Day 23: SM Pop-Up Store and Not Attending Toheart's Myungdong Fansign Event

I went to the SM Pop-Up Store today, located in the Lotte Young Plaza in Myungdong. I'm sorry if you're an SM fan, as I'm only going to talk about this store from an Inspirit viewpoint for the most part.

The ground floor has a makeshift spot near the front entrance for SM, with majority Exo products. But on the counter were some Infinite 2014 Season's Greetings! I had such a long struggle about whether or not to buy this for the past eight months, but now that it's in front of me, I had to buy it. It cost 32,000₩ (no discount dispite half the year being over) and to my surprise it came with a poster! My poster was ripped but the workers are very nice and willing to help exchange it.

Next to the Infinite calendar where clutches with HO:YA brand...Infinite related?

The basement is where the bulk of the SM Pop-Up Store is, with a photo op with a cool Exo wall. If you're an Exotic, save your money for visiting this store as practically everything has Exp written all over it. They sell mostly stationery type products, like postcards, stamps, pens, pencils, erasers, as well as clothes, bracelets, necklaces, pillows...and much more. There are also official CDs, DVDs, photobooks and more of the SM artists. And Kris has been removed of the photocards, though his name is still on the posters.

Following that, there are absolutely no Infinite products down here, except for the Toheart album along with other SM albums. Speaking of Toheart, since we're in Myungdong...

Saturday, July 12th is Toheart's last makeup fansign event, this time at the Seoul Royal Hotel in Myungdong at 8PM. My friend and I entered the main lobby at 6:30PM, and there were these beautiful signs posted saying that the Toheart event is on the third floor! Just seeing this, I couldn't contain my feels.

On the third floor, there was floor space surrounding the staircase, and then two enclosed ballrooms on either side and a table with a concierge guy for the event in front of the Grand Ballroom. There were five other young women here, but sooner or later many more followed (though it seemed like fewer than 100 showed up...meaning there could have been empty seats inside the venue...). Inside the ballroom, you could hear the album playing on a loop, but very faintly.

At 7:28, the doors opened and they let people through the doors. It looked like people invited to enter had these orange slips. You can also see inside, where there are TVs displaying the stage, and then you can see the actual stage with the beautifully huge Toheart poster as the backdrop. At 7:58, they closed the doors, and the remaining fangirls waited outside in hope of glimpsing inside if the doors opened.

It was quiet for a few minutes, but then at 8:05, you can hear through the walls the Toheart introduction! Woohyun and Key spoke for about 30 seconds, then it was quiet for awhile.

We then decided to leave, as waiting around would be too much. As we exited the main entrance, you can see a luxury van (which we didn't notice on the way in...?). There were several fangirls surrounding this van, but we decided to just go. I hope someday I'll see Woohyun Toheart in person!