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LEGION SALUTES ( @haelune ), LEADER, MAIN RAPPER, LEAD DANCER , SUB VOCALIST AND PRODUCER/COMPOSER of MJSA!

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INTRODUCING MΔΞSTΔR! having been a trainee for most of his life, haelin grew somewhat accustomed to the delay of his debut - whether it be the unexpected bankruptcy of the company to which he had signed before LEGION, or a life-threatening injury that threatened his career as an underground prodigy. through the hardships, however, he clawed his way to the top; drawing the world nearer to him with an array of talents and an undying charisma.

haelin never knew stability. his birth parents abandoned he and his older brother before he’d learned to talk, and he suffered through most of his childhood as an outcast - though the one thing he always did know was music. he began composing at a young age, and both his “god-given” talent and his relentless drive for success and perfection led him to master the art of songwriting and lyricism. in late middle school, he slipped past the age barrier - lying about his birth date to be allowed to perform in underground clubs under the stage name “apostle”. his height and mature appearance made this easy - but the more popular he became, the more difficult it was to maintain a level head. he became arrogant - that is, until the humbling experience of being stabbed in a night club and his original label going bankrupt caused him to do some much needed introspection. the renaissance man eventually found his way to legion, where his many years of training allowed him to debut rather quickly as the leader of a freak of nature - a chance, where all members had originally planned to debut separately. despite his lack of stability - he knows damn well how to appreciate a miracle. 

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LEGION SALUTES ( @dyetcola ), AN EDM/HIP-HOP ARTIST AND PRODUCER UNDER EMPIRE, INC!

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INTRODUCING COLA! former ‘boy nymphet’ and current, self proclaimed ‘baby baphomet’, cola’s music and styling can best be described as the boy next door. that is, if you live next door to the house from virgin suicides. a career deeply routed in internet presence and swept in old controversies, cola is known for saying and doing shocking and often explicit things, despite debuting at a tender fifteen years old. making heavy use of both aesthetic and crude humour, cola stumbled ungracefully into the rap scene on literal accident after his video for a song he made as a joke went viral. deciding to run with it because he discovered how much he pissed off elitist music fans, somewhere along the line cola decided to take it seriously, and invented pop music along the way. although his self absorbed, egotistical online persona and crude sense of humor has earned him his fair share of naysayers, he’s managed to graduate from soundcloud to the radio, perseverance and a steadily evolving and improving discography winning heart by no-homo-uttering heart as he paints south korea’s psyche his favourite shade of pink. you could say he’s matured from the pink ribbon emoji into the wilted rose emoji- you picking up what he’s putting down?

his mother never told him he had a chameleon soul, but he did relate to that lana video. it’s not that cory didn’t have a personality of his own, but y’know, the negligent p*rents and dead br*ther kind of left him without any real role models to emulate. tragic backstory withstanding, he found companionship in books until high school, where he made his first friend. haneul made his own beats, so cory decided then that he’d make music, too. rebranding to cola, he chose rap because he was always good at setting up a punchline. his songs were for him and haneul, but then the music video they shot on their phones went viral, and cola had to decide whether to pursue the opportunity. he did, eventually getting signed, and although the heat he faced from other rappers and netizens only increased, he kept his head down and pushed through, like jean grey keeping herself safe under the sea, waiting for the phoenix to rise. wait- that analogy sucks, can he start over?

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LEGION SALUTES ( @bsiyeon ), A MODEL AND TRAINEE SINGER!

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INTRODUCING BAE HONEY! honey was seen as the nation’s little sister that’s growing into a woman. in the past, she had the wholesome, younger sister concept in her modeling career. now she’s more into growing up into a woman in the public eye with her modeling.

born park siyeon, bae (siyeon) honey started her modeling career at the age of fifteen under legion ent but at the turn of her eighteenth birthday, she decided that it was time for a revamp of her wholesome, little sister image. after being just a model for about three years, working for some high-end designers based in seoul and internationally, she wanted to not only continue with being a model but also put more work into her artistic side by signing as a trainee under the same label and work towards becoming an idol. while still striving to further her career in being model, it was decided upon that acting a few dramas would help her portfolio when she was sixteen, two years before she would sign as a trainee.

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LEGION SALUTES ( @97ynachoi ), A TRAINEE INDIE AND POP SINGER!

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INTRODUCING JIYEON! Yoona is someone who is working diligently on improving her musical talents. Unfortunately, when she auditioned it was on a whim, to be close to her sister who happens to be managing MJSA. Thankfully, her talent in dance is more than impressive and helped her get by.

Choi YooNa, born in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea on September 8th 1997 into probably the most interesting situation one could think of. Her mother was a mistress of a man of the Shinsegae group, his wife an actress who died in a murder suicide. Yoona however, grew up knowing of this at all. As a matter of fact, her parents always pretended to be a real couple that decided to part ways while she was a child and she would spend time between the both of them rather equally. Her favorable looks had her in pageants as well as being a child actress. Her face was well known, up until she disappeared around the time she was ten and people wondered where she had gone. In reality, she found the truth out about her family and had gone into traumatic shock and unfortunately with the lack of mental health institutes in South Korea, all they could do was ship her off to Amsterdam. Upon her return, she found her sister and auditioned to be with Legion.

