My name is...My name is Jinyoung. My real name is Jung Jinyoung. I was born on 1991.11.18. I have a noona who is two years older than me. While learning acting, I was preparing to go to a university when I was chosen. Someone posted my picture on a site and a representative from the company saw it and contacted me. When I went to the company, there was a somewhat warm and trustworthy feeling, so I liked it. Hahah. I showed the acting that I prepared for university, and sang Lee Juk senior’s ‘It’s Fortunate’. When I colored my hair red with a spray, bright red water would pour out when I showered, like blood. And if I broke a sweat during rehearsals or pre-recordings, red water would drip down my face. Whenever that would happy, I would think that the color is quite pretty, but things like this are drawbacks. (Baro: When we recorded at a swimming pool, I was really shocked. I was washing my hair together with hyung when red water kept flowing, so I thought blood was coming from my body…) I didn’t think that ‘Baby I’m Sorry’, which I personally made, would become the title song. I just let them listen to it after saying, “I made a song like this”, but the members’ reactions were really good. And then it became the title song. When directing a song, I take quite a bit of time. (Sandeul: Once you go in, you can never come out. / Baro: Huh? I come out immediately though?) Although I could just pass it by, I try to record while checking each part accurately for good quality. Everyone generally finishes quickly, but Sandeul is a bit…. Hahahaha. Since he has a lot of parts and it’s hard, I think it naturally takes a bit more time. But he quickly follows well and does well. Long time ago, I used to occasionally make snacks for the members. Things that I’m most confident in such as Aglio Olio or a pork and kimchi duruchigi. There were many times when I tried out new dishes as well. I used the members as test subjects, but I succeeded with all of them anyways. I am the expert at acting like a patient. During the welcoming hidden camera event for CNU, I naturally fainted after saying, “My heart really hurts.” And then I kept pleading Baro to hurry up and get me medicine. “Sunwoo-yah! You know that thing I always eat. Chocolate milk!” Like that. It was total method acting. Heuheu. Since we all often do small hidden camera events with each other, we need to be careful even when coming back from the bathroom. When one member disappears, something is always planned. If we get 1st place on a music program, we said that we would create a human hamburger on stage. We plan to pick the person who gets crushed at the bottom through a game at that time. At a bathhouse, Sandeul goes into re~ally hot water as if it’s nothing. That’s why if we follow him in, thinking that it’s okay, we get harmed a lot because it’s too hot. There’s even a time when I tested it out. While thinking, ‘let’s see how long you can last in there’, I fully turned on the hot water, but he seemed okay. (Sandeul: The shower in our dorm cannot make me hot.) My name is CNU. My real name is Shin Dongwoo. I was born on 1991.06.16. I have a noona who is five years older than me. After hearing ‘Baby I’m Sorry’ for the first time, I was honestly quite surprised. Although I knew that Jinyoung made songs prior to our debut, this song seemed like a really different feel, so I thought, ‘Jinyoungie really must have worked hard this time’. Because he’s the member that knows B1A4 the best, I think that’s why he created a song that fit with us the best. If ‘O.K’ or ‘Beautiful Target’ expressed confessing, ‘Baby I’m Sorry’ is to express a break up. Because how the members acted was important, we recorded each other with a camera and checked each other’s expressions. It’s a bit vague to choose the member that is a bit bad at dancing. Because we’re the type to keep trying if we’re lacking. Well, I think there is someone, but (looking at Sandeul) I can’t really pick someone out. Haha. When I tied my hair before, it was quite a problem of it’s own. Since we needed to do intense choreography, I had to put in a lot of pins to keep my hair intact and I had to take out every single pin when I wanted to wash my hair. Because it’s much less now, I feel much more comfortable. I was active in a band called, ‘Gapgol’, when I was in high school. ‘Gapgol’, came from a nickname of a friend that was also in the band, but we picked that because we couldn’t think of anything else, no matter how hard we tried thinking of one. We thought it was a name with an extreme and strong impact. Haha. We tried giving it a meaning later on, but we ended up saying, ‘let’s say we just thought of it’. We were doing the band because we just like music. It was when I was really full of rock spirit. However, I didn’t think a rock band was something I had to do. Since I had an interest in dancing and singing, I carried the dream of becoming a singer as a job. In order to trick Sandeul and Gongchan, I tried doing a hidden camera. We acted out Baro and I fighting while cursing at each other and the chairman would hear that and punish us. Sandeul came just in time and as soon as he came, he looked at us and said, “Why is the mood like this?”, and went on his knees. The chairman intentionally held a straight face and scarily said, “Reenact how you guys were fighting before!”, so Baro and I acted like we were going to curse at each other, but ended up saying, “Hey, you chipmunk”, “Hyung looks like a bear”, “You idiot”, “Hyung is even more of an idiot”. Although the situation really made no sense, Sandeul kept