JINX’S RYAN CAST AS THE YOUNG VERSION OF SEOYEON IN UPCOMING FILM ‘ARCHITECTURE 101′ TO BE RELEASED IN JANUARY
1. [ +2,851 , -284 ] Daebak ㅋㅋㅋ Say what you want about Ryan acting but isn’t she seriously the perfect fit for this role? Anyone else would’ve gotten criticized, but as expected of our nation’s first love she got perfectly casted ~~ I’m looking forward to it, Ryan fighting!!!
2. [ +2,316 , -209 ] Is she even a singer anymore? Honestly, does anyone even think she’s going to stay with the group for much longer? She should just leave already if she’s going to keep being like this.... ah, seriously as a charm I’m so tired of her...
3. [ +1,562 , -167 ] I’m so proud of her ㅠㅠㅠ I’ve been a fan since she debuted and I support her, I think she’s seriously outgrown JiNX... I’m always more excited to see her acting projects now more than JiNX’s comebacks, I’ll always support you Ryan~
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IDOL DETAILS
STAGENAME: Rina
CURRENT AGE: 27
DEBUT AGE: 18
TRAINEE SINCE AGE: 15
COMPANY: Midas
SECONDARY SKILL: Variety
IDOL PROFILE
NICKNAME(S): lady boss – which was given to her after her fancam went viral and she started receiving attention for her sexy persona
INSPIRATION: while growing up, one of the things that brought her comfort and peace of mind was music and she learnt to love those moments and appreciate it in a very personal level. she felt she could stop thinking and just enjoy that moment on her own and that was something she took a lot joy in. when she started thinking about becoming an idol though, she learnt she could share those experiences and feelings with other people and that she didn’t have to remain alone. as for great inspirations, she looks up immensely to older groups like ses and diamant and great female soloists too, like lee hyori.
SPECIAL TALENTS:
she’s a math calculator, meaning she can solve simple math problems and give back the results almost immediately;
can impersonate some characters from movies she has watched and even some variety people.
NOTABLE FACTS:
she has a younger brother who’s also an idol. they are fondly known by fans as the ‘infamous kim siblings’;
she became popular after a fancam going viral during ‘up & down’ promotions;
she’s known for being quite friendly and a good listener, someone who befriends easily;
she failed in her audition to msg. they were her first pick, but she wasn’t what they were looking for at that moment;
had to have knee surgery in 2015 during ‘I don’t need a man’ promotions.
IDOL GOALS
SHORT-TERM GOALS:
now that she’s getting more attention and becoming a more present figure in variety shows, she wants to establish her presence as someone good at it, not wanting to give off the impression she’s only appearing on tv because she became momentously popular. she’s also preparing for her debut as a solo artist, now that she has the public to do it, she wants to spread her name as much as she still can.
LONG-TERM GOALS:
once they disband, minhee wants to keep on going with her solo career in music as well as variety. although there aren’t many female examples of this in the business, she does expect to be able to change that and become rather successful in her attempt. her aim is to become someone like lee hyori who feels free to speak her mind and to open her house to complete strangers.
IDOL IMAGE
rina has so much potential and there’s so much to explore but she’s not what people look for when they hear the word ‘idol’. that cursed word brings in people the expectation of seeing someone falling into their perspectives of beauty. the pretty and tempting but at the same time innocent eyes, the slim body with beautiful legs. when she debuts, she knows she doesn’t fall into many of those categories. being talented wasn’t the first thing to pop in the minds of the public, the first thing they notice isn’t the singing or the dancing; what they see first is the package, the image, and for her, the packing given wasn’t one that would get her much attention.
in the beginning she’s overlooked. ‘she’s a good rapper’, they say, ‘for a female idol, she’s doing a decent job’, they claim. it’s like she has nothing else to offer, so she’s stuck in a little limbo where she’s popular because she’s jinx but being in jinx also outshines her own figure. she’s not a present person anywhere, not in tv shows, not in radio programs, she’s not casted in dramas and she’s not someone fit to go solo with her lack of popularity but then her lucky strike happens.
her fancam goes viral and suddenly all eyes are on her. how could they not have seen her spark before is a mystery. she’s seen with different eyes; the sex appeal, the way she’s just as charismatic as the others, how she interacts with the public, how her smile reaches her eyes, how she pays attention to every single fan and lend them an ear. all of those little things that she has been using for years and now the public are paying attention, and they liked it. they like her.
she starts attending more variety shows, starts showing herself off more. with a boost of confidence, rina becomes someone people are actually interested in seeing. she starts getting popular for her friendly looks versus on-stage persona. despite looking intimidating, she’s someone surprisingly easy to talk to and have a good laugh with. she’s witty and she’s smart and she knows which buttons she can push and how far she can go because she has been in the business for that long, she knows how it runs.
while rina is all certain about her words and actions, minhee is less sure about many things and it’s almost palpable the difference. minhee should be dealing with this better, she grew up being competitive, working her way to become the best but sometimes she gets tired and confused. how far she had to go to separate minhee from rina. until what point is she sure of the things she’s saying, of how she acts. how much of this egocentric persona did she let in her own personality? she’s scared, she was always scared, but as years go by and her work starts becoming more part of herself, she wonders until when she can manage until she loses herself completely.
IDOL HISTORY
busan was nice and neat, her life wasn’t complicated, it wasn’t chaotic. they lived their lives as they were supposed to. her mother and father were both partners in their law office, they had two beautiful children who did well at school and never gave them much of a headache. they weren’t interested in gossip or trends as long as their reputation as reliable remained untouched. they kept the same pattern for years. no scandals to stain the family’s name, no unexpected situations to throw them off the tracks. it was all peaceful. too easy. too boring.
as kids, they were angels. there wasn’t much they could do besides playing and studying and following their parents like ducklings. minhee wasn’t one to mind the quiet and stillness of everything. she was older, she learnt to be more contained, to look after her brother, to look after their apartment if her parents were away. her brother was another story. the youngest of the house, the first son, the messiest and the loudest, the one who made their mother laugh and who was taken to go fishing with their father.
as they grew up and their interests started diverging from their shared games and mutual bickering, the house wasn’t so peaceful anymore. two preteens growing up under the same roof, they were just waiting for the hurricane to come. they fought way too much, said words they shouldn’t too often, there was always a disagreement. she always loved music classes, her parents could afford that monthly expense and minhee took them with the utmost pleasure, her brother in the other hand didn’t show any interest for anything she did, almost stubbornly so, just to be contrary of her. even at school they pretended not to be related, which was stupid because everyone knew the kim siblings.
