First Chinese Idol Girl Group to Enter American Top 40 Radio Chart
Breakout girl group, A2O MAY, has made history as the first Chinese idol girl group to chart in the U.S. Top 40 Radio with their debut single, “Under My Skin.” The record marks a groundbreaking milestone for the group and for Chinese representation in global pop, signaling a powerful shift in the international music landscape. Now, with this new momentum, the group is ready to level up with the release of their bold new single, “BOSS,” out today, which promises to amplify their fearless energy and global appeal.
The bass-heavy, hip-hop, electronic dance-inspired anthem channels unapologetic confidence with next-generation, girl-boss energy. With deeper vocals, punchy verses, powerful dance breaks, and a hook built to empower, the song showcases a different side of A2O MAY. It’s a fearless follow-up to their chart-topping debut, positioning the group as genre-shifting icons in the making.
In just a matter of weeks, “Under My Skin” climbed the Mediabase U.S. Radio Weekly Chart and now officially broke into the Top 40, an unprecedented feat for a rookie group. The group has already garnered a significant online presence for their exceptional dancing and vocal abilities, amassing 10.7 million views on China’s Weibo and 13 million views on YouTube. Their charting success reinforces their status as rising artists of international relevance and highlights the growing influence of Asian talent in Western mainstream media.
Formed under A2O Entertainment and guided by acclaimed producer Soo-man Lee, A2O MAY represents a new generation of performers fluent in both Chinese and English, united by their multicultural background and shared artistic vision. Members CHENYU (16), SHIJIE (17), QUCHANG (17), MICHE (19), and KAT (19) hail from Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Hawaii, bringing a unique global perspective to their music. Their debut as part of the A2O Channel introduced a new genre, Zalpha Popโa futuristic sound blending emotional storytelling with cutting-edge production, designed for the digitally native Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
This moment marks a significant breakthrough not only for A2O MAY but for the broader Chinese music industry, as the group becomes a symbol of what is possible when diverse voices are given a global stage. Their success on U.S. Top 40 Radio opens the door for other Asian acts, redefining boundaries and expanding opportunities for future generations of idol groups.
As they prepare for their first official U.S. performance at the 102.7 KIIS FM Wango Tango festival in California, A2O MAY stands at the forefront of the Zalpha Pop revolution. With millions of streams and radio play under their belt, they’re not just a girl group โ they’re a movement. And this is only the beginning.
Official Artist Introduction
More than a name, A2O MAY signals the beginning of a cultural shift. Inspired by the season of full bloom and sharing its sound with the Chinese characterย ็พย (Mei), meaning “beauty,” the name reflects not only outer elegance but inner strength โ the quiet power behind every transformation. More than artists, they are a bridge โ connecting culture to culture, generation to generation, heart to heart. Step into the world of A2O MAY. The future begins in full bloom.
ABOUT A20 MAY
A2O MAYย is the first official girl group launched under the A2O Channel by A2O Entertainment, making their debut onย December 20, 2024. The group is composed of five talented members โย CHENYU (16), SHIJIE (17), QUCHANG (17), MICHE (19),ย andย KAT (19)ย โ who were selected from A2O Rookies’ HTG division. Hailing fromย Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Hawaii, A2O MAY is a multicultural, bilingual group fluent inย Chinese and English, representing a new generation of global idols. Each member brings a unique artistic identity shaped by passions such as fashion styling, piano, visual art, songwriting, and performance. A2O MAY is the first group to embodyย Zalpha Pop, a genre and cultural movement created by renowned producerย Soo-man Lee, aimed at blending futuristic sounds with Gen Z emotional authenticity and storytelling. Their debut single,ย “Under My Skin,”ย captures this vision with a rhythmic, synth-driven sound and introspective tone, offering a powerful glimpse into the future of youth-driven global music. As pioneers of A2O’s artist ecosystem, A2O MAY continues to connect with fans worldwide through digital-first content, dynamic visuals, and an open, evolving narrative of growth, self-expression, and creativity.
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Since their debut, YOUNG POSSE has been making waves in the K-pop scene with their dynamic rap style and fresh energy. Fresh off their Texas tour and with the release of their emotional new track โColdโ, the group is proving their versatility. In this exclusive interview, they discuss their journey, musical influences, international tours, collaborations, and whatโs next for their growing global fanbase.
Who is YOUNG POSSE and how did you end up in the hip-hop and R&B genre?
[SUNHYE] We are a five-member group that loves hip-hop, music, and the stage.
We all love music and dancing so much that we started learning and enjoying various genres. When we got together, we realized that hip-hop was the genre with the most synergy, and I think we ventured into the genre because we enjoyed it so much.
[YEONJUNG] We are a bold and young group that loves to challenge and is not afraid of anything! We put our stories in our songs to show who we are! Since our trainee life, we have been challenging and learning various genres, and so we naturally started hip-hop and R&B.
[JIANA] YOUNG POSSE is a team of five young members, and since we’ve been practicing together, we naturally tried hip-hop and R&B, the music genres we’ve always loved.
[DOEUN] We are a Korean group that debuted in October 2023. I always liked hip-hop and R&B genres, and when I joined the company, I started listening and practicing more, so it was natural for me to start.
[JIEUN] YOUNG POSSE means young, a young group, and it also means anything is possible in Latin. I think I naturally started doing hip-hop and R&B after I joined the company!
You recently finished the Texas tour. How was the experience and what are some of the most memorable moments?
[SUNHYE] After our first tour, I longed for the emotions that one can only experience during a tour, and so I was very excited to do it. Every moment is unforgettable, but whenever our foreign fans shout out to us in Korean, it leaves behind a vivid memory.
[YEONJUNG] It was my first time in Texas, and I fell in love with the beautiful scenery and the laid-back atmosphere. And most of all, I was so happy to meet the Texas Teleposse. I love seeing fans wearing similar clothes to what we wear during tours, and itโs something I will always remember.
[JIANA] It was such a precious experience. We had so much fun on stage and enjoyed moments in Texas. The most memorable moment was when we got to tour with Zior Park and seeing him on stage was exciting and made me feel like my stress was gone.
[DOEUN] I still find the fact that we did a tour very exciting, so every moment is memorable. It was amazing to see so many people come to our concerts, and it made me feel so happy to see so many people singing along to our songs and enjoying our performances.
[JIEUN] We received so much energy from our fans during this tour. All of our concerts were memorable, but I especially remember our third concert the most. It was in Austin, and I think I felt like I was able to share more with the fans.
Having debuted not long ago, how does it feel to already be touring internationally?
[SUNHYE] I never imagined it. I only dreamed about it, and I still can’t believe it could happen this early. I’m so grateful that you(fans) came to see us perform, and I think that makes us work harder.
[YEONJUNG] I’m so happy that this opportunity came so soon, and I’m glad that we were able to showcase our performances to so many people! We’re still not as good, but we want to gain experience and develop ourselves so that we can show more people our amazing side!
[JIANA] I’m so honored that you(fans) showered us with so much love, and weโre always grateful. We want to repay you with more, just as much as you have loved us.
[DOEUN] When we first went on an overseas tour, I thought, โCan we go on a tour this soon?โ. But we had so many experiences while on tour, and it really inspired us to work harder.
[JIEUN] I’m so grateful that our overseas fans showered us with so much love, and I’m glad that touring gave us more opportunities to grow!
Your latest track, “COLD” showcases YOUNG POSSE’s softer, more emotional side. What was the inspiration behind this track?
[SUNHYE] I think it’s a story about love that has turned cold. I’m not sure exactly what type of love it was written about, but I sang it while thinking about my family or my dog to empathize with it.
[YEONJUNG] We try to challenge ourselves with something new every day, and experiencing this cold winter inspired us to try a new vibe with โCOLDโ.
[JIANA] When we first received this song, we were excited because it was a new song vibe that we hadn’t shown before, and we thought it would show a different side of YOUNG POSSE.
[DOEUN] The title song “COLD” is a calm song, unlike our other songs. It was an honor working with 10CM.
[JIEUN] I think this album shows a new side of YOUNG POSSE and the meaning that we will challenge ourselves with many different things in the future!
Most K-pop groups have one or two rappers. Given that all YOUNG POSSE members rap, how do you maintain harmony while still showcasing each memberโs unique rap identity?
[SUNHYE] I think our strength is that we have different voices and personalities. But in order to make it stand out more, we practiced a lot of songs by artists with strong characters and made our spectrums more distinct. Also, when singing as a group, we delegate high and low tones to avoid overshadowing each other.
[YEONJUNG] I think it’s important to get to know and understand each other better and fill in the gaps!
[JIANA] When rap-making or having conversations, we tend to emphasize and talk about each memberโs rap styles and identity, which I think makes it easier to capture each person’s feelings.
[DOEUN] We all have different rap styles, but it’s really interesting how our raps work together in a song. We tend to practice in sync so that we can be harmonious while keeping our individuality alive.
[JIEUN] When working on a song, we usually study each other’s tones and feelings a lot so that we can bring out our different charms!
Youโve collaborated with several artists, including 10CM. How are these experiences compared to working alone?
[SUNHYE] It’s such an honor to be able to work with seniors that I’ve always looked up to, and I think it motivates me even more. I feel more responsible, and I find myself listening to the songs more once they are released.
[YEONJUNG] It was such an honor to be able to work with seniors whom I have admired for the longest. I think it was an experience that I could learn a lot from, because I think the combination of voices other than our members made the song feel different and richer.
[JIANA] It was a very valuable experience because I think we were able to show the vibe and emotions that we couldn’t show by just our voices, all thanks to 10CMโs voice.
[DOEUN] When we collaborate with artists, unlike when it’s just our voices, the newly added voices give YOUNG POSSEโs song a new vibe, and it feels fresh. Weโve always collaborated with great artists, so we get a lot of inspiration whenever we work together.
[JIEUN] When doing collaborations, we put effort into learning a lot about the artist’s strengths.
Youโve done some traveling so far. Who is the best and worst at packing for trips? Who brings everything, and who forgets crucial things?
[SUNHYE] I think I’m the worst at packing because I get anxious and end up packing too much, and it takes me a long time. But I don’t forget things! Yeonjung and Doeun sometimes forget their universal SIM cards when they go abroad. Haha!
[YEONJUNG] I think all of our members are good at packing. Personally, I take notes of things I need to pack and stay up packing the night before!
[JIANA] I’m a very good packer. I used to stress a lot about what to pack, but these days I just grab what I need quickly.
[DOEUN] I think I’m the best packer because I’m good at packing only what I need and not what I don’t need. I think the member who packs the most is Sunhye because her suitcase is the biggest and heaviest.
[JIEUN] I think it’s both of them. I’m very meticulous about packing everything, but I also lose things easily.
Your 2nd ‘XXL’ EP paid homage to Seo Taiji and Boys’ ‘Come Back Home’. What inspired you to incorporate this tribute, and how did you approach blending classic influences with your modern style?
[SUNHYE] We value the fundamentals very much, and we wanted to show that side of ourselves as a hip-hop group. It’s nice to be able to love, respect, and learn from them, and also give a shout-out.
[YEONJUNG] During our trainee period, our CEO often showed us videos of Seo Taiji and Boys. After our debut, we decided to pay homage to their โCOME BACK HOMEโ track. ย We looked up a lot of videos from that era and did a lot of research to showcase our youthful energy without compromising Seo Taiji and Boys’ (our seniors) style.
[JIANA] Since our trainee era, we’ve always watched, listened to, and admired our seniors’ performances. We combined Young Poss hip-hop with their โCOME BACK HOMEโ sound and paid homage to their dances.
[DOEUN] Seo Taiji and Boys band has been our favorite since we were trainees, so it was an honor to pay homage with โXXLโ. We’re grateful that โXXLโ has received a lot of praise for combining Seo Taiji and Boysโ song with modern styles.
[JIEUN] We’ve watched a lot of Seo Taiji and Boys videos since we were trainees. It was an honor to promote Seo Taiji and Boys with an homage concept in our previous โXXLโ and we thought we should do better.
You also contribute to songwriting. How has this process evolved since your debut and how does it work?
[SUNHYE] We’re still not that good at it, but it’s helpful when we share ideas and write lyrics together. I think the verse length that one can write alone increases as they listen to a lot of songs and gain experience.
[YEONJUNG] When we write a song, sometimes we decide on a topic among ourselves, and sometimes a member decides first. However, we’ve been doing it little by little since we were trainees, so now we’re trying to come up with better songs. The CEO and our teacher also help us a lot. Thank you!
[JIANA] We write lyrics based on our daily life experiences, and throw around topics that come to mind amongst ourselves to decide on a theme. We also write our own lyrics and put them together.
[DOEUN] I’ve had a lot of lyric-writing opportunities since I was a trainee, and after having tried many times, I’ve gotten better at it. These days, I’m practicing and working hard so that my lyrics can be adopted more often.
[JIEUN] I’m still not good enough, but the more I do it, the more fun I have and the more ambitious I get.
If YOUNG POSSE had to rap a verse while eating the spiciest food ever, who would win?
[SUNHYE] I think Jiana and Jieun will do the best, and I think I’ll do the worst. I can’t eat a lot of spicy food.
[YEONJUNG] I think it’s Sunhye!! Iโm the worst at eating spicy food. So I want her to eat quickly and show her storm rap skills.
[JIANA] I think Sunhye can’t eat spicy food, so I think she’ll rap faster than her usual fast rap.
[DOEUN] I think Sunhye will be the first to start, because she’s really good at making limes.
[JIEUN] I’ll pick Sunhye because even though she doesn’t eat spicy food, she’s good at rapping!
What can fans look forward to next from YOUNG POSSE?
[SUNHYE] We’ve been doing a lot of overseas concerts. I’m thankful that we get such good memories and energy every time we go, and we want to see you in more diverse places. This Hong Kong fan concert is close to my birthday, so I think it’s a birthday gift and I’m looking forward to it.
[YEONJUNG] It’s our first time having a fan concert in Hong Kong! The fans are also looking forward to it, so we’re working even harder! I think we’ll be able to visit overseas fans often after the Hong Kong fan concert!
[JIANA] We’re having a fan concert on April 13th! I’m looking forward to it, and I’m nervous because it’s my first time meeting the fans in Hong Kong. And when I was young, I had a lot of fun memories in Hong Kong, so I’m very happy to go back!
[DOEUN] We’re having a fan concert in Hong Kong soon. I’m very nervous because it’s my first time meeting Teleposse from Hong Kong.
[JIEUN] We’re going to have a fan concert where we can meet our fans in Hong Kong soon, so I hope many of you come!
Do you have a message for your fans?
[SUNHYE] Thank you for always being with us, and you are the reason for YOUNG POSSEโs existence!! Let’s meet soon. I miss you. I love you.
[YEONJUNG] Thank you so much, and I love you so much. We’re always on Teleposseโs side, and we want to tell you that we love you so much!
