K-Pop Generation (Keipap Jeneoreisyeon / 케이팝 제너레이션)

- The worry is always... - As a born-to-be idol...

It's like people who need to be good at everything.

Sometimes, I get into a dilemma.

"You have to survive it."

I want to stay as an idol from now on as well.

Hello, I'm Kangta.

I'll tell you what I think about my hoobaenims questions.

Youngji, come out and eat!

I feel full without eating anything.

Isn't it so pretty?

Looking at these photos reminded me of what L from Infinite said.

"It doesn't have to be a flower road, so let's walk together."

Also, in 2016, Baekhyun from EXO said this in a concert.

"I'll always make you happy, so trust me and follow me."

Of course, we should follow him.

Though, my mom told me this.

Do you like Super Junior? Do they make you a living?

Then I answered like this.

Times have changed a lot.

If you work hard at fangirling, it'll make a living for you.

Fangirling and fanboying are the hope for humankind.

It's because it can help you find a job or be a great hobby.

Most importantly, it's fun.

The boy group that I liked? I liked SHINee sunbaenims.

I'm totally a successful fan.

I even interviewed Taemin sunbaenim at Music Bank.

I liked Fly to the Sky sunbaenims a lot.

I admired them for sure.

I really do love soccer, and I'm a huge fanboy.

Why? It's good!

I'm also a fanboy of something!

For the first time anywhere in the world, we have prepared a K-Pop boy group report.

All of the boy groups are cool, cute, sexy, and good at singing,

dancing, and rapping.

Can I tell you some of the main types of boy groups?

If you don't have a favorite team yet, how about you find one with me now?

The first type.

It's ENTJ type, who is a leader who prefers macro vision.

They are the most introverted of all extroverted types.

But they are challenge-taking and forward-looking.

Shall we go to 1996 to meet them?

Okay, let's see.

My favorite team was H.O.T.

H.O.T. sunbaenims.

My older sister was a huge fan of them.

Right.

- So you get influenced by your sister. - That's right.

I still remember that we had all of their tapes.

There were so many unofficial goods of them.

There were so many unofficial goods that were sold in stationery stores and stuff.

- Like name tags. - Yes, I remember collecting those.

I also have a similar case to Doojoon.

My older sister was a huge fan of H.O.T.

So I went to a Dream Concert once with her.

And it's unforgettable to me.

1996.

I know the group, but I don't know the year of their debut.

Right, I don't know the details.

Is it the "Birth of K-Pop?"

Hello, everyone.

I'm Kangta.

I debuted in 1996 as H.O.T.

1996 was the year I was born.

I debuted twenty...

Twenty-seven years ago.

I didn't want to say it out loud.

Hot?

No, it's an abbreviation.

It's written H.O.T.

- Human... - Handsome, Orchestra, Team?

I'm sorry.

- Can you please tell us what it is? - Can you tell us at least one word?

High-five?

High-five? Like this?

Teenagers?

The meaning of "High-five Of Teenagers"

was that we represented the music and performances of teenagers.

It was about the spirit that teenagers thought of at the time.

When I think about the 1st Generation idols,

extravagant costumes, strong make-up,

and the hair sticking out.

I wonder why they have so much dissatisfaction.

When Moon Heejoon sunbaenim did that nails.

Yes, that long nails.

I wondered how he would eat food with those long nails as a kid.

They had a message of criticism toward society.

It's the mix of juvenile angst time and a bit of adolescent "Why is it like that!"

kind of feelings.

Starting with their first album, it was about teenagers' daily life or a message against the older generation.

They appealed to these messages very strongly when they debuted.

I think it has a mesmerizing point.

It definitely had a trend that reflected the generation well.

I thought it was one of our duties or missions.

You can see those eyes' gazes, right?

I'll say I can feel the strong will of teenagers toward the world.

It's like ENTJ, a born-to-be leader with a straightforward attitude.

But by the way,

do you know about H.O.T.'s carrots and whip strategy?

I think it was Candy.

H.O.T.'s Candy.

