Yu Huiyeol's Sketchbook (You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook / 유희열의 스케치북)

Hello, it's nice to meet you. Welcome to Sketchbook, everyone.

I'm Yu Hui Yeol.

There are various concerts in the music scene these days.

But you are too busy to go there, the tickets are too expensive,

or you don't have anyone to go with.

Many people can't go to concerts for such reasons.

All right. Today, we invited great singers...

with the strongest ticket powers...

for those who can't go to concerts.

They will show wonderful performances in Sketchbook today.

It's The Masters of Live Performances Special.

That's cool.

Let me introduce our first guest singers.

Have you heard of the expression?

"They swallowed their album."

It's an expression for them.

And they are quite humorous.

People go to their concerts...

to listen to their music. They don't go there for their looks.

They don't do anything special to promote their albums.

Only with a word of mouth and their music,

they have become a popular band.

Let me introduce them.

"I Don't Love You". This is Urban Zakapa.

They are great performers,

Urban Zakapa. Hello.

Hello. - Hello.

It's nice to meet you.

Soon Il, can you introduce yourself first?

Hello, I'm the leader of Urban Zakapa, Kwon Soon Il.

It's nice to meet you.

Hello, I'm Jo Hyun Ah of Urban Zakapa. It's nice to meet you.

Hello, I'm Park Yong In of Urban Zakapa. It's nice to meet you.

How have you been?

I traveled a lot,

and I ate a lot.

I've been doing good.

She ate a lot.

In fact, Urban Zakapa has a lot of good news.

Earlier this year,

they won the main prize...

in the Golden Disk Awards. Please give them a big hand.

Thank you.

Were you happy to receive the award?

We had never won an award before.

So we thought we had no luck with awards.

We even said we didn't want to win an award.

That's what we thought.

But now that we won the award,

we were so excited and wanted to work harder to win.

I know. - We felt that way.

It means a lot to the band. In fact, Urban Zakapa,

I guess you don't know about it,

was started with nine members.

Did you know that? - No.

You were a nine-member band with four vocalists.

Now, you have only three members.

How do you feel looking back on your past days?

In fact, we had no one to help us at first.

There're many things to take care of like contracts with distributors.

Practical matters. - Right.

And I took care of everything by myself.

One day, I didn't want to do it anymore and just called it quits.

You took care of everything? - Yes.

After I quit, he became the leader.

She said she can't do it anymore.

I said I couldn't do it anymore.

She called a strike.

Did you not have an agency initially?

No, we didn't. - We didn't.

We saved up money to start the band.

And to make an album. - You were a self-supporting band.

What about the album covers?

Yong In took care of it. - Yong In took the picture.

He studied photography. - I majored in photography.

You studied photography in college?

I wanted to study music. - He's not that good at it though.

But I failed to enter the applied music department.

I didn't know that.

I thought you majored in food and nutrition or something.

I guess not.

I'm interested in many things.

There's an amazing fact about Soon Il.

You used to be a trainee at SM?

Yes. It was a long time ago.

He looks just like a singer of Antenna Music.

They didn't even let him dance at SM back then.

They only let him sing. - I was young.

I was a sixth grader when I entered SM.

It was before my voice broke.

You don't look like a singer of SM at all.

Who else was in the company back then?

There was TVXQ. - Really?

And Super Junior.

The members of Girls’ Generation were there too.

There were a lot of singers.

All right. Then...

if things went well,

you could've been a member of TVXQ by now.

I don't think so.

Have you ever regretted joining Urban Zakapa?

No, I haven't.

He could've been a vocal trainer there.

A vocal trainer of SM. - At SM?

That could've happened.

He could be teaching singers how to sing in falsetto.

All right.

So you were meant to be a member of Urban Zakapa.

You went through all that to end up here.

I bet you spent the happiest year of your life last year.

How many times did you have concerts and performances last year?

Was it about 30?

We held about 30 concerts. - Right.

Was it 20 times or 30 times? - It was about 20 times.

And we sang in many events and song festivals.

I guess it was about 50 to 60 times.

That's amazing. - I guess...

it was about 100 times in total.

Almost 100 times. - You make it sound so easy.

There's the beauty of live concerts.

There are things you can see only in live concerts.

That's right. - Is there anything...

you've never tried so far?

That other people do. - In live concerts?

We've never danced. - Right.

We've never tried it.

And we won't try it in the future.

In fact, I've never seen Urban Zakapa dancing before,

and I've never expected to see that.

By any chance,

I'm just wondering...

You know KBS is a public service broadcaster.

We have to think about the value of TV license fee.

We don't want to lower the value. - We don't want to do that.

It's not a good idea.

Then I should ask you this question.

How long did you learn to dance?

It's been two months. - Two months.

Two months? - We learned it...

twice a week for two months.

You practiced hard. - We practiced eight times then.

They are three. The important thing is who dances in the middle.

You should play rock-paper-scissors to decide who stands in the middle.

I want to be in the middle.

That's the most important matter.

Ready or not, rock-paper-scissors.

She's in the middle.

That's good. - She always stands in the middle.

Stand up. I'm very excited.

Urban Zakapa will dance on stage for the first time.

It's a special performance.

Please give them a round of applause.

Good.

I saw your dance.

Soon Il, you were a little...

You look a little different while dancing.

He's got his own feelings. - He looks like an octopus.

I have my own colours when it comes to dancing.

His own colours. - Can you dance alone?

No, don't say that.

Just dance one more time.

All right. Music, please.

I'm afraid we won't be able to appear in Sketchbook again.

We'll probably get banned from being on KBS.

Please give them a big hand again.

All right.

It's been nine months.

You all are out of breath now. - Yes, we are.

Dancing is not easy.

It's really hard.

It feels like I went hiking.

I see.

Urban Zakapa released a new song after nine months.

Please tell us about it. What's the title?

Okay. The title is "Alone".

"Alone".

It's about what I say to myself.

"I'm fine. But why is everyone trying to console me?"

"I like being alone. I want to enjoy my life alone."

"And I like to eat alone. Everything is fine."

"I need some time alone."

"I like time for myself."

The song is about that.

But people think it's sad.

When you sing a song,

you can be immersed in it. You'd need some time for that.

What's your plan for Urban Zakapa?

There are a lot of song festivals in spring.

We will sing in those song festivals.

And we will release a new album later this year.

We will have a busy year with the year-end concerts.

All right.

With this song,

we will say goodbye to Urban Zakapa.

Thank you. - Thank you.

Thank you. - Thank you.

So... - Encore!

This is unexpected. - It surely is.

Which is why we came prepared to sing one more.

Do you like songs with a hip-hop vibe?