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[Trans] Seek Mag. Vol. 006 - Interview
This is a translation from SHINee’s Japanese fanclub magazine. As per the fanclub’s request, no scans or images will be included in this translation. This interview has two parts: solo member interviews and group interviews
SOLO MEMBER INTERVIEWS
Jonghyun
Q: What are you largely interested in right now (hobbies, items, etc.)
Jonghyun: PS4 games! Somehow, I carry my PS4 everywhere! In the concert venue or in my work places, if I have free time I play to relax (LOL). Also, listening to music in my record player!
Q: Right now, if you suddenly have a long vacation time, where would you go and what would you do?
Jonghyun: Actually, instead of going to some place, I would want to stay and lie down in my room and have some quiet time thinking about things.
Q: Right now, when do you feel the happiest?
Jonghyun: It would be the time when I listen to James Brown’s music before I sleep. For me, it’s the time when I feel the most peaceful.
Q: From now on, what place would you want to visit?
Jonghyun: Greece! I don’t really know when I’ll be able to, but I’d want to go there for my honeymoon (LOL).
Q: From now on, what would you want to challenge?
Jonghyun: Writing a book. Just that, I want to leave behind imprints of my thoughts and emotions.
Q: From now on, what would be something you’d want your hands on?
Jonghyun: I’d want to get Devil Fruit. I want to have Love-Love fruit that can make anyone madly in love with me and then charm everyone (LOL).
(t/n: Devil Fruit is an item in the anime/manga series One Piece. It is said to bestow a certain special power to the person who eats it. In this case, Jonghyun wants a Meromero Fruit (Love-Love fruit) which will allow the consumer to wield powers involving love and lust.)
Q: How do you see yourself in the future, after 10 years, 20 years, and 30 years?
Even after ten years, I would still be doing the same activities, I think. I would be having a lot of concerts, and reach out to people with more songs. After 20 years, I think I would be in a married life. And after 30 years, I would be raising children!
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Taemin
Q: What are you largely interested in right now (hobbies, items, etc.)
Taemin: Makoto Shinkai’s works.
(t/n: Makoto Shinkai is an anime director known for 5 Centimeters per Second, Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, etc.)
Q: Right now, if you suddenly have a long vacation time, where would you go and what would you do?
Taemin: I would like to see new things and expand my world even more! For now, I think I would like to go to Europe.
Q: Right now, when do you feel the happiest?
Taemin: On a rainy day, just staying at home watching movies. Since it is a relaxing time for me~.
Q: From now on, what would you want to challenge?
Taemin: I want to publish a book while traveling around. It seems fun and I want to experience something new!
(t/n: probably specifically means to publish a book about his travels).
Q: From now on, what place would you want to visit?
Taemin: I would like to go to Denmark and experience nature there.
Q: From now on, what would be something you’d want your hands on?
Taemin: I want time. If I would have more time, I would have time to fill in my regrets and the parts that I need to complete.
Q: How do you see yourself in the future, after 10 years, 20 years, and 30 years?
Taemin: After ten years, I would have traveled in a lot of different countries. After 20 years, maybe I’ll start a married life and build a family/home. After 30 years, I’ll definitely have children so I will be putting all my effort with them, I think.
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Key
Q: What are you largely interested in right now (hobbies, items, etc.)
Key: Waterski. Work.
Q: Right now, if you suddenly have a long vacation time, where would you go and what would you do?
Key: I’ll go to Han River and spend time taking relaxing walks with my dogs.
Q: Right now, when do you feel the happiest?
Key: When I’m working.
Q: From now on, what place would you want to visit?
Key: Paris. I want to go shopping and go to Fashion Week!
Q: From now on, what would be something you’d want your hands on?
Key: Right now, there’s really nothing I can think of.
Q: From now on, what would you want to challenge?
Key: I want to study even more. Especially, language studies like English and Japanese. I want to put more effort in my studying.
Q: How do you see yourself in the future, after 10 years, 20 years, and 30 years?
Key: I think that after 10 years, I will still pass that time without any changes from the present. After 20 years, I would be passionately bringing up my child(ren) and become a faithful papa. After 30 years, it would be nice if I become a cool old man.
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MINHO
Q: What are you largely interested in right now (hobbies, items, etc.)
