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STAGENAME: Samuel CURRENT AGE: 24 DEBUT AGE: 21 TRAINEE SINCE AGE: 16 COMPANY: Midas ETC: Due to his extensive charity work and clean image he’s known as the nation’s man of good influence

IDOL IMAGE

he’s the ‘all-american boy’, always pulling out english words in the middle of an interview and everyone finds it endearing, almost as if he forgot what he was going to say (and sometimes, he does) but most people think it’s adorable. but not really, no. what samuel did was very simple: he used his resources.

the whole thing about: if you got it, flaunt it? he flaunts it.

he’s the one who wears the cute animals hats, the one who tilts his head from one side and then to the other, catering to the more-than-in-love fans who can’t get enough of his cuteness. he doesn’t mind it, he thinks it’s fun, he thinks it’s a good way to win the fans’ love. he’s not even embarrassed by it, because many are. but he’s not, because if he has it? he flaunts it.

that’s what everyone told him when he was a trainee, anyway.

“use this. use that. no, no, not that. yes! that! that is perfect.”

he listened. he learned.

maybe it was the gentleness in his heart or the fact he was always taught to follow the rules, who knows? at the end of the day, he followed every single thing he was told to do, just as every trainee must.

“maybe say ‘oh my god!” when you’re surprised, they’re gonna love you.”

he said it.

“you should definitely wear this. they will adore you.”

he wore it.

hyukjae has always been perfectly crafted to be the sweet one, to be the one who stands between their group mates when they’re all jokingly having beef with each other, to be the one who laughs at everyone’s jokes and subsequently, to be the one telling the silliest jokes. which people laugh at because they happen out of nowhere more often than not.

and he’s okay with all of it because if he has it, you guessed it, he should flaunt it, right?

spontaneity is important, after all, and while he might not be the loudest personality in the group, he knows how to speak. with a calm, yet direct and articulated tone, samuel speaks with grace and knows exactly how to connect his brain to mouth filter, always making sure to say the right things, careful not to say anything controversial (and so far? so good).

but this image doesn’t work with anyone, or at least, not with a few eager to know about his past. what is he exactly hiding behind those sweet, gentle eyes? no one really knows, and they don’t really like it. despite the image midas has tried so hard to shine upon him, people see beyond all of it (or rather, they don’t see enough) and that is a good reason to not trust him, immediately turning into doubters, into ‘haters’ if you will.

not everyone is going to like you, and everyone knows that. so hyukjae focuses on the positives, on trying not to care much about doubters and people who want to know about his past and focus on what matters: on being a kind person. because the catch is simple: he is. he’s always the one being the nice one, the kind one, and not because midas fabricated it. it’s because he is.

the fans see, love & appreciate how outspoken he is towards animals, how he’s always asking people to consider adopting a pet, how he’s always asking fans to not give him expensive gifts and instead to donate that money to a charity of their choosing (although he always suggests donating to animal shelters). while he tries to do charity on the side, not wanting anyone to know about it, it usually comes out and the fans cannot stop praising him for it.

and it’s truly the little things, isn’t it? perhaps he doesn’t have the most flattering past (or at all) and perhaps the company keeps pressuring him into creating whatever sob story he can come up with. but he doesn’t. because hyukjae pushes samuel to work as hard as he can, to be the best he can be, to be kind and good to others and for the fans to see that.

not the fabrications, but him. just him.

IDOL HISTORY

no one ever understood how his mother married that man. when you put things into perspective? he didn’t either.

she was young. he was ten years older than her. no one really thought the age gap was an issue, the issue could be found somewhere else: he wasn’t a good person. but she didn’t think too much of it, she was young, in love, eager to be one of those school girls who get involved with the bad guys, with the rebel ones. luckily (or unluckily) for her? she got what she wanted. the wedding came only 7 months after they started dating, and not exactly because they were deeply in love with each other (no, his mother claims she fell out of love three weeks into their relationship), but because she got pregnant.

one and then another.

the bae family then decided to move to the united states, to be more specific: chicago, illinois. a year later, bae jiohami gave birth to a healthy baby boy they named ‘hyukjae’, much to her husband’s discontent. the delusion creeping further into his brain everyday; if they were in america now, why keep holding on so hard to their roots? it didn’t make sense to him.

