After School's Nana for Esquire magazine October 2013 Issue
Nana on her promoting as After School & Orange Caramel member
“Promoting as both After School member & Orange Caramel member is a difficult task for me. Today I dance and sing like a powerful woman who seems to be able to take over the world, like Jeanne d’Arc. But then the next day, I have to transform into a childlike character and do a lot of aegyo. At first I cried a lot, because there’s no Orange Caramel in my imagination of my singer career. Before the first broadcasting(of OC), I couldn’t go outside with performing costume on.
Now I got used to it. After School’s Nana and Orange Caramel’s Nana is the same person. It’s great since Orange Caramel received more love than expected[…]”
Nana on her teenage years.
“I had no idea what ambition is. I didn’t even have a goal. In fact, I just lived without knowing what should I live for. There’s a saying: “The fool wanders, a wise man travels”. I didn’t wander and I didn’t travel neither. So what was I? Am I just no one? I can’t get why I lived like that.
Even when I lived like that, I do have interest in becoming celebrity. Because I was tall and slim, I thought of becoming a model. But right then, I happened to know After School, a powerful/strong group that really stood out from other girl groups at that time. And for the first time ever, I have a goal, which is to be able to stand on stage with a powerful image (like AS).”
Because for the first time I became amibitious, I feel like I’ve change. Of course I’m scared. My friends were also worried about me. But people like it. These days I’m more famous in Japan than in Korea. To be honest, I both love and hate this side of me ( a celeb ).
Nana on her future
“I don’t want to graduate from After School. I want to keep promoting and releasing albums with After School and Orange Caramel in my 20s. In my 30s, I want to challenge something different from what I have done. Maybe jobs related to skin care or make-up. AT THAT TIME I want to be known as my real name Im jinah, not After School’s Nana anymore”