[JIANA] I always love you, and thank you. Hope we stay together for the longest time. I love you. ๐
[DOEUN] Teleposse! See you more often!! I love you.
[JIEUN] Thank you so much always, and be careful not to catch a cold!! Thank you for always being supportive. I love you!!
YOUNG POSSE์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ
YOUNG POSSE๋ ๋ฐ๋ท ์ดํ ์ญ๋์ ์ธ ๋ฉ ์คํ์ผ๊ณผ ์ ์ ํ ์๋์ง๋ก ์ผ์ดํ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ํฐ ๋ฐํฅ์ ์ผ์ผํค๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ ์ฌ์ค ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ง ๋ง์น๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ธ ์ ํธ๋ ‘Cold’๋ฅผ ๋ฐํํ๋ฉฐ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ฅํจ์ ์ ์ฆํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ ์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ฌ์ , ์์ ์ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ, ํด์ธ ํฌ์ด, ์ฝ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ์ด์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ ๋์ด๋๋ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ํฌ์ธต์ ์ํ ๋ค์ ๊ณํ์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํฉ๋๋ค.
YOUNG POSSE๋ ๋๊ตฌ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํํฉ๊ณผ RnB ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋์๋์?
[SUNHYE] ์ ํฌ ์ํ์จ๋ ํํฉ๊ณผ ์์ , ๋ฌด๋๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ย 5์ธ์กฐ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ๋๋ค.
๋ค๋ค ์์ ๊ณผ ์ถค์ ๋๋ฌด ์ข์ํด์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ค๊ฐ 5๋ช ์ด ๋ชจ์์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ์ฅ๋ฅด๊ฐ ํํฉ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฑธ ๊นจ๋ฌ์๊ณ ๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ์ ํฌ๋ ๋์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ข์ํ๊ณ ๋๋ ค์ํ์ง ์๋ ๋น๋ํ๊ณ YOUNGํ ์ง๋จ์ด์์! ๊ณก ์์ ์ ํฌ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด์๋ด์ด ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๋๊ตฌ์ธ์ง ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค! ์ฐ์ต์๋๋ถํฐ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๋์ ํ๊ณ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ค๋ณด๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ํํฉ๊ณผ RnB๋ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
[JIANA] ์ํ์จ๋ ์ ์ 5๋ช ์ ๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ค์ด ํจ๊ป ๋ญ์ณ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง ํ์ด๊ณ , ๊ฐ์ด ์ฐ์ตํ๋ฉฐ ์ง๋ด๋ค ๋ณด๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ํญ์ ์ข์ํ๋ ์์ ์ฅ๋ฅด์ธ ํํฉ๊ณผ ์์ค๋น๋ฅผ ์๋ํด์ค๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
[DOEUN] ์ ํฌ๋ 2023๋ 10์์ ๋ฐ๋ทํ ํ๊ตญ์ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ๋๋ค. ํ์์ ํํฉ๊ณผ ์์ค๋น ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ์ข์ํ๊ณ , ํ์ฌ์ ๋ค์ด์์ ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ฐ์ตํ๋ค ๋ณด๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
[JIEUN] ์ํ์จ๋ ์ ์, ์ด๋ฆฐ ์ง๋จ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ป์ผ๋ก ๋ผํด์ด๋ก๋ ๋ญ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ค๋ ๋ป๋ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ์ ๋ค์ด์์๋ถํฐ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ํํฉ๊ณผ ์์ค๋น๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์!
์ต๊ทผ ํ ์ฌ์ค ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ง์ณค์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ด๋ ๋์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์?
[SUNHYE] ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๊ณ ํฌ์ด์์๋ง ๋๋ ์ ์๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ด ๋ง์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ต์ฅํ ๋ค๋ ์ ํ ์ ์์์ด์. ๋ชจ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ํ์ง์ง ์์ง๋ง ์ธ๊ตญ ํฌ๋ถ๋ค๊ป์ ๊ฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ๋ง๋ก ์๋ฆฌ์ณ์ฃผ์ค ๋๋ง๋ค ๊ฐ๋ ฌํ ๊ธฐ์ต์ผ๋ก ๋จ์ต๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ํ ์ฌ์ค์ ๊ฐ๋ดค๋๋ฐ, ํ๊ฒฝ๋ ์์๊ณ ์ฌ์ ๋ก์ด ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ํ ์ฌ์ค ํ ๋ ํ์๋ค์ ๋ง๋ ์ ์์ด์ ๋๋ฌด ๋๋ฌด ํ๋ณตํ์ด์. ์ ๋ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ ๋๋ง๋ค ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ์ท๋ค์ ๋น์ทํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ณ ์์ฃผ์๋ ํฌ๋ถ๋ค์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋๋ฌด ์ข์์ ๊ณ์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ์ต๋๋ค!
[JIANA] ๋๋ฌด ์์คํ ๊ฒฝํ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌด๋๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ฌ๋ฐ์๊ณ ํ ์ฌ์ค ์์์์ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ง์ฌํ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด์ ์ง์ฌํ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ๋ฌด๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋์์ ๋ ๋ฌด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ์ ๋์ ์คํธ๋ ์ค๊ฐ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ์์
[DOEUN] ์ ๋ ์์ง ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๋ค๋ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ง์ด ์ ๊ธฐํ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ชจ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ฌ ์จ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ์ ๋ง ๋ง์์ ์ ๊ธฐํ๊ณ ๋ง์ ๋ถ๋ค์ด ์ ํฌ์ ๋ ธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ถ๋ฅด๊ณ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ฆ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์๋ ๊ทธ ๋ชจ์ต์ด ๋๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ ๋ฌด๋๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉด์๋ ํ๋ณตํ๋ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
[JIEUN] ์ด๋ฒ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ ์ค๋ฉด์ ํฌ ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ๊ณต์ฐ์ด ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ์์ง๋ง ํนํ ์ธ๋ฒ์งธ ๊ณต์ฐ๋๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋ง์ด ๋จ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์คํด์์ ํ๋ ๊ณต์ฐ์ธ๋ฐ ์ ๋ํ ํฌ๋ถ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ ํธํก์ ๋๋๋ฉฐ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ผ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
๋ฐ๋ทํ ์ง ์ผ๋ง๋์ง ์์๋๋ฐ ๋ฒ์จ ํด์ธ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ด๋ค๊ฐ์?
[SUNHYE] ์์๋ ๋ชปํ์ด์. ๊ฟ๋ง ๊พธ๋ ์ผ์ธ๋ฐ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ผ์ฐ ์ด๋ค์ง ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ์์ง ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ฌ ์์ฃผ์ จ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์ฌํด์ ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
[YEONJUNG] ์ ๋ง ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ด๋ฐ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ ๋๋ฌด ํ๋ณตํ๊ณ ์ ํฌ์ ๋ฌด๋๋ฅผ ๋ง์ ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ๋ณด์ฌ ๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ด์ ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค! ์์ง ๋๋ฌด ๋ถ์กฑํ์ง๋ง ๋ ๋ง์ด ๊ฒฝํํ๊ณ ๋ฐ์ ํด์ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ์ ํฌ์ ๋ฉ์ง ๋ชจ์ต ๋ณด์ฌ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค!
[JIANA] ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ด ์ฌ๋ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋๋ฌด๋๋ฌด ์๊ด์ด๊ณ ํญ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ํด ์ฃผ์๋ ๋งํผ ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ณด๋ตํด๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์.
[DOEUN] ์ฒ์ ํด์ธ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ ๋๋ ๋ฒ์จ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ ๋๋? ๋ผ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋ค์๋๋ฐ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉด์ ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๊ฒฝํํ๊ณ ์๊ทน๋ ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์์ ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
[JIEUN] ํด์ธ์ ๊ณ์ ํฌ๋ถ๋ค ๊ป์๋ ์ ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ์ฌ๋ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ณ , ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ฑ์ฅ ํ ์ ์๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์์ ธ์ ์ข์ต๋๋ค!
์ต๊ทผ ํธ๋์ธ โColdโ๋ YOUNG POSSE์ ๋ ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ธ ๋ฉด๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค. ์ด ํธ๋์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฌด์์ด์๋์?
[SUNHYE] ์ฐจ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋์์๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ ํํ ์ด๋ค ํํ์ ์ฌ๋์ผ๋ก ์ฐ์ฌ์ง ๊ณก์ธ์ง๋ ์ ์ ์์ง๋ง ์ ๋ ๊ณต๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๊ฐ์กฑ์ด๋ ๋ฐ๋ ค๊ฒฌ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฐ์ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ถ๋ ์ต๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ์ ํฌ๋ ๋งค์ผ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒ์ ๋์ ํ๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒ์ ์ถ์ด ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ๊ฒช์ผ๋ฉด์ COLD๋ผ๋ ์๋ก์ด ๋๋์ผ๋ก ๋์ ํด๋ณด๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
[JIANA] ์ฒ์ ์ด ๊ณก์ ๋ฐ์์ ๋ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ํ๋ฒ๋ ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ์ง ์์๋ ์๋ก์ด ๋๋์ ๊ณก์ด๋ผ ์ ํฌ ์ํ์จ์ ์๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค ์ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
[DOEUN] ์ด๋ฒ ํ์ดํ๊ณก Cold์์๋ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ ํฌ์ ๊ณก๋ค๊ณผ๋ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ฐจ๋ถํ ๋๋์ ๋ ธ๋์๋๋ฐ์. 10cm ์ ๋ฐฐ๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ์ ๋ง ์๊ด์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
[JIEUN] ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ์ ํตํด์ ์ ํฌ ์ํ์จ์ ์๋ก์ด ๋ชจ์ต๊ณผ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋ง์ด ๋์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ๋ด๊ฒผ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค!
๋๋ถ๋ถ ์ผ์ดํ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์๋ ๋ํผ๊ฐ ํ๋ ๋ช ์ฉ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทผ๋ฐ ๋ชจ๋ YOUNG POSSE๋ฉค๋ฒ๊ฐ ๋ํผ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ ๊ณ ์ ํ ๋ฉ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉด์ ํ๋ชจ๋๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๋ ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํด์?
[SUNHYE] ์ ํฌ์ ์ฅ์ ์ด ๊ฐ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๋ ๋๋ณด์ด๊ฒ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์ ๊ฐ์ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์๋ ์บ๋ฆญํฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐํ ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ถ๋ค์ ๊ณก๋ค์ ๋ง์ด ์ฐ์ตํด ๋ณด๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ ์๊น์ ๋ ๋๋ ทํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ๋จ์ฒด ๋ผ์ฐฝ์ ํ ๋ ํ์ดํค๊ณผ ๋ก์ฐํค ๋ด๋น์ด ์์ด์ ์ด๋ ํ ์ชฝ์ ์ ๋ฆฌ์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํฉ๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ์๋ก์ ๋ํด์ ๋ ์ ์๊ณ ์ดํดํ๋ฉด์ ๋ถ์กฑํ ์ ๋ค์ ์ฑ์ ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค!
[JIANA] ๋ฉ๋ฉ์ดํน์ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ค๊ฐ์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์์ ๋ง์ ๋ฉ์คํ์ผ๊ณผ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ๋ํด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํด๋ณด๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์์ ๋๋์ ์ก๋ ํธ์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
[DOEUN] ์ ํฌ ๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ค์ ๋ฉ ์คํ์ผ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ค๋ฅด์ง๋ง ์ ๋ง ์ ๊ธฐํ๊ฒ๋ ์ ํฌ์ ๋ฉ์ด ํ ๊ณก์ ์์์ ๋ ์กฐํฉ์ด ์ ์ด์ธ๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์๋ ํ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์ ์ง๋๋๋ก ๋ง์ถฐ๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ์ฐ์ตํ๋ ํธ์ ๋๋ค.
[JIEUN] ํ์์ ๊ณก ์์ ์ ํ ๋๋ ์๋ก์ ํค์ด๋ ๋๋์ ๋ง์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ ํ๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ๋๊ปด์ง ์ ์๋๋ก ํ๋ ํธ์ ๋๋ค!
10CM์ ํฌํจํ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ํฐ์คํธ์ ํ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ํผ์ ์์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๋น๊ตํ์ ๋ ์ด ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ด๋ป์ต๋๊น?
[SUNHYE] ๋ ์กด๊ฒฝํ๋ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํด๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ์๊ด์ด๊ณ , ๋๊ธฐ๋ถ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ฑ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋ ์๊ธฐ๊ณ ๊ณก์ด ๋์์ ๋๋ ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ์์ ๋ถํฐ ์กด๊ฒฝํ๋ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ ์ ์์ด์ ๋๋ฌด ์๊ด์ด์๊ณ ์ ํฌ ๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ค์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํฉ์ณ์ง๋ฉด์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๋์ ๋ผ ์ ์๊ณ ๊ณก์ด ๋ ํ๋ถํด ์ง๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๋ง์ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ ๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒฝํ์ด์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
[JIANA] ์ ํฌ๋ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ ํ์ ๋ ๋ผ ์ ์๋ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ก ์ธํด ๋ ํ์ฑํด์ง๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ธ ๋ฉด์ ๋ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค ์ ์์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์ง ๊ฒฝํ์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
[DOEUN] ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ถ๋ค๊ณผ ํ์ ํ ๋๋ ์ ํฌ์ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๋ง ์์ ๋์ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ์๋ก์ด ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํจ๊ป ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋๊น ์๋ก์ด ๋๋์ ์ํ์จ ๋ ธ๋๊ฐ ๋์ ์ ์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋๋๋๋ค.
ํญ์ ๋ฉ์ง ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ถ๋ค๊ณผ ํ์ ์ ํด์์ ํจ๊ป ์์ ์ ํ ๋๋ง๋ค ๋ง์ ์๊ทน์ ๋ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
[JIEUN] ๊ทธ ์ํฐ์คํธ ๋ถ์ ์ฅ์ ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์ฌํ์ ๋ช๊น์ง ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํ ์ง์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ์ธ๋ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ชป ์ธ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊ตฌ์ธ๊ฐ์? ๋๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ณ ๋๊ฐ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋์?
[SUNHYE] ์ ๋ ์ ๊ฐ ์ง์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ชป ์ธ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๋ถ์ํด์ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ ์ง์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ฒ ๋์ด์ ์ค๋ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ ์ ๋๊ณ ์ค์ง ์์์! ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ ๋์์ด๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ฌ์ ๋๊ณ ํด์ธ์ ๊ฐ ๋๋ ์์ด์.ใ ใ
[YEONJUNG] ์ ์๊ฐ์๋ ์ ํฌ ๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ค์ด ๋ค ์ง์ ์ ์ธ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ๋ฉ๋ชจ์ฅ์ ์ฑ๊ฒจ ๊ฐ์ผ ํ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋ฉ๋ชจ ํ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ๋ฐค์ ์๋ฉด์ ์ง์ ์ธ๋ ํธ์ ๋๋ค!