she was fifteen when she told her parents she wanted to become a singer and they were against the idea as strongly as they could. she was too young to follow something so foolish, that she shouldn’t think that because she had a couple of dancing and singing classes that she was good enough to become a professional and lastly, if she did become an idol, who’d take the family name seriously. despite the promises that she’d hit big no matter what and that she wouldn’t bring shame to them, they were unbendable. at least, until their favorite spoke up, telling them he’d do the same and take care of minhee while they were at it.
she was boiling with fury still when she auditioned, first to msg and then midas media. both are great names, both have their respective reputations and she’s excited and anxious, still angry, but she forgets that for a second when she performs. she never goes past the first stages for msg but midas keeps her on their grip. she keeps performing and keeps going ahead, until she’s finally accepted. the young girl who may not have entered because of her looks but because she knew the basics and something else. in contrast to her, there was her prodigy brother, with his perfect styled hair and killer smile that put him in without breaking a sweat.
that became her fuel. become better and work harder to surpass him even though she felt she was the only one competing. she’s so young and so naïve. she wants to impress others but she also wants to impress herself, push herself to her own limits, do what she’s told. do singing classes and rapping classes, go on diets and present dance performances, she tries it all, she wants to be perfect and wants to be the best but she’s not competing against others, she’s competing against a shadow.
three years pass and all she worked for starts to pay off.
it’s not fair to say she’s fulfilled. even now, she’s not certain if the nights she spent sleepless were worth it, if the meals she skipped gave her any positive result. even when she had a serious injury on her knee and had to go under surgery, she felt she was lacking yet the incident happened because she was overworking herself to, literally, the breaking point. she spent months not being capable of practicing, and even then, against the doctor’s orders, she went back on stage, too scared of what could come if she remained behind. she knows that after her fancam went viral, people started linking her to the image of sexy goddess, that she’s seen more often in tv shows as much as she’s allowed for a female artist.
she’s more scared than she lets out. since jinx debut she has been overlooked, not paid much attention to, even though she was, as many said, doing a decent job as a female rapper. but she wasn’t enough. she did think that. not being enough, not being good enough, debuting for the simple reason of being available. in the back of her mind, she reasoned with herself, saying it was a ridiculous statement, that midas wouldn’t be a fool to do as such and if she managed to debut, it was on her own merit, it meant she was worth of it. but then, there wasn’t much they could do or wanted to do with her after her flop in popularity made itself clear.
she was stagnant. for a long while she did the bare minimum and it showed when she went back on the stage. she was the same as the previous comeback, and then again and again until it was all but an endless cycle. it wasn’t until 2015 that she started working at full force again, since there was barely anything of her anywhere, she didn’t want to give the public the wrong reasons to speak her name. working too hard has good and bad results and that saying was proven right when ‘I don’t need a man’preparations started. she paid no mind to the discomfort at first but it wasn’t long after that when problems started showing and there was nothing else they could do besides resorting to surgery. it happened just after they finished the shootings for the MV and a couple of weeks before they started promoting, but recovery is not something that happens in a blink of eye, and for pretty much all stages of ‘I don’t need a man’, she was absent. the dread of going back to stake one was back, she felt like she had done all of this for nothing, her injury was for nothing because despite getting better and perfecting herself, there was no way she was going to show that off. that’s when her insomnia problems started to appear and the music that used to be something she used as an escape, started hunting her down.
going back to work, even though she was supposed to be resting didn’t bring any new lights or high praises, she was doing her job and things went back to normal quickly. it wasn’t until the fancam went viral that things started to work out for her and lead her somewhere that wasn’t the limbo she lived in during those six years since debut. the sudden attention came as a shock to her. suddenly she was apprehensive of doing something that wouldn’t be good to neither her’s or jinx’s reputation, of saying something wrong or looking too eager. things turned out quite alright in the end, if she disregarded the number of antis that appeared after the sudden rush of popularity.
even now things are not as bad as it used to be but still, there are issues to bother her during the night. in all those eight years since jinx debuted, she’s more unsure than ever of where their careers will take them, if she’ll have a spot if they ever came to an end or if they’ll remain relevant. most importantly, the question is if she’s finally comfortable enough to admit that her little rivalry with her brother despite helping her craft her own start of career, was childish.
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IDOL DETAILS
STAGENAME: Yuna
CURRENT AGE: 27
DEBUT AGE: 20
TRAINEE SINCE AGE: 16
COMPANY: Midas
SECONDARY SKILL: Fashion
IDOL PROFILE
NICKNAME(S): koala, seo yeoshin
INSPIRATION: officially, she has often credited a lot of her inspiration to girl groups like s.e.s and fin.k.l noting how she watched their success as a young girl. however, much of her original love for music would come from her dad, though she would never admit to that.
SPECIAL TALENTS:
can play bass; has played on radio broadcasts during jinx’s debut era.
tongue-twisters or just basically talking fast
painting
NOTABLE FACTS:
pretty much acknowledged from fans as a “useless” member, seen as a “pretty face” in the group. she wouldn’t deny this herself and she honestly doesn’t care.
plays both bass and guitar but really only showcased her playing bass during their debut as midas thought that would be a good way to promote the group.
known for being fairly stylish and her fashion risks. can sew, used to make her own clothes before debut.
predebut pictures caused a big stir between fans whether she was all natural or not.
fans like to hype up her creative side. they often point out that she can knit, sew, and paint.
IDOL GOALS
SHORT-TERM GOALS:
currently, she’s working on her own clothing line. in terms of talent yeeun knows she doesn’t have any. but she does know about design. she’s good at sewing, she’s good at putting together a nice outfit. this is actually something she feels somewhat confident in.
LONG-TERM GOALS:
she had always been told an idol’s life or career is often brief. a small blip and then people would move on. that if yeeun was smart, and too often she presents herself that way, she would be able to branch out into a more stable career option. she hopes that the fashion industry will be the career that sticks.