and so, years passed by, where his mother was used to the comfort of a home and his father was used to having someone willing to keep the house clean everyday. essentially, his parents were conformists.

but he surely wasn’t.

hyukjae was the boy who pranced around their place, singing, dancing, disguising himself and pretending to be the star of a show. he was the boy who dreamed, the boy who wanted to reach for the stars, the boy who knew this kind of life wasn’t for him, no, no. he wanted more and he was going to aim for more.

he turned four years old and his father decided they had enough of illinois and decided the whole family should now move to los angeles, california. of course, the boy was more than excited, that was the place where all of the big music and tv stars were, right? and he wanted to be one of them, one of those big music and tv people. what he didn’t know, however, was the reason why. his father’s version? they wanted to find better life opportunities. the real version? his father was afraid. he was afraid of getting caught; a scammer always on the run. he fooled people. he stole from them. he took things he shouldn’t possess. he was bad, and he didn’t want to be held accountable for his actions; so he ran and took his family with him. first from seoul, then from chicago.

adapting? it wasn’t easy. he was only four almost five when he was put to test, when he was told he had to learn another language, when he had to sit with his kindergarten teacher during recess because she was kind enough to teach him as much as she could. at home? his mother did her best. his father did nothing. his older brothers didn’t care. so he realized: he was on his own.

the only thing his father ever did was to suggest a ‘name change’. something that “will make you fit in with everyone else”, and although his mother wasn’t too happy about it, his father convinced her when he suggested the name ‘samuel’.

“it means name of god, darling. it fits him right, doesn’t it?”

and yet, even though easily manipulated, there was one thing he had to applaud to his mother, and that was the passion she gave him. the fire she used to motivate him. even if her english wasn’t good, she tried and at the same time encouraged him to listen to his teachers, to soak in as much as he could, to reach his goals, to make his dreams come true. she tried the same with his brothers, but they weren’t interested at all, no. they were interested in the easy money, in the bad things dad used to do.

except he didn’t ‘use’ to do those things and hyukjae learned that when he was nine.

whenever his father would take him and his brothers out, he’d try to encourage him to steal from people, to pickpocket them. after all, he was a child, who would suspect him? in his father’s words? no one. but hyukjae was terrified at the idea, he was embarrassed to even imagine himself doing such thing, so he didn’t, and every time he refused? he had to face severe consequences.

could he even fight it? no chance.

to suppress the pain, the boy with the dreams kept fighting for them. at school, he was the one who now sat down with his friends and tried to teach them korean. some thought it was silly, some thought it was cool. soon, hyukjae had built a reputation for himself, and luckily, a good one. most of the girls were enamored by his passion, because he didn’t care about singing down the hallways or about auditioning for the school plays, casually always getting the lead roles. he was loved and admired and he was happy about it. very.

but not everything is roses, that is for sure.

when he was thirteen, the chance of “his life” (or so he claimed back then) arrived. a tv show was holding auditions for kids, talented kids. do you know how to sing? dance? do a trick? have a special talent? it didn’t matter! that was the perfect opportunity for any kid who wanted to start a career. he told his mother about it, because he knew his father wouldn’t approve of it. she was elated with the idea so they secretly planned to sneak out of home very early to go to the audition.

that, however, didn’t happen.

unaware that one of his brothers was listening to their conversation, the news didn’t take long to get to his father’s ears, who completely forbid him (and his mother) from going. at the time? she gave up. she said ‘okay’. she turned to hyukjae and apologized. and him? what else could a thirteen year old do if it wasn’t to reassure his mother everything was fine? not much else.

days later, while his father and brothers were sleeping, his mother pulled him out of bed, got him dressed, gave him a backpack with his belongings and said; “we’re going to follow your dreams. let’s go.”

because for once and for him? she’d do anything. she had submitted herself for so long, she had done everything her husband wanted and that was fine as long as he only wanted to mess with her. but when he dared mess with her son? with his dreams? she wouldn’t allow that. she wasn’t leaving america completely happy, however, because she was leaving her two older sons behind, but what could she do when they were the same kind of people her husband was? nothing. and if she could save hyukjae from following their steps? she would.

