What It's Like to Love "B-list" K-pop Idols

On Oct. 19, 150 people, mostly young women, stood in the cold early autumn air since 6 a.m. for two hours to be ushered inside a building in the far western corner of Seoul. They waited so they could watch the same song-and-dance sequence performed three times by a K-pop band you’ve probably never heard of, for a TV show. I was one of those fans. When I walked out of CJ E&M’s recording studio after watching my favorite K-pop band, SF9, my voice was half gone from intense cheering. I felt dizzy