A midsummer night's party at 청담 ACTUALLY

Followed by the DMC party held in a recently opened Korean branch of Hard Rock Cafe, Itaewon, I went to a wine party at Cheongdam in a bar-esque cafe named Actually on the behalf of FeetManSeoul. The party held by Dana, an ex-president of a prestigious Korean model agency, Model Line, I was quite nervous about attending it because I am very new to this social party scene of Seoul. Especially the news that this party will be open to only the selectively invited upper-class folks made my heart so relentlessly thump on my way to the party by taxi with FMS that we tried to relax by reminding each other of positive-self imagery. 



But things didn't go very tough once I got to the party. Thanks to the image-prompting therapy in the taxi, I could feel confident and comfortable talking to the people who didn't necessarily look like coming from the other ritzy world. At the party, there were more of non-fashion-affiliated people than I expected, but still they all seemed ready to network with other people in natural, polished manners. I remember several impressive men and women who worked in diverse fields - a guy working at a Korean branch head office of Hershey Chocolate, an old man owning his own film production line, a fabulous woman running her own wholesale clothes shop in dondaemun, a not much adorned, but alluring female shoe designer having her shop, Shoe Comma Bonnie, covered in a famous cable TV fashion reporting show, and also a white skinny guy dressed in a tight black formal suit working at a marketing company which coordinated this party. The party host, Dana, was also a very fascinating woman completely equipped with confidence, beauty, articulated, lovely manners.

I was in the middle of a 10-day-long camp a.k.a. BroSis Project, which aims to raise awareness of international and domestic college students from Seoul and sister cities of Seoul about the "sustainable development" of metropolitan cities. Having a short break out of the intense imprisoned feel of the camp and doing away with all the commitment as a staff, I felt hanging out on top of the world, intoxicated of a few glasses of wine.