Toronto Fan Meet!

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So we’ve been back in Korea for a week now, after having spent three weeks in Canada. We used that time to Surprise our Families, do some shopping, and try to relax a bit (while still making videos). One of the biggest things we had planned, though, was a fan meet at University of Toronto, our Alma Mater!

We were lucky enough to be contacted by U of T’s East Asian Studies Student Union and The Korea Club. They asked us if we’d be willing to do a meet and greet at U of T. Hells yeah we said yes! We were really excited, but we didn’t know what to expect. We thought that it would just be maybe 20 people sitting around in a class, and all of us chatting about Korea informally. We’d be sitting in our chairs backwards and we’d have take out coffees, and the school would be empty because it would be after hours. Something quaint like that. Well, we were quite wrong.

Over 300 people showed up. Holy freaking smokes. There was a crowd of people outside of the door. When the doors opened up people were pouring in. We were flabbergasted and anxious and totally overwhelmed. Anyhow, we had planned for something simple. We were going to talk a bit about some stuff that we don’t get to mention in our videos, like our whole idea of why we make our videos the way we make them, why we review kpop the way that we do, such and such, and then we opened it up to Q&A. We talked for a couple of hours, and people laughed at our jokes. UNREAL! We thought that without the magic of postproduction we’d be screwed! We’re not used to speaking live!

Weirdest of all, after the show there was a line up for people who wanted to take pictures with us. The line up was massive, and it took us an hour to get through everyone. At first we were signing autographs as well as taking pictures, but then that wound up taking a long time, and so we had to cut autographs because we were gonna get kicked out of the room before everyone would get a chance to take a picture with us.

So that’s our story. We’d really like to thank those of you who came. You’ve not only made us really happy. Our parents were in attendance, and you’ve made them so freaking proud and given them such a special memory that, *HOLY CRAP MY EYES ARE GETTING ALL RUNNY*

Ahem. Thank you for coming. Here are the pics to the event, taken by Zoe Weber. Also, Arirang in Toronto is going to be airing this on the Omni network at 10:30 PM Sunday, Toronto time. We won’t be able to check it out. If you do see it, let us know how it turned out!

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Anonymous

I wonder if that guy stitting in the first row with the khaki pants is single….
Nahian Anjum Shejuti

wish I could go there and be as frank about my obsession with kpop as the people there was… I still suffer from the situation where there is literally less than a handful of people with whom I can totally openly talk, discuss, think, feel and express bluntly about the things I see and read and hear in the world of kpop… But you two, I have to give hats off cause you two guise totally changed and provided me new ways to communicate with others about kpop and make me feel less weird than so called others who don’t know about this amazing genre of music! Love Eat Your Kimchi and Simon and Martina- LOVE YOU GUISE A LOT!
http://twitter.com/innuhhkah Kim Beom Inna

awesome!!!you guys deserved all this<3

lililulukikikokodede: haha i was thinking the same thing….hm..
http://twitter.com/MadziaVelMadzik Madzia Vel Madzik

waaaah this fanmeeting looked like a really big dose of fun xD damn hope u’ll make one next time too & i’ll just fly to kanada to mee u guys xD
u deserved all the atention u recieved, cuz u gave us, ur fans, much more. moments of fun, joy & laughter (: and i thank u for that *hugs*

keep up this awesome work~!! :D
http://twitter.com/JoeyCapo25 Joey Capo

It’s great a lot of people are taking K-pop seriously the other day I was watching “Despierta America” in “Univision” network and someone tweeted in … ” Por Favor apoyen al Pop Koreano” (pleas support K-pop) it was very unexpected but it was great… You “guise” do a great job influencing this movement…
http://twitter.com/Modzianchan Natalia

I wanna be on fanmeeting like it too^.^ If you will be in Poland someday it would be great to meet you ♥
Mary Zilar

lililulukikikokodede, Don’t worry, I noticed him, too ;)
Leah Khodak

why didn’t u say anything?? I would have come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:(
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6KFMIOLXZTCWEEJ3GF3YIAZIJ4 mightymouse

Next time you go to canada do a campus tour. How about it??
http://twitter.com/ambrosia18 Amber Charles

I am so excited for you guys. I was totally shocked by the outcome of the event. You guys are total celebrities. Know that you definitely have a support system in the states as well. I wish I was there but, exams are coming up and holiday is not until next week. I can’t wait for updates.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002402106027 Rika Chan

WHEN YOU SAID “DO WE HAVE ANY SHINEE FANS?”
I LITERALLY SCREAMED MY ASS OFF SHOUTING ME!!!!!
http://twitter.com/yellow0102 Paulina 폴리나

I so envy all of those people! I want to be on your fanmeeting, too! I think Simon should come to Poland, to visit the homeland of his parents and bring Martina, too and you should make this kind of fanmeeting, too :-) We have Korean Culture Center in Warsaw, they would agree to make this kind of meeting for sure :-) Consider it, please :-)
SHEK ROBERT

Wow..”EYK” fans gathering, you guys are celebrities!!
May be TV station in Canada should ask you both to host new program on K-Pop and K-wave!!
http://twitter.com/LilyYamiCross Lily Yami Cross

Awwww >< I wish I was there! (ignoring the fact I live on the other side of Canada…)
Also, my friend got me into K-pop through Super Girl (the Korean version) by Super Junior-M. Also Sorry Sorry
http://profiles.google.com/kirei.lekach Samantha Lekach

Man… jealous in sooo many ways. Curse being from Saskatchewan…the oft forgotten (and never visited) province ;)
http://www.facebook.com/VeraRaponzel Veraa Raponzel

BIG BANG NEEDS TO COME TO TORONTO NAU! :”(
http://twitter.com/jipaijess Jessica Lee

~ can you do a fan meet in the states ~ :3
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QN3F3GBI2IDSXLXKFD5HRQK2UQ EmilyL

I loved this video!! I was so happy for you when I saw all those students there waiting to meet you. You have a huge fanbase & I wish I could’ve seen you guys in person. Keep up the good work!! Fighting!!
india_ssimran

I loved this !!! please consider coming to other schools in other Canadian cities in the future ! – calgary comes to mind :3 hehehehe pleeeeeeeease ~~~~~ & my fave part dudududududu …. “ALMOST PARADISE !!!!!!!” omg but i agree with SImon .. i still love K-dramas but at the end of Boys over Flowers i was like WHYYYYY !?? T-T uhuhu i will love jihoo forever !