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190420 SHINHWA: CHAPTER 4 CONCERT DAY 1

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If I were that girl, I would wipe there forever l eng: orangebox

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I AM NOT JEALOUS

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Weekly Idol’s special MC Andy can’t be reigned by the script or his hyung

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I need to rewatch this episode.

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Hi there.

I had been missing from tumblr for LOOOOOONNNGGGG time.

I just scrolled back through my timeline and really miss this home.

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Message to themselves in 20 years ago collection

Part 3: Kim Dong Wan begging himself to delay bulking up his muscles for more time to be most popular Shinhwa member for a year

Thanks Eng translation: malpabo

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Message to themselves in 20 years ago collection

Part 2: Andy warning himself not to follow Hyungs’ naughty requests

Thanks Eng translation: malpabo

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Message to themselves in 20 years ago collection 

Part 1: Shin Hye Sung warning himself not to do pineapple hairstyle  Thanks Eng translation: malpabo

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I’m back

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INTO THE SHINHWA l watch on vlive

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S H I N H W A T W E N T Y : A L L Y O U R 2 0 1 8

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Goodbye, to all Andy stans out there

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Bad hyung Lee Minwoo

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These crazy bros just showed their kiss on IG cos it’s Minwoo’s Bday

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Junjin: "Shinhwa exists to this day. Shinhwa keeps going forward"

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Shinhwa's advice on how you should and should not do during fansign event. We, Shinhwa Changjo, are willing to share this with all fandoms.

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dongwan’s genuine concern

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'' Sechskies selected as the best first generation group '' what do you think about it? I am quite pissed off actually

Honestly, I didn’t know about this LOLLL until you told me (I don’t follow allkpoop you see >.>) It says it’s chosen through a poll voted by netizens (which I didn’t even know..), so it depends on the demographics. Like say if Sechskiesfanswere super hardcore on the voting while not a lot of our fandom knew about it then the results are obvious. Either that or it’s cuz Sechskies just reunited and came back again so definitely a lot of attention would be on them. Since it’s a poll solely based on netizen voting and not conducted on a fair sample size of the general public, or even by industry professionals, I don’t really care much about it to be honest hahaha ><

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Well, let’s think about this. SHINHWA has mostly older fans, since they’re off and on in their comeback schedule. I’d imagine they’d have some new fans occasionally but, BTS is much more popular right now. Plus they’re ageing, and appearances matter in this industry and most kpop fans these days are teens or young adults.

g.o.d is has aged too, kind of, but they’re in the same boat as SHINHWA. Less intl fans I’d bet as well, their music style hasn’t really kept up with the times. Put it this way, I have a very hard time finding other g.o.d fans.

SES did come back, but I felt like they were swept way under the rug. Might be wrong, but there is a decent bit of sexism concerning female groups. Especially since they’re moms. I can’t imagine that they gained many new fans.

H.O.T… Well. Especially with Heejun’s recent marriage there’s some scandal. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s not many of us that are new fans. And they’ve aged… A lot. Some would say badly, but. I’ll always love my boys.

Sechkies have a more upbeat style I think than the others, and have really played up fan service. They also signed with YG, So I imagine they got a lot of fans that way. They also have aged the best besides SES in my opinion, the curse of the Vampire looks good on them. Given that Seunghyun and Jiwon still look disgustingly youthful, I’m not surprised that they have a decent amount of new fans.

Given that allkpop is by netizens, and that it’s mostly international fans that use it, I can easily see Sechkies being voted to the top. Do I agree with it? No, despite my love for them.

I want to put a disclaimer that I am not trying to diss any of the aforementioned groups. I’m not sure if other groups were on the polls, but I know these are more or less in the media currently. I don’t really pay much attention to SHINHWA but I am favorably biased to all the others, so that may conflict with how I see things.

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I understand that you may not know much about Shinhwa, so I’m going to fill you in on that.

If your definition of “older fans” is 30s, 40s, then no, Shinhwa’s fans are mostly in their 20s. They do comeback almost once every year to accommodate to our work/school lives, in the years when they don’t, each of them still has their solo activities. Yes, we do have new fans every now and then. I’m not sure why you mentioned BTS here but let’s move on. “Plus they’re ageing, and appearances matter in this industry”, that I have to disagree with. Shinhwa’s visuals are definitely up there, and we are talking about the whole group. Call me biased but they’ve aged better than most groups, literally like fine wine. A picture is worth a thousand words:

“g.o.d is has aged too, kind of, but they’re in the same boat as SHINHWA” No, they aren’t in the same boat, as I mentioned above on them aging like fine wine. “Less intl fans I’d bet as well”, Shinhwa has a fair share of international fans, more than g.o.d I would say, unless you’re comparing to groups like BTS, then that’s another story. On music, Shinhwa’s always coming back with jams and trying out new genres, new styles for every comeback. Unlike most 1st gen groups, they don’t milk nostalgia. And they definitely did not “reunite” like those groups, they’ve been in the game for 19 years, coming 20 years soon and more to come. To keep up in the industry as an idol group for that long of a time is truly a feat. So, no, they aren’t on the same boat as any of the groups you mentioned.

I can’t say for the other groups because I’m not a fan of theirs. But one thing I would like to mention is, a lot of fans don’t stan a group based on their looks, sure some might, but it isn’t looks that make a fan stay in a fandom, it’s their group dynamics/interaction, it’s their music, it’s their characters that make a fan choose to stay.

And FYI, it was a poll by DCInside, a Korean community site, not Allkpop (I mentioned Allkpop cuz they reported the article). So the voters would be Knetizens, not international fans. I still stand by what I answered. It wouldn’t be accurate to pick the best first generation group through an online poll voted by netizens, as it would be a popularity contest instead.

And lastly, it’s Sunghoon, Kang Sunghoon, not Seunghyun.