believing it. Euhahaha. However, Gongchan didn’t fall for it because he’s quick witted. Whenever something scary or surprising happens, Baro immediately closes his eyes. When I see him quietly taking deep breaths and trembling, it’s really cute. If we win 1st place on a music program, our company said that they’ll change our dorm. I think it will be good if we change our dorm because the bathroom amount increases. Since there’s only one right now, showering takes quite a bit of time. If we get one more bathroom, I think I could sleep there too. Heuheu. My name is Sandeul. My real name is Lee Junghwan. I was born on 1992.03.20. I have a noona who is two years older than me. Because I have a lot of hair, there are times when my head looks big. If I grew my hair like CNU hyung, I think my head would look twice as large? When I was first added to B1A4, I had an asymmetrical hairstyle. (Baro: Really? I thought it was like a mop of hair.) I cut it into an asymmetrical hairstyle, but my hair had grown a bit. Seems like the other members don’t remember. Hmm… (Gongchan: That was Lee Junghwan hyung.) Yeah, that’s right. Because Lee Junghwan and Sandeul are completely different people. Hahahaha. I suffered the most with a hidden camera initiation ceremony. There was a ‘koong!’ sound in the dorms, and when I went towards the sound, I saw that Jinyoung hyung had fainted on the floor. It was a serious situation, but everyone kept telling me to hold hyung on my back, so I was on my way to go outside after holding him when hyung started laughing like ‘hehe’. That’s when I noticed it. Really~ (Jinyoung: Because it would hurt if I really fell onto the floor, I punched the floor like ‘pang!’ and then laid down slightly.) I’m good at acting like I’m sick too. Euhehe. I played hooky using that a lot during elementary school. But there was a time when I faked being sick in kindergarten to my mom and then had to receive a shot on my spinal cord. The doctor suddenly put a giant needle in my back like ‘puk!’ and this really cannot be explained in words. I couldn’t even make out a sound and I just sat there with tears rolling down my face. Sob sob. There was a time when I rode an amusement park ride when I was younger, but the rope snapped off and I was shocked. I jumped with my body attached to the rope and was coming down after rotating in midair, when I noticed that the rope was going to snap because it was worn out. While thinking, ‘Huh…? This isn’t it…?’, the rope snapped and my body fell immediately on top of the mat. My parents were so surprised that they continuously complained towards maintenance. After that incident, I don’t trust anything where I have to hang from a rope. Although I like playing baseball, it’s truthfully not fun when I watch someone else play it. That’s why even though I don’t know much about pro baseball, I didn’t really like the Hanhwas. Whenever I went to the Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan, it was always Lotte against Hanhwa and they always lost. Because I was so angry, I said, “Ah, now I’m not going to go watch baseball because of Hanhwa!”, but CNU hyung was a Hanhwa fan. Euhaha. (CNU: I don’t know why he acts like that toward Hanhwa.) Because Gongchan is so keen, there are times when he’s scary. When we play the mafia game with each other, he would just watch us like this~ and then say, “Hyung, you’re the mafia, right?” and find out the real mafia like that. So scary! I’m quite good at making rice. When I’m in charge of making rice, we can have firm rice, but when someone else is in charge of it, we have to eat dry and hard rice. (Jinyoung: I’ll admit that he’s good at making rice because he measures the water well!) I created the soy sauce rice pancake and bi-ramyun. I made it on MBC every1’s ‘Weekly Idols’ and even Jung Hyungdon senior said it’s tasty. For the soy sauce rice pancake, you mix egg into soy sauce rice and cook it into a pancake, but if you add chili sauce on it, it’s really tasty. And the bi-ramyun is a dish that combines bibimmyun (mixed noodles) and ramyun. It has to be Paldo’s Bibimmyun and Ansungtangmyun. The first time I made it was when I was 7 years old and when my friend ate it, they fell in love with it and went on their knees. I’m serious! My name is Baro. My real name is Cha Sunwoo. I am the only blood type B in B1A4. I was born on 1992.09.05. I have a younger sister who went into her first year of high school this year. I personally did all the rap making for this album. When writing raps, I usually listen to the song and write it to what I’m feeling at that time. And because I do that, the feeling would be different if I listened to it today since I wrote it yesterday, I keep changing it till I’m content with it. There are times where I just put in things that I already wrote before, but that’s only when I really can’t think of anything! It’s the first time since high school that I cut my hair this short. I personally think that short hair suits me better and I really like it because it’s comfortable when showering. It takes exactly 3 minutes to wash and dry my hair. Huhuhu. When I bleached my hair blonde, my hair wouldn’t dry at all so my scalp was getting worse too, but now I really feel refreshed. Being an actor was my dream originally. There was a time when I studied really hard in high school because I thought going to the theater department in a university in Seoul was the way to become an actor. I was a kid who always just listened to music and played games, but I suddenly changed and diligently went to cram school. For around… one