[JIANA] ์ ๋ ์ง์ ๊ต์ฅํ ์ ์ธ๋ ํธ์ด์์. ์์ ์ ์ ๋ง ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ๋ง์ด ํ๋ฉฐ ์์ง๋ง ์ด์ ๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํ์ํ ๊ฒ๋ง ์ ์ฑ๊ฒจ๊ฐ๋๋ค.
[DOEUN] ์ ๋ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ง์ ์ ์ผ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ํ์ง ์์ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ์ง ์๊ณ ํ์ํ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋ง ์ฑ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ง์ ๋ง์ด ๊ฐ์ ธ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ ์ ํ์ธ๋์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ ํ์ธ๋ ์บ๋ฆฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฌ๊ณ ๋ฌด๊ฒ๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
[JIEUN] ๋ ๋ค ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ ๊ผผ๊ผผํ๊ฒ ๋ค ์ ์ฑ๊ธฐ๋๋ฐ ๋ ์ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ ํด์ใ
๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ‘XXL’ EP๋ Seo Taji & Boys์ โCome Back Homeโ์ ๊ฒฝ์๋ฅผ ํํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ํ์ ์ ์ ํ๊ณ ํด๋์ ์ํฅ๊ณผ ํ๋ ์คํ์ผ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์กฐํ์์ผฐ๋์?
[SUNHYE] ์ ํฌ๋ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ๋ํด ์์ฃผ ์ค์ํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋๋ฐ์. ํํฉ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ผ๋ก์ ๊ทธ ๋ฉด๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์์ด์. ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒ๋ถํฐ ์ฌ๋ํ๊ณ ์กด๊ฒฝํ๊ณ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ฉด์ ์ค๋ผ์ํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ์ข์์ต๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ์ฐ์ต์๋๋ถํฐ ๋ํ๋๊ป์ ์ํ์ง์ ์์ด๋ค ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ์์์ ๋ง์ด ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์ จ์์ด์. ๋ฐ๋ท ํ์ COME BACK HOME์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ณก์ ์ค๋ง์ฃผ ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ทธ ์์ ์ ์์์ ๋ง์ด ์ฐพ์๋ณด์๊ณ , ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ์คํ์ผ์ ํด์น์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด์ ์ ํฌ์ YOUNGํ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ฉค๋ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ์ด ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ํ์ต๋๋ค.
[JIANA] ์ฐ์ต์ ๋๋ถํฐ ํญ์ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋๋ค์ ๋ฌด๋๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉฐ ์กด๊ฒฝํด์์ต๋๋ค.ย ์ ํฌ ์ํ์จ๋ง์ ํํฉ์ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ์ปด๋ฐฑํ ์ฌ์ด๋๋ฅผ ํฉ์น๊ณ ์ถค๊น์ง ์ค๋ง์ฃผํด ์์ฑ์ํค๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
[DOEUN] ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ฐ์ต์ ๋๋ถํฐ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ํ๋ ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ธ๋ฐ XXL๋ก ์ปด๋ฐฑํ์ ์ค๋ง์ฃผ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ์ ๋ง ์๊ด์ด์์ต๋๋ค. XXL๋ก ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ๊ณก๊ณผ ํ๋ ์คํ์ผ์ ์ ์กฐํฉ์ํจ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ํ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ ๋ง์์ ๋๋ค.
[JIEUN] ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ฐ์ต์ ๋๋ถํฐ ์ํ์ง์ ์์ด๋ค ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ์์๋ ๋ง์ด ์ฐพ์ ๋ดค์๋๋ฐ ์ ๋ฒ XXL ์จ๋ฒ์์ ์ํ์ง์ ์์ด๋ค ์ ๋ฐฐ๋์ ์ค๋ง์ฃผํ ์ปจ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด์ ์๊ด์ด์๊ณ ๋ ์ ํด์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค.
YOUNG POSSE๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ค์ด ์๊ณก์๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ท ์ดํ ์ด ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ ํด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๋ํ๋์?
[SUNHYE] ์์ง ์ํด์ง๋ง ๋ ์์ด๋์ด๋ฅผ ํจ๊ป ๋๋๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๋ฉด์ ๋์์ ๋ง์ด ๋ฐ์์๋๋ฐ, ๋ค๋ค ๋ ธ๋๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ฃ๊ณ ๊ฒฝํ๋ ์๊ธฐ๋ฉด์ ์ ์ ํผ์ ์จ๋ผ ์ ์๋ ๋ฒ์ค์ ๊ธธ์ด๊ฐ ๋์ด๋๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์.
[YEONJUNG] ๊ณก์ ์ธ ๋ ์ ํฌ๋ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ํ ๋๋ ์๊ณ ๋จผ์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ํด์ฃผ์ค ๋๋ ์๋๋ฐ ์ฐ์ต์ ๋๋ถํฐ ์กฐ๊ธ์ฉ ํด์ค๋ค ๋ณด๋๊น ์ง๊ธ์ ๋ ์ข์ ๊ณก์ด ๋์ฌ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ํ๋๊ณผ ์ ์๋๊ป์ ๋ง์ด ๋์์ฃผ์ญ๋๋ค. ํญ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค!
[JIANA] ์ผ์์์์ ๊ฒช์๋ ์ผ๋ค์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ณ ์ ํฌ๋ค๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋ ์ค๋ฅด๋ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ๋์ ธ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์ ํด๋ณด๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์จ์์ ํฉ์น๋ ํธ์ ๋๋ค.
[DOEUN] ์ฐ์ต์ ๋๋ถํฐ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์จ ๋ณผ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋ง์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฒ ์๋ํด ๋ณด๋ค ๋ณด๋ ์ ์ ๋ง์ด ์ฐ๊ฒ ๋์๊ณ , ์์ฆ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋ง์ด ์ฑํ๋ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ฐ์ตํ๋ฉฐ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
[JIEUN] ์์ง ๋ง์ด ๋ถ์กฑํ์ง๋ง ํ๋ฉด ํ ์๋ก ์ ์ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๊ณ ๋ ์์ฌ์ด ์๊น๋๋ค.
๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ค์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋งค์ด ์์์ ๋จน์ผ๋ฉด์ ํ ์์ ์ ๋ฉํด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ฉด ๋๊ฐ ์ด๊ธธ๊น์??
[SUNHYE] ์ง์๋์ ์ง์์ด๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ํด๋ผ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ชป ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ๋งค์ด ๊ฑธ ๋ง์ด ๋ชป ๋จน์ต๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ์ ํ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค!! ๋งค์ด ์์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ชป ๋จน์ด์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋จน๊ณ ์ ํ์ ํญํ ๋ฉ์ค๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์คฌ์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ด์.
[JIANA] ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ํ์ธ๋๊ฐ ๋งค์ด ๊ฑธ ์ ๋ชป ๋จน์ด์ ํ์์ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๋ฉ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ฉ์ ํด์ฃผ์ง ์์๊น ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
[DOEUN] ์ ํ์ธ๋๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ์์ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ์ธ๋๊ฐ ๋ผ์์ ์ ๋ง ์ ๋ง๋ค๊ฑฐ๋ ์.
[JIEUN] ์ ํ์ธ๋์! ์ ํ์ธ๋๊ฐ ๋งค์ด ์์์ ์ ๋จน์ง ์์ง๋ง ๋ฉ์ ์ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ ํ์ธ๋๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค!
ํฌ๋ค์ด ๊ธฐ๋ํ ๋งํ ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋ ์ด๋ฒคํธ๋ ์ฝ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ์ด์ ์ด ์๋์?
[SUNHYE] ์์ฆ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ํด์ธ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๋ง์ด ์๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์. ๊ฐ ๋๋ง๋ค ๋๋ฌด ์ข์ ์ถ์ต๊ณผ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์ค๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ณ ๋ ๋ค์ํ ๊ณณ์์ ์ฐพ์๋ต๊ณ ์ถ์ด์. ์ด๋ฒ ํ์ฝฉ ํฌ์ฝ์ํธ๋ ์ ์์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊น์์ ์์ผ์ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฒ์ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ํ์ฝฉ์์ ํฌ ์ฝ์ํธ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ด์!! ํฌ๋ถ๋ค๊ป์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ค์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ ์ ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค!! ์๋ง ํ์ฝฉ ํฌ์ฝ์ํธ ์ดํ์๋ ์์ฃผ ํด์ธ ํฌ๋ถ๋ค์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ ์ ์์ง ์์๊น ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค!!
[JIANA] ์ ํฌ๋ 4์ 13์ผ์ ํฌ์ฝ์ํธ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค !! ํ์ฝฉ ํฌ๋ถ๋ค์ ์ฒ์ ๋ง๋๋ฌ ๊ฐ๋๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๋๋๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ๋จ๋ฆฝ๋๋ค ใ ใ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฆด ๋ ํ์ฝฉ์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ์ถ์ต๋ค์ด ๋ง์๋ฐ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋์ด์ ๋๋ฌด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค!
[DOEUN] ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๊ณง ํ์ฝฉ์์ ํฌ ์ฝ์ํธ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ํ์ฝฉ์ ํ ๋ ํ์จ๋ค์ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฑด ์ฒ์์ด๋ผ ๋ง์ด ๊ธด์ฅ๋๋ค์.
[JIEUN] ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๊ณง ํ์ฝฉ์์ ํฌ๋ถ๋ค์ ๋ง๋ ์ ์๋ย ํฌ์ฝ์ํธ๋ฅผ ์งํ ํ๋๋ฐ ๋ง์ด ์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค!
ํฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ฉ์์ง๊ฐ ์๋์?
[SUNHYE] ๋ ํจ๊ปํด์ค์ ๊ณ ๋ง๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ด ์ํ์จ์ ์กด์ฌ์ ์ด์ ์ ๋๋ค!! ์ผ๋ฅธ ๋ง๋์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค ์ฌ๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
[YEONJUNG] ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ค์ฃผ์๊ณ ์์ํด์ฃผ์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ ๋ ํ์จ!! ๋๋ฌด๋๋ฌด ๊ณ ๋ง๊ณ ์ฌ๋ํด์. ์ธ์ ๋ ์ ํฌ๋ ํ ๋ ํ์จ ํธ์ด๊ณ ๋ ์ง์ง ๋๋ฌด ์ฌ๋ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋งํด์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์!
[JIANA] ํญ์ ๋๋ฌด ์ฌ๋ํ๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ง์์ ์ ํฌ ์ค๋์ค๋ ๋ณด์์ ์ฌ๋ํด์ ๐
[DOEUN] ํ ๋ ํ์จ! ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ์์ฃผ ๋ง๋์!! ์ฌ๋ํด์.
[JIEUN] ํญ์ ๋๋ฌด๋๋ฌด ๊ณ ๋ง๊ณ ์์ฆ์๋ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ์กฐ์ฌํด์!! ํญ์ ํ์ด ๋์ด ์ค์ ๊ณ ๋ง์์. ์ฌ๋ํด!!
โ-Karen Mwenda
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photo credit:
ยฉ Eiichiro Oda / Shueisha, Fuji Television, Toei Animation
Japanese four-piece band muque have landed their first ever anime theme song: ‘The 1’ will be the ending theme for the Egghead Arc of the legendary anime series ‘ONE PIECE’. Trackmaker takachi based the sound for this epic song on drum’n’bass. ‘The 1’ blends an emotional chord progression over a fast-paced beat, while the intricate arrangement used more audio tracks than any other muque song to date. Meanwhile, bassist Lenon and guitarist Kenichi add to the song’s dynamic feel, intertwining with vocalist Asakura’s expansive voice and melodies, resulting in a new sound that only muque could create.
This grand song features lyrics themed on the importance of facing one’s own strength. The song’s inspirational message reminds us it can be easier to find the power within us by channeling past life experiences and embracing the support of our friends.
About muque
Video๏ผhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhUWbErUqlg
Pre-add / Pre-save๏ผhttps://ffm.to/muque_the1
muque are a four-piece band based in Fukuoka, Japan, featuring members Asakura (guitar and vocals), Lenon (bass), takachi (programming and drums) and Kenichi (guitar). They formed in May 2022.
Their music is mainly produced by drummer takachi, who also creates and arranges the tracks, and Asakura, who handles the topline melodies and lyrics.
The group’s appeal comes from takachi’s modern-sounding tracks, influenced by global music from not only the US and UK but also Asian beats, and Asakura’s deep lyrics and melodies that exude a typically Japanese vibe. The music and Asakura’s emotional vocal delivery combine to create a unique world that is all their own.
The band’s name muque is a blend of the French word “musique” and the Japanese word “muku”, which means “purity”. The name reflects the band’s desire to make the music they want to make, regardless of what anyone else thinks.
Further information
WEBSITE:ย https://muque.jp/
FACEBOOK:ย https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553965737358
INSTAGRAM:ย https://www.instagram.com/muque.official
X (TWITTER):ย https://x.com/muque_official
YOUTUBE:ย https://www.youtube.com/@muque
TIKTOK:ย https://www.tiktok.com/@muque_official
#ONEPIECE #Muque #MuqueOnePieceSong #kcrush #newmusic #anime #animation #Japan #muku #purity #takachismodernsoundingtracks #globalmusic #Asianbeats #Asakura #1 #endingthemetoEggheadArc #EggheadArc #kcrushamerica #kcrushmagazine #EiichiroOda #Shueisha #FujiTelevision #ToeiAnimation
Spotify supports emerging artists around the world through its ‘RADAR program’
Spotify’s bespoke RADAR campaign for MEOVV will help the group break new groundโintroducing their music to listeners worldwide and celebrating their unique charms to deepen connections with fans.
Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, has announced that rookie K-Pop group MEOVV has been selected as the latest RADAR KOREA artist.
Launched in 2020, Spotify RADAR is a global music program created to support emerging artists in reaching new audiences worldwide and deepening connections with their fans. Over the years, RADAR has spotlighted over 900 rising talents across the globe, including now international sensations such as The Kid LAROI, Lauv, Tyla, and Lil Baby.
RADAR artists have thrived, tracking an average of a 40% increase in monthly listeners and a 30% growth in streams within six months following their respective entry into the program.
Now, as the newest RADAR Korea artist, Spotify will support MEOVV with a bespoke campaign intentionally built to broadcast the group and its music to a global audience. In addition to driving music discovery with Spotify’s best-in-class editorial support, listeners can also look forward to a series of content drops that will bring them up close and personal with MEOVV. Updates on their RADAR campaign will be posted on @SpotifyKR on Instagram.
MEOVV, formed under THEBLACKLABEL by renowned producer TEDDY, made their highly anticipated debut in September 2024 and quickly proved their star power. In less than a year, they amassed over 2 million monthly Spotify listeners, and their debut track MEOW even earned a spot on the South Korean Music Global Impact List, which recognizes tracks from South Korean artists with the biggest global impact on Spotify outside of South Korea.