They came out with a song that's so cute and lovely.

So I think people raved over their unexpected charm.

I guess we got influenced a lot by them.

So whenever we pick coupling songs, we choose something that is the opposite.

Since we listened to that era's pop songs a lot,

I think it had an influence on us.

So for a while, H.O.T. was the irresistible top artist.

I think they were the biggest dance group after the Seo Taiji and Boys.

Fans in their white fan club clothing surrounded the broadcasting company.

And some fans lined up overnight for four nights to get tickets to the show.

- It's been four days. - Five days for me!

We waited while getting rained on!

When I thought about "idols" as a kid,

I thought they wouldn't go to the bathroom.

- For food, I thought– - How can anyone not go to the bathroom?

I thought they would only eat salads.

I thought they wouldn't eat carbs. I had an image of them only drinking dew drops.

When we went to music shows,

we tried to keep our image mysteriously in the broadcasting company as well.

So we always waited in our car the whole time,

and we would sneak to go to the bathroom.

They didn't let us get out of the car.

"Don't get out of the car. Wait still!"

"We have to get off the car two minutes before the show."

And also, they parked the car right in front of the front door for us to get out.

That was really cool.

Seeing them running in for the show.

The approach used at that time can be called Mysticism.

The idols weren't like a human.

They didn't show any part of their private life.

It was more like, "They are not humans,"

and "I wonder if they even breathe."

What's interesting about this is it makes you curious.

What Mysticism is doing

is that it makes for us to want to know about this person,

and since we want to know about them, it makes us read a lot about them.

But there's something fascinating about it.

Only with that one concept of Mysticism,

they can't last long.

Our time was when the Mysticism concept came to an end.

For us...

we weren't mysterious at all.

We, Super Junior, debuted on November 6th, 2005.

It's been 18 years since our debut.

We started as the gateway to Asia. [Sorry, Sorry: It's a Super Junior's mega-hit song that dominated music charts in Asia, like China, Taiwan, and Thailand.]

We were the gateway of Asia's superstar.

We are also proud of being in the first place in the music charts for over 100 weeks.

It was really amazing at that time.

She was a fan of Super Junior when I was a kid.

- Were you a fan? Or your mother? - I mean, my mom was a huge fan.

You know, the screening in movie theaters.

We went as a whole family.

- Really? - Yes, when I was a child.

And my mom's fav was Donghae sunbaenim.

Oh, really?

My mom told me I looked like him a little bit when I was young.

I looked like him a bit when I was young.

I'm a man with a big heart like an ocean. I'm Donghae.

I'm the most special artist in the world. I'm Leeteuk.

Hello, I'm Super Junior's talented boy, Shindong.

- Shindong? - Yes.

At that time, broadcasting companies didn't have the ability

to film a large number of members.

The maximum number of microphone was seven at the time.

So many members of ours couldn't get the microphone.

And for Shindong,

he got the chance to grab the mic two or three years after debuting.

Because we had a variety of members,

we could grab the attention of the public.

One of the important phenomena when talking about fandom

is "splitting the side inside of the brain."

The events or concepts that many agencies are doing

are thinking about how to make artists and fans feel on the same side,

and it's about how to create that fantasy.

The familiarity of Super Junior

is mainly considered the reason for its explosive popularity in East Asia.

At that time, people didn't use the term K-Pop as much.

And I think Super Junior took a big role in spreading that term.

So there were multiple steps for K-Pop to become where it is now.

And for the first step would be going out of Korea,

which in Damian's perspective, it would be breaking out of the egg.

When you get out of Korea, the first place you see is East Asia.

So Super Junior played a big role in expanding K-Pop to East Asia.

And we can't deny that.

Actually, there are so many things for me to brag about.

But I think it'll get so long if I talk all about it.

So I'll wrap it up here.

Super Junior was all about being approachable.

The first charismatic group in the first generation was BIGBANG.

I think every guy liked BIGBANG.

They had multiple national hits that anyone would know.

They had the key characteristic of Hip Hop, which is swagger.