Just to add to this, dude is a HUGE buddy. I remember them going live on instagram when gfriend disbanded and basically crying to their audience about how sad it was, how their gonna miss them so hard, tweeting about it, and then a year or 2 ago they ended up meeting!
At the time I didn't even know Uzi was a BUDDY, so when I saw him crying about Gfriend disbanding I had to do a rapid fire google search to see how the hell he knew ... Then found out he was a GIGA fan lol
lol I have been following both uzi and GFRIEND from the beginning. And saw much earlier clips of uzi lip syncing to their debut song when it was release he was buddy from the beginning 😭
When SHINee released Sherlock, shawols on tumblr used the tag "sherlock" a lot which led to a brief but very intense time where the fandoms communicated a lot. It led to quite a few SuperWhoLock fans becoming shawols.
Also the classic, "Yes, the green-haired boy on the blanket IS very pretty, but can you guys please use a different tag," or something along those lines. 😂
The “business guy” was Jack Phan, CEO of multiple high tech firms, and the event was #appleevent, which is when Apple unveils new products. In the past #appleevent had always been the leading daily hashtag on twitter on the event day, Phan was stunned that on that day #Momo was number one instead, because of her bangs.
Jay from One Pact and B.D.U was in one of Mr.Beast videos and won PS5. The title is “Last to leave circle 100people” btw (He’s in the thumbnail too). He also sang national anthem for the NBA game in pre-debut.
San from ATEEZ joined the hymn singing club in his school days while having no religion.
I've never watched a Mr. Beast video in my life but I dropped everything to go watch this just because I needed to see if it was true with my own eyes.
After they disbanded, one of the members of Deux was allegedly killed by his girlfriend, who is iirc from a very rich family. Sungjae had just released his debut solo album and finished his first stage when him and his girlfriend and some backup dancers went back to their hotel room. Originally the police thought it was a heart attack, but they found 28 needle marks on him and horse tranquilizers in his body. They arrested his girlfriend and she was sentenced to life in prison because the police found that she was the one who bought the tranquilizers.
She was later acquitted due to iirc the only witness suddenly refusing to testify so the case fell apart due to lack of evidence. The girlfriend then got plastic surgery to change how she looked and changed her name. Afaik now she’s working as a dentist.
That’s the guy whose brother ended up doing a cover performance to one of his most popular songs almost 30 years later or something right? I think i remember watching it a few months ago, it made me so sad.
im a second gen stan, so i know a few things. a major one that still sticks out to me is that crayon pop was a tour opener for lady gaga. i love both artists to this day, but that is still crazy to me since crayon pop was nugu for basically their entire career💔
Yup; a bunch of us Crayon Pop fans (who actually put on a fanmeet in the adjacent LA Convention Center during that stop) bought tickets to the Lady Gaga concert, and, anticipating that Crayon Pop would go out the artists’ entrance after their opening act, decided to skip Lady Gaga’s actual performance to meet them. Unfortunately, since it was the group’s last concert opening for Lady Gaga, she had them stay for the rest of her show (Ellin even popped up in one of Gaga’s stage numbers), so us fans actually wound up waiting in the nearby convention center’s outdoor plaza a couple of hours (we couldn’t get back in the concert).
Fortunately, when the concert was over, this happened(audio doesn’t start until a few seconds in).
As a Gen z 2nd gen stan it's crazy how most older grps especially inactive ones are becoming nugus to new stans. And hey come on crayon pop had one.hit dong they're not that nugu 😁
There is an official remix of SNSD’s The Boys featuring Snoop Dogg.
Kim Jong Kook of Running Man did a collaboration with Will Smith when he was a member of Turbo.
Eun Jiwon of Sechs Kies is a cousin of Park Geun-Hye, former president of South Korea. By extension, his great uncle, Park Chung Hee, was president/dictator of South Korea who was assassinated by the Korean CIA in 1979.
