My ATINY friend, Ru, and I reminisce about our trip to Coachella to see the first kpop boy group to play there, ATEEZ! We discuss our planning, our adventures in surviving people who don't know how to mosh, ATEEZ's career and their set on Weekend 1.

We then go off on a tangent about ATEEZ's Towards the Light: Will to Power tour stop in NYC at Citi Field and our thoughts on Seonghwa's emotional ment.

Then we get back on track about Coachella and contemplate whether we would ever go back again.

TIMESTAMPS:

-00:00:00-00:18:35 Intro, Basic info about Coachella, Background on ATEEZ

-00:18:36-00:53:00-Coachella festival and planning

-00:53:01-00:58:39 -Day 1 of Coachella

-00:58:40-01:16:54- Content warning: Near crowd crush experience

-01:17:00-01:19:18 - Coachella weather

-01:19:19-01:36:46 - ATEEZ's set on weekend 1

-01:36:47-01:47:13 - Towards the Light in New York Citi Field and reaction to Seonghwa's ment

-01:47:14-01:51:18 - After ATEEZ's set

-01:51:19-01:54:18- Is ATEEZ behind us right now?

-01:54:19-01:59:33 - Coachella Day 2 and Day 3 impressions (FLO, Taking Back Sunday, Tiger JK, Yoon Mirae, Bibi, Jackson Wang, Atarashi Gakko, Yoasobi, Number i, the Rose, and more)

-01:59:34-end - Conclusion and would we go to Coachella again

LINKS:

• ATEEZ in COACHELLA #1 | "Say My Name" https://youtu.be/QneendaO8U8?si=Iuo8efLFcCLWgyZB
• ATEEZ in COACHELLA #2 | "ARRIBA" https://youtu.be/tiFZsr6-pyw?si=Tvq4pgPJoIS3mGVq

We look at the latest news surrounding Korean inter-country adoption, including the preliminary findings from Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission is investigating whether certain Korean inter-country adoptions were handled appropriately in response to questions filed by Korean adoptees.

LINKS:

• South Korea's Adoption Reckoning (full documentary) | FRONTLINE + ‪AssociatedPress‬ [YouTube]

• South Korea was the world’s biggest ‘baby exporter.’ New evidence shows some mothers were forced to give up children [CNN]

• South Korea reveals new evidence of ‘violent and systemic’ forced adoption abroad [Guardian]

• South Korean truth commission says it found more evidence of forced adoptions in the 1980s [AP]

• Adoptees from Korea left ‘stateless’, and searching for their roots [Hankyoreh]

• Almost 10% of Korean adoptees may be stateless [The Korea Herald]

• South Korean adoption fraud rocks Denmark as victims demand answers [Daily Sabah]

• “We have a right to know our history”: Fraudulent records keep Korean adoptees from the truth [Hankyoreh]

• All records must be unsealed for Korean adoptees who want it, argue experts [Hankyoreh]

• Korean truth commission to investigate hundreds of possibly fraudulent overseas adoptions [Hankyoreh]

• Adoption agency found liable for human rights abuses for first time in S. Korea [Hankyoreh]

• Adam Crapser’s Bizarre Deportation Odyssey [The New York Times Magazine]

• Adam Crapser vs. Republic of Korea [The Korea Times]

• South Korea grants extension to truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases [AP]