month? Hehe. And because I brought up my grades to over half of what I normally had, I went up to the upper middle percentile. When I went to go audition, my mom enthusiastically helped. She sent me to a dermatologist and went into the city and bought me clothes. That was the first time she ever bought me such expensive clothes. I was the first to be confirmed as a B1A4 member. Should I say I’m the 1st group for B1A4. Hahaha. (Sandeul: Ah~ You’re in the 1st group? Big senior!) So I was secretly watching when Jinyoung hyung was auditioning, but he was really good at acting threatening. (Jinyoung: Don’t you mean Gonggil? [T/N: Threatening = gonggal while Gonggil is a character from ‘The King’s Man’]) Ah, I thought something was wrong. Is the movie title, ‘The King and I’? (CNU: Euhaha. I think you mean ‘The King’s Man’! He talks so well. / Sandeul: 1st group-nim, why are you acting like this? You’re normally a smart person.) Anyways, the way he was immersed in it was really cool and I thought his face was good-looking, so I personally appealed to the company that it would be good if he was picked. To pick the order of who showers, we always play rock-paper-scissors among the members in the dorm. I like it the most when I get 1st, because I can shower first. However, I think that everyone’s glory days rotate around and goes little by little to each person. Sometimes, there would be someone who would constantly get 1st place and then drop down to last place on another day. Whenever I’m on cooking duty with Sandeul, the members didn’t really like it. Because both of us are bad at cooking, it was to the point where everyone would say, “Hey, if you can, just make us something like a 3 minute meal [T/N: microwavable meal]. And you guys, don’t cook.” But we ate the food that Sandeul cooked during the recordings of ‘Weekly Idols’ and it was really tasty, so I was surprised. The specialty of hidden cameras that we do are, we take a lot of time on it. It doesn’t work if we try showing it to you in a short amount of time and there has to be a continuous story line. That’s how you trick them well. Euheuheuheu. When there’s no one to trick, Jinyoung hyung acts by himself. He would say, ‘I’m hurting so much, I can’t breathe’, and lay on the bed. Because this happens everyday, even the once-innocent Sandeul, has become used to it. Although I like going on amusement park rides, I don’t really like the speedy ones. I gained a phobia of it when I was younger after seeing the car that my mom was driving, get into an accident. I don’t really want to get a driver’s license either. Safety is the best. Always stay safe! My name is Gongchan. My real name is Gong Chansik. I was born on 1993.08.14. I have a younger brother who is in his 2nd year of middle school. When my younger brother sees me on TV, I think he feels unfamiliar with it. Since I’m the eldest son in my family, I was always harsh to my younger brother, but I would be showing cute acts on TV…. Haha. When my friends see that, they told me that they say, ‘Is he the same kid I know?’. Because I was on the quiet side at school. In the ‘Baby I’m Sorry’ music video, I tried back hugging for the first time. I pretended that the actress in front of me was really my girlfriend for just this moment and concentrated. Hahahaha. (Baro: Because he did really well, we were all admiring him. Stuff like that is something that comes from experience though….) Although being a singer was my dream ever since I was younger, I didn’t have a lot of chances to audition because I lived in the countryside. But one day, my friend uploaded my picture on an internet site and a representative from the company saw my picture and contacted me, asking if I wanted to audition. The picture is… one that I personally took. Heuheu. I was never the neighborhood ulzzang or anything. I really don’t know if my face is good looking. Because my friends in Soonchun just passingly said, ‘Hey, you’re quite good looking’, I thought it was a joke. Although I went to a co-ed school, there wasn’t really anything where girls would tell me I was good looking or liked me. (CNU: I saw Gongchan for the first time at a crosswalk, but there was a shine coming from him. Really, not lying at all.) When I play rock-paper-scissors with the hyungs, I don’t lose easily. I know all~ of the hyungs’ patterns. CNU hyung chooses what’s expected, but I put something different out and it misses sometimes. Sandeul hyung’s pattern is the easiest. The one that hyung chooses most often is probably, scissors? When we play the mafia game, it’s quite funny to see him say that he’s not the mafia when I know that Sandeul hyung is. So I purposely pretend to be tricked too. (Sandeul: Eyah~ You were continuously playing with me?) Sandeul hyung doesn’t know any soccer players. So there was a soccer game playing one day, but he kept telling me, “Gongchan-ah, Ronelldo is really good! Ronelldo is the best!” I later found out that he was saying Ronaldo [T/N: Pronounced as Honaldu in Korean]. Hahahahah. (Sandeul: No wonder why no one knew.) As soon as I go on a scary amusement park ride, I go into a thinking session. I calmly close my eyes and sit and eum….. When my body falls, the wind blows and my heart feels like it’s going back like thi~s. Like my heart is following behind me… It’s really scary. After seeing CNU hyung drive, I gained a want to get my driver’s license. When we went to CNU hyung’s house a long time ago as an MT with all the members, there was a time when we went to buy snacks. Because hyung had his driver’s license, he sat me next to him and started driving, but it was breally good. Wow~ He even drives! A feeling like that. Hehe. And he reverses the car like you see on TV. Since I became an adult this year, I will make sure to get my driver’s license. If you’re a man, you need to get a commercial license! (Jinyoung: I got a personal license. I’m not embarrassed at all.) trans. cr; hyejin @ b1a4trans | source cr; 10asia ; take out with FULL credits 17/4/12 trans. cr; hyejin @ b1a4trans | source cr; 10asia ; take out with FULL credits 17/4/12
