#member: gaeun

[lovesick-gxrls]

GAEUN’S LOVE LIFE

song mino x lee gaeun

september 2015 - august 2018

mino and gaeun quickly became close after a few months of knowing each other which led to their relationship. gaeun was head over heels for mino and we’re in a very supportive couple of each others success.

a year into their relationship dispatch captured photos of them on a date and exposed them to the public, but many fans supported the couple. the couple called it quits due the distance as was exo on tour.

(minnie) x lee gaeun

march 2019 - october 2019

minnie and gaeun began dating after meeting at music bank. gaeun was a guest mc while (g)i-dle was promoting. though their relationship only lasted a few months it was filled with cute dates and good memories.

they broke up due to (g)i-dle becoming more busy and gaeun being asked to do more schedules but they remain good friends.

christian yu (dpr ian) x lee gaeun

october 2021 - january 2022

gaeun and christian started off as a casual thing but soon developed feelings for each other after meeting a few times. it was a whirlwind romance for the pair, but gaeun wasn’t looking for anything serious.

she broke it off due to her freaking out about how serious they were becoming and how quickly it had developed. they’ve stayed friends however, and are seen together hanging out with their friends.

min yoongi (suga) x lee gaeun

april 2023 -

gaeun and yoongi met when exo and bts were promoting at the same time years back, they quickly became close friends but lost contact once both groups had began to gain more popularity.

they reconnected recently at a mutual friends party and have been almost inseparable since. they’ve kept their relationship secret to the public and have only told their close friends and family.

gaeun m.list | masterlist

[kimjuncottton]

01-14-2024 tiktok update with limelight gaeun & suhye

[svt-kiki]

( 🖇️ )　𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐀𝐒 !　⌅ .

───　୨ৎ 　›　𝐅𝐔𝐍　𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒　.　

she has one of the biggest china bars among the kpop idols. her fandom is strong esp in china, thai, philippines, latin america and europe

although her appearance doesn’t fit korea nor japan’s “beauty standards” perfectly, she is quite popular out there. it took time to get recognize she deserves, but currently she’s one of the most popular kpop idols in korea and japan, thanks to the acting activities.

she has an addictive deep voice.

she is famous for her clean skin, considered as the idol who has most beautiful bare face. she prefers being without makeup on day off.

she’s against the “diet” culture without apology: that most female idols experienced, only eat a few to lose weights. since only female trainee had regularly weight measurement, she rebeled against the company in predebut era to get rid of that system.

she got scouted from jyp, sm ang yg entertainments as a trainee while in pledis. she was a “legend” trainee who was famous among other company’s trainees. the pics of her when she went to sopa’s graduation ceremony ( when seungcheol and doyoon graduated ) went viral on internet.

she’s the only one who constantly replies group chat, named "the only member who’s responsible" in “Know Thyself #2” ( lmao )

her experience in pd 48 literally broke her heart — gaeun was her first friend in korea, watching one of the oldest friends struggling, challenging, and falling apart at last sec was a terrible experience. during the program she held herself strictly not to do her favor nor get biased in any way, but couldn’t help herself into tears after the final. she just decided she’ll never involve to any audition programs again.

however, because of the pd48 appearance, she is basically the mother, or nonna / eonni of the 4th gen idols. lots of people mentioned her as a rolemodel or the sunbae they want to get close with, but it’s because she has so many male friends in the 3rd gen groups already and kiki be the only “safe” female idols to mention esp for male idols.

kiki is known as very polite and humble person in the kpop industry. throughout her careers, she carefully curated own demeanor and behaved very wisely. that, and the fact that she's the only one female member in her group made her allow to interact with other male idols “normally”. she is the heart of the healthy friendships between male / female idols in the industry. now she becoming the “legend” 3rd gen idol, kiki tried to clear the roadblock as something really unhealthy and toxic customs in the industry for the sake of the younger idols.

she plays the role of producing visual side like woozi is doing in music. she takes huge part as deciding concepts, the look of albums and costumes.

she often jokes about how she is “old” now that barely understands japanese youth words and it’s fUNNY

her favorite mangas are jojo’s bizarre adventure ( she’s MADLY in love with araki hirohiko’s illustration ), one piece, bleach, fullmetal alchemist, etc. she also loves psycho-pass and fate series as well.

