#rkcomcenter

With a farewell to the long season of Winter comes a welcoming embrace to Spring, a time always filled with joy and light. There’s still a lot you can do to bring joy and light to your life and some people are willing to help with that.

On March 20th, the staff of the Jung Community&Cultural Center announced their plans for a special Spring event open to the public! The center is located in the Jung District, one known for bringing together both old and new with huge buildings and malls but also a variety of historic sites. With this in mind, the staff members always plan the best and most entertaining ways to get people to have fun while learning. For you to get into this event, all that’ll be required of you are high spirits and an attentive mind!

The headquarters has only two floors with a few rooms each, but they were all prepared to welcome every interested person during the weekend between April 5th and 7th. Each room will host a specific activity that a limited number of people may participate in — but do not fret! All activities are set to only take an hour, meaning everyone will have the opportunity to take part in everything! The doors will open each day at 9am and the last activity will go until 9pm. The small cafeteria serves healthy and delicious food at a reasonable price, but visitors are allowed to bring their own lunch or go eat somewhere else. Leaving in the middle of the day does not stop you from returning at another time.

Below you’ll be able to find a list of the activities available at the Jung Community&Cultural Center Spring event.

PAINTING CLASS A small canvas will be given along with a variety of pictures with native birds you can choose from to paint.

HANJI CRAFTING An explanation to hanji can be found here. The objects available for crafting are the ones seen in this image. All materials will already be cut and ready to be used, so all visitors will have to do is glue the parts together and decorate the piece however they’d like.

DANCE CLASS Dance instructors will teach the main points of the choreographies to “Holiday” by ChiChi and “Remember” by She’z. These will intercalate between the activities time slots, so if in one hour they’re teaching ‘Holiday’ the next class will be for ‘Remember’.

KOREAN CALLIGRAPHY Unlike writing as you normally would, visitors will use cursive script to write their names (or anything else they prefer) using ink and a brush, as seen here. The instructor will also be offering to write it for free to take home.

FOLKTALES STORYTIME These will not be restricted to the one-hour slots, and anyone who’s interested may join the reading of korean folktales in the reading room. These will be focused for children, but all are welcome to join.

COOKING CLASS You must sign up for this class if you’re interested. Each participant will learn how to make kimbap. A variety of fillings will be available to use, and once you’re done you may leave. As people leave, the ones on the waiting list will be called for their turn. This will not take an hour, meaning participants may not be in the same step of the process at the same time.

Apart from the activities, there’ll also be a stand where the staff will be selling keychains made in jagae style (an explanation to jagae can be found here). The center will also be accepting donations in the form of money to help with the upkeep of the center or clothes/food/toys to be donated to charity. No donation is needed to take part in the event, but is always well appreciated!

            ━━━━━━━━━━━         @rkxsnn ◞  ❤

while it wasn’t uncommon for them to get free-time ( they usually were allotted the normal get out of work early on the weekends ) ; jiwon thought she was making some ground-breaking character development when she had brought up the suggestion of going to the local jung community & cultural center for their spring event of the year. not that she didn’t like hanging out with her coworkers ( she hung out with jaehyun and hyunjin on the daily, but they didn’t count -- she knew they before the fame, not that she was anywhere near probable notoriety ), it was more the fact that she wasn’t hanging out with them that was more shocking to her than it should be.

even more shocking was when the said-coworker had accepted her suggestion and they had made a run, literally, for the center the moment they clocked out. it was also known ( at least to jiwon, herself) that making new friends had never been easy for her but slowly and surely, she was ( successfully ) taking the first few steps to that change. in hindsight, she thought she was starting out fine. internally, it was still scary getting out of her comfort zone with someone who didn’t really know her outside of their work environment.

( not that her work persona was really all that much different than her personal ... persona )

starter for @rktaeyang

There was something calming about painting after a hectic day of training. When it was suggested by a fellow trainee that they attend a spring event, Naeun had been all aboard. Even though she had yet find out what they were to do there, but having seen the way her other friends and fellow trainees were, she knew that it is healthy to keep a life outside their busy schedule. To keep themselves sane, as one of her trainers actually said. 