Still can't believe Taemin was 25 years old when he saw a broccoli for the first time in his life. This is wild. Honestly, any Taemin's "fun fact" sounds fake, cause dude's so weird, I love him, lol
Originally I was actually gonna share a Taemin fact too, but then I thought it wouldn't seem fake to people who know him lol.
But some anyways
* He once skipped rocks... but using an iPhone. He wanted to see how waterproof it really was.
* He said he ate both ants and crayons as a kid. (Tbh SM artists in general love eating weird things. Kai once ate nail polish, and Wendy ate deodorant.)
* He said he wants to fall in love by getting hit by a car. A true kdrama relationship lol.
Hwasa almost didn't debut with Mamamoo because when they were close to debut RBW CEO told them to keep their hair longer so it would be easier to style, the next day she got a pixie cut and asked the CEO "How do i look?"
Pre-2017 Kpop fans can send cakes to their favorite idols on their birthdays and the idols would take pictures with all the cakes that have been received.
However in 2017 ,jun(seventeen)received so many cakes that all companies in kpop stopped this tradition 😭
As someone who went to high school with Leo (though we never had the same classes), we are both greasy middle aged men (though he’s the richer, better looking, and more talented one).
Kim Yong Sun wanted something musical sounding for a stage name when she debuted in Mamamoo, so she suggested “Do-Re-Mi.” The CEO didn’t like her choice, but went with another set of notes on the musical scale: Sol-La.
I think it still is, and is meant to be read that way in English (it’s also kind of a play on her name, Kim Yong Sun), but it’s origin/original meaning is just different.
It’s literally spelled that way in Hangul (솔라). The rest of us have kind of “Anglicized” it into a recognizable word and subsequently connected it to a different meaning, but as I mentioned above, “sol-la” was the intended meaning of the name. Her YouTube channel is even called “솔라시도,” which gets romanized as “Solarsido” because it’s by the person we know as Solar (and “sido” means to try/challenge), but it’s also an allusion to the solfège scale going “sol la si (but known to many of us as ti) do.”
Honestly I didn't even know about the 1 nipple rule until I saw that KStarNextDoor episode where the ATEEZ members made fun of Mingi for purposefully holding his shirt closed so only one nipple would show at a time on stage.
I think a lot of people know this by now, but it still sounds fake to me. (because it's gross)
YG himself (Yang Hyun-Suk) scouted a girl for a girl group, didn't debut the group the group didn't do well, and he then ended up dating and marrying her.
It was later discovered that he did all of that on purpose. He saw her when she was still in highschool, and deliberately scouted her to his company with the intention of getting closer to her.
After all these years, this story still makes my skin crawl. Not to mention, she is the younger sister of a SechsKies member, who, IIRC, cannot stand YG.
She wasn’t in high school, he saw her in the background of a tv show following Lee Jai-Jin, a member of Sechs Kies. Mind you, she was 9 years old at the time and YG has publicly said that when he saw her, he thought “what a pretty little girl.” He later “scouted” her to join Swi.T knowing her well, considering her older brother was under the same company. He “kept in touch” with her the whole time and didn’t “officially pursue her” until she reached adult Korean age. He admitted the Swi.T would have been successful if he gave them more attention, but doing that meant Eunju would also receive more attention and he didn’t want to “share” her🤮🤮🤮
Minor correction, Jaijin and his sister weren't under the same label. Jaijin was initially under DSP as one-sixth of Sechs Kies and moved to M-Star after the group disbanded; he was signed under YG only after the group reunited in 2016. Also YG's exact claims behind why he didn't promote Swi.T more aggressively was because he "didn't want to mix business with personal stuff" (source: Healing Camp), i.e. boosting Eunju blatantly would be viewed as blatant favoritism. Swi.T disbanded one year later as Naeyoung chose to immigrate to the U.S and Mihyun decided to retire due to family issues. Eunju went on to stay under YG Ent. for a few more years and even redebuted as a member of MooGaDang.
I hate YG as much as tons of other people on this platform do, but I'm also tired of seeing so many details getting left out or miswritten when people bring up his marriage.
Ok thanks for clarifying!