“At Spotify, we are committed to championing Korean artists at every stage of their journey,” said Jungjoo Park, Spotify’s Head of Music, Korea. “With MEOVV’s dynamic debut, we see them as a group to watch and are thrilled to welcome them into RADAR’s esteemed lineup of rising artists. We look forward to sharing their music and unique charms with listeners worldwide and supporting them as they break new ground through RADAR.”
“Spotify’s belief in us through RADAR means a lot – especially since we’re still at the very beginning of our journey. We are excited to share our music with more listeners across the globe and hope that, through this opportunity, even more people will get to know MEOVV and what we represent as artists.” said MEOVV.
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K-pop girl group UNIS officially returned on April 15 with their second mini album SWICY, marking their first comeback of 2025. The eight members โ HYEONJU, NANA, GEHLEE, KOTOKO, YUNHA, ELISIA, YOONA, and SEOWON โ unveiled the five-track release through all major music platforms, kicking off a new promotional cycle that balances bright energy with bold flavor.
Following their debut single album CURIOUS, SWICY showcases the groupโs signature โsweet and spicyโ blend, both in concept and musical direction. The title is a coined word combining โsweetโ and โspicy,โ reflecting Gen Zโs growing affinity for vibrant contrasts. The album embraces this duality across all five tracks: โSWICY,โ โFrom a Seed Called โWhat Are You Doing?โ,โ โDDANG!,โ โGood Feeling,โ and โSpring Rain.โ
With its catchy melodies and dynamic production, the album positions UNIS as a rising presence in the fourth-generation K-pop landscape. Visually, the group leans into youthful energy with school-inspired styling, playful accessories, and choreography that amplifies their bubbly charm.
The lead track โSWICYโ is especially notable for its upbeat rhythm and lively concept, further elevated by the membersโ bright expressions and age-appropriate styling. The use of food motifs, vibrant props, and energetic visuals captures a lighthearted, fun-loving spirit while staying true to their Gen Z identity.
UNIS also shared more about the albumโs creative process and behind-the-scenes moments โ now featured on KCrushโs Featured Interview section.
—-Jiyoung Lee
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Following “SUPERWOMAN” and “You Don’t Know,” what message does your new comeback title track convey? Is there a connecting story between these three songs?
HYEONJU : โSWICYโ is a song where you can see UNISโs cute appearance, and it contains the message, “I will captivate you with my recipe!” I think you will be able to see the honest and candid emotions of a teenage girl.
What’s your favorite visual point in this new album and why?
HYEONJU : I think the school uniform is the most important point. It is the look that the EverAfters wanted to see the most, and I think it best suits UNISโs age and image, so I like that point the most.
NANA : I like the uniforms that we all wear because they are so pretty.
GEHLEE : Whenever we dress up in our food-themed concept for โSWICYโ, our makeup artists always give us freckles and I think it’s adorable
KOTOKO : I wore a chef’s hat that was too big this time, and I think it expresses the keyword ‘SWICY’ well.
YUNHA : Among our costumes, there are costumes that have a lot of food drawn on them. If you look closely, the accessories, such as forks and cakes, are very cute.
ELISIA : Rather than the visual point, the aura of youth that the members show in this album is the point! I hope you look forward to seeing the honest and candid teenage girls that UNIS expresses.
YOONA : With cute images and unique clothing styles, I think we can show off our UNISโs charms even better!
SEOWON : Our nails!! This time the nails are colorful
Time capsule question: Now that it’s been a year since your debut, what would you say to yourself from back then?
HYEONJU : Don’t be impatient and take it easy!
NANA : NANA, who celebrated her 1st anniversary, is doing well!
GEHLEE : Dreams really do come true. Give it youโre all in everything you do and continue to follow your heart’s intuition! I’m proud of you! You’re doing well
KOTOKO : Work hard Kotoko
YUNHA : It’s not as bad as you think! Don’t be nervous and just enjoy it~
ELISIA : you worked really hard to be where you are now, keep up the good work and donโt give up! Theres so much to look forward to in the future!
YOONA : All the stages may sound unfamiliar, but I hope you enjoy them and go up on stage happily.
SEOWON : SEOWON, you really shine, you have done good, you are doing good, and you will do good!
If you were to host a talk show titled “UNIS Practice Room Secrets,” what behind-the-scenes episode would you want to share?
ELISIA : Welcome to UNISโs Practice Room Secrets and here during the choreography of โSWICYโ, me and the members would have to face each other while doing some steps, and we just couldnโt take each other seriously that we just make faces at each other! So, we just end up laughing instead of taking it seriously in the middle of dance practice
SEOWON : While practicing, ELISIA unnie’s leg movement was funny so we all laughed while monitoring.
Are there any trending phrases or inside jokes among the members recently?
YUNHA : โso what? We must do itโ
KOTOKO : Hanbon-eo, which is a mixture of Japanese and Korean, is popular.
If UNIS could travel in a time machine and perform in any era, when and where would you like to perform?
NANA : I want to go to the future, about 1000 years from now, and perform in front of people from the future.
GEHLEE : I want to go to way back to the renaissance era and have us all perform in royal princess dresses at Time Square for everybody to see.
Could each of you introduce the highlights of this comeback in your native language for fans from your home country?
NANA :ไปๅใฎSWICYใฏไปใพใงใจใ้ใๆฐใใunisใฎ้ญ ๅใใ่ฆใใงใใใใใซ้ ๅผตใฃใใฎใง็่พใunisใๆใใฆใใใใๅฌใใใงใ
GEHLEE : Mabuhay EverAfter ! Sana handa na kayo matikman ang aming pinaka-flavorful na SWICY ! Bumabalik kami ulit ngayon na may ipinapakitang bagong concepts at super swicy songs na guaranteed magugustohan nyong lahat
SEOWON : ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ ๋์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ธ ๊ฑฐ์์. ์์๊ฒ ๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์~ ์ ๋์ค์๊ฒ ๋น ์ ธ๋ผ!!
Do you have any special ‘UNIS tips’ for fans to better enjoy this comeback?
YOONA : I think you can look forward to the spicy and sweet twist that is unique to UNIS!
GEHLEE :ย Bring your own utensiles
If you were to compare the relationship between UNIS and EverAfter (your fandom) to something, what would it be? (For example: sun and moon, key and lock, etc.)
KOTOKO : We are family
ELISIA : UNIS is the spring and EverAfter is the rain which makes us โSpring Rainโ
YUNHA : UNIS = EverAfter
After the promotions for this album, are there any special events or projects you’d like to do with your fans?
HYEONJU : I want to have time to talk with my fans while eating. Whenever I see them, I always have a lot to say, so I want to take the time to talk to them for a long time!
YOONA : In the SWICY lyrics, food gochujang cookie is mentioned, and I want to make it for EverAfter and share with them!
If there was a fantasy world called “UNIS Universe,” what character and special abilities would each member have?
HYEONJU : I think I will have the ability to see the future. I think I would be a character who sees the future first and then deals with that situation.
NANA : I want to have an ability to create dishes that can make people happy with just one bite!
GEHLEE : Personally, I’d love to wield the power of healing, but if we take UNIS Universe performances into consideration, I would probably have the power to cast illusions! I promise to bedazzle our stages with this ability
KOTOKO : Fun and bright character and the ability to make the world a happier place!
YUNHA : The ability to disappear transparently
ELISIA : I would have teleportation! And maybe super speed and time freezing. How cool is that!?
YOONA : SImilary to NANA, I wish I had the ability to make everyone happy by eating something sweet.
SEOWON : I think it’s the ability to fall in love! Or maybe a straight-forward character
—- Jiyoung Lee
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When it comes to Asian football legends, one name stands out โ Son Heung Min. The South Korean forward has taken the global stage by storm, breaking records and redefining what it means to be an elite footballer from Asia. From his humble beginnings in South Korea to becoming a Premier League icon, Sonโs journey is nothing short of inspirational.
Early Career & International Debut
Born on July 8, 1992, in Chuncheon, South Korea, Son Heung Min began his football journey at the FC Seoul youth academy before moving to Hamburger SV in Germany at just 16. His European debut came in 2010 with Hamburg, and after showcasing his incredible speed and dribbling skills, he secured a move to Bayer Leverkusen in 2013. Sonโs international debut for South Koreaโs national team came in 2010, marking the beginning of a decorated career representing his country. He quickly became South Koreaโs most crucial attacking player and played a pivotal role in multiple FIFA World Cups and AFC Asian Cup tournaments.
Premier League Stardom & Record-Breaking Achievements
In 2015, Son made history by becoming the highest paid Asian footballer at the time when he signed with Tottenham Hotspur for ยฃ22 million. Since then, he has established himself as one of the most consistent attackers in the Premier League. Sonโs dynamic partnership with Harry Kane has been one of the most prolific in EPL history. In the 2021-22 season, he became the first Asian player to win the Premier League Golden Boot, scoring 23 goals and sharing the award with Mohamed Salah. His ability to score with both feet and create chances from anywhere on the pitch makes him a nightmare for defenders.
Hat-Trick Hero & Awards Galore
Son has also made headlines with multiple hat-tricks, including a stunning four-goal performance against Southampton in 2020. His lethal finishing and blistering pace continue to make him a top FIFA player in real life and gaming. One of Sonโs most recognizable trademarks is his signature “camera celebration”, where he forms a frame with his fingers as if taking a picture, symbolizing his joy for the game and capturing unforgettable moments on the pitch. This celebration has become iconic among fans and highlights his charismatic presence on and off the field.
Son has been named Best Footballer in Asia 7 times, won the AFC Asian International Player of the Year award 4 times, featured in the PFA Team of the Year, and won Tottenhamโs Player of the Season award multiple times, solidifying his legacy as the greatest Asian footballer of all time. On March 31, 2025, Son was named South Koreaโs top football player for 2024 by the Korean Football Association. Son has been named by KFA as the top male player 8 times since the association was established in 2010.
Conclusion
Son Heung Minโs journey from South Korea to the top of world football is an inspiration to millions. His skill, work ethic, and passion for the game continue to break barriers and elevate Asian football on the global stage. Whether you’re watching him live or playing as him in FIFA, one thing is certain – Son is a legend in the making.
โ-Karen Mwenda
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Legendary K-pop duo TVXQ has officially renewed their contract with SM Entertainment, extending their 22-year partnership.
TVXQ debuted under SM Entertainment in 2003 and has dominated the industry with chart-topping hits and record-breaking concerts over the years. With this contract renewal, the duo – Yunho and Changmin – signal their commitment to evolving alongside their loyal fanbase, Cassiopeia.
SM Entertainment expressed excitement about supporting TVXQโs next chapter, promising new projects that highlight their artistry and experience. Fans eagerly anticipate upcoming albums, tours, and potential special anniversary events. As TVXQ embarks on this renewed journey, their influence in the K-pop industry remains stronger than ever.
โ-Karen Mwenda
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The Rose (๋๋ก์ฆ) Korean alt pop band is gearing up for their much-anticipated 2025 “Once Upon A WRLD” tour.
Starting in June 2025, The Rose will kick off their journey in North & South America before heading to Europe and Asia. The band has revealed dates and locations in cities such as Seoul, New York, London, and Sรฃo Paulo.
With an exciting mix of new music and fan favorites, this tour is set to be an unforgettable experience. Each stop will feature live renditions of songs from their latest album alongside interactive experiences for concertgoers. tickets are on presale on the bandโs The Rosarium site.
โ-Karen Mwenda
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South Korean entertainment powerhouse The BlackLabel has announced its inaugural large-scale global audition to discover new talent. The agency houses notable global actors like Park Bo Gum and artists including Rosรฉ (BLACKPINK) and Taeyang (BIGBANG).
Led by renowned producer Teddy, the agency began accepting applications on April 1, 2025, for individuals born between 2006 and 2015, regardless of nationality. Applications are being done through this link as highlighted in their official social media platforms.
The audition tour will commence in Seoul on April 19 and extend to 14 cities across 11 countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. This initiative underscores The Black Label’s commitment to nurturing the next generation of global artists.
โ-Karen Mwenda
#THEBLACKLABEL #THEBLACKLABELGlobalAudition #Seoul #Thailand #Vietnam #Philippines #Malaysia #kpop #Singapore #kcrush #UnitedStates #kcrushamerica #Canada #Australia #kcrushmagazine #NewZealand #Japan #nextgenerationkpop #kpopaudition #application #hallyu #kpopindustry #GlobalAuditionOpen #Teddy
On April 2, 2025, Vine Entertainment announced that Lรฉa, a founding member of the K-pop girl group SECRET NUMBER, left the group following the expiration of her exclusive contract. The agency expressed gratitude for Lรฉa’s contributions and conveyed support for her future endeavors.โ
Lรฉa, born Ogawa Mizuki in Tokyo, Japan, debuted with SECRET NUMBER in May 2020. Before joining the group, she was a member of the girl group SKarf under the stage name Hana. Her departure marks the second lineup change for SECRET NUMBER, following Denise’s exit in 2022.โThis shift raises questions about the group’s future as they navigate the evolving K-pop landscape.
Vine Entertainment reassured fans that SECRET NUMBER is currently discussing contract renewals and future projects and that these conversations have temporarily delayed the groupโs activities. The agency assured fans that SECRET NUMBER is preparing for a return with a renewed image and requested continued support during this transition.
Fans have expressed concern over the group’s future, especially given the lineup changes and recent inactivity, with their last comeback being about two years ago. As the group navigates this period of change, supporters remain hopeful for updates and look forward to SECRET NUMBER’s evolution in the K-pop industry.
โ-Karen Mwenda
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April 2025 is shaping up to be an electrifying month for K-pop fans worldwide! With a mix of highly anticipated returns from industry legends and rising stars, these 12 comebacks are set to dominate the charts and captivate audiences. Hereโs a look at whatโs coming.
Kep1er
The powerhouse girl group Kep1er will be making a comeback with the Japanese EP, titled ‘AGAINST THE WORLD‘. The EP is scheduled for release on April 30, 2025, featuring the title track โYumโ. Kep1erโs last release was their sixth EP, ‘Tipi-tap’, released in November 2024.
TWS
HYBEโs rising rookie group TWS is gearing up for a comeback with their third mini album, ‘TRY WITH US‘, on April 21, 2025. This release comes months after TWS released their first single album, โLast Bellโ, in November 2025.
YOUNITE
The talented boy group YOUNITE is returning with their seventh EP, ‘YOUNI-T‘, scheduled for release on April 23, 2025. Before this comeback, YOUNITE released their sixth EP, ‘ANOTHER‘, on May 1, 2024. The EP received positive feedback for the group’s ability to experiment with different genres, further establishing their versatility as artists.
