Actually, the Glorietta Malls open at 10 a.m. on Saturdays , and it is only 10:30 a.m. — not so late, really, but why are there throngs wanting to get in? Up the escalator to the 2floor of Glorietta 4, we are shocked to see the snaking lines of maybe close to a thousand people hugging the security railings, backing up to Glorietta 3.
In a phone interview the day after, the K-pop store manager claimed they had 3,000 customers on the day of the sale, while since their soft opening a month earlier, they have had an average of 1,000 customers a day spending an average of P1,000 per head on the all-K-pop items that the store carries. At the Glorietta Mall, the queue moved so slowly because the K-pop store allowed only 10 customers in the small store due to the COVID requirement of social distancing. A special uniformed security guard at the small entrance strictly monitored this. And yet the waiting crowd was very patient, disciplined, and quiet. How old are you, we asked the young man with the K-pop bangs? Twenty-five, John said. A dozen places ahead of him, a young woman named Marsha said she was 27.
Blackpink is the highest-charting female Korean act on the Billboard Hot 100, the first female Korean group on’ 30 Under 30 Asia ; the first Korean girl group to win an MTV Music Video Award , and lauded by former South Korean President Moon Jae-in as a global K-pop phenomenon helping spread K-pop content worldwide . The four Blackpink members are Jisoo, Jennie, and Rosé who are all 25 years old, and Lisa who is 29 years old today, but they all look like teens, just like the BTS boys.
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