IDOL IMAGE
it takes a lot of time for her to become jinx’s main rapper yuna each day. time that is spent adjusting to what the public—the fans expect of her. how she is to behave.
she is an inconsequential piece of a much larger puzzle they inform her before the group’s debut.
in the early part of their career, the company decided to market her in a rather broad manner. in short she is just supposed to be seen as pretty, doll-like they emphasize to her. she can be cute off stage if she prefers but being sexy and charismatic on stage is a must.
essentially, yuna is to ooze a charismatic quality without trying, without talking. she is kind to her members, making sure to take care of them. she is charming in a cute and eccentric way. mostly she attempts to stay happy, cheerful and refreshing.
she is silly, girly, and cute in talk shows when required. she is sexy and ethereal on stage. she is overall unthreatening. this is how she want it. it’s better for her off-screen for her to be unthreatening to the public, to be somewhat unnoticeable. it’s after the first article of her predebut photos, of her alleged plastic surgery, that she realizes she prefers to be in the background. yeeun knows yuna is untalented. so yeeun tries her best not to hold the other more talented members in jinx back.
behind the scenes she is only slightly different than her tv persona.
where yuna is a bit more quiet and aloof at times.
yeeun is chatty, sociable, and more of an airhead.
her manager had joked once while they had been out drinking, three years after their debut, that yeeun would be perfect for variety shows if she never opened her mouth. meaning, she had a great face and worked hard but she was stupid. so stupid it would ruin the groups image. it was enough to get her to be more quiet. because yeeun, above anything, else wanted the midas to know she was dedicated. dedicated and hardworking.
IDOL HISTORY
1997 "you’re so pretty,“ wrinkled hands cup her face "my puppy.” the summer sun paired with her grandma’s hands fill her with warmth. yeeun studies her face, there is nothing she wants more now—at twenty-seven than to go back to this moment. to be able to study her face again. to outstretch her hands and feel the curves of her face. the older lady’s laugh lines had always been her most prominent feature yeeun recalls, it had always been her favorite feature. that smile. a glowing reminder of who she was before she had gotten sick.
she tries to mimic it often. to find that same light her grandma had hidden in that smile. that warmth that her grandma had exuded, she envied many people in her life but nothing came close to that desire to be more like her.
“you’re lucky yeeun,” plump lips stretching into that soft smile “the world is always so kind to girls who are this pretty.”
1999 "come here sit with me yeeun.“ she’s cautious, cautious small hands fumbling with some toy, cautious little eyes looking at anything but the man sat on the living room rug. "my pretty little yeeun.” he slurs out while his calloused hands strum his guitar. the air feels thick, tacky with moisture and the room is illuminated filled with a dusty orange light, her favorite color.
she hates when he’s like this. she’s too young to know what’s wrong just that something is wrong. that something is different, is off about him. evident in his smell and speech.
they often did this; he would call out to her or put some record on or play something for her and she would dance. or they would both dance together. he would pick up her fragile small frame and sit her on top of his feet so they could dance together. so he could show her the steps. sometimes, she would sit on his lap and he would guide her fingers along the guitar strings.
but on occasion, like this one and many more to come, he would be different. a cigarette hanging from his mouth and his breath smelling of alcohol.
yeeun often felt sad for her youngest sister who she knew didn’t have memories like those. the good ones. where he was whole and alive and sober. no she was stuck with the ones just like this one. where his speech would slur or he would stumble or worse fall and yeeun would feel her face go hot with embarrassment as if someone she knew would see and know, know that her life wasn’t perfect that her parents weren’t perfect.
and then, eventually, he would be gone too like her grandma.
2003 "mom,“ yeeun pushes the lump in the bed with as much force as she can muster at twelve "mom, get up, we have to go to school.”
she knows it’s useless, since her dad passed earlier that year her mom had barely moved. “it’s normal,” her aunt had explained to her one day “she’s just tired.” her family repeat the same mantra. yeeun she’s just tired. yeeun she’s just sad. yeeun it’s normal. don’t worry, it’s to be expected she just lost the love of her life. she’ll snap out of it but none of that is true, she never does, not really. not fully.
“mom, will you at least watch yerin while i’m at school.”
“your aunt will be here soon.”
“i know, but it’ll be at least two hours before she can make it after i leave.”
“okay,” she grunts as she tears herself from the bed “okay i’m up.”
the image of her mom like this sticks with her. hair a mess, eyes stained red, and so devoid of any feeling. yeeun, again with a hint of envy, had always loved her mom’s eyes. they were captivating and yet soft, always gentle looking at anyone with love and understanding. that had disappeared completely after her dad had passed.
“yeeun,” she turns to her mom before walking out the door “thank you.”
she pauses her mom’s eyes soften it’s the last time they look like this. the first time in months she has seen some emotion from her. or has seen her mom at all.
“i’m sorry yeeun.”
2007 "i have to leave yerin.“ she confesses this to her little sister one night. the air thick with summer heat while they lay in their bed. yerin had taken to sleeping with her that summer. clinging to her side at any chance she got. yeeun doesn’t know why she admits this. it will only cause chaos but she couldn’t hold it in anymore. she turns to face the child fast asleep next her, arms wrapped tight around yeeun. pulling at her heart. guilt filling her body.
carefully, she moves her sister’s small arms off of her as she looks for her brother. she needs to tell someone. she feels like this is a revelation and yeeun has never been one to hold anything in. even if she knows better.
"jun?” she whispers out his nickname, his real name he hates and continuously asks her to call him something else. ‘anything else.’ he tells her one day. she doesn’t ask questions just obliges. she finds him outside, the familiar smell of ash and nicotine indicate where he is.
“can’t sleep either?” he greets her with a smile that she can barely see only visible because of the end of his cigarette. “you know me.” she huffs out as she joins him. she hasn’t started smoking yet, but she does enjoy keeping him company while he does. it’s more like she just enjoys the late night conversation. he’s nineteen and already the bags under his eyes are too visible. he’s nineteen but for some reason she’s the one who is stuck taking care of their family. she tries not to resent him for this, even now.
“look at what someone gave me today.” she hands him the card. the name printed on it she can’t remember but the company prestigious. she can remember running her fingers over the indents numerous times. dreaming of escaping and running away to seoul. he chuckles before handing it back as he flicks a bit of ash from his cigarette.
“you can’t sing yeeun.”
“so, a lot of singers can’t, besides i can play instruments and i’m pretty enough.”
“wow,” it comes out in disbelief at her confidence “everyone in seoul is pretty enough.”
“we could use the money.”
“mom won’t let you and you’ll break yerin’s heart.”
“i can’t stay here jun.”
2009 “what about you yeeun?” she knows the question is coming. yeeun realizes early on into her trainee days how obsessed they all are with each other. how each of them got there. how each of them were built. how the competition sizes up to one another.
she wonders if any of them really truly care about her story or care about her at all.
but, regardless, she tells them. because yeeun isn’t built for competition. she wasn’t crafty enough to be calculating. tells them how she left home at sixteen despite her mom’s criticism. tells them, in detail, how she got up early one weekend to take a bus and then to board a train just to get to the midas building. she tells them of her audition because they of course ask about that too.
“i played bass.”
“you play bass, since when did you play bass!?”
“yeah, since i was little,” she pauses and shrugs “my dad taught me.”