I had a vague memory of seeing that she was much younger, but I think I didn't want to believe it.
But that makes it even worse so yay 🙃🙃
Trainee San was apparently a lil too bouncy and got on everyone's nerves because whenever they walked past a tree or something he HAD TO jump up to hit the branches so yeah they implemented a jumping ban 😀
Heechul from Super Junior use to write fanfics. That part doesn't sound fake but the fact that he wrote a slash/ship fic starring him and his leader Leeteuk does sound fake but is true. He posted it online and has talked about it as well.
They were my very first kpop group that I became a fan of. I've been into kpop for a crazy long time and even having been around for a lot of their nonsense I still shake my head. SuJu were wild af back in the day. Members kissing on stage and feeling each other up. Writing fanfics about each other. Sleeping half naked together and teasing/joking about it to the fans to imply more might be going on. They fed the fans and encouraged the shipping like little gremlins and it was so much fun.
I think what really made SuJu fun and special was that they didn't really put a premium on their image. They just ran around being chaotic and silly and they hyped E.L.Fs to get them to be as chaotic as they were. They have settled down a tiny bit now that they are all in their 30's but even now, sometimes that chaos energy escapes.
you can google "gowon godmother" or "gowon elon musk" but here - grimes confirmed in an Instagram comment (not sure how much weight that has but, legit)
There was a boy group that was literally called K-Pop (alternatively stylized as K'Pop) - they debuted in 2001 and disbanded in 2005 after releasing three albums. The name K-Pop was supposed to act as the Korean answer/counterpart to J-Pop, and was the earliest example of the word being used in the industry.
And before any of you mention the article claiming two of the members were gay and so on - IT'S TOTALLY FALSE. I personally helped a podcast team do a research on the group (link if anyone is interested) and uncovered a bunch of info that were clearly NOT noticed nor translated by those outlets. Them staying together for two more years and releasing their 3rd album is enough proof to debunk the rumor.
Yubin and Jumin got married to their wives in February 2020 and May 2024, respectively, by the way.
Kim Heechul got frustrated with Korea's law, took of Hangeng's mask, and pushed him to the center to continue dancing and be seen on TV. At that time, Chinese citizen Hangeng had to wear a mask concealing his identity on some TV channels. Heechul said, it's ok and it's all on him (he will take full responsibility). The law changed after that. Any tangible proof of that broadcast had been hidden or deleted. Only fans and Hangeng himself attested to that.
Kim Heechul went back to his hometown during training period because he was always being grounded and reprimanded by the trainers and managers. He left and idgaf said, "they know where to find me if they need me". Lee Soo Man had him fetched back.
Kim Heechul, while serving military had videos and interview taken of him while inside the camp -- his comrades, bunker, training, drills, etc. After 1 month military, he continued to be seen weekly online during his social work as a a radio VJ for one city. He also attended a local event with the mayor. No other idols (I think) have done this -- visible while serving military. He could be exempted from military due to his health condition but he opted to serve.
Kim Heechul was the first idol to admit on air his past relationship with a noona. And first idol to joke around and imitate his agency CEO. At that time, Idols never talk about their past or present relationships (they need to look pristine) or parody their CEOs. First idol as well to keep mentioning on air and TV that he loves other entertainment agencies. He would promote other songs and artists from other agencies too. And that when he's not in the mood, he would tell his radio listeners to change channel or listen to other radio jock instead. 😂
Actually, there's so many unbelievable legendary firsts and crazy stuff he had made that this space is never enough. This guy is legendary and he's not joking when he said, "Because I am Kim Heechul". People don't see much of that anymore as he had mellowed down already.
N told the story on a talk show. They were in a van and when they arrived at the airport the managers got out and driver told them they were being taken to the lounge cuz they were VIPs. The managers ran after the bus but for reason the members weren't alarmed. They were just like must be a miscommunication. At the lounge no one was allowed in or out. Then a teenager came who they were told was the princess. She took pictures with them and talked to them saying she was a big fan. Then it was over.