Minho: Winning Eleven. I play online so I’m able to play with different people.
Q: Right now, if you suddenly have a long vacation time, where would you go and what would you do?
Minho: I would want to spend my time relaxing at home.
Q: Right now, when do you feel the happiest?
Minho: When I’m standing on stage. To be able to meet everyone, I think for me it is the most precious moment.
Q: From now on, what place would you want to visit?
Minho: I would like to visit Italy, Germany, and Spain. Anyway, I would go to watch soccer!
Q: From now on, what would be something you’d want your hands on?
Minho: Hm, I can’t think of something in particular that I want right now.
Q: From now on, what would you want to challenge?
Minho: To do a lot of projects like movies and dramas. Of course I’d also want SHINee to have more activities, but I would also like to seek new potentials of my own.
Q: How do you see yourself in the future, after 10 years, 20 years, and 30 years?
Minho: 10 years from now, I want to become a dreamy, lovely man. Like someone who’d be able to give the dreams and hopes of a lot of people. After 20 years, I would be a lovely papa. After 30 years, I would be a lovely adult. Someone who would be respected by everyone.
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ONEW
Q: What are you largely interested in right now (hobbies, items, etc.)
Onew: Games. I initially got into them so I can play together with my friends but recently I, myself, got immersed in them well.
Q: Right now, if you suddenly have a long vacation time, where would you go and what would you do?
Onew: The sea~ the mountain~ I want to go to both~! If I have the time I would want to spend it in a daze/doing nothing.
Q: Right now, when do you feel the happiest?
Onew: When I drink coffee, no matter if I’m hungry or full. That time when I drink coffee and do nothing/stare at space, I feel happy.
Q: From now on, what place would you want to visit?
Onew: I want to take my time visiting places in Japan. We went to a lot of places in our tour last year, but we still weren’t able to visit some places. So I want to take it easy and visit even more places and eat delicious food that I want to try out.
Q: From now on, what would be something you’d want your hands on?
Onew: The ability to fly! It seems like it feels really good!
Q: From now on, what would you want to challenge?
Onew: Waterski! Key recommended it to me and it looks like fun so I definitely want to try it out. I look forward to doing it on my spare time.
Q: How do you see yourself in the future, after 10 years, 20 years, and 30 years?
Onew: 10 or even 20 years after, I would still be the same—doing my best with all my efforts. After 30 years…I think my living would definitely have more flexibility/space, so I would live my life working with a more toned down energy, eating meals, and relaxing.
Q. After ten years, how do you see yourself?
Onew: After ten years, I would be doing my best working, eating a lot of meals, sleeping a lot…basically do my best in everything.
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Group Interview: Our Now, Next, and Future
Q: For all of you, performing at the Tokyo Dome is one of your objectives. But how did you feel on the day after the concert? Did you feel any after-effects of performing in Tokyo Dome?
Jonghyun: The day after Tokyo Dome is…well, it was another ordinary day, right? However, for some reason, there was a deep impression left in me. When we were going home to Korea, I wore the wrist fanlight. That, too, I think is because I still felt deeply moved even after the concert.
Key: For me, the day after, I wore the tour jacket, but that was because I personally liked that jacket.
Taemin: For me, since I was enduringly on a diet until the Tokyo Dome concert, on the day after the concert, I ate so much to the point that I felt bloated. Instead of after-effects of the concert…yeah, I think it’s more of after-effects of overeating. I gained 5 kilos in one day!
Everyone: LOL
Onew: Instead of saying after-effects, I think it was more like the moment the concert ended, we had the desire to stand on that stage again.
Minho: Yes, there’s also such a thing. Also, since the dome was a really big venue, it now feels like the other stages are small.
Key: Until now, we’ve only just stood on dome stages during SMTown, but the feeling of that time is also different. That is why, we’ve been holding on to the thought of being able to hold a concert (in such a venue) by ourselves.
Everyone: *nods in agreement*
Onew: It’s like, positive/forward-looking feelings were born from us that even us couldn’t understand well.
Q: It seems that you did have good after-effects! Even so, doing an interview like this, SHINee really seems close. Don’t you ever have arguments or awkward moments?
Jonghyun: I don’t think there is. We’ve all been together for a long time, and now it’s like we’re a family.
Onew: Yes, just like a family.