“oh does he teach?”
“no.”
yeeun finds it easier to not mention him being dead. she doesn’t appreciate the false sympathy and it doesn’t really matter anyway. it’s true that she played bass but she had done a number of things. she had sang and danced too, but she knew that wasn’t why she got in. they had even told her that at the time. it had been a collection of: “you’ll need to work on your dancing.” “she can’t sing.” “but i can see potential.”
and once yeeun is done telling the trainee of her simple beginnings the conversation moves on to another trainee. onto whether miyoung will be able to debut or if siyeon will be kicked out for her scandalous past or if sooyoung has lost enough weight yet.
her story getting filed away in a large storage of girls who might not make it.
2011 "you’ll need to fix your nose.“ someone in the company tells her this one day, early before they can debut. it’s the first time she hears she’s anything but beautiful. she cries to herself that night, alone in her dorm away from prying eyes. the only thing she had been confident in and it too is taken from her so easily.
she listens, however, to show her dedication. a few days later she obeys and visits a doctor. and after her recovery period is up she is bitter to admit she looks better.
when visiting her family one weekend, a rarity, yerin is visibly upset over her change. jun just laughs. she is bitter, once again, that he was right.
2013 "she’s so lucky she’s pretty.” yeeun hears it often. even well after the groups debut. she knows it’s true too. she isn’t a strong dancer, she isn’t a solid vocalist, she isn’t even good at rapping. her supposed position in the group. she is oddly unremarkably shaped and colored piece of the puzzle that is jinx. not really fitting in anywhere.
the public points out her past photos often. as if, being naturally pretty would have made her being untalented more bearable. yeeun admits they are right though, she is lucky. lucky to have member of jinx forever attached to her name. no matter where the group ended up, it’s a title that she knows will help her in some way. she is sure of that. even a new name—yuna (they tell her it’s prettier than her real name) to erase who she was completely.
2016 “you’ve got a good eye.” jun yells trying his best to get his voice to reach her as they make there way to a table hidden away in the restaurant away from the large crowd. she mishears it smiling as she accepts the compliment “thanks, i got them touched up about a week ago.”
he rolls his eyes as he sits down across from her at the table. “no, i mean like a good eye for clothes, you fucking idiot.” she isn’t sure what brings it up or even how to respond. it must be written on her face, though yeeun has never been able to mask her emotions with jun. a problem with knowing each other this long.
“you mentioned last week that you didn’t know what you were going to do if the group split up,” he shrugs like the destruction of what is essentially her whole identity is just a simple thing to shrug off “i’m just giving you some ideas.” she tries to ignore the knot in her stomach, the panic, this causes.
“i’m sorry, i just thought it was important to you.”
“no, you’re right i can’t just keep living off jinx without branching out.”
“right,” he smiles “so that’s why i was thinking, you should look at how you could get into the fashion industry.”
“you’re too excited about this.”
“well you know how i feel about you being in a girl group.”
“no i don’t,” she stifles out a laugh “tell me how do you feel about me being in jinx?”
“it’s fucking weird,” he pauses as if waiting for her to laugh or to ask a question before he unravels “i mean it’s just weird watching your little sister do these objectifying things for the attention of random strangers. to hear about you from old college friends wanting your number or asking if they think they have a chance with you. also it’s especially fucking weird that you’re so relaxed about you having work done. it’s like i’m talking to a totally different person.”
“are you done?”
they both go silent a stark contrast to the bustling atmosphere of the restaurant. she feels her face go hot. feeling like that child again caught in embarrassment with her drunk dad calling out to her. she knocks back her drink, the sting of the alcohol burning her throat as she gulps it down. yeeun orders another one quickly before jun opens his mouth again. it’s going to be a long night.
“why don’t you quit?”
“why would i quit.”
“cause, yeeun, you never get to see me or yerin, you get no sleep, and honestly you look a fucking mess right now.”
“thanks.”
“i’m just saying it doesn’t seem worth it.”
“well it is.”
2019 “have you talked to mom lately?” yerin’s voice calls out to her over the phone. no matter how much time passes yeeun can’t help but feel her heart melt at her sister’s voice. still seeing her as that little child she left behind. guilt forming a lump in her throat making it difficult to answer. “no,” she manages to get out before clearing her throat “have you?”
“fuck no,” yerin laughs “not since i moved out for college. which is going great by the way thanks for asking.”
“i’m sorry,” she tries to bite back any sadness from her voice “i’m sorry i couldn’t make it to your graduation too. they wouldn’t let me off for it.”
“it’s okay i still love you.”
“i love you too.”
the line goes silent. yeeun exhales knowing what topic is going to come next she can feel it. she takes a long drag from her cigarette before exhaling again. she’s at least thankful yerin can’t tell she smokes, yet. it would cause her to spill into one of her long lectures about yeeun needing to take better care of herself. these have become more common now that yerin is on route to becoming a doctor.
“jun called me to talk about you.”
“oh yeah?”
“yeah, he says you should call him and thank him for his genius idea.”
“i’ll talk to him after he apologizes to me.”
“i wish you guys would stop dragging me into the middle of things.”
“okay,” yeeun laughs “okay i’m sorry but he did start it.”
there’s another long pause after yeeun’s laughter dies down.
“i saw one of the jinx members on tv the other day.”
“yeah, i think some of them have been pretty busy right now.”
“i miss seeing you on tv since you’ve just been doing photoshoots and stuff lately.”
“i miss you too.”
“are you guys having a comeback soon?”
“fuck if i know.”
“geez, i just thought i’d ask,” yerin sighs “are you busy at least?”
“i’m working on something i can’t really talk about it, but it’s something.”
“at least you’re getting work.”
“yeah guess i should thank jun after all.”
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IDOL DETAILS
STAGENAME: N/A
CURRENT AGE: 28
DEBUT AGE: 20
TRAINEE SINCE AGE:14
COMPANY: Midas
SECONDARY SKILL: Variety
IDOL PROFILE
NICKNAME(S): Soojung Bolt, because no one outruns other idols (or their problems) the way she does
Hot Body Soo, self explanatory. Thank god the excessive exercising paid off.
Sooj, it’s ugly but it’s there.
INSPIRATION: Pushed by her friends from school who recognized her talent, Soojung auditioned with quite a few of her friends to various idol agencies in hopes of making it big and debuting in a group together.
