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INCREASE THE VOLUME with Choi GwangHee (Guest KHJ)
I am not a regular here but I would like to summarize some parts of the radio program with KHJ. Perhaps someone can do it word for word later. I just appreciate that the radio program was posted and wanted to return the thanks.
Part1
(I notice that he is wearing the same T-shirt as when he came out in the either Starry NIght or the Radio prog with the SUJU mc’s–must be recording on the same day. And he must love dogs too. I remember him showcasing a floating dog in the BOF Reunion and he also had a small white dog in his cell phone in an 2005 interview and now he is wearing a dog shirt. ke)
Choi read off KHJ’s profile and he says he wants to make some corrections.
He says recently there has been much talks/criticisms about his height.
His real height is 181 and not 182. He says he has never said his height is 182.
He likes soccer and swimming but does not play basketball well.
His specialty is guitar and piano but he says he does not play piano well.
Choi says that his profile is still perfect and, to be fair, would he have lower standards when looking at opposite sex?
KHJ says no, he has high standards. He says he likes pretty woma/em very much.
Choi asks him for his imperfect quality.
KHJ says that when he meets people for the first time, he can be very awkward/shy/quiet.
Choi thinks that is still very charming on a someone as perfect as he is.
KHJ says that people misunderstand him for that quality because they think he is angry at them.
Both talk about having done a radio and cf together before. He says that when he does cf with other people, he is very awkward but he was actually comfortable with Choi because she was very quiet with him. She says she was also quite nervous wondering what she should say if he starts talking to her but both of them were stiing in the same make-up room just looking straight ahead.
She and he say that they are both in the same talent agency but they are not that close. But they have eaten together with other agency people and he has attended some type of press conference where she was there.
He says that he does not think that he has ever been harmed due to his honesty. But he says that usually the agency worries and gets anxious when he says something in public.
Choi reads off comments sent in by fans..positive and flattering heart type of messages.
Choi says that she interviewed him when he and SS501 first made a debut back in 2005 and again as he make a solo debut in 2011.
KHJ says that he started debut at 20 and at that time he was last year in HS but rarely attended school. Plus he took one year off from school in between. He was too absorbed in music and dancing. He says he just was able to graduate and did not really experience the details of being a student in high school.
Although they are in same agency, the agency hardly have any gatherings for the members–maybe for the end of the year get together. KHJ says that he was thinking about going on Dec 24th, but was told that he did not have to go so he did not go. Choi says that she has gone to those dinners in the past but often find that she hardly know the people who come there.
KHJ says that he is going out to dinner every night a differnt person. (I think he is talking about members of his agency–nice and personal way of getting to know who is in his agency!).
Choi mentions that KHJ has been doing lots of talk and variety shows since he came out with his album. There was an article that stated that he very regretted saying something in one of the shows but KHJ did not want to talk about it and Choi does not push him…(Does anyone know what that article is or what they may be referring to??)
So the topic changes to KHJ’s first solo album and he expresses that it was very difficutl and burdensome task for him. Since he is a solo performer now, he feels very responsible and also very commiteed to his health at this time. As a group memeber, it did not really matter if he had a cold but he now has to make sure that he does not get sick to ruin any type of performance as everything falls on his shoulder.
2nd part
He says he tries to sleep early as well. Even if he goes to bed early, it is hard for him to fall asleep early. To him, sleeping early means maybe 4 or 5 AM. Choi thinks that KHJ would be a type to like playing games. But KHJ says that he is not good at games and he does not like it. TO try to go to sleep he downloaded the soft and relaxing music from a spa therapy center and tries to listen to them to help him go to sleep.
He talks about Break Down mv–most people anticipate from him to be soft like JiHoo sunbae but he wanted to break away from that image. He wanted to show more the image of young person changing to more manly image. KHJ also says that in real life his real self is closer to the image from the Break Down mv. He says that he does not like being tardy/late/procrastinating. He tends to be rough, strong, brief and decisive. He does not like long discussions and does not even enjoy meetings. He prefers to take care of things in 5 minutes. He says that he does not get anygry very much. He tends to be mooteuteuk=blunt/not very personable or social. He likes to organize his thoghts beforehand so that he can say them in 5 minutes. Choi thinks that he really is mooteukteuk but it is fortunate that he is so funny to the public.
He says that he does not like being called pretty as much as being called good-looking. But it is better than being called ugly. Our of all the terms–cute, good-looking, sexy, charming–he thinks he prefers being referred to as
“charming=mutjidah=with wow quality”.
Choi asked him to whom he gave his album the first time? She asked if he gave the first one to YonSama/ He says he has not given him any yet. KHJ bought the first 100 albums for himself. 10000albums are published and he also bought the 8666th album also–that is his birthday number. He will give to Yonsama when the first 1000 is sold. He says that he kept the first one for himself and gave the second one to someone. (he does not say who,)
KHJ says that he likes being on stage because he becomes a different person–a very confident and mutjin (powerfully attractive) person. He believes that one of the attraction of this profession is that stage somehow changes who you can be. Choi agrees with it.
