Flying high: Changmin (left) and Yunho at their TVXQ! Live World Tour Catch Me In Kuala Lumpur concert.
The TVXQ! Live World Tour ‘Catch Me’ In Kuala Lumpur concert was a blast for the faithful.
It was a sight to behold last Saturday evening as 9,000 fans packed Stadium Malawati in Shah Alam, Selangor to support their favourite South Korean act TVXQ.
Colour of the night, you ask? A sea of pearl red (official fan colour)!
It has been six years since TVXQ last played here and the TVXQ! Live World Tour “Catch Me” In Kuala Lumpur, organised by JPM Music, was a hyped up event. True to their word, the boys rocked the stadium for three hours with their hottest hits.
Heart-thumping tunes like Rising Sun and ‘O’ Jung Ban Hap brought a wave of nostalgia and memories of the time when TVXQ was still a five-piece boyband and played its first two concerts here: Rising Sun 1st Asia Tour at Bukit Jalil Putra Indoor Stadium, Kuala Lumpur in 2006 and 2nd Asia Tour Concert ‘O’ at Stadium Merdeka, KL in 2007. The group’s first show even had Super Junior as guest performers. Imagine some 20 boys dancing on stage; that was quite an unforgettable sight!
Then in 2009, TVXQ lost three of its members (Kim Jaejoong, 27, Park Yoochun, 26, Kim Junsu, 26), who broke away to form the trio JYJ. After a brief hiatus, TVXQ made its comeback as a duo comprising Jung Yunho, 27, and Shim Changmin, 25.
But the stage at Stadium Malawati did not seem stark by comparison, because TVXQ wasted no time in winning its audience over with one hit after another.
The dashing pair made a stellar entrance on trapeze wires and never looked back, as Changmin took the opportunity to showcase his higher register, and Yunho proved himself quite the dance machine. The two could sing and dance up a sweat, then disappear off-stage for a costume change and reappear as fresh as ever with impeccably-coiffed hair.
The multi-purpose stage, which cost the organiser more than RM1.5mil to build, brought TVXQ closer to fans. The duo came from all directions and were the life of the party as they were suspended by wires and hooks, elevated by cranes and poles, and transported about in toy planes and Segways. Fans gleefully lapped it all up as the boys zipped around them and flew overhead in all sorts of contraptions.
Apart from a cool sequence where they got to show off some swordplay skills, there were also cute moments where the South Korean lads bounced about on stage while playfully swatting gigantic insects like bumblebees, ladybirds, grasshoppers and the like.
The show went rather smoothly, barring a few hiccups, like when Yunho cut his left hand on a wire, or when he had to jump some 1.2m onto the stage as his plane got stuck and wouldn’t land as smoothly as Changmin’s did.
But Yunho quickly endeared himself to local fans by declaring his affection with “Aku cinta padamu (“I love you” in Malay),” Changmin followed up with apologies, “We feel very sorry to have kept you waiting for six years.”
And, the fans, in turn, replied by chanting the group’s Korean name “Dong Bang Shin Ki” (which means Rising Gods From The East in Korean) and holding up hand banners by MTFS (Malaysia TVXQ Fans Support) bearing the message “Urineun hangsang yeogie isseoyo” (“we’re always here”).
Returning for an encore, TVXQ whipped fans into a frenzy with more favourites like Mirotic and Hiyaya Summer Days. Then the boys, who had already played in South Korea, Hong Kong and China, were quickly whisked off the same night for their next destination – Japan.
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