SPECIAL TALENTS:
athleticism: she runs fast, and puts her all in korean wrestling. there’s a rumor rookies pray they don’t get pitted against her at ISAC
cooking: [ +44, -489 ]: wow she cooks so well for someone who looks like they only have rocks in their head, i’m so fcking hungry just looking at the screen
one-liners/cursing: Jeolla-do’s finest one-liners, insults, and curse words, she knows them all and will share them with or without express permission
NOTABLE FACTS:
younger brother is Seoul FC’s center-forward Nam Taewoong, does not seem to acknowledge this fact very much if at all
has admitted to getting plastic surgery on her nose, eyes, and jaw probably to her manager’s extreme chagrin
was once punched in the face by an Olympus sasaeng after leaving practice, has since distanced herself from the group publicly
prior to her viral fancam was nicknamed JiNX’s most prominent backup dancer” by less-than-kind netizens
IDOL GOALS
SHORT-TERM GOALS:
She’s not an idiot, or at least she’s certainly not as stupid as everyone seems to suggest she is. Banking on new found popularity Soojung’s number one goal is to monetize as much as that popularity as she can, if she can possibly make herself known as something other than the girl who pelvic-thrusted her way into the nation’s attention she wouldn’t oppose that either.
LONG-TERM GOALS:
Nothing lasts forever, certainly not the career of a female idol and though she may not admit it, at least not publicly, she knows there’s nothing left for her once contract expire. She’s too old to continue to pretend that she enjoys putting on cutesy acts or playing dumb and funny for public consumption. In the end, she’ll sink into obscurity and hopefully with enough in the bank to live comfortably in her self-imposed insignificance of an existence. While not ideal, as far as Soojung’s concerned it’s certainly better than aging in front of a camera trying to retain some vestige of a career built off of her late-teens and twenties. Leaving in dignity is the ideal.
IDOL IMAGE
She’s supposed to be like this.
The better part of seven years practicing a relatable smile in the mirror every single day, twenty minutes a day. She’s supposed to be the girl-next-door-turned-sex-pot, or whatever it is her CEO said she was supposed to be. She can’t remember what he said in that meeting all those years ago, it’s not like it matters anyways.
She’s supposed to be like this. Smiling dumbly, content with her lot in life, pretty in a sort of forgettable way.
Maybe that’s what the CEO told her. Smile pretty and let people think what they think. She can’t remember anymore.
If they think she’s an idiot, so be it. That’s what she’s supposed to be like; glib and sedate. No one wants a girl who’s mouth runs a mile a minute, snapping in satoori without a second thought, curse-words decorating sentences like they’re just another adjective.
The people want a girl who’s demure, who knows what to say and how to say it. No one wants the real girl they grew up next to, they want the idealized image of what she should’ve been per societal standards. Pretty with a mouth tinged with the taste of blood, a tongue with noted teeth marks along it’s edges.
She’s supposed to be this fucking fool.
Her manager says no one really wants the reality of who she is. A girl that drinks more than she should, a girl that spends her days off bared-face practicing recipes and watching documentary after documentary. No one begs to see the girl who jogs down the street with her over-sized dog because she’s reformed from her wild child days into a grown woman with a painfully average existence.
People want fantasy, people want the grandiose. Nothing in the reality of who Nam Soojung is at her core fits the desire. But she’s willing to play the part, smile blankly at a camera and basks her in new found fame that’s seven years too late to do her any real good, move her hips in a way that makes tongues and fingers wag all the same.
It’s all for the money.
It’s all for the love a desperate little girl was looking for ages ago.
None of it really matters, but she’ll give it a go. If only for a life worth more comfort; pride isn’t worth half as much as everyone seems to claim it is. Not when her checks cash so nicely and everyone bends over backwards to tell her how they adore her.
It’s all bullshit but it’s fine.
This is who she’s supposed to be.
This is who she’s supposed to be.
IDOL HISTORY
Life is told in five parts.
i. Her father’s life is ruined the day Soojung is conceived. She knows this because he tells her just as much over the years.
Nothing is as awful as getting saddled with a baby you don’t want to a girl you don’t love. A lack of control born out of lust and a bottle of beer, that’s all she owes her very life to.
He never lets her forget.
ii. Soojung is good but Taewoong is better.
Maybe it’s three years that make the difference. Maybe it’s their parents halfway falling in love with each other. Maybe it’s just the fact that he’s a boy and the youngest and she’s a girl and the oldest.
Things always work out differently for the pair of them. Even if their mother insists they’re loved equally; the disparity is as obvious as the sun.
The son gets lauded with praise, and the daughter is weighted down with lectures. Halmeoni says this is just how the world works, her mother was raised the same way with her younger brother; it’s just how things work.
Soojung hates it all the same; hates her brother a bit too just for making things that much harder.
No one cares if she runs fast because Taewoong’s always faster. No one cares if Soojung gets first place at a talent show because Taewoong has brains in his feet and the football scout said he was a prodigy.
No one cares about Soojung because the world revolves around Nam Taewoong who clings to her like a shadow.
She can’t stand him, not really. Not when she’s the only one who sees him as he is, a sniveling brat who steals away affection and has the nerve to beg her for it too as if he doesn’t get enough.
Sons receive too much and daughters too little in their home.
It’s the way life is but even still she can’t stand it.
iii. The story goes like this:
Soojung, Eunhye, Minsoo, Kyungwan, and Jinah all audition for Midas entertainment. Ride a train up to Seoul and try their hands at fate.
The details get muddled in the middle. Someone says it’s because they’re all Gemini fans, a group of men singing sweet songs and gyrating motivates a group of teenage girls from bumfuck nowhere to make something of themselves. The other version of events is Jinah’s a great singer, Soojung is the best dancer around town, Eunhye is the prettiest girl any of them know, Minsoo’s hilarious and a decent dancer, Kyungwan has a nice voice and charisma no one can touch.
They’re the perfect girl group set to take the nation by storm. Only nobody knows it yet.
It’s all just a fairy-tale though, Soojung still remembers the truth.
She begs and pleads her friends to come with her to Seoul. Fills their heads up with stupid little dreams, her stupid little dreams, and convinces them they have the God-given talent to be someone the whole nation wants to know. She begs them because she doesn’t want to be rejected alone in a city she doesn’t know.
She lies. She lies. She’s a liar.
No one she knows is as talented as her. Jinah is only okay, Eunhye’s pretty only to countryside eyes, Minsoo can’t dance but she tries her hardest, Kyungwan has the kind of personality that only gets you far in Jeolla-do.
But Soojung’s different. Soojung has life in her bones, vitality in her steps; a God-given talent. People flock to see her back home, they only watch the others out of polite respect.
All of the stories end the same way.
Soojung becomes the only trainee, two of the others go to other companies but end up back home with the rest of their cronies after a few years.