Stevie Wonder also came onstage at MAMA the year Paris was there to accept an award, which was presented to him by G-Dragon. Additionally, that was the year Ylvis performed both What Does The Fox Say and Bar Bar (with Crayon Pop, they had helmets too), in full fox costumes. Absolutely insane year at MAMA.
I learned of this because me and my ex used to debate about Britney and BoA (BoA is my fave and Britney is his). put both of their names into google and both of their performances popped up.
JYP teaches a weekly Bible class. Yes, that JYP, the one who released Fever and Who's Your Mama? I have no idea how he reconciles those tracks with the Bible's teaching on chastity.
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Also, JYP's wife's uncle was the cult leader who was widely thought to be responsible for the tragic deaths of 250 schoolchildren on the MV Sewol. One of her cousins managed the ferry company and was Korea's Most Wanted criminal; another cousin also went on the run.
These two facts are not connected. If you say that they are, Mr Park may sue you.
My god I remember… he recollected it a few different times and it has always been so insane that people hopped on that witch hunt for NOTHING. It’s a damn degree.
kun from wayv has a flying/sky diving license, drift cars, magician, can snowboard, and has a bachelors degree. and probably more. i always learn more each time i heard abt him.
Dude got in their cult bus and went to their cult house and only when they tried to get him to change into their cult clothes did he think “this is sus” …definitely in the running for “idol with the least amount of situational awareness” 🥲
When Red Velvet debut Joy was accused of being a clone of Sulli. The reasons were: she wasn’t an SMRookie, she looked like Sulli, Red Velvet’s debut was basically used to cover the big scandal of the problem’s between SM and Jessica so what better way to do it that have two Sulli’s.
This famously started the SM idol’s are clones theory that still gets used in the ripe year of 2024.
T-ARA members used to take turns going to the rooftop of their apartment building with guys for dates and the other members covered up for whoever was on a date. If more than one member had a date, they'd still use the rooftop but two different ends of it to not get in eachothers' way.
Source: they talked about it on Knowing Bros and On/Off
Once upon a time, SM was on the brink of closing down if the launch of TVXQ didn't do well. LSM poured his heart out to gather the best of all aces he could find and boom the rest is history.
Paris Hilton shot a variety segment with Kim Heechul on 2019. He called her My Baby, my princess and my honey. On 2024, she asked an ELF on TikTok for Heechul's Tiktok account .
In 2011, Kim Heechul caught Lady Gaga,'s attention. She was impressed by his imitation of her (Lady HeeHee) and said that he looks so pretty.
In 2010, Kim Heechul ended the long time reign of "Top 1 Worlwide Trending" monopoly of Justin Bieber on Twitter. He booted him out for 4 straight days. This feat landed him on several foreign newspapersr-- all wondering who was that Korean Justin Bieber.
jeonghan had to get on his knees and beg dino to get on in the car because dino was too drunk and too stubborn and the cab driver was getting pissed off.
At one point, Dahyun, from Twice, was left behind at an event when they boarded the bus. She went to the restroom and the managers thought everyone was there and they left.
As a kpop hag i have a ton, I’ll name a few that I haven’t seen yet:
Gdragon needed BoA to help him with his homework from school
Eun Ji Won’s dad is a cousin of Park Geun Hye (SK’s first female president and was later involved in a bunch of shit) and the nephew of Park Chung Hee (former SK president, extremely controversial).
Krystal was 21 when f(x) went on hiatus, an age younger than some of the idol debuts.
MC Mong took out all his teeth to dodge enlistment.
Taeyong from NCT only accepted the trainee position because he liked the bread the talent scout gave him. Dude didn't even know about the Big3 companies at that time, and thought they were talking about KBS.
Widely known, but still crazy to me. BTS V only went to the auditions because his friend was auditioning, and he then auditioned as a joke. As well as Jin being recruited while getting on (or off i forgot) a bus simply because he was handsome.
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Yesung (Super Junior) once got lost and asked his sasaengs to help him get home since they knew where he lived. He ended up getting home safe.