going back to south korea wasn’t easy. it wasn’t like hyukjae entirely forgot the language (especially because korean was what they used when at home), but adapting? it was hard. he didn’t feel any kind of connection to his roots due to his father’s obsession, and perhaps it had been easy for his four year old self when he had to learn a whole new language and culture, but now as a teenager, it wasn’t easy at all. his classmates weren’t easy either. he was mocked because they had this “idea” he thought he was better than them only because he came from america.

it was not okay, but he pushed himself into believing it was just for the sake of ignoring it and focusing on what truly mattered: his career.

when he had just turned fifteen, hyukjae attended his very first audition at kjh global creative. the line was long and he was intimidated. he saw so many kids, some singing, some dancing, some just trying to look pretty. he didn’t think he was a great dancer, but he did trust his singing abilities, he always did! from his perspective? he thought he did well. and maybe he did, but it wasn’t enough. maybe he was too late, maybe there were far more talented kids in that line, who knows? either way, his mother didn’t allow him to feel disappointed. “you’ll make it next time, i promise.”

his next time came a year later, his mother worked hard to afford singing and dancing lessons for him so this time, he felt much more confident about himself. much more ready and prepared for it. and this time? it was midas media’s turn. just as it was also his turn to prove himself. and he did.

his mother was elated, happy that her son was just one step away from making his dreams come true. but they surely didn’t know that the process wouldn’t be easy at all, though.

everything he practiced as a kid, everything he learned during those singing and dancing classes prior to signing seemed like “nothing” compared to his trainee days. it was exhausting, it was almost painful. he put his entire heart, his entire soul, his entire mind into it. he gave his all, not only professionally, but personally too. he wanted to stand out, he wanted to shine, he wanted to show the world he could be whoever he wanted to be and he knew he wouldn’t be able to do that if he didn’t give his 200% to this. so he did.

and so, five years later, 1nferno happened and he was starstruck. was that a dream? was he about to be woken up by his father? get told he was an idiot for believing he’d make it this far? nope, that didn’t happen. this was real and it hit him to think: that all of those years he spent practicing? that all of those years he spent training? they truly weren’t the beginning of his journey, no. this was.

but then he’s starts getting too fabricated. then he’s being asked to say and do things that can make him stand out because he’s always just /there/, he’s always just /behind/. so he started pulling out the english (a thing he had put in the back of his mind when his korean classmates mocked him for it), he started pulling his ‘cute’ stunts, he started trying to crack jokes. he pulled all of the stops and some work and some don’t, but he keeps trying.

for someone who only wanted to sing? he thought he was doing okay.

that is, until everyone wanted to know more about him. yes, he was born and had spent most part of his life in america, and? what happened over there? yes, he has a family, and? where are they? why does he only talk about his mother? why is his father not being mentioned? how about his siblings? what happened to them?

there were many questions and he didn’t have the answers. or he did, he just didn’t want to share them. he got asked to fabricate them, but he couldn’t do that either. so the people started to mistrust him. they started to think there was something fishy about him. so sure, samuel bae is talented, sweet, cute, he’s kind and he loves animals, he caters to his fans and he does anything to keep everyone happy.

but some people still think his life situation is.. shady.

so the speculations started to rain on him. “his father is probably dead, so it’s horrible he doesn’t want to talk about him.”, “what if his brothers did something bad?”, “i bet his family was involved in some sort of crime, maybe that’s why he avoids talking about them.”

there’s a new theory everyday. a new rumor. a new something.

in the same fashion, there are new fabrications on his shoulders. maybe if he acts a different way, maybe if he tones something down, maybe if he starts doing something new. maybe. maybe. maybe. maybe they’ll leave him alone.

but they don’t and they won’t and hyukjae is aware of it. he’s aware that people will dig and dig and dig until they get the truth, and while they don’t get it? they’ll create, create and create until he gives up and speaks up. but he won’t, he won’t because he’s only human, because that’s something he wants to keep to himself, at least that.

because in the end? he’s only a boy with dreams.

