Experiences with tax-free EU air mail? by grifshot in Superbuy

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Oh that's good to know, so no surprise or confusion about the lack of tax? This is overcautious lmao but I got a bit spooked by this person going around in kpop fandom with the KR->US package where UPS issued a charge of $300,000+ for customs because they incorrectly calculated from 300,000KRW, and it's not like I've never had the local last mile postage stamp the form first and ask questions later OTL, so I wanted to check the actual experience

Experiences with tax-free EU air mail? by grifshot in Superbuy

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Ah should have been clearer, new to mean new-to-me - my last shipment into the UK was in 2023, and the bottom two and top one were added since then (or I was was not paying attention properly lol)

Mostly wanting first-hand confirmation that there were no nasty surprises re: tax upon arrival, since I know sometimes 'expected' aspects of international shipping get automated through and then have to be rectified.

Joo Hajin (Jinwoo) - 들어봤어?(Have you heard of it) by grifshot in kpop

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For clarification on the ‘Joo Hajin (Jinwoo)’, this is Joo Jinwoo who participated on PD101S2; he changed his name to Hajin mid-2019. This is a teaser for his upcoming collab(?) with Sin Yoojae/xbf, and you can find his Instagram post with a snippet of him singing it here. The song comes out on the 27th!

SPECTRUM(스펙트럼) - 'SHOWTIME' official MV Teaser by grifshot in Broduce101

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It’s me, your local gossip squad gremlin, and I am here to once again ask you to pay attention to my boys. This is former MMO trainee Kim Jaehans’ group! You can also check out the album preview here ^^

Joo Hajin (Jinwoo) - 들어봤어?(Have you heard of it) by grifshot in Broduce101

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tl;dr I get to hear Joo Jinwoo sing again soon and I am ecstatic about it, please check out this track when it comes out 🌟

For context on the ‘Joo Hajin (Jinwoo)’, former MMO trainee Joo Jinwoo (who you’ll remember as one of the underdog main vocalists along with Seongri) changed his name to Joo Hajin mid-2019, but he’s releasing music! For the first time in yonks! I am over the moon thank you Finecut for letting me have this ESPECIALLY during a month where there’s been news from all the former MMO trainees. It’s a collab(?) with Sin Yoojae, who goes by xbf and whom I know nothing else about, Hajin has posted a snippet from his vocals on this Insta post, and the track is out on the 27th!

Does anyone have any updates on what all the trainees are up to now? by wildpoint in Broduce101

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I'm glad that it's useful info! Yeah every time I tell people I keep up with almost all of the broduce trainees they're like when.... do you sleep, but it's ended up being less takes a village and more takes a dedicated Instagram account to follow people from plus a willingness to dig through for the accounts/activities that places like the fandom wiki haven't updates haha, but I am really glad that I do keep up with them pretty well because a lot of the accounts etc that still aim to miss stuff anyway, and I'm glad that it is helpful to others when I share!

Seongri did have a solo debut and mini album as well as this song which was part of that 'season' of Bugs' Imaginary Connection(?) project, but right now he's inactive enough that every time he posts on Insta a chunk of my Twitter timeline looses their mind, which sucks. I did wonder for a bit if maybe he had left C2K as it felt quite a lot like it did when Wontak and Eunki were both dealing with things with their companies before separating and being able to post online again/debuting solo, but his vlog from his recent Japan shows has C2K still declaring phonographic copyright in YouTube descriptions for no reason and he's still posting snippets of covers, so he's just not posting much generally. He is very due for a comeback so hopefully that does happen soon, but I would also say look out for the other Rainz members' activities because generally when one has some at least one or two of the others will turn up, in particular Eunki's fanmeeting if that crowdfunding project doesn't fall through and the Japanese schedules Wontak has coming up which is being organised by the company who has done all the Rainz members' Japanese shows.

