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Omonians who like hallyu & or tourism surveys! Our dear lysblack had left a comment in our last FFA that needs around 30 more participants. They will share their findings in a future FFA.

Quoted from lysblack’s orginal comment HERE

First I wanted to thank the amazing 15 members that 5 months ago answered the preliminary questions and helped me take my course completion monograph to takeoff.

I’m on my senior year in college and in order to graduate, like many before me, I have to work on my monograph. As I am a Tourism major my thesis is ‘The Hallyu Influence on South Korea’s Tourism’, in which I talk about what Hallyu is to South Korea not only as a product to be exported, but as a way to bring tourism to their country.

This questionnaire's goal is to research the opinion of people from the fandom itself (Hallyu fans) all over the world, and to discover if it has any sort of influence on turning those fans into tourists visiting South Korea.

The questionnaire itself is pretty short and simple and if you are okay with answering it I would be very thankful for that, as it will be of great help as in this stage of my research I need at least 50 answers so my sampling will have significant date and will be accepted by my professors.

The information will be of my use only and probably the only other person who will see it will the professor that is mentoring my project, if I end up using any data or quote any member in the final thesis your name won’t be exposed as I will be using pseudonyms. Feel free to answer truthfully, and write as much or as little it pleases you, even if you never wanted to go to SK or that Kpop/Kdramas never influenced you.

The questionnaire can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15ZPd5zKM_TLo3KuZyDCVteUOENj4arTuN2r-84LYvTk/


Omona is also conducting a census survey to find out more about our community. If you have the time please participate :D

LOL Posting extra early because the power might go out here. Enjoy your weekend <3 :)

Comments

[blck-ink.livejournal.com]

had my first driving lessons today and certain moments i really thought i was going to kill my instructor and myself looool!!

can someone recommend me some good kdrama's please (i'm going to need something for when scarlet heart ends)

[ty.livejournal.com]

I like I can hear your voice
Gunman of Joseon
Duo
Princess's Man
Pinocchio
Liar's Game
Neighborhood Hero

[fabulousdoll.livejournal.com]

I just watched Train To Busan

I think there must be something wrong with me because I couldn't stop laughing for more than half of the movie. I don't know why, I think it was because I was not used to the way the zombies moved in this movie. But OMG! the "bad" guy was the fucking worst!!!! He got into my fucking nerves! When Choi Woo Shik and Sohee died because of his fault I wasn't even sad because I was too angry!!! That said I still cried when the father of the baby dies and at the end when Gong Yoo is dying and her daughter is screaming at the back. This movie is so depressing :(((((((((((((((((

Spoiler sort of

[otraera.livejournal.com]

Omg the part at that end when the girl is singing I was like yes girl sing it. Your dad hears you !!!!

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

I wanted to thank every single of the amazing and beautiful people who have answered my questionnaire and the ones planning on doing it now, I am truly extremely thankful to this community. ❤❤❤❤

[xoxkenzxox.livejournal.com]

Was this the Korean language questionnaire? If it was, it was very interesting. Many good questions.

[chasing-thewind.livejournal.com]

hi everyone.

anyone have any good tips on relieving stress without feeling like you're wasting time? it's exam season for my school, and i'm really feeling anxious about basically everything. every time i try to take a break and relax, though, i can't stop worrying about everything that I think I should be doing. any ideas on how to stop randomly worrying?

[snmj.livejournal.com]

exercise, clean your room and/or bathroom, dance, read a good story, draw, cook a meal, meditate, make lists, organize your study material...

anything that makes you happy... do a hobby... nap? lol
watch some kdramas ?

hi omona ♡

[thebrassteapot.livejournal.com]

i was curious, are there any groups where you like the members more than their music (or vice versa)?

for me it's probably 2ne1, i loved watching their appearances and 2ne1tv but actually end up deleting most of their songs lol

glad this is early, i havent made it to a ffa in a while!

Re: hi omona ♡

[donutism.livejournal.com]

I like red velvet members more than their music. their music is catchy, but omg the members are beautiful and so cute. I find with their songs ill listen a few times and then never really go back to listen (except ICC cause thats ma jam)

[feigninglove.livejournal.com]

I've finally managed to make an appointment with tattooist banul and now the stress of deciding how I want it to look is freaking me out

[ah0000.livejournal.com]

Omg. I really want one from them, thinking about it for when I go to Korea next year.

[haixiao.livejournal.com]

my 21st bday is next wednesday and i'm doing absolutely nothing for it because i have no friends and i have an exam the next day lmao. but my grandma is coming to visit so i'm excited to see her again

also, random but does anyone know how to like...not dream? LOL i dream about work every night, taking orders, preparing food, helping customers and it's so exhausting and upsetting i hate it

[apori.livejournal.com]

My [douche] ex is a psychologist with two parent psychologists* as well and I had this problem when we were together and asked them they all said you can't NOT think about something/dream, but you can reframe your thoughts which can make the thoughts/dreams gradually less stressful.