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IDOL DETAILS

STAGENAME: N/A CURRENT AGE: 24 DEBUT AGE: 20 TRAINEE SINCE AGE: 15 COMPANY: Midas SECONDARY SKILL: Music production

IDOL PROFILE

NICKNAME(S): “Cutejae” only because it rhymes and his fans thought it was pretty endearing. He likes it, but you can always find him blushing when they call him that. INSPIRATION: Ever since he was very young, his mother used to push him to follow his dreams and keep fighting for them. Additionally to that, he used to listen to legendary singers (like Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, James Brown, etc.) since he was a little kid, so of course, they all inspired him to sing and pursue a career in the business. SPECIAL TALENTS:

He can fit 17 animal crackers in his mouth. Although he does want to break his own record every time he tries it.

He can balance anything you give him with one finger. Unless it’s too heavy, he’ll use two, not before trying to do it with just one, though.

He can sing and at the same time do impressions of international singers. He doesn’t have the same tone, but the style is very similar.

NOTABLE FACTS:

He spent seven years of his life living in America.

While in school, he always participated in every play he could to work on his performance skills.

He’s an avid animal lover, so it is known he has the tendency of donating money and food to animal shelters.

He is left-handed, so has the tendency of doing things “the other way around”, which many find equally endearing and annoying.

IDOL GOALS

SHORT-TERM GOALS:

He wants to keep improving. If there’s anything he has learned so far? Is that there’s always room for improvement and that’s exactly what he wants for himself. Obviously, to keep growing not only as a performer but as a person. Hopefully be able to keep helping those in need, and focus heavily on his hopeful next step: a solo career.

LONG-TERM GOALS:

He wants to see Titanium shine and of course, be able to help enough, not only as a performer, but also as a music producer. He knows this will take time, which is fine by him, it’s a learning process. Never taking his eyes away from the group, he wants to focus on his own solo career. As a kid he never imagined himself sharing the stage with other people (not that it bothers him, anyway), but he does want to achieve those dreams of getting the spotlight, of doing his own thing, his own music and be able to pat himself on the back for it. At the same time, he hopes more people will focus on his career, on what he’s trying to accomplish rather than obsess so much about his past and let that cloud their image of him.

IDOL IMAGE

He is the ‘cute’ one. He’s the ‘All-American boy’, even if he’s not. But that’s what he does, he pulls out English words in the middle of an interview and everyone finds it endearing, almost as if he forgot what he was going to say in his native tongue and decided to use the English version of it. But not really, no. What Hyukjae did was very simple: he used his resources.

The whole thing about: if you got it, flaunt it? He flaunts it.

He’s the one who wears the cute animals hats, the one who tilts his head from one side and then to the other, catering to the more-than-in-love fans who can’t get enough of his cuteness. He doesn’t mind it, he thinks it’s fun, he thinks it’s a good way to win the fans’ love. He’s not even embarrassed by it, because many are. But he’s not, because if he has it? He flaunts it.

That’s what everyone told him when he was a trainee, anyway.

“Use this. Use that. No, no, not THAT. Yes! That! That is perfect.”

He listened. He learned.

Maybe it was the gentleness in his heart or the fact he was always taught to follow the rules, who knows? At the end of the day, he followed every single thing he was told to do.

“Maybe say ‘oh my god!” when you’re surprised, they’re gonna LOVE you.”

He said it.

“You should definitely wear this. They will ADORE you.”

He wore it.

Hyukjae has always been perfectly crafted to be the sweet one, to be the one who stands between their group mates when they’re all jokingly having beef with each other, to be the one who laughs at everyone’s jokes and subsequently, to be the one telling the silliest jokes.

And he’s okay with all of it because if he has it, you guessed it, he should flaunt it, right?

But this image doesn’t work with anyone, or at least, not with a few eager to know about his past. What is he exactly hiding behind those sweet, gentle eyes? No one really knows, and they don’t really like it. Despite the image Midas has tried so hard to shine upon him, people see beyond all of it (or rather, they don’t see enough) and that is a good reason to not trust him, immediately turning into doubters, into ‘haters’ if you will.

Midas is aware, they’re more than aware and no matter how comfortable he is with his current image, he’s now being pushed to a much more serious side of him. The aegyo is perfect, but he’s gotten asked to tone it down. The English is cool, they want him to keep it up. But now, he’s forced to speak up about something he’s not too comfortable speaking up about. They want him to be more ‘open’ and they want him to lie about it. They want him to fabricate a past life.

But how is he supposed to flaunt it.. if he doesn’t have it?

