Seoul Mapo Hangang View Floating Cafe, Mulbyul Hangang
by oyesum
Feb 21, 2023
#OutdoorDate #PeakFestival
🎶 That summer, we were on fire at the Peak Rock Festival
Sound, light, people, and aftertaste
The sun was hot, the wind was sticky,
but we were in a place that was even hotter.
Peak Rock Festival.
If you love music,
and have a piece of passion,
you absolutely can't miss this place.
It was my first time, but I jumped, shook, and shouted all day long,
as if I were coming every year.
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🔊 Music exploded on stage,
and life exploded off stage
When I arrived late in the afternoon,
the atmosphere was already as heated as it could be.
From the opening stage of small bands,
they made it impossible to take their eyes off each other,
and the audience screamed and sang along to songs they had never heard before.
When the headliner band appeared,
it was literally thrilling. Everyone jumped at the same time for a verse,
and when the chant started, it was so intense that it was hard to tell if this was Korea or England.
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🍻 Food truck, beer, people on the grass
Peak Rock wasn't just a place to listen to music.
People sitting on the grass like a park
holding a can of beer and enjoying the sunshine and noise.
The food truck line was long,
but even waiting felt like part of the festival.
Cheese-covered hot dogs, garlic shrimp,
and really cool craft beer.
These pauses between the music
became another memory.
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🌇 When the sun went down, everything was complete
A stage bathed in golden light
and people filling up the space in front of it.
Unfamiliar faces connected to a single rhythm,
bumping shoulders and laughing,
and everyone swaying intoxicated by the same music.
That scene will probably be more vivid in my memory than in the photo.
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📝 Peak Rock was more than just music
A festival that connects us with sound, emotion, and sincerity.
A time when we can just run, laugh, and cry for no reason.
This was my first year,
but I want to bring all my friends next year
and share this hot day again.
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