she spent her childhood in 00s japan, so it’s apparent that she has been greatly influenced by those 00s japanese pop culture. she adores 00s jpop a lot. her favorite artists are amuro namie, utada hikaru, arashi and bump of chicken.

but her visual and fashion clearly got the 90s vibes.

her favorite colors are yellow, blue and black.

she listens to wide range of music. the song she shared to social media or released cover version often goes viral on internet.

she’s good at most sports ( maybe the only one who can controll balls properly in the performance team lol ) but has no idea how to play online pc games.

she reads lots of books except self-development jenre. her favorite authors are higashino keigo, kazuo ishiguro and le guin.

cooking is her speciality! it’s her little dream to have a mini-program that she invites the guests and treats her with her homemade meal.

───　୨ৎ 　›　𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄　𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃　𝐊𝐈𝐊𝐈　.　

⸺ 𝘗𝘈𝘙𝘒 𝘔𝘐𝘕𝘑𝘐 › . 박민지

✦ ☕️ ⸝⸝ ⸺ 𝘴𝘶𝘣-𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 .

　PARK MINJI was born in 1989 in seoul, south korea. she lived in japan from age of 12 to 15 due to her parents’ work. after returning to korea and enrolling in college, she decided to go back to japan. while studying at a japanese university, minji worked as an intern at avex, a japanese record company, in 2010. it was during this time that she got involved in the collaboration project between after school and japanese singer amuro namie, which was the first time she connected with pledis.

　after graduating from college, minji joined pledis entertainment in 2012. her work initially focused on nu’est’s activities in japan, but when seventeen made its debut, she became one of the managers. minji was also in charge of all group activities for seventeen, but most of all she supported kiki, since she was the only female member of the group, and it was clear that japanese girl needed the ongoing support of the female staff.

　now she is the closest staff to kiki. as she supported her individual works, mostly acting activities in both korea and japan, minji spents a lot of time with her and recognized each other as a best friend. although seventeen’s management job is pretty hard and busy, it’s rare to see that same person remains in the team from debut. she’s one of ‘famous’ staffs like hyelim-nim, bumzu and kim yeonsoo that carats recognize.

⸺ 𝘛𝘐𝘍𝘍𝘈𝘕𝘠 𝘚𝘖𝘕𝘌 › . 曽根 ティファニー

✦ ☀️ ⸝⸝ ⸺ 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘶. 𝘴. 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 .

　TIFFANY SONE was born in 1992 in chicago, the united states. her father is a japanese, grew up in tokyo and left his hometown to purchase his career as a classic musician. later on, he got a place in the chicago symphony orchestra. he met a japanese woman in the city, which was tiffany’s mother. they divorced when tiffany was a little kid, but her father remarried a korean woman after few years later. from this moment, tiffany got interested in korean language and culture through her step mother. she studied linguistics at the college, ended up working at pr company.

　tiffany started to work at pledis around 2019. she is in charge of the group’s u.s. activities as a manager and translator. tiffany has an open mind, bright personality and great sence of humor. all members loved her for it right after they met. now she’s spending more time with kiki, due to the attention she got from overseas.

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[fluffygumi]

I said to myself I wouldn't speak about any darker subjects on this account but, as someone who has stanned Gaeun since limelight I want to say something.

please boycott 143 entertainment (which includes madein and ikon). the ceo had been sexually harassing Gaeun, a member of madein and disguised it by putting her on a hiatus for health reasons. I would recommend putting your own research into it and please spread the word. thank you

[keketopia]

TW⚠️ SA

I'm not sure how much attention this is gonna get but just now, it was revealed that member Gaeun from MADEIN was sexually assaulted by the CEO of 143 Entertainment and the CEO tried covering it up by saying her hiatus was for "health reasons"

This is honestly so sick and disgusting! Please do not let this man walk away unscathed. Please help spread Gaeun story! She was only 18-19 at the time of the incident. Gaeun deserves to get justice for what has happened to her.