Soojung is the only one who matters in the end.
iv. Halmeoni sends her letters every week. They all read the same way.
Be pragmatic, be kind, be resilient, be strong, work hard.
It’s as if she knows he only granddaughter has turned to a holy terror. Divine intuition, she thinks it’s called.
Arrogant, teenage vain-glory takes hold. Soojung is good and so is everyone else, and they’re all vying for the same stupid little spots. Familiarity breeds contempt breeds a bitter girl who’s a little crueler than necessary because she can be.
Insecurity breeds a girl who pushes herself too hard in every which direction because she’s desperate to be someone who matters, desperate to be another face smiling on a screen for millions to be seen.
She wants to be loved, she has to be adored. Her confidence is too fragile to accept any other option as a possibility.
So Soojung does what she has to. She gets the plastic surgery some higher up suggests with the smaller face and bigger eyes and nicer nose, learns how to be more charming, gets a crash course in the world of sex appeal and what it means and what it earns girls like her.
And when the day is done she runs over to her little group of friends who are just like her with frayed nerves and driven solely by hormones and desperate desires.
It pays off in the end, she knows it does.
v. In a way, it’s all for naught.
All the blood, sweat, and tears. All the wasted hours spent in a practice room, all the youth she wasted living for some desperate desire that she could be adored.
It’s all for nothing.
People like her, but only as Soojung, the other girl in JiNX. No one really loves her as Nam Soojung, most people don’t even care.
Nothing really matters because she’ll never be the nation’s first love. She could claw her eyes out to be the nation’s second or even third love, but everything pales when she stands only a few feet away from the first.
Her father always used to tell her brother, “if you’re not second you’re last.” Soojung doesn’t understand what he means until she’s standing five feet behind the nation’s first love and two other people who are a little bit more than she is.
Her manager says it’s a lack of versatility that’s the issue. She can’t act, she can’t really sing, she can’t rap, all she can do is dance. It doesn’t matter if she’s funnier than everyone else. It’s what people pick up on and run with that matters. Girls who are relatively funny are a dime a dozen.
No one cares.
Even still, Soojung pushes herself a little harder to be someone people could love. She smiles brighter, eats less, works out more, makes herself more attractive in the ways society demands, moves a little more sensually. She could be the nation’s second love or even third love. She’s willing to settle.
Still, no one cares.
She runs fast, she laughs loudly, she looks every fan in the eye, acts graciously, pretends it doesn’t hurt that people call her a fucking fool, pretends she doesn’t know the internet calls her the nation’s first back up dancer. It’s back-breaking work to get the love of the public and it doesn’t pay.
No one cares about Nam Soojung, not really.
A rumor of an iljin past complete with bullying, smoking, and underage drinking comes out. Midas releases a statement about a nice girl from the outskirts of Gwangju who used to write her grandmother every week as a trainee complete with pictures of letters and her grandmother who smiles with closed eyes and a chubby arm raised.
Another rumor flies around about a relationship with an Olympus member floats around Pann. Pre-debut photos of her with her old nose and smaller eyes and bigger jaw, and there are notes from crazy fans about how she’s hung around their boys for too long, desperate for love and affection. A few comments she’s just desperate for attention. Then it culminates with a girl punching her in the eye one day after practice for the next comeback and Midas releasing a statement about criminal actions and false allegations with no proof.
A million rumors could brew, none of it means much until it’s far too late for her Soojung’s liking. No one cares until Soojung no longer bothers.
The girl who’s desperate for attention feels a lifetime away by the time Soojung finally gets the notoriety she spent years searching for.
It turns out pretty smiles into cameras and painstaking work don’t win a nation’s heart. It’s all hip movement that leaves little to the imaginations and smiles that say “come fuck me” is all that anyone wants.
But it’s too many years too late and Soojung can’t truly be bothered by the time what she’s looking for finally finds her.
“I’m not so needy for love these days,” she tells her manager when he asks why she doesn’t seem happier about her situation, “maybe when I was younger but none of it really matters now that we’re at the end of the road does it?”
Adoration, as it turns out, is overrated. It doesn’t win her father’s love, doesn’t make her better than Taewoong. It doesn’t make her relationships any better. Doesn’t make her feel any better any better about the pitfalls of a somewhat pathetic life that she only regrets in retrospect.
All the time she wasted wanting to be loved. All the years she wasted screaming into a void, being the worst possible version of herself. All the time wasted living as a human train-wreck that only serves to disappoint. A nation’s love doesn’t make up for any of it, not the way she thought it would.
There’s too little validation for her liking.
In the end, the belated affection of a nation only earns her more work and grief. Still, the love of a nation lines her wallet nicely and maybe that’s all that matters to Nam Soojung these days.
I wasn’t expecting a lot from an idol actor... but maybe because the movie was so nostalgic and poignant I totally fell in love...
Really I forgot she was an idol for a moment. I forgot everything and just loved the story. It was really a good film, everyone should go watch it right away! The ending is so bittersweet but it’s a perfect first love story... Ryan.... you’re really the first love of the nation ㅠㅠ this oppa became a fan ㅠㅠ
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1. [ 카카오 라이언 ] I admit I’m a fan so I’m biased, but wasn’t Ryan’s acting better than expected? She really suits this sweet and melancholic kind of role.
2. [ ㅇㅇ ] I used to think her image and visual was just so-so compared to actresses, but she did really well this time... I’m looking forward to more, Ryan good luck!
3. [ ㅇㅇ ] I’m a fan and I’m happy for her but... does she even care about being an idol anymore? I’m really worried about JiNX... we didn’t get any awards for 2018 and their status in the industry is unsteady...she should be focusing on JiNX more than herself...
-- what is she supposed to do if no one is buying albums? ㅋㅋ of course she has to establish herself however she can what a joke.
LOADING INFORMATION ON JINX’S MAIN RAP AHN ROHUI...
IDOL DETAILS
STAGENAME: N/A
CURRENT AGE: 27
DEBUT AGE: 20
TRAINEE SINCE AGE: 15
COMPANY: Midas
SECONDARY SKILL: Music production (hip-hop and r&b)
IDOL PROFILE
NICKNAME(S): 로양이 (play on 고양이/cat), 희로 (her given name backwards, lit: emotions/feelings), 희로안 (her full name backwards, play on the english pronunciation of “heroine”)
INSPIRATION: in interviews, rohui always mentions that diamant is the reason she wanted to become a singer, but her fans know that she is a huge nixie fan.