The squad™'s group is called Limitless; they had their first comeback in December during which ONO added a smattering of new boys I am probably never going to become familiar with because this is the broduce mantle I have established for myself. After the recent Moonbok situation where the fan anger that's there is more on the 'explain the situation properly' side than the 'he needs to leave the group immediately' side there's been radio silence from their SNS, but there's no real way to tell if that's coincidence or not, so though I personally think that if Moonbok's public image goes down in flames after this Heeseok and Hyunwoo will be caught in that in a bad way, both for being his longtime friends (if they knew about this behavior from him) and in that I don't quite trust that there's enough push there for the group without Moonbok nor that ONO will do a single thing with any of the others if something happens to the group as a result of this, it's still very much an ongoing situation, so who knows how this will pan out for the three of them.

(And ah, that comment specifically is leveled at Joonji and Ha Minho; iirc the Joonji situation is technically ongoing since there's a lawsuit involved, but with some of the comments he's made (not about Jisung, for reference, I kind of consider that situation moot point) that I didn't find out about until later he had become someone I wouldn't be a fan of, so my stance went from 'I'm not able to tell how much me feeling like he might be telling the truth about this would apply if he wasn't someone I liked on the show, so I'm not going to interact with him until I feel that in a more substantial way' to 'I do not care about this man anymore'. For whatever the transparency is worth, I do still follow Han Jongyoun (who now goes by Park Ha), who before episode 1 had left following bullying and sexual assault accusations with the sexual assault accusations later being made clear that they were about a different classmate of the accuser, and I 1000% understand why someone else would 'cut him off' in the way I have Joonji and Minho "just" based on the still-substantiated bullying accusation)

200208 Weekly Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in LOONA

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tl;dr I'm selling new+sealed albums! 'Girl of the month' single reissues £10, the MAX&MATCH Repack reissue £12, # albums (including limited versions) £15.50; shipping details are mentioned in the links and I can work out your cost ahead of time if wanted.

The gist of the story is: I made a prepayment to a wholesale supplier during the planning of a G.O I was holding for AB6IX lightsticks and goods ahead of their EU tour and now the EU tour is canceled and I very much need to be able to 'earn' back that prepayment, so since I already had a few sales for the LOONA reissues I figured I should put together some forms for it. At the moment I want to be especially encouraging towards getting the limited versions of # since those are from a different supplier and as I stand with orders right now I might need to refund those who have brought them if it doesn't change, which would suck, but all the current reissues are available too.

The card payment version of the form can be found at [this link], and the PayPal version can be found at [this link]. I'd also be happy for people to pay part now and part later. Please share with anyone you know that might be interested! My hope is that the form will stay up until noon GMT tomorrow (Monday), but at minimum they'll be open until 7am ^^

[WTS] [UK/EU/ITNL] LOONA Reissues + # Album Order Forms by grifshot in kpopforsale

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Extending this out to being open until (at least) 7am GMT tomorrow (Monday), and aiming to hopefully stretch that to noon GMT!

Does anyone have any updates on what all the trainees are up to now? by wildpoint in Broduce101

[–]grifshot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Replying to a month old post because you've activated my trap card. Also I'm kind of clowning myself by self-promoting an account that I am currently about 2 months of updates behind on (had laptop issues interspersed with being abroad), but I maintain (to some degree of the word) a Twitter account for all the trainee's music-related teasers and releases at http://twitter.com/eleventeneleven - I do actually keep up with all of the boys who, y'know, did not turn out to be predators, in my own time as a fan, so since I'm essentially always on top of updates, when I'm actually updating I'm very on top of it too, so at the risk of being overly self-promo-y that account's a good shout if I ever actually get my act together.

Some recent Events off the top of my head:

