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Watching the girls' reaction to the win I could totally understand how they completely broke down. It's a bittersweet win since the girls had to put up with so much crap over the years and Soyeon and Boram couldn't be a part of the win. I've been so ridiculously happy since I heard the news about T-ara's first win in over 5 years. It's like a miracle. I hope this means that the Korean public will allow the girls to turn the page on the bullying scandal going forward now. I have to believe that 2018 will be T-ara's year to shine again as OT6. The years of suffering can't just end with the vindication finally received this year and then disbandment.

Chayeon filming super cute emoticons for "You Are the Boss". http://www.vlive.tv/video/33176

Are they going to do an MWave Meet and Greet with signed albums?

The MV is really pretty and all the girls are looking great! The song is also good. I'm totally buying the physical album.

I know right?! I heard Chungha's part and I was thinking wow... Such an amazing voice. Can't wait to hear the finished song on their next comeback album.

Good song. I wasn't expecting much but I actually liked it. Cathy had the spotlight as the main rapper for a while but even in their debut song Somehow the rap lines were split between Cathy and Eunjin. There were a lot of rap lines though so both Cathy and Eunjin got to shine. Also Eunice and Yebin had good vocal parts too. I guess Chaeyeon, Jenny, and Eunchae are just the backup singers.

When I first saw this photo I thought it was Eunchae until I read the comments and realized it was Sohye. This is shortly after a bunch of us mistook Qri for Eunchae. So does this mean that Sohye looks like Qri? Hmm... https://www.instagram.com/p/BQzoIIjDkXW/

A picture is worth a thousand words. Need Chaeyeon and Key as well as his dumb friends.

This is actually the first time I've seen the similarity between Qri and Eunchae. I don't know why I never made the connection before. Maybe it's because of Eunchae's chipmunk cheeks. I would love to see a selca with just the two of them side-by-side.

SoYeon! Great way to think of it! I like using Pinky because it's easy for me to say and what I'm used to calling her. She's awesome regardless of what name people call her by.

Qri?

I hope Koreans can get past the scandal now and be more open to T-ara in the future. I'll show my support for the girls by buying more albums!

Justice for T-ara and Areum.

I hope Jiyeon is getting paid by Canada Goose for wearing their products.

Hahah... she says she's so full and then the next instance she steals more meat from Eunjin's plate, probably while she's asleep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjq4TThNKxo I hope this is true. I need something to fill the large gaping hole in my soul left by I.O.I's disbandment.

I see that her drama Drinking Solo had a good influence on her.

It really only hit me this week the magnitude of my mistake in not ordering the MWave Miss Me album. I never really cared about getting signed albums from groups in the past but I think having had the privilege of seeing I.O.I live in KCon LA and Time Slip concert in Seoul changed that. The disbandment probably also helped to push me over the edge. I regret that a lot now so I will be paying more to get it off of eBay.

I really like this song. What's it called? The camera man really likes Cathy.

Great post! Like Lem, I met a great group of I.O.I fans through OH and then became friends with a bunch of them at KCon LA last year. It was probably a once-in-a-lifetime chance to go to Seoul with these excellent people for I.O.I's farewell concert. Lots of drinking, eating (Soju, Cass, Hite, and OB makju, somaek, budaejigae, bibimbap, ramyeon, kimchi, samgyupsal, raw marinated crab, fish market, etc), shopping, and of course kpop-related activities (MCountdown, shopping for albums, I.O.I concert). I tried not to think about time running out for I.O.I during the trip since it was such a downer but now that I'm home it's starting to hit me that we're not going to be seeing another I.O.I comeback and the same kind of interactions we're used to from OT11. It feels like a deep ache as if I've experienced a personal loss. I've never felt that way about any group I've been interested in previously. More like ugly cry like Eun Tak at the end of ep. 13. I would love for this to happen but I'm not holding my breath for this. I'm more aiming for more frequent than 5-year reunions. Maybe the agencies will see the $ value in having more frequent project cross-agency project collaborations with I.O.I members.

Same. KCon LA wasn't enough. Maybe we could round up some more KCon LA/OH people to Seoul in January to give our girls a proper send-off.

So who's going to Seoul the week of the final concerts? We should start a list.

Hana, deul, set... Business!!!

It's funny how shortly after T-ara gave their interview about how bad they felt not being able to publicly associate with DIA because of the hate that DIA would get that we're now seeing more interaction between the two of them. I'd like to think that DIA members let T-ara members know that it's okay and as a public sign of support they do the Roly Poly clip! We're also seeing more backstage photos of the two groups interacting.

Poor Dani... first she's stuck in the MBK dungeon... then she's harassed by a hacker and loses her Instagram account twice. I think she had a couple hundred thousand followers I think on her original account. Someone with the skills ought to track down the hacker and give him or her a taste of their own medicine.

I'm looking forward to reading it! I'm going through I.O.I withdrawal and re-watching Produce 101 episodes to cope.