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LEGION SALUTES ( @florhythm ​ ), A RAPPER AND PRODUCER/COMPOSER UNDER EMPIRE, INC!

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INTRODUCING SHIN JANGMI! The concept she’s kept over the years is “FEAR NONE.” K. ROSE’s early tracks (pre-debut as underground rapper KEUNJANG) were full of aggression and anger. Since then, she has evolved her message to becoming one that’s promoting self awareness, self love, and expression.

Having grown up in a hostile environment, Jangmi has learned from an early age that the best way to face adversity is to fight fire with fire. She’s wasted her life away, making music and being angry at the world– accepting her fate as a dying rose. The dying rose, however, finds herself reviving in a new garden, in the form of Empire, Inc. Now she finds herself making music with a purpose other than cursing out the rest of the world for leaving her in a harsh situation. Her music style and world view has matured and she continues to make music by herself and with others, although very modestly. She hopes to show to her fans that there are other ways to recuperate from sadness and tragedy than the ones she’s known growing up.

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LEGION SALUTES ( @ohhhhace​ ), THE OVERALL LEADER, HIP-HOP UNIT LEADER, MAIN RAPPER, AND LEAD DANCER OF BEAU!

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INTRODUCING ERIC JUNG! Eric started off as Lost Boy, the underground rapper who seemed to always have issues with others in the scene. He made diss song after diss song but due to his flow and word play, people had no choice but to respect him. Unfortunately, the well eventually runs dry in the underground scene unless you’re at the very top, so he decided to audition for labels, most of which rejected him because of his known image. He found a home at Legion, though and it’s been (mostly) bliss ever since.

Eric was born to a single mother in Inglewood, California after his father decided to be with the mistress who’d gotten pregnant from their affair. Even knowing what she knew, his mother made it her job to never speak ill of Eric’s father, wanting him to form his opinion on his own. Weekends were spent with the man and his new family, Eric always getting treated horribly when he was there by his father, but his stepmother tried her best to make him feel as if he was apart of the family. This would stick with him forever, because he knew that deep down she was a good woman despite what she did to his family. He turned to music in middle school, noting Nas and Jay Z as some of his biggest influences. When he and his mother moved to Korea in high school, he eventually dropped out to focus on his rapping completely, which his mother was against, but once he made it into Legion she became supportive.

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LEGION SALUTES ( @yvungares​ ), A RAPPER AND PRODUCER/COMPOSER UNDER EMPIRE, INC!

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INTRODUCING CHOI YOUNGSU! say ‘ares’ and someone will immediately yell ‘god of war.’ coming from the underground scene and trying to manage to stay there as well, ΛRES is a young, aspiring rapper who started his official musical activities under the sub-label of the company instead of debuting in an idol group, which was a last-minute decision made in the headquarters. ΛRES, or choi youngsu, is an introvert, intelligent, and outspoken individual, hailing from daegu with a burning passion for music. he’s not your typical celebrity–and that information is not something he has come up with.

hip-hop soon became the daegu-born rapper’s favorite at quite a young age. though his admiration for the genre was tolerated in korea, australian kids didn’t see eye to eye with the beats and lyrics during youngsu’s two-year-long stay on the island. after returning to korea and settling down in seoul with his family, he decided to pursue his dream. youngsu regularly attended a few clubs for his early underground activitites - freestyle rap sessions, rap battles, friendly get-togethers. later on, choosing the alias ‘young ares,’ reflecting on the fact that he was often praised for coming up with witty lyrics, be it personal disses or social issues (therefore declaring war as ares would do), his mental health and his view on the world provided inspiration for his self-produced songs, generally dealing with depression, general and social anxiety, his family, and his miserable love life. soon, youngsu became a grown man and so did young ares. after joining empire inc., he changed his name to ΛRES but his music remained the same.

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LEGION SALUTES ( @harajooku ), A RAPPER AND PRODUCER/COMPOSER UNDER EMPIRE, INC!

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INTRODUCING HWANG MIJU! born and brought up in the rustier factions of incheon, miju didn’t value much else aside from her family and her music. people often view her as a bit of a wildcard, in that her delicate appearance hardly coalesces with her rough edges - but deep down, she’s an old soul; the kind of woman that pushes every button on an elevator, but the victims can’t help but fall for her charm. though she is beloved as the “korean barbie”, her style is heavy and unfiltered, which often gets her into some trouble here and there - but her immense talent as a rapper and producer help her to stay afloat within the seas of nonconstructive negativity. 

she didn’t even like barbies as a kid. her mother would buy them for her with what little money she could spare, but miju never played with them at all. they hardly ever left the box, stacked up on her dresser in the room she shared with her sister, prior to the both of them moving out and moving on to bigger, better opportunities. hwang miju was that girl in the class that always fought the boys and got just a little too close to the other girls - but beneath her paradoxical need to constantly prove that she doesn’t need to prove herself, she has a heart of gold. rose gold, she’d argue. her love for frills and pink came a little late, but it came hard. she wanted everything to be pretty in pink - but nothing about her tomboyish and strong-willed personality actually changed. when asked about her goals with her music, she almost always mentions how she wants to break the submissive and soft stereotypes to which women in asia are confined. to miju, femininity has nothing to do with softness, or complacence - but the embrace of one’s unique identity as a woman, whatever for her, it entails.