SPECIAL TALENTS:
can do vocal impressions of other artists (boa, yoon mirae) and a few classic cartoon characters
able to freestyle verses that aren’t cheesy
can read lips, making lip-reading games easy and not that entertaining
NOTABLE FACTS:
was a trainee under cel entertainment and was training to be a vocalist before the company went under; trained with midas for about two years before debuting with jinx
between the time of cel ent.’s closing and rohui joining midas, she momentarily gave up her dream of becoming an idol and joined the indie music scene
was briefly enrolled at knua as a film making student, but dropped out once she became a midas trainee and knew she was going to debut; always says she wants to go back to school and finish her degree
invests the majority of her money in property and donates a hefty sum to charity throughout the year
IDOL GOALS
SHORT-TERM GOALS:
rohui would like to get the opportunity to write b-sides and title songs for jinx, other groups in midas, groups outside of midas, and become more well-known for her songwriting abilities. although she enjoys making songs and posting them on soundcloud, she would also like to reach a wider audience with her music. she also has a desire for working on her individual, personal brand more, giving the public a better image of herself so she can further her career in any direction she wishes with little to no trouble (and whether she decides to stick with midas or not).
LONG-TERM GOALS:
she doesn’t see herself as being an idol forever. transitioning into a full-time producer is one of rohui’s long-term goals. she would like to be able to work from home and be out of the public’s eye, earning enough money from royalties to live comfortably in a sizable home in jeju while keeping an apartment in seoul for business purposes. she also has the pipe dreams of going into filmography and moving overseas to expand her career into foreign markets.
IDOL IMAGE
‘fake it until you make it’, a phrase rohui heard a lot while jinx’s career was still fresh. getting used to the personality midas media had prescribed her proved to be more difficult than she thought. always the more rebellious one, she was relieved when she was told that her idol persona was close to her real one. what stressed her out was that the company’s definition of ‘rebellious’ and her own were quite different.
the abrasive, flirty bad girl that fully embodied the more feminist-based lyrics of their songs, the representative 센 언니, the one who was allowed to throw caution to the wind at times: this is what she had to be. it was, and forever will be, cliché to make the rapper in the group the wild one; it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that rohui hated it.
in reality, rohui wasn’t this harsh character she had to portray. she tended to keep to herself and judge from afar, only putting herself out there and getting into certain situations if it was truly necessary. rohui was never a boisterous extrovert nor a four-dimensional oddity, and neither was her idol persona, but at times it felt like it. between show hosts commenting on her un-ladylike characteristics and fellow idols expressing that she was too intimidating, she began questioning herself. it made her wonder if she had changed on a fundamental level, becoming what others thought of her instead of what she knew herself to be.
as she got older and as jinx’s concept changed, she was expected to behave more mature – a double edge sword. for years she was used to being more risque than the rest, it was a difficult switch. at least, now, finding balance between who she is and who she has to be is a lot easier.
IDOL HISTORY
rohui’s life could be summed up in four distinct parts: crisis 1, the avoided crisis, crisis 2, and crisis 3 (along with various miniature crises along the way).
CRISIS 1.
surprisingly, it wasn’t getting into an entertainment company that was the hard part, it was staying in it.
the fifteen year-old rohui entered cel entertainment as a vocal trainee through one of their many auditions. at the time, passing an audition seemed like the hardest part of it all. later, the hard part was maintaining non-failing grades in school while training her mind and body at the company. what the true test was, however, was what happened when cel entertainment ceased to exist. everything she and her fellow trainees were working towards had suddenly disappeared, training proving to be useless unless the company was alive.
she took this as a sign to stop trying. while others immediately went auditioning to other companies, rohui switched her focus to her education. even though she had been set on what she wanted with her life while training at cel, her parents still made her take the college entrance exam and enroll at a university. while going to college was some’s plan a, it was her plan b.
cel closed its doors early 2010, near to when her first semester began which gave her no time to breathe and process what had happened. she went from training, to devastation, to the unfortunate reality that studying was never (and will never be) her forte, back to devastation. as much as she loved film, the program she was enrolled in at knua, music was one of the only ways she kept herself sane.
late 2009, rohui made a soundcloud account unknown to cel entertainment. she’d post her crappy reworkings of various songs and a few shitty originals along with some vocal covers. one of the many things she regretted about her training at cel entertainment was not taking advantage of the music production classes. at least that could have been useful. after cel had dispersed into dust, rohui kept posting and developing her own sound.
with her interest in music still strong, she started to enter the underground indie scene, making a few friends and featuring on a few songs, none of which made it further than the cd they were burned on. for a few months, it was fun. it almost seemed like she’d be happy with doing music as a hobby and pursuing film full-time. almost.
THE AVOIDED CRISIS.
if anyone were to ask, rohui would say that no, she wasn’t actively looking for another company. she had just started her new life contract-free and was enjoying the fresh start at university, making new friends and having new experiences.
that was only partially true. the reality was that she had became desperate.
she couldn’t make becoming an idol her entire life now though, she had already done that. there were ways to get into another company, but each never worked out. audition times for what seemed like every company worth auditioning for didn’t match up with her schedule and skipping more than one class in a program like film was like begging to be failed.
only a month after forcefully being removed from the trainee life, a stranger handed her a business card after asking her if she was interested in becoming a celebrity. the introduction was abrupt yet welcomed, and she took the card willingly, promising to call the stranger the next day to set up a time to audition. this eagerness faded on the bus ride home, though, rohui second guessing the encounter the entire ride. there were plenty of stories on cyworld about fake companies and fake recruiters from real companies luring desperate people like herself into giving them money. could a fake audition really hurt anyone? the only answer she could come up with was ‘no’, and if it was a real audition for the real midas media, then her idol dream just might not be over yet.
the next day she called and the next week was her audition. she was asked to sing, rap, dance, and model until the recruiters said it was enough. with their stoic faces and busy pens, rohui guessed her fated chance at entering the company was slim to none. but as fate would have it, she passed.
(kind of avoided) CRISIS 2.
don’t get her wrong, she was ecstatic to learn that she was in the debut lineup for midas media’s new girl group. her only problem with the whole situation was that she spent the last four years training her voice to sing, not to rap. rohui had a little less than two years to get the basics of idol rapping down.
all of the little things were proving to go wrong: rapping instead of singing and not fully embracing her girl group persona to name a few. then she heard ‘bad girl, good girl’ – jinx’s debut song – for the first time. the only part that could vaguely be labeled as a ‘rap’ was the lyrics at the very beginning and at the very end. the rest of her designated parts were more singing-based. crisis avoided? not entirely. just because one song didn’t have any real rap verses didn’t mean she wasn’t going to have to continue to practice. at least she had until 2015 to really get her act together when it came to rapping.