SHINee
SHINee’s Onew is set to release his first English-language single, “MAD,” on April 21, 2025. Fans attending his solo concert in Taipei on April 5, 2025, will have the exclusive opportunity to preview “MAD” live before its official release. Before “MAD,” Onew released his fourth EP, โConnectionโ, on January 6, 2025.
KAI [EXO]
EXO’s Kai is set to release his fourth 7-track mini album, ‘Wait On Me‘, on April 21, 2025. Kai’s previous release was his third mini album, ‘Rover‘, launched on March 13, 2023, which received acclaim for its diverse genres and dynamic performances
NCT WISH
NCT WISH is set to release their second 6-track mini-album, ‘poppop‘, on April 14, 2025. On January 14, 2025. The group went viral because of the โMiracleโ single, a remake of the 2005 SUPER JUNIOR song that served as a pre-release for SM Entertainment’s 30th anniversary album.
OH MY GIRL
OH MY GIRL is set to celebrate their 10th anniversary with the release of a special single titled “Oh My” on April 9, 2025. This marks their first release since their tenth mini-album, โDreamy Resonanceโ, released in August 2024. OH MY GIRL will also hold a commemorative concert, “2025 OH MY GIRL CONCERT Milky Way,” on April 19 and 20, 2025, at Olympic Hall in Seoul.
AMPERS&ONE
The emerging boy group AMPERS&ONE is ready to showcase their unique charm with the second mini-album, ‘Wild & Free‘, on April 8, 2025. The 5-track EP includes the title song โKick Startโ and follows their previous release, โOne Questionโ, released in October 2024.ย
DAESUNG
BIGBANGโs Daesung is making a solo comeback with his first mini-album, ‘D’s WAVE‘, on April 8, 2025. Daesung will embark on the โD’s WAVEโ Asia tour, starting on April 26, 2025. His most recent solo release was the single โFalling Slowlyโ in March 2024
FIFTY FIFTY
After their global success, FIFTY FIFTY is set to return with a fresh concept in their digital single “Perfect Crime” on April 7, 2025. This release follows their remix album “Love Tune: Rewired,” which was released on January 24, 2025.
โ-Karen Mwendaย
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Idol girl group, cosmosy, unveils their official debut single, “Lucky=One,” a radiant blend of tropical house and vibrant pop energy. Following the explosive success of their pre-debut track “zigy=zigy,” which amassed over 10 million music video views within two weeks of its December 31, 2024 release, the group now steps fully into the spotlight. “Lucky=One” is also the first all-English song that is now available on all major streaming platforms worldwide. With the quartet solidifying their position as a rising force among the new generation of idols, this marks the start of cosmosy’s active promotions in the global market.
“Lucky=One” is all about love arriving as a happy coincidence that blossoms into destiny. What starts as a lighthearted connection gradually deepens, and the presence of each other becomes increasingly precious. The lyrics express more than just chance, they capture that yearning certainty that two souls are meant to be. Rooted in tropical house, the track features smooth synthesizer sounds and a gentle melody that brings out the song’s warm emotions. The rhythm flows softly and builds over time, adding depth to the feeling of love and gradually drawing the listener in. Delivered entirely in English, the song conveys a refined and sophisticated sentiment that leaves a lingering and powerful impression.
cosmosy is a four-member ensemble under the label, Sony Music Entertainment Korea and management company NTT docomo Studio&Live. The group initially pre-debuted on December 31, 2024, and has now expanded their reach globally with this release. Their unique blend of J-pop and K-pop elements positions them as a fresh and innovative presence in the international music scene as a global pop group. The quartet comprises of Japanese members himesha, de_hana, kamiรณn, and a’mei, each bringing unique talents and charisma. Their group name symbolizes the “Possibilities of Youth” and the “Infinity of the Cosmos”, reflecting their mission to explore limitless potential and growth.
As cosmosy continues producing future projects, they aim to inspire young fans worldwide by embracing cultural diversity, self-expression, and boundless creativity. With their unique sound, striking visuals, and undeniable charisma, the collective is set to leave a lasting impact on the global pop scene.
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About cosmosy
‘cosmosy’ is a Japanese four-member girl group consisting of himesha, de_hana, kamiรณn, and a’mei. The group’s name symbolizes “the possibilities of youth,” “the infinite universe,” and “growth and conflict,” carrying the meaning of COSMOS of Youth. Their official debut is with BLACKPINK’s Creative Director SINXITY’s lead along with creative teams that have worked on numerous K-Pop artists such as aespa, IVE, LE SSERAFIM, TXT, IU, and Red Velvet, and more.
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Who is Fantasy Boys? โ Survivors to K-Pop Stars
Fantasy Boys, the dynamic South Korean boy band formed through MBC’s reality competition show Fantasy Boys, has been making significant strides in the K-pop industry since their debut. Managed by PocketDol Studio and M25, Fantasy Boys groupโs strong performances and global appeal have quickly made them a standout act in the fourth generation of K-pop.ย
When Did Fantasy Boys Group Debut?
Fantasy Boys officially debuted in September 2023 with the โNew Tomorrowโ mini-album. The album showcased their musical diversity, blending powerful choreography with emotional melodies. They quickly followed up with the second โPotentialโ mini-album in November 2023, further solidifying their presence in the K-pop industry.ย
Who Are Fantasy Boys Group Members?
Fantasy Boys is currently a 10-member group including Kang Min Seo, Lee Han Bin, Hikari, Ling Qi, Hikaru, Kim Woo Seok, Hong Seong Min, Oh Hyeon Tae, Kim Gyu Rae, and Kaedan.
Kang Min Seo is the leader, Lee Han Bin is the main vocalist, while Hikari is the lead dancer and sub rapper.
Ling Qi is the main vocalist, Hikaru is the main dancer and lead vocalist, while Kim Woo Seok is the lead vocalist.
Hong Seong Min is the center, main vocalist, and visual, while Oh Hyeon Tae is the lead dancer, lead vocalist, and sub-rapper. Kim Gyu Rae is the center, main rapper, and visual, while Kaedan is the sub-rapper and maknae of the group. Yu Jun Won withdrew from the group in August 2023 due to contractual disagreements, while K-Soul withdrew in January 2025 after a prolonged 15-month hiatus.ย
Fantasy Boys Groupโs Releases
On March 12, 2025, Fantasy Boys made a comeback with their first their first full-length Japanese album, โShine The Wayโ. This release demonstrated the groupโs commitment to growth and international reach. On March 20, 205, Fantasy Boys released their fourth โUndeniableโ mini-album with the title track โUndeniable that showcases the groupโs journey and overcoming hardships
Online Presence
To engage with fans, Fantasy Boys uses its social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.ย
Fantasy Boys Groupโs Future
Fantasy Boys continue to captivate audiences with their dynamic performances and evolving musical repertoire. Despite lineup changes, their resilience and dedication have propelled them further, elevating their status in the global music scene.
โ-Karen Mwenda
#FantasyBoys #PocketDolStudio #M25 #NewTomorrowMiniAlbum #kcrush #kpop #10membergroup #koreanKPop #kidol #kcrushamerica #kcrushmagazine #KangMinSeo #LeeHanBin #Hikari #LingQi #Hikaru #KimWooSeok #HongSeongMin #OhHyeonTae #KimGyuRae #Kaedan #Asianmusicindustry
HyeYoung Oh is a distinguished gayageum player renowned for her innovative fusion of traditional Korean music with contemporary genres like jazz. Her groundbreaking album, โGAYAGEUM w/jazzโ exemplifies this unique blend, showcasing her versatility and commitment to expanding the instrument’s horizons. KCrush America Magazine sat down with HyeYoung Oh to understand how this gayageum player bridges tradition and modernity.
์คํ์ ์จ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต ์์ ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋์ ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ํ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ตํฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ช ํ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์ฐ์ฃผ์์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ ํ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์จ๋ฒ์ธ ‘GAYAGEUM w/jazz‘๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ ํนํ ์กฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์งํ์ ๋ํ๋ ค๋ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๋ค์ฌ๋ค๋ฅํจ๊ณผ ํ์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค. KCrush America ๋งค๊ฑฐ์ง์ด ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์ฐ์ฃผ์ ์คํ์ ์จ๊ฐ ๋ง๋์ ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋๋ฅผ ์๋ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์ฐ์ฃผ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
What inspired you to play the gayageum and how has the journey been?
๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์ฐ์ฃผํ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฌด์์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ ๋์?
A: My first encounter with a Gayageum was in elementary school, where we had Gayageum classes. I was mesmerized by the sound and went on to Art high school then Art college. There were several career choices after graduation, but I became a performer because playing the instrument meant the most joy for me.
I created a Gayageum ensemble called SET in 2014, and busked in various parts of Korea. We performed with artists of different genres, like the blues guitar, modern dancing, media art, perfumery, the handpan, etc.
Fron 2017 to 2020 I directed and performed my project as a individual, called โThe Momentโ, as well as various group creative works.
My discography includes the four formal albums โStart upโ(2017), โ100 days of Red(2017,2019)โ, โThe Moment(2019)โ, โImprovisation-Speak in Harmony(2019)โ, โGAYAGEUM w/jazz(2024)โ, as well as an EP and single albums.
– ์ด๋ฑํ์๋ ํ๊ต ์ทจ๋ฏธ ์์ ๊ณผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์์ ์ด ์์ด ์ฒ์ ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์๊ณ , ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์๋ฆฌ์ ๋งค๋ฃ๋์ด ์์ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต, ์์ ๋ํ๊ต์ ์งํํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์กธ์ ํ ๋ค์ํ ์ง๋ก๊ฐ ๋ง์์ง๋ง ๊ทธ ์ค ์ฐ์ฃผํ๋๊ฒ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์์ ์ญ ์ฐ์ฃผ์๋ก ํ๋ํด์์ต๋๋ค.
2014๋ โ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์์๋ธ ์ (Gayageum Ensemble โSETโ)โ ํ์ ์ฐฝ๋จํ์ฌ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ณณ๊ณณ์์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ๋ฒ์คํน ๊ณต์ฐ์ ํด์๊ณ , ๋ธ๋ฃจ์ค ๊ธฐํ๋ฆฌ์คํธ, ํ๋๋ฌด์ฉ๊ฐ, ๋ฏธ๋์ด ์ํฐ์คํธ, ํฅ ์ํฐ์คํธ(์กฐํฅ์ฌ), ํธ๋ํฌ ์ฐ์ฃผ์ ๋ฑ ๋ค์ํ ์ฅ๋ฅด์ ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ค๊ณผ ํ์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ด์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ฐ์ธ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ก 2017-2020๋ ๊น์ง 4๋ ๊ฐ ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ๋ก ์์ ํย โ์๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ(the Moment)โย ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ ์, ๋ฐํํ์๊ณ ๊ทธ ์ธ ๋ค์์ ๊ทธ๋ฃนํ๋์ ํตํ ์ฐฝ์์์ ์ ํด์์ต๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋งคํ ์จ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก๋ย ย โStart upโ(2017), โ๋ฐฑ์ผํ-100 days of Red(2017,2019)โ, โ์๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ-the Moment(2019)โ, โImprovisation-Speak in Harmony(2019)โ, โ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ฏ๋ ์ฌ์ฆ-GAYAGEUM w/jazz(2024)โย ๋ฑ ์ ๊ท์จ๋ฒ 4์ฅ, EP 1์ฅ ๋ฐ ์ฑ๊ธ์จ๋ฒ ๋ค์ ๋ฐํํ์์ต๋๋ค.
Your album โGAYAGEUM w/jazzโ is a remarkable fusion of traditional Korean music and jazz. What motivated you to explore this fusion?
โGAYAGEUM w/jazz’ ์จ๋ฒ์ ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต์์ ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ฆ์ ๋๋ผ์ด์ตํฉ์ด ๋๋ณด์ด๋ ์จ๋ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ํจ์ ์ ์๋ํ๊ฒ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์?
A: I majored in Korean traditional music, but I’ve always been interested in other various musical genres too, and wanted to perform and create music.
I also wanted to publicize the Gayageum more, domestically and internationally. I tried to do so through a lot of busking performances in Korea and abroad. In the process, I thought about how to approach people who aren’t familiar with the Gayageum, including Koreans, in a more comforting, friendly and refreshing manner. Soon I came to focus on the impromptu nature of both Korean traditional music and jazz.
Both genres went through many stages of development in different periods, and still paving through and making new roads by the work of performers and creators. I pondered a lot about the energy that makes it possible for the two genres to keep going, and I concluded it might be their ever-changing form resulting from their impromptu nature.
For example, the subgenres of Korean traditional music, Sanjo and Shinawi, have set rhythms and formations, but countless new melodies are born innevery performance, through the creative impromptu playing of the musician.
This is akin to how jazz musicians play impromptu music of their own, departing from set forms and chord progressions, to make new music.
My album ”GAYAGEUM w/jazzโ focuses on this common factor of the two genres, as it is an addition of impromptu melodies on the Gayageum to jazz standards, songs that have been loved throughout the ages.
– ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต์์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํ์์ง๋ง ํ๊ตญ์ ํต์์ ์ ํ์ ๋์ง ์๊ณ ๋ค์ํ ์ฅ๋ฅด์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ง๋ฉฐ ์ฐ์ฃผ, ์ฐฝ์ํ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์ ํ์์ต๋๋ค.
๋ํ ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต์ ๊ธฐ์ธ โ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธโ์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ธ์ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด ๊ตญ๋ด, ํด์ธ์์ ๋ฒ์คํน ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๋ง์ด ์๋ํ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ์์ํ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ํต์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒํ๋ฉด ํธ์ํ๊ณ ์น๊ทผํ๊ฒ, ๋๋ ์ ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ ์์๊น ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ ํ๋ ๋์ค ํ๊ตญ์ ํต์์ ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ฆ ์ฅ๋ฅด๊ฐ ๋์์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ โ์ฆํฅ์ฑโ์ ์ง์คํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
์ฌ์ฆ์ ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต์์ , ๋ ์ฅ๋ฅด ๋ชจ๋ ์๋๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์น๋ฉฐ ์์ฃผ ๋ง์ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ์๊ณ , ์ง๊ธ๋ ์ฐ์ฃผ๊ฐ์ ์ฐฝ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ํตํด ๊ณ์ํด์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ธธ์ ๋ง๋ค๋ฉฐ ํ๋ฌ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ ์ฅ๋ฅด๊ฐ ๊ณ์ ํ๋ฌ๊ฐ ์ ์๊ฒ ํ๋ ํ์ด ๋ฌด์์ผ๊น ๊ณ ๋ฏผํด๋ณด์๋๋ฐ, โ์ฆํฅ์ฑโ์ผ๋ก์ธํด ํ์๋๋ ๋ณํ๋ฌด์ํจ์ด ์๋๊น ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ํ๊ตญ์ ํต์์ ์ค ๋ฏผ์์์ ์ธ โ์ฐ์กฐโ, โ์๋์โ ๋ ์ฅ๋จ ๋ฐ ํ์์ด ์ ํด์ ธ์์ง๋ง ๋งค ๊ณต์ฐ๋ง๋ค ์์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฆํฅ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ํตํด ์๋ง์ ์๋ก์ด ์ ์จ์ด ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง๋๋ค.