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Sandeul “haha senior, cried after my featuring stage—- possibly?Sandeul, a member from the group, B1A4, talked about the behind story after participating on Haha’s stage. During the recent meeting with enews, B1A4’s Sandeul began to speak by saying, “I went on stage to feature for Haha senior. In order to not become trouble for him, I sang to the best of my abilities.” Sandeul added, “I put in a lot of effort to express the sad feelings in the song. But after finishing the performance, I saw Haha senior and his eyes were wet. After monitoring it later, I saw that he actually had tears in his eyes during the broadcast as well.” He expressed what he felt at that time by saying, “I thought to myself, ‘Did he possibly cry from my singing?’.” After hearing Sandeul’s comment, the members brought out laughter by adding, “Although (Sandeul) told us that then, the members didn’t really give any reaction, so he was embarrassed by himself.” After recently featuring in Haha & Taw’s new song, ‘The Person By My Side’, Sandeul showed explosive singing abilities and an emotional voice, to the point where you wouldn’t believe he is an idol group member, and garnered a lot of attention. Meanwhile, B1A4 recently revealed their first official full-length album, ‘IGNITION’, and are in the middle of receiving a large amount of love while actively promoting ‘Baby I’m Sorry’. Once it was revealed that Jinyoung participated as a producer for this album and that the members’ self-composed songs were in the album, they are quickly rising as the next skilled idols in the music industry. trans. cr; hyejin @ b1a4trans | source cr; enews; take out with full credits 15/4/12 Chatterbox ‘sprout-dols’ who are overflowing with musical talent
B1A4 “flip it down, flip it up, do you know what that is in our dialect?”
I met with the five members of the ‘flower boy’ group, B1A4, who are in the middle of promoting their new song, ‘Baby I’m Sorry’, after releasing their first official full-length album, ‘IGNITION’. Last year, they had a record of selling over 100,000 copies with just their two mini albums, ‘Let’s Fly’ and ‘it B1A4’. Thanks to that, they were able to grasp onto the newcomer award at the ‘2012 High1 Seoul Music Awards’ in January and the newcomer male group award at the ‘2012 Gaon Chart K-POP Awards’ in February. Before meeting the five males, Jinyoung (21), CNU (21), Sandeul (20), Baro (20), Gongchan (19), I had a prejudiced mind that they would be “a fierce male, prince-like group with many noona fans”. However, after meeting them, I found out they were from various places such as Choongju, Cheongju, Busan, Gwangju, and Soonchun. The more I got to know them, the more pleasant young men they became to be. Q: You came from different places, so is there an episode that happened when you first met? “We were before ‘Infinity Challenge’.” (Jinyoung), “We played face down, face up and it was really funny because all of us used our own dialect for it. Busan would be ‘Jaendi~’, Soonchun would be ‘place it this way, that way, whichever way it goes’, Gwangju would be ‘pick a side, pick a side’, Choongju would be ‘sky, sky, ground’, and Cheongju would be ‘flip it up, flip it down, flip it up, flip it down.” [T/N: a game where you use flip over your hands to either side, but the name of the game changes from where you’re from. I didn’t do this justice, but you get the gist] (Everyone) “Because a sprout grew from the potato, because a leaf grew, rock, paper, scissors~ This is different from each region too.” (CNU), “Choongju’s version is easy. Because a sprout grew from the potato, because a leaf grew, vroom vroom shot!” (Jinyoung), “Busan’s choice of words is funny. Because a sprout grew from the potato, because a leaf grew, potato potato bbyong.” (Sandeul) Their title song, ‘Baby I’m Sorry’, is a song that expresses the sadness of a break up through a cheerful melody and beats. Although it’s electronic overall, rock sounds were added in some parts as well. Their music video, which was showed on Youtube, reached over 1.5 million views in 3 weeks. They also had their name placed next to the 7th place spot on a music broadcast. Q: What kind of reaction do you want to receive through this album? “There are people that tell us that we’ve really come back as men and then there are those who say that we still have our freshness. We aimed for that middle spot where you’re on the way of turning into a young male from a boy. Hearing that we’re macho or beastly, is strange. If I was to describe this in a color, I think it’s the stage where we’re about to turn into a vivid color after being a pastel tone.” (Jinyoung) Q: Why did you happen to comeback during the same time that tremendous singers such as Big Bang and SHINee did? “We planned to come out in January, but it was delayed because there weren’t really any songs we liked. In January, we were still telling our company that we should create a full-length album. It was when we weren’t definitely prepared yet.” (Sandeul) B1A4’s fandom is