IDOL HISTORY

No one ever understood how his mother married that man. When you put things into perspective? He didn’t either.

She was young. He was ten years older than her. No one really thought the age gap was an issue, the issue could be found somewhere else: He wasn’t a good person. But she didn’t think too much of it, she was young, in love, eager to be one of those school girls who get involved with the bad guys, with the rebel ones. Luckily (or unluckily) for her? She got what she wanted. The wedding came only 7 months after they started dating, and not exactly because they were deeply in love with each other (no, his mother claims she fell out of love three weeks into their relationship), but because she got pregnant.

One, two and then Hyukjae.

She was used to the comfort of a home. He was used to having someone willing to keep the house clean everyday. His parents were conformists.

But he surely wasn’t.

Hyukjae was the boy who pranced around their place, singing, dancing, disguising himself and pretending to be the star of a show. He was the boy who dreamed, the boy who wanted to reach for the stars, the boy who knew this kind of life wasn’t for him, no, no. He wanted more and he was going to aim for more.

He was six when his parents decided to move to the United States, to be more specific: Los Angeles, California. Of course, the boy was more than excited, that was the place where ALL of the big music and TV stars were, right? And he wanted to be one of them, one of those big music and TV people. What he didn’t know, however, was the reason why. His father’s version? They wanted to find better life opportunities. The real version? His father was afraid. He was afraid of getting caught; a scammer always on the run. He fooled people. He stole from them. He took things he shouldn’t possess. He was bad, and he didn’t want to be held accountable for his actions; so he ran and took his family with him.

Adapting? It wasn’t easy. He was only six years old when he was put to test, when he was told he had to learn another language, when he had to sit with the teacher during recess because she was kind enough to teach him as much as she could. At home? His mother did her best. His father did nothing. His older brothers didn’t care. So he realized: he was on his own.

There was one thing he had to applaud to his mother, however, that was the passion she gave him. The fire she used to motivate him. Even if her English wasn’t good, she tried and at the same time encouraged him to listen to his teachers, to soak in as much as he could, to reach his goals, to make his dreams come true. She tried the same with his brothers, but they weren’t interested at all, no. They were interested in the easy money, in the bad things dad used to do.

Except he didn’t ‘use’ to do those things and Hyukjae learned that when he was nine.

Whenever his father would take him and his brothers out, he’d try to encourage him to steal from people, to pickpocket them. After all, he was a child, who would suspect him? In his father’s words? No one. But Hyukjae was terrified at the idea, he was embarrassed to even imagine himself doing such thing, so he didn’t, and every time he refused? He got yelled at.

To suppress the pain, the boy with the dreams kept fighting for them. At school, he was the one who now sat down with his friends and tried to teach them Korean. Some thought it was silly, some thought it was cool. In return, his friends helped him perfect his English and it worked out for him. Soon, Hyukjae had built a reputation for himself, and luckily, a good one. Most of the girls were enamored by his passion, because he didn’t care about singing down the hallways or about auditioning for the school plays, casually always getting the lead roles. He was loved and admired and he was happy about it. Very.

But not everything is roses, that is for sure.

When he was thirteen, the chance of “his life” (or so he claimed back then) arrived. A TV show was holding auditions for kids, talented kids. Do you know how to sing? Dance? Do a trick? Have a special talent? It didn’t matter! That was the perfect opportunity for any kid who wanted to start a career. He told his mother about it, because he knew his father wouldn’t approve of it. She was elated with the idea so they secretly planned to sneak out of home very early to go to the audition.

That, however, didn’t happen.

Unaware that one of his brothers was listening to their conversation, the news didn’t take long to get to his father’s ears, who completely forbid him (and his mother) from going. At the time? She gave up. She said ‘okay’. She turned to Hyukjae and apologized. And him? What else could a thirteen year old do if it wasn’t to reassure his mother everything was fine? Not much else.

Days later, while his father and brothers were sleeping, his mother pulled him out of bed, got him dressed, gave him a backpack with his belongings and said; “We’re going to follow your dreams. Let’s go.”