Choi asks what does the song BreakDown refers to. (to me it seems like a song of seduction) KHJ says that it is not a song about knocking down someone as CHoi wondered but that it is about:: Now I am here, Enjoy.
They talk about the name of the Break Down dance–fans have named it 3rd level gear dance. (KHJ must have recorded this radio maybe after SUJU radio because, there he thought the reporters named his dance as 3rd level gear).
3rd part
His choreographer is a foreigner Libeniga (I am sure I am spelling it right–just following KHJ’s pronounciation) and his agency provided the translator for him–he is happy with that.
They are responding to fans’ questions.
He says that he is a type who does not gain weight easily. So he ate lots of protein to gain muscles in his thigh area. He does not consider himself a body builder so he eats whateaver he wants–even grilled port skin, Recently he feels that he is losing weight again. His dancer team-called artmakers or artmatics sent post asking fans to love KHJ who worked hard for the album and also wanting Choi to take them all out for a meal. SHe agreed to do it somewhat unwillingly.
He said that he does not think positively or negatively about being called 4-D. He feels that is the way people look at him and that is fine. He thinks that people close to him think it weird and funny that he is out in the public’s eyes. Choi says that she went to visit Bae YongJoon who is recovering and smiles when he talks about KHJ. KHJ says that he told Bae to dance the next fan meeting but now he is suffering from disc problem so his fans would be kind of sad about that. KHJ and his dancers were going to teach a dance move that would be a mix of tap dance music and something else but he hurt his neck area. So KHJ hopes that Bae recovers soon so that they can work on it. Choid says that Bae did not get hurt because KHJ suggested that Bae dance for his fans.
They talked about how KHJ and Bae met for the first time. KHJ’s Manager and he talked about how he and Bae sort of look alike. So Manager wanted to know if KHJ would be interested in meeting Bae. KHJ was surprised that his manager knew Bae. His manager knew Hwang siljang-nim and somehow it was arranged for them to meet in person.
Choi asked if they were akward at the first meeting since both Bae and KHJ do not feel comfortable with strangers. KHJ says that it felt amazing and it felt like meeing a celebrity. But they talked a lot and he felt like a regular person. Choi agrees that Bae is a kind of comfortable person.
Why did you want to be a singer? He felt something cathartic and amazing when he was part of the band and standing on stage since high school. In terms of acting,,,He started acting out of curiosity and slowly liking the process. He was kind of forced into acting for BOF by his agency. But started to feel the attractiveness of acting through BOF. Now he is studying hard in acting as well and realizes the work involved in acting craft.
Why didn’t he go to the solo debut for Hyungjoon and JUngmin but he went for Yongseng~At the time when JungMin and HJ0baby were making debut, he was busy in Japan. But he had the time to go and support Huh YongSeng and that is why he went. He says that SS5 memebers and he do not contact each other as much as they did before but whenever there is events or something, they do contact each other.
A fan pleaded with him not to ride motocycle. KHJ says that he did once ride a motocycle and got into a big accident where he broke ribs. Yet he continued to work when he did not complete the treatment and was in pain. So on his birthday, fans bought him a game machine that uses motocycle so that he does not ride motocycle again. KHJ says the since he does not have space in his house, he put the game in the dance practice room. He does nor ride motocycle anymore since that big accident out of fear.
Part 4
Next song is Kiss Kiss which he is making as the “after-song from Break Down” and he says that he wants to call Kiss Kiss dance, “daedenchi dance”–(daedenchi must mean something but I have no idea). @2:20 or so, he says that as the song is playing, he will show a bit of daedenchi moves. He feels kind of embarrassed doing it inside a studio which is not a stage, but he will do it since a fan wrote in a request.
KHJ says that after he performs Break Down on stage, he will reappear with Kiss Kiss and then move out of stage again until his next album. Choi says that her age group or women who are older than KHJ will love Kiss Kiss. KHJ says that most of his fans are his age group like Choi and not the people in their teens. Choi smiles at his comment that Choi is his age group.
KHJ says that he now realizes that he is not an idol because many young teen fans used to treat him like a friend in the past but now the new teen fans look at with with some dis-ease (most likely they consider him older and needing to be more respectful to him) He does not know how the singers who are younger than he feel about him because he rarely waits in the waiting room of the music programs. He finds it very difficult to wait around in those rooms so he usually goes with his dancer-hyungs to sauna to take bath and to play “who holds the longest” type of games. He says he is very close to his dancer-hyungs and they spend lots of time together everyday.
Somebody wrote in that Huh Yongseng is doing a talk show in the room next door so KHJ promoted HYS’s Let IT Go and also his own BReak Down. He will not be able to do any acting this year as he wanted to strech out his singing until the end of the year. He wil come back with acting next year better prepared. He will come up with 2nd album which is 50% completed at this point and he hopes that he can return to Increase The Volume 2x more this year and get more comfortable and close to Choi GH.
Please song is played as they say goodbye.
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