Welcome back everybody!

How was you easter?

Now that everybody had some time to catch their breath, charge their battery, and get back in the groove of things it's time to make a comeback. If you though we partied hard last during our last assignment, you have seen nothing yet. It's Party Week 2.0!

Alice and I at the K-Pop Night

D-100 Olympics Event

All us K-Pop volunteers and supporters after our dance performance on Trafalgar square.

Last Tuesday KCC planned a big event called 'All eyes on Korea' to celebrate the fact that it was only a hundred more days till the Olympics. Of course, the next winter Olympics will be held in Seoul in 2014, so creating awareness of Korean culture is very important. KCC did this by preparing our very own 'All eyes on Korea' tour bus and a organise a dance routine (of eleven minutes, which we performed twice) together with dance team Loko, which was performed by the K-Pop volunteers and supporters.

You can find videos of this event at the following sites:
M.news
MBC
SBS

It was a truly amazing day. And to make it even better, all of this was followed by a K-Pop Night (held at KCC) which brings me to my homework.



This weeks' project

Out of the three given options I choose for option B: "the theme for the following week's K-Pop Night is Taegeuki (the Korean flag). Design a unique outfit that successfully portrays this theme.

I was very pleased when I saw this option, because I like designing clothes (wether I'm any good at it is a totally different matter though).

Some of you might remember that I made T-shirts with popular Korean word/phrases on them for week six. I still had all the stuff (cardboard, paint, etc) I used that time, so I thought this was going to be easy. "I already know how to do this. I totally got this". Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong...

My first idea was to turn this really elegant looking silver dress from Mango in the Korean flag, because Korea is a very fashionable country if you ask me. My smart is their casual.

It was a nice idea, but when I tried to buy the dress in my hometown in Holland last Friday they didn't have it in stock. "Ok fine", I thought. "Just a minor set back. I'll buy it in London this weekend after K-Pop Academy class." So I go to the Mango store in London on Sunday and they have one left in stock, a size S. I thought this was my lucky day, but no, turns out and S in Mango is waaayyyyy to big for me. How is that even possible...?

Things weren't looking good. I had to go back to the drawing board and design something from scratch with only two more days to the party, one of which I would spend being a supporter, so I would have absolutely no time at all  to work on my homework anymore.

But then I had an epiphany, while I was looking at the examples of outfits that were posted on the KCC Facebook page. Most of them were cheerleader based. So, with the Olympics coming up, I decided to base my outfit upon Korea's most popular cheerleaders SNSD and the national football shirt worn by Korea during the last Olympics.

I already had the red T-shirt and red sneakers. I just needed to buy:
- white shorts (H&M)
- blue/red/white hair extensions (Primark)
- White football socks


Logos

You can see on the Korean football T-shirt, it though it looks simple, it has quite a few logos on it. I'm going to be honest with you, I totally got mine from the internet and just copied them (accept for the 'K-Pop' and the 'Suzy' one).
I know, I know, that was wrong, and not to mention lazy. But in my defence I had a tied deadline. Also, the Korean flag quite a sensitive topic, because it is supposed to be sacred. You don't want to chance things too much, or you could get into trouble for it like Super Junior's Yesung did for his 'ripped flag t-shirt'.

Plus, it was supposed to look like the National football shirt anyway, so it should at least have a few similarities.

I choose for number 21 for three simple reasons. 1) That's the number on Yuri's t-shirt. She is one of my favorietes and happens to be the one in red. 2) My Korean age is 21. 3) It is one of the easiest numbers to cut out of cardboard and paint on a t-shirt.

 Please also notice the Nike logo. I thought it would be funny to put that on my t-shirt as it's so recognisable.

 The logo of a footballer I found on the internet has to represent some sort of football union.

Not too many people actually call me Suzy, but since I was having a bit of a slacker week I decided to use it because it's a) easier and b) shorter than Suzanne. It's also a little cuter, right?

Hand made Korean flag

Hand made K-Pop logo (sorry, it's a little smudgy)

And to finish this look of:

Hair extensions in the colours of the Korean flag

and...

red and blue nail polish to match the theme

K-Pop Night

Other than the sheer awesomeness of being able to dance with my friends to K-Pop this party had one more exciting thing in store. Samsung had sponsored the event and had provided KCC with a camera as a price for the best dressed person, and a tablet for one member of the KCC supporters team.

I won the 'Best Dressed' price! Can you believe it? And the best thing was, the camera was handed to me by Ambassador Choo. ^^

So that's it for this week. To be honest, though it has already been two days since the event, I'm still not completely recovered from all the dancing, screaming, singing, scouting, laughing, etc. I'm also covered with bruises all over the right side of my body. I have no idea where those came from, but I like to think of them as evidence of a really great day.


Until next time! ^^


Ps. I made the photos of my outfit with my new fancy camera and it's soooo good!