*I hate this person and his douche family, but I begrudgingly think it's right.


Also happy early birthday!

[yixingsforehead.livejournal.com]

i haven't really had time off since .... january. but next week off to my first south east asia trip! new places, new cultures, and i'm meeting up with some ooold friends there. i don't even know how i'm gonna get things done till then, i'm in complete vacation mode already, while i have lots to do....

crazy busy here, but at least i finally have a new flatmate, who's the nicest nicest flatmate i've had so far, puts my mind so much at ease.

re hallyu tourism... (i filled it out btw) reminds me i want to go back to korea again, but whennn do i fit it in with all the moving and stuff ugh

[bubblyshades.livejournal.com]

wooo awesome! where in SE asia are you going??

and congrats on the nicest nicest flatmate! such a relief when you like the person you live with.

[itsglenncoco.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling really deflated, I've been going to all these job interviews for jobs I don't necessarily WANT but I need a job so... And I didn't get offered ONE! But I never let it get me down because I had an interview for a job I actually would love and enjoy this week, so all the rest were just fall backs, and I went to the interview, all excited and confident... No word back. They said that they won't be contacting anyone who isn't successful so I guess that's me. So annoying :(

[bubblyshades.livejournal.com]

that's so demoralizing :( it's hard to keep your head up with a positive attitude while job hunting. kudos to you for trying to hang in there.

you just went to the interview this week, right? Did they tell you they'd be contacting someone within the week?

[keytfelt.livejournal.com]

It's finally finally raining here in California. It's been months and months (at least 8-9?) since we've had a decent storm and I'm loving it.

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

I got rejected from two med schools today :/
I'm hearing back from the one I interviewed on Monday so I'm kinda freaking out
but I'm going to CA to see my family tomorrow so I got that going for me, which is nice (insert bill murray face here).

i hope it's good news since I'll be with my family when I hear back? D:

[bubblyshades.livejournal.com]

good luck!! hoping for good news

[madielou.livejournal.com]

ughhhh otw home my mom's vehicle broke down and it was the worst but im glad we made it home.

this semester is slowly killing me tbh. i think im entering a black hole via depression and im slooowly dying. my grades are slipping and im just very bleh. u know that feel??

i have 2 write a research paper for anthro and ive never written one before lol i have no idea what im doin oops

also for some reason i was thinking about kpop and like how out of all the music and genres it was kpop that has gotten the spotlight and huge ifanbase like can u imagine kpop in the 90s being like "oh yah we're gonna be Huge in a couple years" lmao like ... idk it's amazing to me.

anyway have a good weekend omona ❤

[bubblyshades.livejournal.com]

Hello omona~ happy weekend :)

I am going back to my home town for chinese new year for the first time since my family and I moved to the us in 2004. it feels surreal. I've missed CNY at home so much, so so so much. It's just not the same here, especially since I'm not some place with a big population of Chinese people. It's gonna feel really special being able to celebrate with relatives back home for the first time in so long. When I think about it, tears come to my eyes haha. :')

At the same time I'm also super nervous about the trip. Aside from this upcoming trip next year, the only other time I've been back was in 2013 when my grandmother passed away. That was such an emotionally complicated and loaded trip: grieving for my grandma, at the same time feeling so excited nervous awkward uncertain about going home and seeing home and relatives and friends for the first time in a decade.

How can something feel at once so foreign and so familiar to you? Life as an immigrant has truly been a learning and emotionally rich experience for me. Calling two places a home and yet not feeling like I belong in either. Makes me sad sometimes because it feels so lonely, but I know my experiences living in two countries has broadened my mind and enriched my life beyond what 14 year-old me imagined when we first left.

lol sorry for this novel. Idk,just felt like putting the above out somewhere. These thoughts have been ruminating in my heart and mind for a long time, but with the upcoming trip they've come to the forefront and I wanted to talk them out to make sense of them. Thanks for reading. xD :)

[yixingsforehead.livejournal.com]

ooh awesome that you can visit!

i cannot relate to missing cny per se, but... i moved countries 5 years ago, and that sense of being home in two places, but also not belonging to either, that is the same for me.

it's so hard for me to be fully present in one place, but at the same time not lose what connects me to the other.

and something a bit different... i do feel lonely due to the cultural differences, and sometimes it gets to the point of "i'm moving back", but i then i go back to visit, and i realize i'm better off being lonely elsewhere lol

[pandaapple27.livejournal.com]

hello~ I hope everyone is having a good week!

I really want to have a night out or just go for cocktails now that I've moved back to dallas, but I have only like two friends that are still here and one of them has a ton of friends and the other works night shifts so it's just me by myself on this lonely friday. lord.

in other news are there any recent college grads that are unemployed here?? what do yall do to keep yourself occupied??