์ด๋ ์ฌ์ฆ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ค์ด ์ ํด์ง ํ์์ ์ฝ๋์งํ์์ ์์ ๋ง์ ์ ์จ์ ์ฆํฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ด์ด ์ ํ ์๋ก์ด ๊ณก์ผ๋ก ์ฐฝ์ํด ๋ด๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ๋ ์ผ๋งฅ์ํตํฉ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฌํ ๋ ์ฅ๋ฅด์ ๊ณตํต์ ์ ์ง์คํ์ฌ, ์ค๋ซ๋์ ์ฌ๋๋ฐ์์จ ์ฌ์ฆ ์คํ ๋ค๋ ๋ช ๊ณก์ ํ์์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์ฆํฅ ์ ์จ์ ๋ํ์ฌ ์์ ํ๊ฒ๋ ์จ๋ฒ์ด ๋ฐ๋กย ”GAYAGEUM w/jazzโ ์ ๋๋ค.
โBluishโ is one of โGAYAGEUM w/jazzโ albumโs most trending hits. What challenges did you face in blending these traditional Korean music and jazz genres?
. ”GAYAGEUM w/jazz’ ์จ๋ฒ์ ๋ํ ํํธ๊ณก ์ค ํ๋๊ฐ ‘๋ธ๋ฃจ์’์ ๋๋ค. ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต์์ ๊ณผ ์ฌ์ฆ ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ์ตํฉํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ด๋ค ์ด๋ ค์์ ๊ฒช์ผ์ จ๋์?
A: The greatest challenge was that the melodies were so well-known. They are familiar tunes that many people will be able to predict after the first bar or two. It was a challenge to create my own variations based on those beloved tunes.
It was also challenging to add the original sound of the Gayageum. It wasn’t easy to fuse the two genres in a way that was not too much and not too little, and just right. I tried many different things when preparing to record the album, studying jazz chords and applying theories. In the end, the melodies that came to me naturally while playing the Gayageum were chosen over deliberate ones.
– ์ ๊ฐ ๋ชจํฐ๋ธ๋ก ์ผ์ ์์ ๋ค์ด ๋๋ฌด๋๋ ์ ๋ช ํ ํ ๋ง ๋ฉ๋ก๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง ๊ณก๋ค์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๊น ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ซ๋์ ์ฌ๋๋ฐ์์จ ์ฌ์ฆ์คํ ๋ค๋ ๊ณก์ ์ธํธ๋ก ์ฒซ ๋ง๋๋ง ๋ค์ด๋ ๋ฉ๋ก๋๊ฐ ์์๋ ์ ์์๋งํผ ์ต์ํ ๊ณก๋ค์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๊ฒ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋ง์ ์ ์จ์ ์ฐฝ์ํด๋ผ ์ ์์๊น ํ๋ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ปธ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ํ ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ โ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธโ์ ๊ณ ์ ํ ์์์ ๊ฐ๋ฏธํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ํฐ ์์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋ฌด ๊ณผํ์ง๋, ๋๋ฌด ๋ถ์กฑํ์ง๋ ์๊ฒ, ๋ง๊ทธ๋๋ก โ๋ด๋ฐฑํ๊ฒโ ๋ ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ์ตํฉํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๊ฐ์ฒ๋ผ ์ฝ์ง ์๋๊ตฐ์. ์จ๋ฒ ์์ ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ฉฐ ์ฌ์ฆ ์ฝ๋ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ ๋ง์ด ํ๊ณ ์ด๋ก ์ ์ธ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ ์ ์ฉํด๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋ค์ํ ์๋๋ฅผ ํด๋ณด์๋๋ฐ, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์ ์ธ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ ์ ์จ๋ค์ด ์๋ ์ฐ์ฃผํ๋ ์๊ฐ ์ ์๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ๋์๋ ์ ์จ๋ค์ด ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ด ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง๊ฒ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
How do you perceive the role of traditional instruments like the gayageum in contemporary music scenes, both in Korea and globally?
ํ๋ ์์ ์ฌ์์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํต ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ญํ ์ ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ธ์ํ์๋์?
A: Nowadays, the original sound and playing methods of traditional instruments are applied in various musical genres. Creators in contemporary scenes are able to make different musical attempts and expand the spectrum of music by crossing over genres.
– ์์ฆ์ ์ ํต์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ง ๊ณ ์ ์ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์ฃผ๋ฒ์ด ๋ค์ํ ์์ ์ฅ๋ฅด์ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํต์ ๊ธฐ๋ง์ ๊ณ ์ ํ๊ณ ํน๋ณํ ์๋ฆฌ์ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฒ๋ค์ ํตํด ํ๋ ์์ ์ฌ์ ์ฐฝ์๊ฐ๋ค์ด ๋ค์ํ ์์ ์ ์๋๋ฅผ ํ ์ ์๊ณ ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๋๋๋๋ ์์ ์ ๋ค์์ฑ์ ํ์ฅํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
Youโve had several collaborations with artists from different musical backgrounds. How have these experiences influenced your artistry?
๋ค์ํ ์์ ์ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ค๊ณผ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฐจ๋ก ํ์ ์ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ์์ ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ค ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋์?
A: Since I studied traditional music in school, I’ve always wanted to work with different genres. I became interested in the Hongdae(Hongik University) independent music scene, worked wit& different artists who were in that scene and became seriously invested in expanding the genre I represented.
It was so much fun to work together by understanding and recognizing music different to my own, and finding out ways to perform together. And this helped to mold myself into a musicianย who created music itself, not bound by traditional music or instrument.
When I could visualize just music, not limited to a certain genre, I went from HyeYoung Oh the Gayageum player to HyeYoung Oh the musician who utilizes the Gayageum, who works to provide joy (of varying definitions) for myself and the listener.
– ์์ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต, ์์ ๋ํ ๊ตญ์ ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์ญ ์ ํต์์ ๋ง ๊ณต๋ถํด์๋ ์ ๋ ํญ์ ํ ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ง์์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ค ํ๋ ์ธ๋์ฌ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ๋๊ณ ๋ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์์ ํ๋ํ๋ ๋ค์ํ ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ค๊ณผ ๊ต๋ฅํ๋ฉฐ ์ฅ๋ฅด์ ํ์ฅ์ ๋ํด ์ง์งํ๊ฒ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํด๋ณด๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ ์ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ธ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์์์ ๊ฐ์ด ์ด์ธ๋ฆด ์ ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์ฐพ๋ ํ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ด ๋๋ฌด ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ ์์ ์ด โ์ ํตโ์์ , โ์ ํตโ์ ๊ธฐ์ ํ์ ๋์ง์๊ณ ํ์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ โ์์ โ ๊ทธ ์์ฒด์ ๋ํด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ ์ฐฝ์ํด๋๊ฐ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
์ด๋ค ์ฅ๋ฅด์ ํน์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์๊ฐ์ด ์๋ โ์์ โ์ด๋ผ๋ ์กด์ฌ ์์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณผ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ถํฐ, ์ค๋ซ๋์ ๊ณต๋ถํด์๋ โ์ ํตโ์ ํ์์ ํํผํ์ฌ โ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์ฐ์ฃผ๊ฐโ ์คํ์์ด ์๋ โ์์ ๊ฐโ ์คํ์์ผ๋ก์จ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ก ํ์ฌ ๋ ์์ ๊ณผ ๋ด ์์ ์ ๋ฃ๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ๊ธฐ์จ(๋ค์ํ ์๋ฏธ๋ก์จ์)์ ์ค ์ ์๋ ์์ ๋ค์ ์ง์คํ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
What are some misconceptions people have about traditional Korean instruments?
์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ ํต ํ๊ตญ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ์คํด๋ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์?
A: What surprised me the most in my busking days is how many people from Korea were so unfamiliar with the Gayageum, a Korean traditional instrument. Actually it shouldn’t have been a surprise because these instruments are rarely seen unless you go and see them in traditional music concert venues.
And most of these people expressed their surprise at how their expectations of the Gayageum always playing slow and boring music were not met.
Without experience, we wouldn’t know anything. So many people saw the Gayageum in a new light in a street performance they chanced to come across. I think people’s experiences like this lead to going to concerts and seeking out music, and wanted to make more chances for them to encounter the Gayageum, so that they would find its charm by escaping their stereotypicalย idea of the Gayageum associated with boring, slow and old music, and feeling it to be a familiar instrument.
Once they feel familiar with the instrument, the music people felt boring can become interesting too. This is a process of becoming connoisseurs.
– ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์คํน ๊ณต์ฐ์ ํ๋ฐํ๊ฒ ํ ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋๋๋ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ด ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต์ ๊ธฐ์์๋ ๋ถ๊ณผํ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ผ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ด ๋ง์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ํต์์ ์ ์ฃผ๋ก ๊ณต์ฐํ๋ ๊ณต์ฐ์ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ค์ ์ผ์ด ๊ฑฐ์ ์์์ผ๋ ๋น์ฐํ ์ผ์ด์๊ฒ ์ฃ .
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ธธ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์์ ์ ์ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฒ์ ๋ง์ฃผํ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ โ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์ง๋ฃจํ๊ณ ๋๋ฆฐ ์์ ๋ง ์ฐ์ฃผํ๋์ค ์์๋คโ ๋ผ๋ ๋ฐ์์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
๋ญ๋ ๊ฒฝํํด๋ณด์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ์ผ๋ค์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ฐํ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ง์ฃผ์น ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์ฐ์ฃผ์์ ์์ํ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ก์์ ๋๋ ๋ถ๋ค์ด ๋ง์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ป์ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ด์ผ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ถํ ์ค์ค๋ก ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ๊ฑฐ๋, ์์ ์ ์ฐพ์๋ฃ๊ฑฐ๋ ํ๋ ํ๋์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ฌ ๊ณ์ํด์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์ ํ๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด โ์ง๋ฃจํ๋ค, ๋๋ฆฌ๋ค, ์ค๋๋ ์์ ์ด๋คโ๋ผ๋ ๊ณ ์ ๊ด๋ ์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๊ณ , ๋ ๋์๊ฐ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์น์ํ ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋๊ฒ ํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๋๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ผ๋จ ์น์ํด์ง๊ณ ๋๋ฉด ์์ ์ โ์ง๋ฃจํ๋คโ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ ์์ ๋ค์ด ์ฌ๋ฏธ์์ด์ง๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํธ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃ .
Apart from playing the gayageum, what do you do to destress or gain inspiration?
๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์ฐ์ฃผ ์ธ์ ์คํธ๋ ์ค๋ฅผ ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ป๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ฌด์์ํ๋์?
A: I lie down doing nothing, no chores at all, or I meditate while focusing on myself objectively. When I have the time I travel, to be surrounded by nature rather than to cities.
When I’m immersed in the great nature, all my worries disappear and I find myself at peace.
– ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋, ์๋ฌด์ผ๋ ํ์ง์๊ณ ๊ฐ๋งํ ๋์์๊ฑฐ๋ ๋๋ ๋ช ์์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ค์ค๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ ์๊ฐํด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ ์์ ๋๋ ์ฌํ์ ๊ฐ๊ณค ํ๋๋ฐ, ๋์ฌ์ง ๋ณด๋ค๋ ์์ฐ์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ๋ ํธ์ ๋๋ค.
๊ฑฐ๋ํ ์์ฐ ์์ ์กด์ฌํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ทผ์ฌ ๊ฑฑ์ ์ด ๋ค ์ฌ๋ผ์ง ์์ฃผ ํ์จํ ์ํ๊ฐ ๋๊ณค ํฉ๋๋ค.
Youโve done several performances. What has been the most memorable performance of your career so far?
์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ํ์ จ์์์. ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ํ๋ํ๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ธฐ์ต์ ๋จ๋ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์?
A: Busked with my Gayageum in 2015, for a couple of months in Trafalgar Square in London.
I was curious at the time how the public would respond to this instrument and chose this place for my busking experience where an international audience can be found, one that I’d always wanted to visit if I were ever to go to Europe.
On my first day I dressed up in traditional costume, carried my big instrument and arrived at the square, but got so scared that I couldn’t start playing.
I remember it like yesterday, wandering in Trafalgar Square carrying my Gayageum. I decided I wasn’t going back without doing anything, and when I finally did start playing so many people listened, and loved it.
The first time is always the hardest, I guess. After overcoming my first day fears I enjoyed performing every single day.
I played every day except rainy and snowy days, and I could intuitively see the audience’s response, all the more clearly because it wasn’t a formal concert venue. I strongly felt, in the end, that the Gayageum and Korean traditional music were welcomed and loved by many people from around the world.
This experience, this memory is what made me love the Gayageum more, and even now provides me with the energy to perform and live on as a musician.
– 2015๋ ์ฝ ๋๋ฌ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋์ ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ๊ด์ฅ์์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ๋ฒ์คํน ๊ณต์ฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋น์ ๋ฌธ๋ ํด์ธ์์๋ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ด ๋์ค์๊ฒ ์ด๋ค ๋๋์ผ๋ก ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ๊น ๊ถ๊ธํ์ฌ ๋ฒ์คํน ์ฌํ์ ๋ ๋ฌ๋๋ฐ, ์ ๋ถํฐ ์ ๋ฝ์ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ฉด ๊ผญ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ ๋ฐ๋, ๊ทธ ์ค ์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ฌ๋์ด ๋ง์ด ๋ชฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ๊ด์ฅ์ ๋ฒ์คํน ์ฅ์๋ก ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
์ฒ์ ๋ฒ์คํน์ ๋๊ฐ๋ ๋ ํ๋ณต์ ์ฐจ๋ ค์ ๊ณ ,ย ํฐ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ๋ค๊ณ ๋น๋นํ๊ฒ ๊ด์ฅ์ ๋์ฐฉํ์ง๋ง ๋ง์ ๋์ฐฉํ๋ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฒ์ด๋์ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์์ํ์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค.
์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค๊ณ ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ๊ด์ฅ์ ํ์ฐธ ์์ฑ์ด๋ ๊ทธ ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ง์์ด ์ง๊ธ๋ ์์ํ ๊ธฐ์ต๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋๋ก ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ํ์ง์๊ณ ์ง์ ๋์๊ฐ ์๋ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ฌ ์ฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ด์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ข์ํด ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค.
์ญ์ ์ฒ์์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ฒ ์ฃ . ์ฒซ๋ ์ ๋๋ ค์๊ณผ ๋จ๋ฆผ์ ์ด๊ฒจ๋ด๊ณ ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์ดํ๋ก๋ ๋๋ฌด ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ํ ๋๋ ๋ค์ด์์ต๋๋ค.