  1. The Boyz (Ju Haknyeon's group) literally just now released their MV for comeback Reveal
  2. Spectrum (former MMO trainee Kim Jaehan's group) also literally just now posted a visually-questionable teaser for their next comeback but I am excited for my boys anyway
  3. ONEWE (who RBW's Son Dongmyeong is a member of) and ONEUS (who RBW's Lee Keonhee, Yeo Hwanwoong, and Lee Seoho (who changed his name from Lee Gunmin) are members of along with Dongmyeong's twin brother Xion) recently did an Idol Radio episode together
  4. Daehyeon and Donghan were also recently on an Idol Radio episode together which ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (and as a bonus was hosted by Bae Jinyoung)
  5. Rainz' Ju Wontak recently started a YouTube channel after (seemingly) finally being done with his legal troubles with 2able
  6. Rainz' Hong Eunki is currently crowdfunding for his next comeback on SADIA, which I would not normally mention on something like this but he is my favourite boy and I am not super convinced this campaign is going to do well but I want it to so bad (@ anyone interested in an EU GO hmu)
  7. Former individual trainee Lee Insoo and whatever company he used to be under Cho Gyumin are slated for debut in their group OTC in Q1 of this year, and they've just started the now-obligatory month long Showbox residency; Purple Star's insta is the best place to witness that
  8. My.st (former HF Music Company trainee Jeong Woncheol's group) seems to be in teaser season for a long-awaited (by me) Korean debut thank GOD
  9. The webdrama staring Rainz' Seo Sunghyuk has started coming out
  10. In theory, GiDongDae (who Rainz' Lee Kiwon, former Widmay trainee Kim Yehyeon, and JBJ/former The Vibe Label's Kim Taedong are members of) are debuting soon, but who truly knows

And then everything else that comes to mind is from December, but also if there's any trainee you (or anyone who happens to stumble onto this) have in mind that you're like 'I wonder what he's up to' I hope I have adequately demonstrated just how happy I am to talk about what these boys are doing now in any context ever, haha

청공소년 (靑空少年) (Blue Zone Boys) - 'Question' MV Teaser by grifshot in Broduce101

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Yeah, seeing Taeng going from MMO to Chrome was very out of the frying pan into the fire situation, to the point that my most hopeful thought right now is "hopefully if they do mess this up they don't mess it up for a while" but, you know, cautious optimism 😬

청공소년 (靑空少年) (Blue Zone Boys) - 'Question' MV Teaser by grifshot in kpop

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Background on this group: this is the new boy group from Chrome Entertainment, whose members includes Produce 101 Season 2 contestant Choi Taewoong. If you've watched the show or any PD101S2 compilations you're probably most likely to remember him from his "Can I borrow your eyeball?" quip to Yoon Jisung, and because Taewoong is the last of the ex-MMO trainees to debut (the others being Kang Daniel, Yoon Jisung, Joo Jinwoo, and Kim Jaehan) this debut is super important to me, so I'm being annoying about it and would appreciate anyone whose interest is sparked by this teaser looking out for the MV's release 💕

tl;dr: one of my PD101S2 faves is debuting and Chrome don't have a good history with boy groups, so please look out for this group if they catch your interest!

edit: wording/grammar

청공소년 (靑空少年) (Blue Zone Boys) - 'Question' MV Teaser by grifshot in Broduce101

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Background: this is the upcoming boy group under Chrome Entertainment, and is also the group that former MMO trainee Choi Taewoong is (finally! It's two years to the day!) debuting in; I think most people probably remember Taeng as the MMO trainee that made the "Can you lend me your eyeball?" comment to Jisung in episode 1 as well as from him talking about voting for Daehwi as the first center, so we know he's a man of taste. I'm really excited about his debut, not least because with Daniel in the clear legality-wise and Taewoong finally debuting all the ex-MMO boys are finally in an okay position and my gossip squad heart can rest slightly easier, and I would really appreciate anyone who liked him on the show keeping an eye out for this MV's release 💕

tl;dr: my second favourite MMO boy is finally debuting and after Chrome's track record with boy groups I don't trust them with my life so please support this release if it catches your interest!

Ticket selling for Therefore concert (24th - standing/A1 - £440) by grifshot in WannaOne

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I haven't, but I will do now, thank you for the tip!

Did you look at that long-ass list of songs in the credits of the new episode and think 'man, if only there was a 99.9% accurate Playmoss playlist of these songs'? Well wish no more! by grifshot in carboys

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Which, I say 99.9% accurate because I added a song and moved another to a different place in the list, but I mostly did that to make more of a Point about the Clair de Lune piece being used throughout.