[kimbappykidding]

Imagine getting jealous and insecure seeing Baekhyun flirting with other girls

You were pretty sure Baekhyun had asked you out based on your stage character. While performing, you often got the hot concepts and you did it well but it wasn't an accurate representation of your true self. Off stage, you were shy, quiet and introverted. You saw other kpop idols being very charismatic and loud and admired that, it's how you first noticed Baekhyun. You loved how fun and loud he was and found it entertaining. Baekhyun had always been polite to you, holding doors open, passing you microphones etc but he didn't ask you out until your latest comeback where you had the sexy concept. You said yes because you'd always liked Baekhyun and quickly fell into a 2 month-long relationship. The two of you were not technically official but you'd go on dates and hook up after work. You'd enjoyed yourself and the chemistry was great between the two of you but you couldn't help feeling like an imposter. You acted confident around him and channelled some of your stage character in an effort to impress him. You were sure he was going to realise you were nothing like he thought and anytime you couldn't be as social or outgoing as him at a party thought he'd realise and break it off. Then to make things worse tonight at the party you were both attending he actually had someone to match his energy in the form of a beautiful woman.

As the two of you weren't official nobody except your members knew anything was going on so at parties you largely avoided one another but that didn't mean you didn't see the cute interactions he was having with Gaeun.

You watched as she and Baekhyun both raced for the door and how they crashed into one another laughing. You took a sip of your drink and watched as the hand Baekhyun had used to steady her stayed on her shoulder. The competitive childish side of you rose up and you decided if you were going to be dumped you atleast wanted to go out appearing to her having fun. So you asked your members if they wanted to dance and headed for the dancefloor. You channelled your stage character and she was there. A while later Baekhyun looked around the room and noticed you were no longer at your table. He felt a little upset because he wanted you to see how fun he was and how much other people liked him! That was the reason he acted so outgoing and social at parties but he scolded himself for being childish. He always found himself putting on a show and being more extroverted around you in an attempt to impress you. You had this amazing ability to go from being so confident and showy to being cool and calm. He wished he could be like that but being chill wasn't his strong suit and so he played to his strengths. He really liked looking up at an event and seeing you laugh at one of his jokes or smiling amusedly at something he'd done. He kind of felt like all that was for nothing if you hadn't seen it and so he headed out to look for you. Baekhyun wasn't shocked to see you dancing, he knew you liked to dance. He was shocked because you were going all out and pretty much everyone was pretending not to watch you while watching you. The two of you weren't openly a couple but Baekhyun didn't care about that watching the way you were moving. He moved further into the room and you spotted him gawking at you, smiled and flipped your hair. Baekhyun took that as an invitation and rushed over to you. You were clearly in a playful mood because you kept twirling and moving anytime Baekhyun tried to wrap his arms around your waist. You seemed to be enjoying teasing him because you had a big smile on your face every time Baekhyun sighed as you moved away from him. He'd finally got you in his arms and was just about to tease you back when you leaned forward and kissed him. It was one of those knee-buckling kisses and Baekhyun was a mess before he knew it. He was clinging onto you only for you to pull away he blinked his eyes open and stared at you. "Hi" he said and you stared back at him "hi".  "That was amazing" he told you and you paused "are you sure?". "Of course!" he cried "Y/n you're so hot". You nodded "but am I as hot as Gaeun?". Baekhyun froze "pardon?". "I saw you with her, your hands lingering and I wasn't happy. Do you want her instead of me?". Baekhyun shook his head grinning "never!" but there was something in your tone and how you couldn't look at him that made Baekhyun realise this wasn't a joke. "Y/n I promise we're just friends, of course I want you" he said going more serious. "Just because of how I look on stage?" you asked and Baekhyun saw your confident act fade away to be replaced by genuine worry. Baekhyun shook his head and took your hand. He led you somewhere quieter and carried on shaking his head. "Of course not just how you look on stage, where did you get that idea from?". "Well you asked me out after our latest comeback and I noticed you watching me on stage...is that the girl you want me to be? Who you thought you were asking out?". "No! Y/n you're an incredible stage performer but that's not why l asked you out". "It's not?" you asked. Baekhyun laughed "of course not! I mean I am attracted to you and that stage was very good but I liked you way before that and not just for your looks...I'm not embarrassed to admit I'd watched some of your interviews and I loved how funny you are. You're so smart and quick I really found that attractive. Then I also liked how you're kind of quiet and cool but you really care. I'd heard of the things you'd done for your members and fans and I thought you sounded so sweet I wanted to be with you". "And since we've been seeing each other...you haven't been disappointed?". Baekhyun chuckled "are you kidding me, hold on one second". He pulled out his phone and called Suho. "Hey hyung just real quick, what did I say the night I came back from my first date with Y/n?". "Erm that her legs looked amazing". Baekhyun blushed "not that! The other thing". Suho paused "ow you mean how you were ready to propose?". Baekhyun nearly dropped the phone "I didn't say propose!". "Well you said something like that...how you instantly got a great feeling from her and you could see yourself with her for a very long time. Then Chanyeol teased you about the two of you growing old together and you blushed like a teenager. Is that it?". Baekhun nodded blushing again "yep that's the one, bye" and hung up. He laughed "so that was meant to reassure you but it could've just as easily terrified you" he laughed. You smiled "it did reassure me...you thought that after our first date?". He nodded "I knew we'd be a good couple and that I really liked you". You blushed "wow that's really sweet". He smiled "well nothing's changed and I actually really like how different we are. You help calm me down and the members have commented how I'm a much better listener since I met you. So what I'm trying to say is I've hopelessly fallen for you and the thing with Gaeun didn't mean anything but I'm sorry I upset you". You shrugged "it's okay, I'm sorry for being insecure". "Don't be" Baekhyun said kissing your cheek. You relaxed into him and Baekhyun smiled wrapping his arms around you properly. Baekhyun held you, gently resting his head on your shoulder until eventually, you'd gotten enough cuddles. "So do you want to go back and dance?" you asked him. Baekhyun shook his head "if it's okay with you I think I'd just like to go home and curl up on the sofa together". You smiled "that sounds amazing" and left hand in hand, letting everyone know you were together.