๋๋น๊ฐ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ ๋ง๊ณ ๋ ๊ผญ ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ๊ด์ฅ์ ๋๊ฐ ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ํ์๋๋ฐ, ์ ์ ๊ณต์ฐ์ฅ์์ ํ์์ ๊ฐ์ถ ๊ณต์ฐ์ด ์๋๋ค๋ณด๋ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๊ณ ๋๋ผ๋์ง ์ง๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ช ํํ๊ฒ ๋๋ ์ ์์๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ๊ณผ ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต์์ ์ด ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ํ์๋ฐ๊ณ ์ฌ๋๋ฐ๋๋ค๋ ๋๋์ ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
์ด ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ์ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ , ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง๋ ์ฐ์ฃผํ๋ฉฐ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ก ์ด์๋๊ฐ ์ ์๋ ์๋๋ ฅ์ด ๋์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
Who are some of your biggest musical influences, both in traditional Korean music and other genres?
ํ๊ตญ ์ ํต์์ ๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฅ๋ฅด์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์์ ์ ์ํฅ์ ์ค ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊ตฌ์ธ๊ฐ์?
A: The Gayageum maestro ByeongGi Hwangย had the greatest influence on me. Every student of the instrument has grown up with his music, learned and played it. His work consists of all kinds of sounds from his infinite imaginative creativity. Though his music is decades old now, I always find something new, something to learn. His new attempts were pioneering, and so much variety was there that I could learn, and I also realized so much about the mindset of a creator who never stopped studying and pondering.
– ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ๋ช ์ธ ํฉ๋ณ๊ธฐ ์ ์๋์ ์ํฅ์ด ์ปธ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ ํ์์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏ ์ด๋ฆด ๋๋ถํฐ ํฉ๋ณ๊ธฐ ์ ์๋์ ์์ ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ณ ์ฐ์ฃผํ์๋๋ฐ, ๋ฌด๊ถ๋ฌด์งํ ์์๋ ฅ์ ํตํด ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์์ ๋ค์ฑ๋ก์ด ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋์ด๋ธ ์ํ๋ค์ด ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ฉ์ง๋๋ค. ์ง๊ธ์ ๋ช์ญ๋ ์ด ์ง๋ ์์ ๋ค์์๋ ์์ง๋ ๋ค์๋๋ง๋ค ์๋กญ๊ณ ๋ฐฐ์ธ ์ ๋ค์ด ๊ฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ์๋ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ์๋ํ์ง ์์๋ ์ฐธ์ ํ ์๋๋ค, ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ผ ์ ์๋ ๋ค์ํ ์๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ํฉ๋ณ๊ธฐ ์ ์๋์ ์ํ๋ค์ ํตํด ๋ฐฐ์ธ ์ ์์๊ณ , ๋์์์ด ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๋ ์ฐฝ์์์ ๋ง์๊ฐ์ง์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋ง์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ ์ป์์ต๋๋ค.
If you could introduce the gayageum to a global audience through a major festival or event, where would it be and why?
์ฃผ์ ์ถ์ ๋ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ ์ธ๊ณ ๊ด๊ฐ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์๊ฐํ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ์ฅ์๋ ์ด๋์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์ด์ ๋ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์?
A: Even without an event, I’d like to play at Trafalgar Square of London again. It was where I introduced the Gayageum to so many people from around the world, on my busking tour. It was 10 years ago when I decided to go there armed only with a passion for introducing and playing the Gayageum. I want to do it again with my 10 years of music based on that very experience there, and introduce the Gayageum to a global audience again.
– ๋ฐ๋์ ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ๊ด์ฅ์ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ฐ ํด์ธ ๋ฒ์คํน ์ฌํ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ ๋ง ๋ค์ํ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ง๋ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์๊ฐํ๋ ๊ณณ์ด ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ๊ด์ฅ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. 10๋ ์ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ ์ ์ฐ์ฃผํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ด์ ๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ฐพ์๋ ๊ณณ์ธ๋ฐ 10๋ ์ด ์ง๋ ์ง๊ธ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ ์ง๊ธ์ ์ ์ ์์ , ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ ์ธ๊ณ ๊ด๊ฐ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค์.
What are your aspirations for the future, and how do you plan to continue evolving your music?
์์ผ๋ก์ ํฌ๋ถ๋ ๋ฌด์์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์ ์ ๊ณ์ ๋ฐ์ ์์ผ ๋๊ฐ ๊ณํ์ธ๊ฐ์?
A: I think the most important thing when performing music is to make a good sound. I want to be a musician who puts her heart into every single sound that my fingertips create, though they may not be glamorous, to reach out and touch people deeply.
I’m also working on a compilation of musical scores for my album, โGAYAGEUM w/jazzโ. That album is a result of cooperating with musicians of other genres and studying composition based on chord progressions and theories for the Gayageum. So I’d like to publish a compilation of my studies and processes that went into the album, to offer a good study material for students of the 25-string Gayageum, in Korea and abroad.
– ์์ ์ ์ฐ์ฃผํจ์ ์์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐ๋ก โ์ข์ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ๊ฒโ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ํ๋ คํ์ง ์์๋ ์๋์์ ๋์ค๋ ์๋ฆฌ ํ๋ํ๋์ ๋ง์์ ๋ด์ ๊น์ ์ธ๋ฆผ์ ์ ๋ฌํ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ํ์ฌ โ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ฏ๋ ์ฌ์ฆ-GAYAGEUM w/jazzโ ์จ๋ฒ์ ์ ๋ณด์ง๋ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋์ ํ ์ฅ๋ฅด ์์ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณผ ํ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ ์ ๊ธฐ ํน์ฑ์ ๋ง๋ ์ฝ๋์ฐ์ฃผ ๋ฐ ์ด๋ก ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋กํ ์ฐฝ์ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ ์์ ์ผ๋ก๊น์ง ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ธ๋ฐ์, ์ ๊ณต๋ถ ๋ฐ ์์ ๊ณผ์ ์ด ๋ น์์๋ ์ ๋ณด์ง์ ๋ฐ๊ฐํ์ฌ ๊ตญ๋ด์ธ 25ํ ๊ฐ์ผ๊ธ์ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ข์ ๊ณต๋ถ์๋ฃ๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
If you could give advice to your younger self when you were just starting out, what would it be?
์ด์ ๋ง ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ ค๋ ํ๋ฐฐ์๊ฒ ์กฐ์ธ์ ํด์ค๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ค๊ฒ์ด ์์๊น์?
A: Be a performer unlimited by boundaries, and not afraid of experiencing and challenging.
Keep learning through those attempts and experiences, and applying what you’ve learned to keep creating your own sound, your own music.
And if you could go further and become content with your sound and music, you’ll feel the utmost happiness as a musician. What’s important is to go your own way and never giving up. Spend a lot of time focusing on yourself, and build up a strong, unswaying musical world of your own.
– ํ์ ๊ฐํ์ง ์๊ณ , ๋ญ๋ ๊ฒฝํํ๊ณ ๋์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ ค์ํ์ง ์๋ ์ฐ์ฃผ์๊ฐ ๋์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ค์ํ ์๋์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํตํด ๊ณ์ ๋ฐฐ์๋๊ฐ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฐ์์ ์ค์ค๋ก์ ์์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ ์ฉํด๋๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ง์ ์๋ฆฌ, ๋๋ง์ ์์ ์ ์ฐฝ์ํด ๋๊ฐ์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ๋์๊ฐ ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ธ ์๋ฆฌ, ์์ ์ ๋ง์กฑํ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด ์์ ๊ฐ๋ก์จ ๋ํ ๋์์๋ ๊ธฐ์จ์ ๋๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ํฌ๊ธฐํ์ง ์๊ณ ๋์ ๊ธธ์ ๊ฐ๋๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋์๊ฒ ์ง์คํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ด ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ , ํ๋ค๋ฆฌ์ง ์๋ ๋จ๋จํ ๋๋ง์ ์์ ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ์๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค.
WM Entertainment is set to debut USPEER, its first girl group in a decade. Since OH MY GIRLโs debut in 2015, the agency has focused on solidifying its existing artists, making this new groupโs launch highly anticipated among K-pop fans.
The name USPEER combines โUsโ and โPeer,โ representing unity, connection, and growth. While details about the lineup remain undisclosed, insiders hint at a diverse group of talented vocalists, captivating visuals, and dynamic performers. WM Entertainment is known for its unique storytelling and artist development, having produced B1A4, ONF, and OH MY GIRL. Fans are eager to see how USPEER will carve its own identity in the competitive K-pop industry.
The announcement has already generated excitement across social media, with international fans speculating about the groupโs concept and debut schedule. The group’s social media platforms have been launched including Instagram and YouTube. With WM Entertainmentโs track record of launching successful artists, expectations are high for USPEERโs official debut in the first half of 2025.
โ-Karen Mwenda
#USPEER #WMEntertainment #B1A4 #kcrush #newfemalegroup #Us #Peer #OhMyGirl #kpop #koreanpop #kidol #kcrushamerica #kcrushmagazine #internationalfans #kpopindustry #firstgirlgroupin10yearsforWMEntertainment
SKINZ is an upcoming virtual K-pop boy group under Bridge Entertainment agency comprised of digital avatar members. With fresh and vibrant energy, SKINZ is not just another virtual idol group. They represent a new wave of creativity in the K-pop industry as they prepare for their debut.
When will SKINZ debut?
The group is scheduled to debut in April 2025 with seven members and a lot of anticipation from K-POP fans. The groupโs name stands for โSyntheticย Kineticย Infiniteย Next-genย Zenith” reflecting their aim to break boundaries between the virtual and real worlds.
Who are SKINZ group members?
SKINZ is made up of 7 virtual members. As a virtual idol group, SKINZ aims to engage fans through energetic music and innovative storytelling, pushing the boundaries of virtual idols. In December 2024, SKINZ released a debut teaser, on their YouTube channel, giving fans an idea of the lineup.
SKINZ groupโs releases
The group has released some lyrical pieces. The group released โThe Way Backโ the self-composed song in January 2025. The song was aired during an episode of the โLove Scoutโ k -drama. In February 2025, SKINZ released their second self-composed song, โPoison Ivyโ. The group aims to capture global fans with its vicious charm and their music with fans anxious to see whatโs next for the group.ย
Online presence
To connect with their audiences, SKINZ launched their social media accounts including Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
โ-Karen Mwenda
#SKINZ #virtualkpop #kcrush #kpop #newvirtualkpopgroup #koreanpop #TheWayBack #koreanpop #kculture #kidol #kcrushmagazine #kcrushamerica #virtualkpopgroup #PoisonIvySKINZ #BridgeEntertainment #kfashion #kpopgenre #debutApril2024 #SyntheticKineticInfiniteNextgenZenith #virtualcelebrity #virtualboygroup #upcomingnewkpopgroup
K-pop sensation Jay B, leader of GOT7, is set to make waves in the U.S. with his much-anticipated โTAPE: RELOADโ tour.
The tour is scheduled for June 2025, with performances in six major cities across the United States, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, and Washington D.C. This marks Jay B’s highly anticipated return to the U.S. stage, where he is expected to captivate audiences with his signature R&B sound and dynamic performances.
Known for his smooth vocals and genre-blending music, Jay Bโs tour promises a mix of R&B, hip-hop, and K-pop elements. With past solo projects and GOT7 hits under his belt, fans can expect a setlist packed with emotional ballads, high-energy tracks, and exclusive live performances. Ticket sales and additional updates will be communicated soon.
โ-Karen Mwenda
#JayBUSTour #GOT7JayB #kcrush #TAPERELOADUSTour #kpop #koreanpop #krnb #kidol #kcrushamerica #kcrushmagazine #khiphop #TourJune2025 #kpopindustry #kpopgenre #kmusic #koreanculture #GOT7 #kcrushinterviewwithgot7
XY is a Japanese boy band formed in 2023 through the Yoshiki Superstar Project X, a talent competition produced by renowned musician Yoshiki. Combining rock band elements with a dance-vocal unit, XY captivated audiences with their energetic performances and diverse musical styles. However, after a strong debut, the group’s activities have slowed down, leaving fans wondering about their future.
Debut & Early Success
On November 5 before XY bandโs debut, member Yoshi died in a traffic accident. With approval from Yoshiโs family, a new vocalist, Tegoshi Yuya, was chosen. As a tribute to Yoshi, XY band released the “XY feat. YOSHI” digital single using his pre-recorded voice. XY officially debuted in June 2023, with the single “Crazy Love”, which topped the iTunes Alternative Charts in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The group gained further recognition through their first live performance at the Mynavi Tokyo Girls Collection 2023 Spring/Summer at Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Their blend of rock instrumentals and high-energy dance performances set them apart from traditional J-pop and K-pop-inspired boy bands.
Releases & Performances
Following their debut, XY continued to build momentum with releases like “YG” and “Get Stupid” in June 2024, both of which dominated the iTunes Alternative Singles Chart. The group showcased their versatility by dividing performances between the band members and the dance-vocal team. They also appeared on major TV programs, including Nippon TVโs Premium Music TV, further establishing their presence in Japanโs music industry. XY held the XY 1st ONE-MAN TOUR 2025 ~KALEIDOSCOPE~ in January 2025.
Going Inactive
Despite a promising start, XYโs activities gradually declined by late 2024. With minimal new content and fewer public appearances, speculation about the group’s future began circulating among fans. While no official disbandment has been announced, there have been no major promotions or releases, leaving their status uncertain.
Where is XY Band Now?
Tegoshi at Musashino Forest Sports Plaza – March 5, 2025
As group activities slowed, the members pursued several paths with most of the group members currently working on solo projects while still promoting XY group. Jay and Yuya Tegoshi have been active in several shows and are brand ambassadors. In March 2025, Yuya Tegoshi performed at B. League Alvark Tokyoโs halftime show and held a fan meeting & public recording of Tegonichi.
Pstar in one of his brand ambassador gigs
Pstar, Kosei, and Kice have worked as clothing brand ambassadors. Though XY remains inactive as a group, their impact and individual pursuits continue to keep fans engaged.
โ-Karen Mwenda
#KCrushWhereAreTheyNow #XY #XYWhereAreTheyNow #JPop #Japanesepopgroup #Pstar #Kosei #Kice #Jidols #JPopFans #clothingbrandambassadors #kcrushamerica #kcrushmagazine #YoshikiSuperstarProjectX #BLeagueAlvark #JayandYuyaTegoshi #Tokyo #XYStupidsingle #XYYGsingle #NipponTVPremiumMusicTV #Yoshipassedaway #YOSHIdigital
From leading Baby Boo band to becoming the driving force behind N-DAY band, Bada has proven herself as a powerhouse in the K-pop industry. Originally debuting as “Shine” her transformation to “Bada” symbolizes her evolving artistic identity. With a dynamic career spanning solo and group ventures, Bada continues to captivate audiences with her striking performances and addictive tracks like โKiss Me Babyโ. Having graced major stages and built a strong dance foundation, Badaโs journey is one of passion, resilience, and reinvention. In this exclusive interview, she opens up about leadership, creativity, and whatโs next for her ever-growing career.