Key: It’s already natural of us to be together. However, there are many instances wherein people around us ask us to emphasize our closeness. Like telling us, “Please show us your intimacy like brothers.” On the contrary, that is difficult to do.[1]
Minho: Yes, yes.
Jonghyun: That’s right. It’s because we’re not real brothers (LOL).
Taemin: When we were all still living in the dorms, we might have had fights. But now it doesn’t feel like it.
Everyone: LOL
Onew: It’s not like that now (LOL).
Key: We also have our own “duties” depending on the day. If there is a member whose condition isn’t too good, there will be a member who will make him smile, and then there will also be a serious member.
Minho: There isn’t just one person who has the role of enlivening everyone. It differs on the situation.
Jonghyun: There’s not one person with that role because it’s everyone’s role!
Everyone: *nods in agreement*
Q: Hearing that, I agree, too (lol). But recently, all of you are freely spreading out and doing individual activities, right? When you’re doing your own projects, don’t you feel sad?
Minho: Of course it’s sad. When the five of us are together, even when I’m in trouble or when I’m tired, I can get strength (from the others).
Jonghyun: Rehearsing with everyone is fun. When I’m rehearsing by myself, it is for my personal growth, but when I’m rehearsing with everyone, I’m able to do it with an enjoyable atmosphere.
Key: When I see the just my own results, I understand even more just how great SHINee’s synergy is.
Q: Do the five of you talk about what you will do “from now on”? For example, what you will be ten years after?
Onew: Mhmm, we did talk about things like, “We should do our best with our utmost efforts”…
Jonghyun: We don’t really talk about concrete things that we decide to do.
Key: We talk a lot about how we should take care of our health during our activities, something like that.
Jonghyun: After ten years, there wouldn’t be a member who would be already married, right? Somehow it feels like none of us will get married (LOL).
Minho: After ten years, maybe SHINee would be a “solid, dignified group”!
Jonghyun: A group who continuously has album promotions?
Taemin: Ah, maybe we’ll become a 6-member group?
Q: Six members?! (LOL) Anyway, do you have plans to do “from now on” in a nearer future?
Jonghyun: It’s not planned but, personally, I want to go and buy LP records in Japan. It seems that there are a lot of LP records here.
Minho: For me, I want to go to Fuji highlands! I had planned on going before, but I wasn’t able to. I want to climb on everything climbable!
Key: Why weren’t you able to go?
Minho: Rain fell… I even went until I can see it in front of me but I wasn’t able to enter… You wouldn’t understand this feeling, right?
Q: Then, shall we go there for SeeK? (lol) By the way, when you’re on stage, you guys always use the word “growth”. What kind of growth do you mean by your words?
Jonghyun: Then, shall the person who always use the word “growing” please explain? Taemin-goon.
Taemin: Uh… (thinking). Ah, I remember now. It’s been 4 years since we debuted in Japan, and we want to make an influence with our music not only to our fans but also to everyone else. For that reason, we have to understand the Japanese culture even more… in order to make our music reach everyone, in order to become their strength–in those ways we want to “grow” hence we use the word.
Everyone: *claps*
Q: Thank you for that thorough explanation! Well then, lastly, please tell us what is your “future” as an artist.
Onew: To be able to enjoy ourselves and of course, to have fun together with our fans. And from this moment on, I would like for us to become artists who will always continue to be close to everyone anywhere.
Jonghyun: I would say that in terms of concerts, our objective now is to have a dome, stadium tour and to perform in bigger venues, but in terms of our music and performance, I would say that SHINee’s goals have not changed.
Key: From now on, I would like for SHINee and our fans to continue sharing their feelings, and become artists who are able to find happiness (together with our fans).
Minho: To become even more mature, cooler, and to not disappoint everyone. To become artists who will continue to walk with everyone. Also, to do our best without forgetting our original objectives (from the start).
Taemin: I want many more people to see SHINee’s performance, and to create a culture that is SHINee’s own. Also, I would like for us to become artists who are recognized by a lot of people!
(t/n: key is trying to say that while they are all naturally close, it’s awkward and difficult for them to be placed into situations wherein people try to highlight just how close they are. he’s trying to point out the difference between natural closeness and forced for the sake of showing it)
Cr: keihissi
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OCTOBER 15, 2015
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