us and our staff of 9 bloggers, camera crews, photographers, and translators. Also special thanks to Soyoung Ahn for lending us her interview talents and the guys at AM 1660 for hiding water bottles for us! You literally saved the life of my cameraman David.