tremendous to the point where they got 1st place in support rankings on their fancafe portal (78,000 members). After the ‘Idol Sports Competition incident’, their fans were given a bad name. The Idol Sports Competition incident is talking about the clash between their fans and Dalshabet fans during recordings for MBC’s Lunar New Year special, ‘Idol Sports Competition’. Although there were rumors of rape and kidnapping on the internet, the police investigated it and found out that it was only a lie. Q: There was an incident with another group’s fandom during the recording for ‘Idol Sports Competition’, right? “It was really sad to see our fans shown like that. Because it was the first time something like that happened, we were really taken aback and surprised, so just how bad would it have been for the fans. My heart really hurt. If words are misunderstood, I think it can become quite a scary thing.” (CNU) Q: How is B1A4’s fandom? “I think the amount of how much they like us is really big. They monitor us like professionals and endlessly support us.” (CNU), “I used to mainly read criticism posts because I wanted to improve, but I tend to read support posts more often now. Because I’m proud and feel a sense of achievement, a feeling to do better shot up.” (Sandeul) Q: Is there a post you remember? “A time when I feel that our fans are amazing is when they rationally tell us our negative points. They tell us things like, ‘I think the amount of comfort you have in your heart while singing is lacking’, and after seeing that, we fix it and it becomes strength to us too.” (CNU), “I get surprised when I see posts that seem like a professional’s reaction such as, ‘That angle isn’t pretty on broadcasts. Fans want this kind of angle and side.’ When we listen to the criticisms and fix them, fans say, ‘Oppa, you probably saw the post I wrote. You most definitely probably saw it. Thank you’. So without even knowing, I would start writing, ‘I saw it’, and then erase it.” (Baro) Q: B1A4 is classified as ‘noonas’ romance-dols’. “I think CNU would have a lot of popularity among noonas.” (The rest of the members) Q: Baro-sshi, isn’t participating in ‘God of Cookery Road’ difficult? It’s a variety show where you have to eat. “I tell what I honestly feel at that moment. However, it’s really delicious most of the time. Besides when I’m clear of what I like and dislike and when it’s strange because I’m eating something for the first time. It’s a good program where I can also restore my body’s health once a week. Foods with coriander in it are very hard and strange for me to eat. They told me they casted me because the way I ate was very pleasant.” (Baro) Q: The main MC of ‘God of Cookery Road’, Jung Junha-sshi, is getting married. “Junha hyung is so happy lately that adlibs continuously come out. I congratulated him. I will make sure to go to his wedding. He told me to come.” (Baro) Q: Everyone eats well, but are everyone’s bodies good as well? “Truthfully, I have a lot of fat. I didn’t know why our stylist director only gave me wide and baggy clothes. I asked why it’s always so baggy even after zipping the zipper or closing the buttons, but they told me it’s to cover up my body. I have quite a bit of hidden fat.” (Sandeul) Right then, Baro exposed Sandeul as said, “Sandeul eats more compared to how much he moves.” To that, Sandeul responded, “If I lose weight, I’ll look like a skeleton so I purposely eat more.” When the reporter touched Sandeul’s side fat and acted like he was surprised, everyone laughed. Once I said that the cute side fats are called love-handles and that girls like it, Sandeul was happy. “Really? Those words are like a ray of light to me. Thank you. Seems like I won’t have to lose weight. There’s nothing I can do now. Hahaha.” (Sandeul) Q: Are you keeping up well with your health, which is an essential element for an idol? “Rather than shaping up our bodies, health is more important for this group. And our weight and body are maintained somewhat through practice. We haven’t prepared six-packs or muscles yet. Even if we do exercise, it’s not to create muscles, but for our health. We sleep a lot the day before a performance as well. That way, we can think up ideas better.” (Everyone) Q: Everyone’s personalities seem bright. “Sandeul is the most social. Although Gongchan is the youngest, he’s serious. However, when he’s with the hyungs, he has a lot of aegyo. Because he’s the oldest in his family, he takes care of the hyungs well. Baro is our team’s vitamin. He talks a lot in real life and is really witty. CNU has a twist of a charm. He talks slow since he’s from Choongcheong-dong, but he makes everyone explode in laughter.” (Jinyoung) “Jinyoung hyung is a positive person. He teaches the team members. Since he is the team’s leader, he gives us a more positive strength.” (Sandeul), “I’ve known him for 3 years, but even I’m turning positive.” (CNU), “Everyone was worried prior to our comeback, but Jinyoung hyung said, ‘Hey, don’t worry. Everything’s going to go well’ and I trusted our leader and followed him.” (Baro) “If you’re negative, nothing good will happen. You need to be positive in order for something to at least happen in the middle if it doesn’t go well. I believe that the team’s mood and mind need to be positive in order for everything to go well.” (Jinyoung) Their team name means that there’s one blood type B (Baro) and the other four have the blood type of A. They say their rival is the ‘BC Card’ (T/N: a Korean credit card company). Sandeul laughed and said, “When you type in ‘B’ in a portal site’s