It was not as though she regretted taking the painting class. In fact, it gave her a new sense of peace and the whole experience was definitely different from her more active form of art. But by the end of it, she didn’t realize that they had skipped dinner before going to the event and unsurprisingly her grumbling stomach had thought to demand food in the middle of class. 

Looking around sheepishly she hopes no one notices the roars of her belly. Trying to save face, with a blank expression she turns to the boy next to her, glancing to see if he heard the noise. Whether or not he did she couldn’t tell, except she does end up offering a polite smile. 

@rklily​

Originally he didn’t want to go out today, he’d much rather stay at home. His mother had nagged on him and she continued to tell him that he should take the dance class, sure Dongyoon is a little bit interested in dance but things like soccer entertain him much more. He hadn’t planned on going out but then he remembered his schedule for the day, it was going to the gym, cooking, walking his dogs, practice playing the keyboard and much more boring stuff that he did almost every day, if he got the chance to not do his usual schedule then he should at least take it, because doing the same everyday is boring. And so he had come out the second it started and he was planning on being here until it ended, he was willing to take every class (even multiple times).

Hanji was perhaps one of the most boring classes he could take but he had in mind to take every class and so he had gone to take that class as well. It was peaceful in the class, it definitely was but it was super super boring and Dongyoon would take any chance he could get to talk to someone so he wouldn’t be so bored anymore. He was probably half-asleep, and he didn’t even notice that someone reached for the same brush as him before they touched hands, and the second his hand touched some else’s he looked to the side to find out who. It was a girl he didn’t know, she looked much younger than him but she also looked much nicer than the other people here and so she had become his target, he was going to befriend her.

@rkhyojeong

@rksunwoo rkcomcenter starter 

“you know.” yugyeom starts once the volunteers leaves them all to just get to work on their crafts, he dancer leaning back in his seat to look over at his friend with an amused look on his face. that expression always spells trouble for whoever is on the other end. yugyeom always taking great joy in poking fun out of people--especially his friends. and soft sunwoo is not exempt from that. sure, he tends to watch himself a bit more when it comes to people like sunwoo and dongmin just because they are softer and he doesn’t want to actually hurt them. but that doesn’t stop him from well.. being himself. “i contemplated dragging you with me to a dance class.” his words come out in a drawl, eyes never once leaving sunwoo so he could take in his reaction. “they seemed pretty easy but i thought it could be fun~.” he drags out the word fun making it sound almost more sing-song. before finishing. “~but since you’re mister famous trainee, i thought a mundane task of gluing paper would be much more entertaining.” 

@rkdowoon

Eunbin had never really tried painting before. Sure she'd had to do it in school and all that, but aside from that, she had about zero knowledge. But with spring came the desire to try new things and the Community/Cultural Centre's spring event seemed like just the opportunity for this.

She hadn't planned to join the class when she first saw it, but as the friend she wanted to meet cancelled because she'd fallen sick, the girl figured why not. With a bit of a bland expression, she entered the room and scanned it for empty seats. It was quite crowded already, so Eunbin walked up to the closest empty spot she could find.

An rkcomcenter starter for @aronrk!

This kind of event was right up Dowoon’s alley. While his crafting ability mightn’t be as good as his drumming, it as still a thing he enjoyed a lot and most of the time, what he made looked like the image of the final product he’d had in his head.

He’d decided to do the Hanji crafting class, hoping to have something cute to give his mother later on. Sure, it was a pretty insignificant gift to give her after all she’d done for him and taking the fact she was about to give birth into consideration too. But she’d always kept his silly drawings and clumsily made papercrafts from elementary school. If anything, Dowoon knew it would make her smile.

Sitting at the table in one of the Jung Community Center’s rooms given over for the event, Dowoon’s tongue poked out slightly in concentration as he gingerly glued two pieces of the precut jewellery box template together, huffing a little as they didn’t match up exactly. Though he was still do a lot better than the man sitting beside him, who was now flopped out on the table in exasperation. Setting his pieces back onto the tabletop gently, Dowoon tilted his head before giving the other man a tap on the shoulder.