Busy P in Seoul

Last week, I went out to check out BUSY P party in Seoul.
Now days, Techtonic is the big trend among young trendy people in Korea. The party was so energenic and packed with a bunch of people.




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My article in Evilmonito

My good friend, Rickey (www.evilmonito.com) asked me to write about the life in Seoul. Without a doubt, I wrote him about Seoul, and the article is up in his webzine, evilmonito.



You can check out this article at http://evilmonito.com/2008/10/04/my-life-seoul/

new balance Japan trade show

Went out to new balance Japan trade show last month.
Japan has a strong influence to world sneaker market since 90's. They are reknowned for special editions and collabo models that are produced in limited quantities. Kids are eagerly trying to get one of these special Japanese edition pairs around the world and searching for the internet.
New Balance Japan has a strong reputation of their own special edition sneakers around the world and I actually visited their trade show to check out what's really whats up!!

Fixed Gear Bike

These days, you could see increasing number of fixed gear bikes (fixie) on the street of Seoul. This bike was one of the progressive bike for completion of Today's bicycle. However, messengers in Today's urban cities still ride fixie for their convenience. And, with Fixie's cool features such as color mix-matching and "no brake", people in the global street scenes are becoming crazy about this bike during last couple of years ago.
Also, there is fixie riders' crew, called "LICENSE", in Seoul. I joined their riding last week. We hung out, ate, and kept on riding all around the city.

KIKS TYO

I received a parcel from KIKS TYO (which is a shoe boutique in Tokyo and getting their name out to the sneaker headz community globally these days) on the other day. Also, they have a good connection with New Balance Japan and did a few collaboration recently. Albert from FATLACE connected me with KIKS packages. Thanks for the T SHIRT and HOSHINO materials, ALBERT!!

Hong Kong

Couple of days ago, I went to HK for Asian Pacific regional meeting for New Balance. During first 3 days, the schedule was very tight that I was almost exhausted. On the last day in Hong Kong, I met up with Perry who owns his own street Clothing label, called We Are Gangs, and designs for couple of Watch Company.
Perry showed me what's going on in HK's street scene. The weather was already Spring there and loved globalized energetic atmosphere.