search engine, BC Card used to be the first thing that came out. However, B1A4 started coming out first too. We’re always nervous because we think we’ll lose to BC Card if they have an event. We need to work harder.” “Although it may be hard if you say ‘B1A4’, it’s easy to remember if you understand the meaning and origin of it. It will help elders as well. When we wear our stage clothes and go to a restaurant, people think that we look like celebrities but they aren’t sure of who we are. So when we explain our team name then, they remember us next time as well.” (Baro) Q: CNU tried out acting through ‘I Need a Fairy’ (although he’s the school’s kingka, he’s a guy that shrinks in front of the girl he likes). “Cha Inpyo senior is really cool. Ah, there was a funny incident. I was waiting in the waiting room for the sitcom’s production ceremony, he said (while impersonating his tone), ‘Hey, CNU-yah, do you know how to do the shuffle dance? Dance it for me’. I danced it without music.” (CNU) Q: B1A4 all do not have cellphones, isn’t it uncomfortable? “Besides one thing, it’s not uncomfortable. When we want to order something to eat in the middle of the night or check something we ordered on the internet. It’s urgent.” (Baro) Q: You order things to eat in the middle of the night even when you’re an idol group? “We maintain our bodies by ourselves. If we look chubby on the camera, we control the amount we eat and if we lose weight, we eat deliciously to the point where it’s good to look at.” (Baro), “We’re allowed to eat up to 6000 won for each meal, but there isn’t a price limit when our CEO comes and buys us a late-night snack. We’re happy then. Our CEO doesn’t really pressure us about our bodies either. Since we all do well on our own.” (Everyone) Q: CNU confessed that his ideal type was f(x)’s Krystal, but what are the ideal types for everyone else? “A girl who only loves me. I dream of a movie-like love. I hope there would be something special that would happen even if we fall in love.” (Jinyoung), “A girl who’s heart is as wide and warm as my mom’s and can take care of me. I was just saying that I feel for Krystal’s charisma on stage, but they just concluded it like that on the broadcast.” (CNU), “A girl who I can converse easily with and who works her best at what she works in. (Baro), “A girl who is normally chic and cold, but shows a lot of aegyo towards only me.” (Gongchan), “I like a girl who shines when she does her job. (When the reporter asked whether or not they like glamour, he responded) Just why are you doing this to me? Haha.” (Sandeul) Q: What do you think the secret is to having so much popularity among overseas fans? “We were created into a comic prior to our debut. Fans translated it into various languages. I think that’s why we were accepted easily overseas as well. It’s really the strength of fans.” (Everyone) Q: What’s your goal? “Getting 1st place on a music broadcast, winning a Bonsang award during an end-of-the-year award, and opening our own solo concert.” (Everyone) trans. cr; hyejin @ b1a4trans | source cr; donga ; take out with FULL credits “Opening a solo concert within the year is our goal” They are not boys. But even more so, there isn’t a manly scent coming from them. They are missing their lover during the transition period of turning into a man from a boy. This is the look of the idol group, B1A4, who has come back more fiercely with their first official full-length album, ‘IGNITION’.
The five members, who make a perfect stage with fantastic performances and singing abilities that are not shaky at all, are ordinary young, 20 year olds when they aren’t on stage. B1A4, who are honest and friendly, recently met up with our magazine at a road studio in Nonhyeon-dong and talked about their music story. Their title song, ‘Baby I’m Sorry’, is a song where their leader, Jinyoung, personally participated in the writing, composing, and arranging of it. It has a strong trance rhythm along with a drumbeat bass sound as the base and it has a melody that will stay in your mind even if you listen to it once and stands out with Jinyoung’s own uniquely composed, touching lyrics. And not only Jinyoung, but the other members such as Baro and CNU, also participated for the writing, composing, and arranging for 8 of the 11 songs from the album, showing their singer-songwriter aspects. “When I first heard ‘Baby I’m Sorry’, it was really fresh and new. Because the song was good, I gained greed in wanting to make the stage even more perfectly. While listening to this song, I talked together with the members about the concept, how we’ll create the stage, and stage clothes. Since all the members participated in this, I feel more attached to it.” (Sandeul) “If all of our past songs were to inform people of B1A4’s name, ‘Baby I’m Sorry’ is the beginning step in informing people of B1A4’s own colors. I think this is the album that will be the stepping stone in allowing us to go one step closer towards the audience.” (Gongchan) “It’s been awhile since we made this song. I have been with Jinyoung for around 4 years, but ever since then, Jinyoung started learning composition. If you look at Jinyoung’s cellphone, there are over 300 melodies that he recorded. I think those constant efforts became the stepping stone in creating the title song. As a member of the same group, I’m quite proud.” (CNU) “Because we’ve been with the members for a long time, we know what each of our personal tendencies are. I think that helped a lot in creating a title song that would fit B1A4 well. Because we showed a lot of