Because for once and for him? She’d do anything. She had submitted herself for so long, she had done everything her husband wanted and that was fine as long as he only wanted to mess with her. But when he dared mess with her son? With his dreams? She wouldn’t allow that. She wasn’t leaving America completely happy, however, because she was leaving her two older sons behind, but what could she do when they were the same kind of people her husband was? Nothing. And if she could save Hyukjae from following their steps? She would.

Going back to South Korea wasn’t easy. It wasn’t like Hyukjae forgot his roots or his language (especially because Korean was what they used when at home), but adapting? It was hard. He was only six when he left, and he had spent time adapting to America, so doing it all over again as a teenager? It wasn’t easy at all. His classmates weren’t easy either. He was mocked because they had this “idea” he thought he was better than them only because he came from America.

It was not okay, but he pushed himself into believing it was just for the sake of ignoring it and focusing on what truly mattered: his career.

When he had just turned fourteen, Hyukjae attended his very first audition at KJH Global Creative. The line was long and he was intimidated. He saw so many kids, some singing, some dancing, some just trying to look pretty. He didn’t think he was a great dancer, but he did trust his singing abilities, he always did! From his perspective? He thought he did well. And maybe he did, but it wasn’t enough. Maybe he was too late, maybe there were far more talented kids in that line, who knows? Either way, his mother didn’t allow him to feel disappointed. “You’ll make it next time, I promise.”

His next time came a year later, his mother worked hard to afford singing and dancing lessons for him so this time, he felt much more confident about himself. Much more ready and prepared for it. And this time? It was Midas Media’s turn. Just as it was also his turn to prove himself. And he did.

His mother was elated, happy that her son was just one step away from making his dreams come true. But they surely didn’t know that the process wouldn’t be easy at all, though.

Everything he practiced as a kid, everything he learned during those singing and dancing classes prior to signing seemed like “nothing” compared to his trainee days. It was exhausting, it was almost painful. He put his entire heart, his entire soul, his entire mind into it. He gave his all, not only professionally, but personally too. He wanted to stand out, he wanted to shine, he wanted to show the world he could be whoever he wanted to be and he knew he wouldn’t be able to do that if he didn’t give his 200% to this. So he did.

And so, five years later, Titanium happened and he was starstruck. Was that a dream? Was he about to be woken up by his father? Get told he was an idiot for believing he’d make it this far? Nope, that didn’t happen. This was real and it hit him to think: that all of those years he spent practicing? That all of those years he spent training? They truly weren’t the beginning of his journey, no. This was.

But then he’s starts getting too fabricated. Then he’s being asked to say and do things that can make him stand out because he’s always just /there/, he’s always just /behind/. So he started pulling out the English (a thing he had put in the back of his mind when his Korean classmates mocked him for it), he started pulling his ‘cute’ stunts, he started trying to crack jokes, but failed. He pulled all of the stops and some work and some don’t, but he keeps trying.

For someone who only wanted to sing? He thought he was doing okay.

That is, until everyone wanted to know more about him. Yes, he lived in America, and? What happened over there? Yes, he was born in South Korea, and? What did they move to America? Yes, he has a family, and? Where are they? Why does he only talk about his mother? Why is his father not being mentioned? How about his siblings? What happened to them?

There were many questions and he didn’t have the answers. Or he did, he just didn’t want to share them. He got asked to fabricate them, but he couldn’t do that either. So the people started to mistrust him. They started to think there was something fishy about him. So sure, Hyukjae is talented, sweet, cute, he’s kind and he loves animals, he caters to his fans and he does anything to keep everyone happy.

But some people still think his life situation is.. shady.

So the speculations started to rain on him. “His father is probably dead, so it’s horrible he doesn’t want to talk about him.”, “What if his brothers did something bad?”, “I bet his family was involved in some sort of crime, maybe that’s why he avoids talking about them.”

There’s a new theory everyday. A new rumor. A new something.

In the same fashion, there are new fabrications on his shoulders. Maybe if he acts a different way, maybe if he tones something down, maybe if he starts doing something new. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe they’ll leave him alone.

But they don’t and they won’t and Hyukjae is aware of it. He’s aware that people will dig and dig and dig until they get the truth, and while they don’t get it? They’ll create, create and create until he gives up and speaks up. But he won’t, he won’t because he’s only human, because that’s something he wants to keep to himself, at least that.

Because in the end? He’s only a boy with dreams.