Slaying the cute innocent bright concept, then ruling the independent woman embracing her femininity/sexuality persona and now they're coming with their new fun summer anthem ala Loving U/Hot Summer.
WHAT KIND OF TALENT?
Where ARE the lies though?
They are SO versatile. I actually think they have one of my favourite discography's in the whole of K-Pop. Even their nugu songs are bops.
I'm sorry, I love "Stay With Me", it would be part of my Rise trinity if I could say that I genuinely enjoy 3 songs off that album but the styling...
What is this Korean male obsession with being what used to be deemed "hood/gangster"? GD is looking a mess, I don't get it. I can't accept looks like this after he and Taeyang did their thing at mens' fashion week. C'mon now. ..
But for the performance, it was cute. They're great together when Taeyang is being Taeyang and GD is being GD.
YG has continue the domination with Taeyang coming in at Number 1 on Gaon Weekly charts. With the Rising continue with his next artist we will soon find out.
And for those who want to know here is SM's performance director's interview coming out as Bisexual...I saw someone asked for reciepts...he also works personally with EXO
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Sports Seoul met with composer Hwang Sang Hoon (24) for an interview published on January 8th. He’s famous for the memorial song released last year for the second battle of Yeonpyeong.
◆ "2013 was the year I receieved a lot of love [from the public], I want to be honest now."
- Coming out doesn’t seem to be such an easy decision to make….
It wasn’t an easy decision, but I received a lot of love from the public last year after I made the memorial song for the second battle of Yeonpyeong. I found myself in a situation where my cell phone number was revealed on social networks or on forums and I received dozens of phone calls and texts of support a day. I can’t tell you how thankful I am. Seeing this, I wondered which behavior I should keep. I could have repaid people through good music and activities, but more than anything, I felt it was important for me to be sincere. I found the courage to tell the truth I was keeping to myself. I’m bisexual.
- Is it true that no one in your family or your friends knew about this?
4 of my high school friends I’m really close with it knew it because they gave me unconditional support. They are friends who were by my side when I was figuring out my orientation. After finding out, they’re the ones who gave me constantly the biggest support. I don’t know about my family. My little sister knows, my parents don’t know yet, but they believe in me.
- Since when have you felt a change in your sexual identity?
I felt contradictory feelings when I was in high school.The feelings I had when I saw girls, I felt them toward men too. The first time I felt it was with one of my 4 close friends. I was a teenager back then, so I thought "I’m mistaking friendship for love". He was a friend who was mentally and physically strong. This was the first time I was so overwhelmed by someone, it was subtle. I realized that my feelings for a guy more mature than me were exactly the same than what I felt when I saw a girl.
- You must have gone through some hard internal conflict on your own.
I wondered if this was me wandering because I was young. I was a smart kid who was thinking about going to Seoul University, Yonsei University or Goryo University (t/n: they’re top 3 universities). At this important time I needed to think, I had to deal with all these feelings as well as the suicide of someone from my family. To make things worse, I found out I had a brain disease. The doctor said that since I would carry this disease all my life, the most important for me was to not get any mental or physical stress. I couldn’t go to the college I wanted, from that moment I was really shaken up. I felt I was in hell at an age when I had a brilliant future ahead.
- When did the doubts turn into certainty?
Instead of figuring out my sexual orientation because of some particular occasion, I figured it out through a natural process. "I’m a bit different from other people", "this isn’t some fleeting wandering" are the kind of thoughts I had. I came to understand it through thousands and thousands internal conflicts. My own judgement was important, but I read public material about bisexuality and I realized it was exactly my story. If you can say I was still between this and that when I was in high scool, you can say I was sure at 22 after I finished my military service.
◆ "The army changed my life."
- So you had worries from between the moment you graduated from high school when you were 20 and the moment you finished your military service when you were 22. Wasn’t the army life difficult for you?
I turned 20 and I spent about seven months doing some awful wandering before going to the army. I told myself "let’s see how far you can get messed up", so I even worked for a host bar. I just did any shameful thing that could be morally criticized without even realizing it. It wasn’t about expressing my anger about the world and other people, all of this was directed toward me.
Suddenly, I looked in the mirror, I realized how wicked I had become because even my gaze was mean. I thought I wouldn’t be able to put an end to this lifestyle on my own, so I decided to go to the army. Since I have a brain disease, I could have served under active duty or be exempted, but I wanted to serve as an active-duty soldier, so I applied to be a conscripted policeman. You asked if the army life was hard? It radically changed my life.
- You’re saying it changed your life?
Each weekend, I was ordered to do volunteer work at nursery homes, centers for the disabled, lonely senior citizens’ homes. At first, I hated it because it smelled and it was dirty. Just a few months before, my job at a host bar let me have money that no 20-year-old person could even touch and I was living a good life the way I wanted to. Because I had been corrupted by society, it was hard. A month passed, then two, then a year and I realized I had changed. The real happiness isn’t about basking in pleasure, I realized that it was offering my life to others with small sacrifices on my part.
While I was serving as a conscripted policeman, I arrested more than 200 criminals such as thieves, con artists, rapists. These were the cases we had the most. Before I got discharged as a sergeant, I personnally made the emergency arrest of a suspect in a group murder case in Daegu and I received commendation from the Daegu police station for this. The serious crime squad detective(s) also struggled when they received it (?). (laugh) I washed away my previous life, I worked hard while I was serving and I got discharged. My life had made a 180° turn in the end.
- To the point where you were able to be sure of your sexual orientation?
As I was healing myself, I also came to terms with all this internal conflict. "It’s nothing to be ashamed about", "let’s do it right now", "let’s acknowledge myself", that’s what I decided to do. After my discharge from the army, I was sure. It’s not about loving "men" or "women", my orientation is loving "a person".
- When you live a one-dimensional life, compared to homosexuals, isn’t it easier to hide that you’re bisexual?
You’re right if you’re asking if my intention was rather to experience hardships on purpose. However, what I’m saying is that I love "someone" [for the person he/she is]. It’s not the binary logic of "man" and "woman". I think it’s nothing to be ashamed of or shy about because it’s [still] a person who loves another person. There are still a lot of bisexual people who hide, I hope that they will get strength after my coming out. Gay, bi, lesbian, transgender and all people from sexual minorities are human beings. It’s just a matter of different preferences.
Yes sunny, Bom is kind of infamous for having Yang Hyunsuk tinker with her face with his fat little fingers. She's like the female version of Leeteuk only with much more done.
Yes sunny, Bom is kind of infamous for having Yang Hyunsuk tinker with her face with his fat little fingers. She's like the female version of Leeteuk only with much more done.
well. i just made a little research and what i got is that plastic surgery is something very common in Korea....
well. i just made a little research and what i got is that plastic surgery is something very common in Korea....
It really is. I think olympic said something earlier about them all having to be the same which is pretty true, especially with the appearances. There's a standard for Korean celebrities and until recently it was pretty much a necessity to get surgery if you wanted to be an idol (especially if you were with SM).
Props to YG since he seems to be the most lax on it, see Daesung and Lee Chanhyuk. I think Bom's was always a lack of self-esteem.
I forgot abotu this mess...