Bada (N-DAY) ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ
Baby Boo ๋ฐด๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋๊ณ N-DAY ๋ฐด๋์ ์ฃผ์ญ์ด ๋๊ธฐ๊น์ง, Bada ๊ฐ์๋ ์ผ์ดํ ์ ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ์์์ ์ฆ๋ช ํด ์์ต๋๋ค.’Shine’์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ทํ๋ฉฐ ์งํํ๋ ์์ ์ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ์์งํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ‘Bada’๋ก ๋ณ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ก์ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ๋์ ๋๋๋ค๋ฉฐ ์ญ๋์ ์ธ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์์์จ Bada๋ ‘Kiss Me Baby’์ ๊ฐ์ ์ค๋ ์ฑ ์๋ ํธ๋๊ณผ ์ธ์์ ์ธ ํผํฌ๋จผ์ค๋ก ๊ด๊ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ก์ก๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ๋ฌด๋๋ฅผ ์ฅ์ํ๋ฉฐ ํํํ ๋์ค ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ค์ ธ์จ Bada์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด์ , ํ๋ณต๋ ฅ, ์ฌ์ฐฝ์กฐ์ ์ฐ์์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ ์ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ์์ Bada ๊ฐ์๋ ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์์ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด์ ๋ค์ ๋จ๊ณ์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํฉ๋๋ค.
You initially debuted under the stage name “Shine” and later adopted “Bada.” What inspired this change, and how does “Bada” reflect your artistic identity?
์ฒ์์๋ โShineโ์ด๋ผ๋ ์๋ช ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ทํ๋ค๊ฐ ๋์ค์ โBadaโ๋ผ๋ ์๋ช ์ ์ฑํํ์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ช ์ ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฌด์์ด๋ฉฐ, ‘Bada’๋ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์์ ์ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ํ๋์?
A: โShineโ may not be the most instantly-understood name in Korea. โBadaโ is the name I used during the two years of going solo, after Baby Boo and before I met RJ, and it’s my favorite name.
ํ๊ตญ์์ ‘์ค์ธ’์ ํ๋ฒ์ ์์๋ฃ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ต์ต๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ค๋ ๋ฒ ์ด๋น๋ถ ํ๋์ด ์ข ๋ฃํ๊ณ RJ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๊ธฐ์ 2๋ ๋์ ํผ์ ํ๋ํ๋ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ค๋ผ๋ ์ด๋ฆ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ๊ทธ ์ด๋ฆ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ํฉ๋๋ค.
You were previously the leader of the group Baby Boo before becoming the leader of N-DAY. How did this transition influence your approach to leadership and artistry?
์๋ฐ์ด์ ๋ฆฌ๋๊ฐ ๋๊ธฐ ์ ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ฒ ์ด๋น๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ด๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ํ์ด ๋ฆฌ๋์ญ๊ณผ ์์ ์ฑ์ ๋ํ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ด๋ค ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋์?
A: As the only member at my company with ample experience in an all-girls group, I made good use of that experience in N-DAY. I hope my experience of over 10 years may reflect some of my technical and artistic aspects as a singer and idol.
๋ฐ๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ์๋ ์ ์ผํ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ด๋ฉด์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์์ ๋๋ค. ์๋ฐ์ด์์๋ ๊ทธ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๋น์ ๋๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ, ์์ด๋๋ก์์ ์์ง์ 10๋ ์ด ๋๋ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ํตํด ๋ณผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
You made your solo debut in 2017 with the digital single “#My Way”. How did this solo venture differ from your group activities, and what did you learn from the experience?
2017๋ ๋์งํธ ์ฑ๊ธ โ#My Wayโ๋ก ์๋ก ๋ฐ๋ท๋ฅผ ํ์ จ์ด์. ์๋ก ํ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ๋๊ณผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฌ๋์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํตํด ๋ฌด์์ ๋ฐฐ์ ๋์?
A: I’m not really suited to working in a team. I have met so many cool friends along the way, but nobody who was compatible as a colleague or a co-member. I was too young to realize this, however, and repeated the same mistake. If I had known this about myself earlier, I don’t think I would have started N-DAY. I now want to succeed as a solo singer.
๋ฐ๋ค) ๋๋ ํํ๋์ ์ ํฉํ ์ฌ๋์ด ์๋๋๋ค. ๋ฉ์ง ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์ ๋ง์ด ๋ง๋ฌ์ง๋ง ๋์ ๋ง๋ ์น๊ตฌ, ๋๋ฃ, ๋ฉค๋ฒ๋ ๋ง๋์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค.
๋๋ ์ด๋ ธ๊ธฐ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊นจ๋ซ์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ค์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ์ค์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ์ง ์์๋๋ผ๋ฉด ๋๋ ์๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ์์ํ์ง ์์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋๋ ์๋ก๊ฐ์๋ก์ ์ฑ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
Having been involved in solo and group activities, how do you balance these endeavors, and what distinguishes your solo work from your group performances?
์๋ก ํ๋๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ๋์ ๋ณํํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ํ๋ ๊ท ํ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ง์ถ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ์๋ก ์์ ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์ ๋ฌด์์ธ๊ฐ์?
A: I instinctively feel very strong and secure when team members are together, and even happy when we’re all together, whether it be in front of the mirror when we’re practicing, or on stage. But I’m greedy, passionate and love being in control. I want to feel the same confidence for a solo performance.
๋ฐ๋ค) ๋ณธ๋ฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ ํ์ด ํจ๊ปํ ๋ ๋ฌด์ฒ ๊ฐํจ์ ๋๋ผ๊ณ ๋ ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ฌด๋ ์์์๋ ์ฐ์ต์ค์ ๊ฑฐ์ธ ์์์๋ ํ์ด ํจ๊ปํ ๋ ํ๋ณตํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ ์์ฌ๊ณผ ์ด์ , ๊ถ๋ ฅ์์ด ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. ๋๋ ํผ์์๋ ๊ทธ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ๊ณต์ฐ์ ์ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
Your latest “kiss me baby” digital single has fans hooked. What is your song creation process like?
์ต๊ทผ ๋ฐํํ ๋์งํธ ์ฑ๊ธ ‘Kiss Me Baby’๊ฐ ํฌ๋ค์ ๋งค๋ฃ์์ผฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณก์ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ด๋ค๊ฐ์?
A: It was a hard challenge for me, as the track demanded such a different singing technique from my previous songs. โKiss Me Babyโ is a song that improves my vocal skills, but also a relaxing song to listen to while driving.
๋ฐ๋ค) ์ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ถ๋ ๋ ๋ ธ๋์ ๋ฐ์ฑ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๋๋ฌด ๋ฌ๋ผ์ ๋ง์ด ํ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. Kiss me baby๋ ๋ด ๋ณด์ปฌ ์ค๋ ฅ์ ํฅ์ ์์ผ์ฃผ๋ ๋ ธ๋๋ฉด์ ๋๋ผ์ด๋ธํ ๋ ํธ์ํ๊ฒ ๋ฃ๊ธฐ์ข์ ๊ณก์ ๋๋ค.
Your recent performances on SBS, MBC, and KBS have been well-received. How do you prepare for these appearances, and what do they mean to you?
์ต๊ทผ SBS, MBC, KBS์ ์ถ์ฐํด์ ์ข์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ป๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ถ์ฐ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ค๋นํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ค ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์๋์?
A: I’m to my company what Boa means to SM. My company began through me and acting through me in everything. Artists to come after me won’t have it as hard as me, to pave through. I also am so grateful for the management at my company, and want to be a profitable artist for everyone. I wanna be the artist to โconstruct my company’s buildingโ.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ฌ์์ ๋๋ SM์ ๋ณด์๊ฐ์ ์กด์ฌ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ฌ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ํตํด ์์ํ๋ฉฐ ๋๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ชจ๋ ์ผ๋ค์ ํด๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ด ๋ค๋ ์ด์ ๋ถํฐ ์ฌ์์ง ๊ฒ๋๋ค. ๋๋ ํ์ฌ์๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ด๊ฐ ์ด์ ์ด์ต์ด ๋๋ ์กด์ฌ๊ฐ ๋์ด ํ์ฌ์ ์์ต์ฐฝ์ถ์ ํด์ฃผ๋ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด ๋๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ฅ์ ์ง์ด์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
You have a rich background in dance. What first drew you to dance, and how has your journey evolved over the years?
๋ฌด์ฉ์ ๋ํ ํ๋ถํ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ์ง์์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ๊ณ์ญ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ ๋ฌด์ฉ์ ์์ํ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฌด์์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ ํด ์๋์?
A: I think I began dancing in grade school, or maybe as a seven-year-old in my dad’s car. I danced for sports competitions, middle and high school talent shows, for dance teams, then for collegeโฆI really love dancing. I feel the most lonely and yet the happiest when I dance. I myself am Dance.
๋ฐ๋ค) ์์ฃผ ์ฒ์ ๋๋ ์ด๋ฑํ๊ต 1,2ํ๋ ๋ ์ถค์ ์ถ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ํ์ ์ถค์ ์ถ๊ณ ์คํ๊ต์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์๋์ ๋๊ฐ๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์๋๊ณผ ๋์ค๋ถ๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ๋ํ๊ต๋ฅผ ์งํํ๊ณ ์ถค์ ์ ๋ง ์ฌ๋ํฉ๋๋ค.
๋๋ ์ถค์ ์ถ๋ ์๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ณ ๋ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํ๋ณตํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ด ์์ ์ด ๊ณง ์ถค์ ๋๋ค.
If you had to describe your personality using only three words, which ones would you choose?
์์ ์ ์ฑ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๋จ์ด๋ก๋ง ์ค๋ช ํด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ค ๋จ์ด๋ฅผ ์ ํํ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น?
A: Cuteness, a Queen, a Magpie (a symbol of hard work and luck in Korean folklore).
๊ท์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ ๊น์น
Having been part of dance teams like Babys and Happty, how have these experiences shaped your performance style?
Babys์ Happty ๊ฐ์ ๋์ค ํ์์ ํ๋ํ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ํผํฌ๋จผ์ค ์คํ์ผ์ ์ด๋ค ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋์?
A: You really do know a lot about me, I’m so flattered. I learned that the real world is oblivious to my sweat and hard work put into dancing. What a Management or representing company can do is not easy. I learned that an artist like me can’t make it on their own.ย Life is a tough dealer, I found out the hard way.
๋์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ด ์กฐ์ฌํ์ จ๊ตฐ์. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ด ๋ชธ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฃ์ด ์ถค์ ์ถฐ๋ ์ธ์์ ์์์ฃผ์ง ์๋๋ค๋ ํ์ค์ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค๋์ง๋จผํธ๋ ์ํฐํ ์ด๋จผํธ๊ฐ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ผ์ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ ์ฌ์ด ์ผ์ด ์๋๋๋ค,
์ ์ฒ๋ผ ์ํฐ์คํธ๊ฐ ํด๋ผ ์ ์๋ ์ผ์ด ์๋๋ค. ํ์ค์ ๋๋ฅผ ํ๋ ค์น๋ค. ๋ผ๋ ๊ฑธ ํผ๋ถ๋ก ๋ฐฐ์ ์ต๋๋ค.
How do you maintain a competitive edge in this demanding entertainment industry and what advice would you give to upcoming artists?
์ด ๊น๋ค๋ก์ด ์ํฐํ ์ธ๋จผํธ ์ ๊ณ์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์์ผ๋ก์ ์ํฐ์คํธ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ด๋ค ์กฐ์ธ์ ํด์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ผ์ ๊ฐ์?
A: I hope that through me, someone somewhere, maybe the other side of the globe, might come to have a dream. Just like I did watching Michael Jackson. You’ve got to work for it, go through all the pain and solitude. My competitiveness as Bada is myselt, and there is nothing I can do other than continue to improve myself. My company is discovering the necessary elements of Bada the character, from the talents that I haveย and making me into a diamond from the rough gemstone. I am very lucky to have met my management.
์ ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ง๊ตฌ ๋ฐ๋ํธ์ ์๋ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฟ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ๋ง์ดํด์ญ์จ์ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๊ฟ์ ๊ฟจ๋ฏ์ด.
๊ทธ๋ฅ ์ฐ์ตํ๋ฉด ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๊ณ ํต๋ ์ธ๋ก์๋ ๋ค ์ง๋๊ฐ์ผ๋ง ํ๋ค. ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํด์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ค์ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ๋ ์์ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ ์จ์ ํ ๊ณ์ํด์ ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ณ ๋ฆ๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ผ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ์ฌ ํ์ฌ์์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋์ ์ฌ๋ฅ๋ค ์์ ๋ฐ๋ค๋ผ๋ ์บ๋ฆญํฐ ๊ตฌ์ถ๊ณผ ํ์ํ ์์๋ค์ ์ ๊บผ๋ด์ ์ฌ์ฉํด์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ฃผ๊ณ ์์์ ๋ณด์์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฌ์ด ์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๋๋ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ง ์ ๋ง๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค.
Where do you see yourself in five years?
5๋ ํ ์์ ์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ์ด๋ค ๋ชจ์ต์ผ๊น์?
A: I am living my dream life already, on the tour for my concerts. I have paid back my company for more than I have received in support, having built up the building for my management. I will carry on with my endless album recording, music show appearances, national and world tours.
๋๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ด ๊ฟ์ ์ด๋ค์ ์ฝ์ํธ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ค๋๋ฉฐ ์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
5๋ ํ๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ฉ์ถ ์ ์๋ ์ฝ์ํธ์ ์ถ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์์๋ ์ง์ ์ ๋๋ค.
๋๋ ํ์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ฅ์ ์ง์ด์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ ๋จ์๋งํผ ๋์ผ๋ก ํ์ฌ์ ์ง๊ธ ๋ฐ์ ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์ํฌํธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์์ต๋๋ค.
๋์ ์๋ ์จ๋ฒ์ ์, ์์ ๋ฐฉ์ก ํ๋, ์ ๊ตญ, ์๋ ํฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฉ์ถ์ง ์๊ณ ๋๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ํด๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ๋๋ค.
What would you like to say to your fans?
ํฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ง์ด ์๋์?
A: I’m gonna reach the top. Come with me on my wholesome growing journey. Keep an eye on me. Love you, my babes.
๋๋ ๋์ด ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ ๊ฒ๋๋ค.
๋์ ํจ๊ป ๊ฐ์.
๋ฐ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
๋๋ฅผ ์น์ผ๋ด์ฃผ์ธ์.
โ-Karen Mwenda
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