fresh and cheerful images during our past albums, we wanted to show a matured and more developed side of B1A4 this time.” (Jinyoung) Matching well with the nickname of ‘countryside-dols’, all of the B1A4 members are from the countryside, which is far from Seoul. What was the first meeting for these people like, united together with their different tendencies and charms? “Before Gongchan came up (to Seoul), a representative from our company told us that there would be a good-looking kid from Soonchun, so I really anticipated it a lot. With a nervous heart, I was in the practice room when Gongchan opened the door and came in. Gongchan had the asymmetrical hairstyle, which was slightly popular at that time, and dark skin. Although I thought he looked similar to Kim Namgil-sshi, he wasn’t as good looking as I expected him to be.” (Baro) “At first, CNU hyung had a very sophisticated look with a perm and a jacket on. As soon as I saw him, I thought ‘he’s really cool’. However, as time passed and as I got to know CNU hyung, his image started drifting farther away from what I first saw him as. I’ll just put that image up to your thoughts.” (Gongchan) “I have a fun memory with Sandeul. Before I met Sandeul, I saw a video of him when he went out on a song festival. A representative from the company called me and said, “This kid came from Busan, but he has a tattoo on his arm and is a really scary kid. I picked him because he’s good at singing.” At that time, all the members believed this. But when we met him, there was a really innocent, laughing boy. We were tricked.” (CNU) “Before going up to Seoul, I saw Jinyoung hyung for the first time through a video call and he was really good-looking. But he said that if I come up to Seoul, there will be someone even more good-looking than Jinyoung hyung. Sure enough, there was Gongchan behind Jinyoung hyung. I lost all my words. Truthfully, I was low in spirits because there were four good-looking people grouped together. During our first meeting, I sang in front of the members at our dorm and the reason I sang was to not let my spirits go low.” (Sandeul) “As soon as I saw Baro, I thought that he looked similar to Park Haeil-sshi. And although his face is cute, he’s someone that likes hip-hop, so as soon as I saw him, I had a feeling of, ‘He’ll probably be the rapper.’” (Jinyoung) CNU currently appears as Shinwoo, the idol of female students at his school in the KBS2 daily sitcom, ‘I Need a Fairy’, but he only looks at Cha Nara (played by Woori). With his sturdy acting abilities and speaking tone, CNU plays his character well and he successfully set his first foot out towards being an actor while capturing the hearts of noonas. “Since it’s my first time acting, I had worries in needing to do well and because I needed to inform people of our team and show a more developed side of myself, I was really worried.However, because I’m the youngest and since it’s my first time acting, all the seniors treat me warmly on set as if they were treating a younger sibling. So I can now enjoy filming without any worries.” (CNU) Whenever CNU comes to the loud dorm after being at quiet filmings, he thinks, ‘B1A4 is really one’. He explained that even when they are separated for a short amount of time due to filming, he feels really empty and misses the members. “Whenever CNU hyung returns from filming, he holds us back and talks to us. Saying, ‘I really feel like we’re one’. That’s why I could feel that hyung really loves us.” (Sandeul) After revealing their debut album, ‘Let’s Fly’, in April of last year, they waited a short term before releasing another new song. I asked if they feel tired with their busy schedules, but all five of the members shook their heads instead. “Although the break time was shorter compared to other groups, even that time feels long to us. Whenever we would watch music program while resting, we want to hurry and go on stage to show the public our side.” (Jinyoung) “I think resting is harder for us. I got in trouble because I wanted to promote even while preparing for the full-length album.” (Baro) To finish up, I listened to B1A4’s goals and hopes. “Our goal is to get 1st place on a music program with our song. We’ll work harder in promoting and make that goal come true.” (CNU) “There are solo songs for Baro and I in this album. Through this, we plan to show B1A4’s personal capabilities.” (Sandeul) “There is a goal that all of the B1A4 members want to make come true. And that is tp have a concert under our name. It’s something that each of us really dreamed about even prior to debuting. In order to do that, we need to really work hard for this album’s promotions.” (Baro) B1A4, who gave off a lively and healthy atmosphere during the entire interview. I look forward to see these five young males, who are bright and honest, place their goals one by one onto a white canvas and grow into an idol group that represents Korea. —- trans. cr; hyejin @ b1a4trans | source cr; herald economy ; take out with FULL credits 13/4/12 B1A4’s latest interview and highlights from their Yeongdeongpo fansign cr:@FanCulture 내일 방송될 셀프랭킹 주제는 우리팀으로 뺏어오고 싶은 아이돌! Tomorrow’s self-ranking topic is ‘Idols that we want to bring over to our team!’
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1 hour and 40 minutes. That’s how long I shared a conversation with the B1A4 members. I couldn’t tell if we were having an interview or met up to just chat, but it was an interview where I didn’t know the time was passing by because of the members’ endless stories that made us burst into laughter.
