JYJ's Jae Joong Instantly Sells Out 16,000 Seats

[purekpopology.livejournal.com]

The popularity of JYJ’s Kim Jae Joong has been reflected once more.

Kim Jae Joong opened up ticket sales online on January 7 for his upcoming mini concert, Your, My and Mine.

However, as soon as ticket sales opened up, all 16,000 seats sold out, and the influx of traffic ended up crashing the server.

Shortly after, Kim Jae Joong and his concert became the most searched term on various online portal sites, as well as on the ticket reservation site, Interpark.

Interpark also added Kim Jae Joong’s concert ticket sale site brought in the most number of international visitors ever.

The upcoming mini concert is Kim Jae Joong’s first solo concert in Korea and will look to show Kim Jae Joong not only as an artist but a diverse entertainer. The mini concert will be divided into three parts including a fan meet, a production history talk and then the mini concert.

While Kim Jae Joong’s solo album won’t be released until January 17, a preview track, titled One Kiss will be unveiled later today (January 8 KST).

source: enewsworld

Slaying. As expected.

Comments

[flumes.livejournal.com]

guess we didn't leave him in 2012 :c

[stephantasm.livejournal.com]

I prayed with Siwon and everything :(

[flumes.livejournal.com]

i think it was all the bullying that canceled it out

[stephantasm.livejournal.com]

Hmm seeing as I never bullied anyone last year, I think I should've prayed to Satan with Heechul instead

[flumes.livejournal.com]

wow ur a liar too that's also what's canceling it out so THANKS

[stephantasm.livejournal.com]

(︶ω︶)ノ† I'll pray 4 u too, fei

[snowmog.livejournal.com]

Lies.

All of Interpark crashed, so trying to get a ticket was a very slow process. I got my ticket after about 20 minutes with the slow server, but there was still loads of seats left.

[pepper.livejournal.com]

I wonder how cheap are these sites' servers. They always crash on me. :|

[snowmog.livejournal.com]

S. Korea's internet is a bit of a mess in all honesty. But Interpark need to sort this out if they're going to handle big names. I lost my first ticket because it couldn't cope; though I feel my second ticket is better so I'm not too annoyed with that.

Gmarket's servers seem to be able to cope with it - at least they don't crash the rest of the website. So Interpark need to start looking at whatever the hell it is they're doing and copy.

Buying tickets for Korean k-pop concerts is unnecessarily stressful.

[chloe1910.livejournal.com]

A number of my friend tried to buy but yes, the server crashed. By the time the server is up and working properly for them to click, all seats were taken up and sold out.

[angela-derp-otp.livejournal.com]

Really? Took me like 5 minutes.
I bought for me before it crashed, when it came back up I tried to buy a couple more for a few friends and they were sold out. :s

[snowmog.livejournal.com]

To be fair I don't have the *fastest* internet server so everything was slowing down to a crawl and this may have affected what I was seeing.

And maybe I managed to get one before it was up again properly? I'm not sure. Doesn't feel that way. Interpark always slows down immensely on me and Interpark doesn't seem to be in real time like Gmarket so it doesn't feel like tickets are going unless you refresh. It's a shame you couldn't get any for your friends.

It would be no surprise if they sold out within 30 mins (and quite likely less), but I don't quite think it's 'record time' given recent supposed records from those sold on gmarket. Unless this is record time for Interpark?

[jaerotic.livejournal.com]

well considering they didn't put any time (like 50 secs etc) i don't really see how it's a lie? 30 mins to me still does fall into 'as soon as it was opened' considering the site crashed right away and was v slow even when it became accessible once more.
i got my seat in 20 mins bec of the slow server (tho i clicked 8:00pm on the dot). it actually took me more than 5 of those 20 mins just picking a seat bec whenever i'd click on a supposedly 'empty' seat it would tell me that it's already taken. so imo not necessarily because there are a lot of seemingly vacant ones did it mean that they were still vacant seats as seconds ticked by. i went back after i finished paying and tried to check if there were still seats but they were pm sold out already.

[snowmog.livejournal.com]

It took me surprisingly less time to get a seat, but maybe that's because I was choosing a less popular day and not aiming to get a seat in places where competition was higher? Honestly, I'm still amazed I managed to get one. And I managed to get two more tickets on two different times on my phone whilst I was trying to buy my main ticket on the comp, so that's why it doesn't feel particular fast, or as fast as I was expecting. Of course I cancelled these ones before paying; but as I lost my first one I wasn't taking any chances.

My choice of words might be a bit strong in the first comment, but I don't know what they're counting record time by and I really hate the wording of these articles. Some groups can sell out pretty fast, but then have tickets become available as people cancel seats intentionally or accidentally. Big Bang was like that, and there were a few times it was 'sold old' but tickets suddenly became available again. Of course they were on GM not IP, but it doesn't mean there were no more seats after these few minutes or whatever the record is. And then you have those that 'sell out' and then have lots of people cancel because their friends got better tickets or they can't make it. There were a few groups/artists who also supposedly sold out in record time this year and I've still seen tickets available a few weeks before their concert. And I'm not talking just one or two seats - there were whole chunks of seats available. I'm fairly certain that Jaejoong's concert will stay sold out and any cancellations will be snapped up quickly, but I feel like these articles in general are misleading. Then again, journalism isn't always known to tell the facts straight.

Would be nice if Interpark could replicate Gmarket's real time seat selection. It would cut out so much trouble when buying seats. Glad you managed to get a seat though!

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

Lol I was just about to click post entry with this article + JJ's single. I'll only keep Junsu's then

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

You mean you want to post it or I'm stealing Junsu lol Cause who wouldn't tbh

[ceecile.livejournal.com]

I haven't posted JYJ stuff in a while though! I've been stuck forever on posts of Day 2 & Day 3 of his concerts and the Drama awards I think I'm going to drop them lol.
You should post!

[consequences.livejournal.com]

one kiss was a slight disappointment from the teaser... i know jae's not a rocker and has a delicate smooth voice naturally, but i suppose i expected more powerful parts to the song rather than most of it being super quiet and then just having a loud ending, idk.

looking forward to the rest of the album! are we getting an MV for Mine?

[jaerotic.livejournal.com]

i'm happy i got a fairly decent ticket to this concert ;~; lmao i had to go to the toilet badly but i put it off because it was alrdy so close to 8PM.

[jcdhwg.livejournal.com]

Managed to get a ticket for both shows. VIP on sunday~ Seems like quite some omonians will be there! We should meet up~ ^__^

[chichi89.livejournal.com]

I wish I could go! *cries* Argh but well I can't because of work and I can't afford another trip any time soon. Well, I had to sacrifice my second bias because my first bias was worth everything and I regret nothing. The only thing I regret I wasn't present on the third day too lol.
Actually it seemed that it was easier to get tickets this time compared to Junsu's concerts. My twitter friend managed to get VIP now whereas she couldn't get any tickets for Junsu. So we had to get them from others

[laeryn.livejournal.com]

why do I live in the other side of the world? Oh, well... :(