[lostintheechoes.livejournal.com]

so i got a bombshell dropped at work, starting in november, i'm going to be working like a maniac. one person got a new job (we knew this was happening), the new person we hired for the person leaving quit. and one other person is transferring to another branch. so until we hire more people i'm probably going to work open to close (745am to 6/7pm) six days a week, with only having sunday off. i'm probably not going to have a life. you'll probably see less of me here on the internet or if you follow me on tumblr. my anxiety has already risen a little, worrying about this. i'm going to be so exhausted by thanksgiving. so i'll be hanging in there.

on a good side note, i got my shipping/tracking info for my WINGS preorder! can't track it yet tho. boo.

[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

I hope they are compensating you appropriately.

sasd sad sad

[ty.livejournal.com]

My dog died on 10/11/2016.

I am a zombie.

Re: sasd sad sad

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

oh my god i am so so sorry for your loss. my dog is only 3ish, and i start to tear up in approx 5 seconds if i think of her dying. i'm unhealthly attached to her. i wish you all the best! if you'd, like you can reply to this with your memories of them - i'd love to read it and maybe it'll make you feel a little better?

[kary1591.livejournal.com]

I made my first gif/gifset this week!

And I actually got some notes lol yay ^^





Nothing else is new lol.. I have nothing to do today so I think I'm gonna crash at my sister's and marathon OTH. /csb

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

fellow inpiniteu stan ... any good sites to find their tv shows?

i like to re-watch them every once in awhile when i have nothing else to watch, and i've noticed they been disappearing lately so i wanna download them while i still can. i've been checking youtube and dailymotion, but do you know of any other sources they're hiding on??

[yixingsforehead.livejournal.com]

hmmm i have too many tips.

mostly just practice, practice, practice.

based on my own experience with uncomfortable questions.... my least favorite was when i was still living in eastern europe, and in the middle of the interview, they would be like "when are you planning on having children?"
to this and any sort of question that feels inappropriate or in any way uncomfortable -- i just said whatever they wanted to hear "i'm not planning on having children" that in my dictionary meant "none of your business, and i will change this company so that the women that come after me wouldn't have to put up with these stupid questions"

also when i didn't know what they wanted to hear in response to a dumb/inappropriate question, i just laughed "that's a good one", they rephrase it then sometimes... if it makes more sense, then i respond on the second try, if they don't rephrase it, then i ask (in the most neutral tone possible) if they could explain why that question is important.

[otraera.livejournal.com]

I got the flu shot today and tomorrow I'm getting my wisdom teeth removed !! I'm worried about the pain but prepared for the week of relaxation.

[purple-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! My daughter (she's 17) got all of her wisdom teeth removed in September. What worked for her was that I gave her cold compresses for first 48-72 hours (that's when the swelling will be the worst) and then after that I would switch her to hot compresses. I think that helped with swelling to go down faster and she felt better. After 72 hours you can switch between hot or cold (it depends on what feels better for you at the time) Stock up on mushy stuff! Is someone staying with you so they can keep track of which medications you took? Make sure you take your entire course of antibiotics.

I hope that your procedure is quick and with the least amount of pain!

[audiograms.livejournal.com]

I'm up studying since I realised I have a tutorial tomorrow and I have not done any of the reading.

[ohsnaplettes.livejournal.com]

i've been on reading week and i haven't done anything productive. i haven't even cleaned my room. i've been in a slump for...a while. i haven't been able to pick myself out of it. i'm living incredibly passively and idk what to do :\

[atelierlune.livejournal.com]

You may just need to start getting in the habit of doing things again. You can start super small, don't let anyone make you feel like that isn't an appropriate response. Just making your bed in the morning when you wake up can lead to incremental steps in room cleaning. Do you need to be more social don't know where to start? Just hitting someone up in a text and being like "crap, I'm in a funk, can we get coffee or something" whether or not it actually leads to social interaction can make a difference.

[audiograms.livejournal.com]

I feel so embarassed for loving PCY's rap on that Far East song as much as I do.

[honey-baymax.livejournal.com]

Low key same.

[dropthecrates.livejournal.com]

the rain is so good. SO good

[rosiemotleymind.livejournal.com]

Ugh my anxiety is acting up really bad lately more so than it's ever been. Halloween season always makes me more anxious for some reason even though I love the damn holiday. Other than that anyone got any tips to decline an invitation to a party? Two of my friends are having no parties the same date and I want to go to one over the other. I just don't know how to tell my other friend who will probably take it personally -_-

[yixingsforehead.livejournal.com]

hmmm my two cents is just decline it soon, don't wait. if they take it personally, they take it personally, the earlier you say it, the easier they will get over it, though.

[mmmalvina.livejournal.com]

My acne's almost gone, my hair, makeup and outfit were on point, I got Mario Badescu facial spray, I did all the schoolwork I planned... Good day! =^.^=
Although it's kind of weird that I have some free time now because I'm so used to my strict schedule that I'm suffering from doing nothing lol

p.s. Oh, and I watched Chunking Express! Now I'm hungry for some love