(rohui would later learn that the real crisis stemming from this period in her life was the 10 year contract she had signed. at 20, 10 years of being an idol didn’t sound that bad. she’d later realize that living her life by someone else’s rules would turn into her own personal hell).
CRISIS 3.
2014 to 2016 was a terrifying time. jinx came into the music scene with one of the best debuts in history; they were able to beat out so many other groups and survive, but this period made rohui think otherwise. the seven year curse had turned into a five year curse, and she could see their career beginning to sink.
with jinx’s career looking like it was going to tank, she didn’t feel like it was worth being an idol any more. there were too many rules to follow, too many people to keep happy, and she didn’t have enough time for herself (let alone have time to even be herself). although there was a part of her that wished jinx would survive, there were also shards of hope that midas would give up on the group.
in october of 2015, around her birthday, she had convinced midas to let her reopen her soundcloud account she had previously closed. even if she was done with being an idol, she wasn’t done with music. the past four years were filled with her practicing jinx songs and rohui creating her own, finding her own musical color.
the beginning of 2016 also saw another social media account opened by yours truly: a youtube channel. rohui convinced midas to let her open her own account by telling them part of the truth. it was a way for jinx to gain more fans, by the lucky few that would stumble upon her videos, and retain current fans with new weekly content. what she didn’t say was that it was a way of her solidifying her own fanbase, just in case the whole girl group thing went down the toilet.
then 2017 came and the resurrection of jinx in the public’s eye happened; all plans of succession were gone (until her contract was up).
THE VARIOUS MINIATURE CRISES.
no idol’s life is clean-cut without any scandals or hardships, rohui isn’t the exception.
1. with jinx being shoved so violently into the public’s attention, violent words splashed right back at them. the first miniature crisis came shortly after debut. she never saw herself as fat or gross, but that didn’t stop the public from thinking so. rohui couldn’t count how many comments about her chest and thighs she read, just that it was enough to prompt a series of odd diets. she tried eating a small amount only once a day, just drinking water, eating only bananas, and it got to the point where comments switched from her being ‘too fat to be an idol’ to people saying she ‘lost her charm’ and looked sickly. rohui struggled with her weight until 2016. that was when she let go of any care of what others thought of her.
2. if reopening her soundcloud and starting a youtube channel weren’t enough, in late 2017 rohui was asked to be a long term radio show host and was able to create her own show. of course her fans were happy, but there was some pushback from others. she was labeled a tryhard who didn’t care about jinx anymore and was told she was acting like a different person and not being herself (when she had been acting like a different person the entire time, only now showing the world her real personality). the songs on her soundcloud were more of the r&b genre and her youtube channel featured her love of film, books, and music production. having her radio show ‘wilted, bloomed’ aligned with these interests didn’t seem like a stretch to her. she knew from before that it was impossible and impractical to try to please everyone, this situation only solidified this fact even more.
3. reading a book was the last thing she thought would bring controversy, but ‘kim jiyoung, born 1982’ did just that for her in november of 2017. it wasn’t even like she paraded the book around, holding it above her head and shouting to the world ‘hey, look what i’m reading’. instead the very top of the book – just enough to show the title – was showing out of her bag at the airport. once one of the journalist pictures started circling the internet, some of her fans started showing their true colors. they burned her photocards, ripped her posters, unfollowed her on social media (after leaving hateful comments), vowed to never listen to a jinx song again, and declared rohui to be feminist trash who should be eradicated from the earth. there would never be a time where she would be able to understand the minds of men, so she wasn’t about to start now. she wasn’t going to apologize for her beliefs of equality or change herself to be liked by those fans.
4. this time she knew exactly what she was doing. it was interesting how just one instagram post can cause a hurricane of hate. in the summer of 2018, she posted a picture of herself in the studio wearing a top, but no bra. in all fairness, she forgot she wasn’t wearing a bra while taking the picture and only noticed when she went to go upload it. ‘funny’ wasn’t the word she immediately thought of when she saw her name trending on naver or when all of the ‘is she losing her mind?!’ comments came in. looking back on the situation, it did prove to be funny. just the outline one slightly showing nipple through a completely opaque, black shirt turned a good portion of people who cared about her on their heads. rohui would upload a few more braless pictures here and there; maybe she was losing her mind, but she was also still making money and doing things she wanted to do.
5. everyone needs to have fun sometimes, rohui is no different. apparently celebrities aren’t allowed to have fun the same way normal people are, but that didn’t stop her from going to a few night clubs here and there. when she was younger and just starting her career, there was no time to go out. if there was, she made sure to disguise herself the best she could, putting on wigs and makeup different than the style she’d usually wear. now though, she has stopped caring. on december 31st, 2018 she went out with a few friends to a club in itaewon, got drunk, danced, and someone decided it would be a great idea to film her and post it on twitter. to her surprise, there was way less criticism than she’d thought there would be. people thought that this made her seem more human (thank god, because she discovered she really, really likes going to clubs).
some may say that her life as an idol has already climaxed and is falling, and she would say that they were right. rohui has little to no desire to resign with midas and is even counting down the days. she doesn’t see it as an end, though. instead, her life will finally begin as soon as that contract concludes
HAEYEON BRAVES THE COLD WINTER IN SEXY CLOTHING WITH ‘DALLY’ DEBUT
1. [ +1,984 , -182 ] ???? Charms?? What charms?? All she showed off was too much skin... no wonder kids these days are all a mess when their idols all look like this...
2. [ +1,461 , -159 ] F*ck you guys are just a bunch of prudes ㅎㅎㅎ Why can’t she dance sexy like this??? If you don’t want to watch it, then don’t click on it~ Did you not see the 19+ rating? Ah seriously, you’re all so annoying... Anyway, the song and the dance is so good, Haeyeon fighting!!!
3. [ +963 , -86 ] As expected of a JiNX member ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Trying hard as always with their controversial music videos, tsk she’s not even a bad singer... why didn’t she just use her voice instead of her body like this
-- Did you even listen to the song? She did use her voice very~ well ^^ So what if she wants to use her body too, it suits her well...
1. [ +1,918 , -197 ] Wow... I’m just speechless....
2. [ +1,523 , -151 ] The song’s much better if you just... don’t watch the music video ㅋㅋ But seriously, the song’s exactly my style?? If only she didn’t try so hard for the music video concept.. ah... ㅠㅠ
3. [ +1,038 , -96 ] I’m a charm but... isn’t she going too far...? It’s freezing outside, Haeyeon unnie, put more clothes on ㅠㅠㅠㅠ What a shame, the music video really doesn’t show her talents off that well