B1A4 (Jinyoung, CNU, Baro, Sandeul, Gongchan), who are in the middle of promoting their title song, ‘Baby I’m Sorry’, after recently releasing their 1st official full-length album, ‘IGNITION’, are going towards their 1st year since debuting. They have firmly made their place in the music industry during the time that hasn’t been a year yet, to the point where people would say, “I didn’t know B1A4 had this much popularity”. The five members were extremely friendly and they talked really well, making the interview feel like we just met up to share private conversations. Sandeul, who asked me to pick the album jacket picture that came out the best, instantly turned sulky when I didn’t pick his. After talking about the pictures for a long time, the topic suddenly changed to their food tastes. The members’ criticisms towards Sandeul were continuing on because he eats his food with a lot of salt to the point where he dips ddukbokki (T/N: spicy rice cakes) in salt. In the mood that seemed almost strange to ask an interview question, I asked the leader Jinyoung, how the opportunity came about for him to joint produce the album and promote with the title song he made. “This is just what I think, but I studied composing really hard ever since before debuting. At first, I was secretly studying composing, but the company found out. The members and the company found out, so I would make the song and let them listen to it often. I think that they saw my hardworking side and thought it was commendable.” (Jinyoung) The members were also filled with confidence about the song that Jinyoung made. Sandeul started giving praise by saying, “At first, I just thought, ‘Oh, hyung can make songs too’, but the songs started getting better. After listening to it like that, I couldn’t help but believe in him”, and CNU added, “He has experience of putting in songs starting from our 1st and 2nd mini albums. I think he improved.” Jinyoung wondered if the company had bought his passion and said, “When I would be on the streets and a melody would come to me, I would record it instantly. I have over 300.” What were the members’ reactions when they first heard the title song? Sandeul cleaned it up in one word and said, “This hyung is crazy.” Sandeul, who said Jinyoung let him listen to this song first, revealed his first thoughts, “I was laying down to sleep, but he told me to listen to it. Once I listened to it, I got goosebumps.” B1A4 swept all the rookie awards last year. I worried that their beginning focus and hearts would change due to their sudden increase of popularity in such a short time. B1A4, who says they did not change at all, revealed a story where Sandeul received a resolution like this a week before B1A4’s debut. After driving him to a corner, Jinyoung and CNU acted like they were interrogating Sandeul. “They promised to upload a file on the internet if our attitude changed.” The existence of the file, which shouldn’t have been revealed, was thus revealed. On this day, where I could feel the talk going up into the mountains (T/N: getting off-topic), the members were talking so cheerfully and I think we talked about special characteristics of Sandeul’s body for around 10 minutes. The members seemed to mainly target Sandeul and Sandeul would try to clear it up in a loud voice that resonated throughout. Laughter continuously came out due to their boy-like sides of that age group. But as soon as we decided to talk about music for the last 10 minutes, they turned into a serious manner and stressed about how much work went into this album. “Although there were many people who thought that it was too early for a full-length album, we took the initiative to suggest it. If we showed freshness during our 1st and 2nd mini album, we grew greed to show more of ourselves so we all personally participated in the composing, lyric writing, and arranging. Through this album, I felt that the members had a lot of passion towards music.” (Jinyoung) “We recorded till the morning to the point where I was asking someone to save me. Once I went outside, it was 8 AM.” (Sandeul) “I wanted to show what B1A4 was. The stereotypical view on us was very heavy. I was sad because they looked at us like fresh kids who just did whatever song was given to them.” (Jinyoung) “I knew that Jinyoung would make a good song, but I was really surprised after listening to it. It felt like I was hit by a hammer. It was different to the point where I wondered how a song could come out like this.” (CNU) “I also listen to music a lot, but I haven’t heard a song in this style often. I think Jinyoung hyung found his own music style by working on it. When I first heard it, I felt it was like clothes that came out just for us.” (Baro) “Because I know about the members really well, I can easily think about what clothes match each member.Rather than focus around the melody when I wrote the song, I put an effort in trying to find what matches each member. So that’s why it came out uniquely.” (Jinyoung) “I thought that it was a color that matched us and confidence rose along with greed. Because our greed increased, we modified it more and consulted each other about it more.” (CNU) “Whether it does well or doesn’t, I think this album was the stepping stone in allowing us to create our own color. So I thought it would be more fun.” (Sandeul) The youngest, Gongchan, didn’t say much that day compared to the hyungs. Sound effects were basically all he did, but Gongchan, who said he was like that because his mouth wasn’t loosened up yet, agreed with the hyungs’ passionate stories and quietly gave strength. 1 hour and 40 minutes was not enough to know all the charms of B1A4, who talked a lot to the point where they could talk for 9 hours straight. trans. cr; hyejin @ b1a4trans | source cr; newsen ; take out with full credits |
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