[multicohn]

‼️ please spread ‼️

Gaeun, a member of MADEIN has been s3xu4lly ass*ulted by their CEO, who attempted to cover it up by placing her on hiatus under the guise of "health reasons".

I need everyone to spread hashtags to raise awareness to this situation, boycott MADEIN and 143 ENT., stop consuming their contents, stop streaming, unfollow them on every social media, and get justice for Gaeun!

JUSTICE FOR GAEUN JUSTICE FOR MADEIN

#JusticeForGaeun #JusticeForMadein

#Boycott143Ent

#WeStandWithMadein

#WeStandWithGaeun

[violayves]

TW SA / GROOMING

hi i don't really talk about this sort of stuff but please support the 143 entertainment boycott. Gaeun, a member of their group MADEIN (ex-member of limelight), recently came out and said that her ceo sexually harassed her. (more info in cut, please mind the tw) she only recently turned 19. Another member of limelight / MADEIN, MiU, has also said that the CEO repeatedly confessed romantic feelings toward her.

please make sure to not listen to / support ANY 143 entertainment groups which notably includes ikon, limelight, and madein. please send well wishes to Gaeun on her socials.

[maeumverse]

ZENITH ENTERTAINMENT is a fictional South Korean entertainment company. It was founded in 2016 by former SM Entertainment executive LEE TAEIN, shortly after his supposedly amicable departure from the company. 

They are best known for their first and flagship group FABLE, who continues to be the only artist formed solely by the company. Zenith is also notable for the way CEO Taein notoriously inserts himself into the smallest of business decisions, and their refusal to take trainees since Fable’s debut.

BASICS

NAME: Zenith Entertainment

TYPE: Private

INDUSTRY: Music, entertainment

FOUNDED: 2016

FOUNDER: Lee Taein

HEADQUARTERS: Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea

AREA SERVED: Worldwide

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 20+

ARTISTS

FABLE (2018 — present): eight seven member boy group

NEON NIGHTS (2021 — present): five member girl band

JAESUN (2023 — present): idol soloist

NOTABLE PEOPLE

LEE TAEIN (1969) … Founder, CEO, and Fable's creative director. Former SM Entertainment talent acquisition director. Played by Lee Byung-hun.

PARK SANGHYUN (1972) … COO and CFO. Has been trying to get a private office for the past seven years. Played by Lee Seo-jin.

CHEN YUXUAN (2002) … Taein and Sanghyun's executive assistant. Underpaid and overworked intern. Played by Liu Yu.

WOO HYEKYUNG (1997) … Social media & marketing manager. Has held the position since 2017. Rules the open office with an iron fist. Played by Park Soobin.

SHIN JUBIN (1985) … Neon Nights and Jaesun's creative director. Classics fan. Can conjugate ancient Greek. Played by Hwang Jung-eum.

KIM GAEUN (1981) … Fable's lead stylist. Co-founder of modern hanbok brand Shinbok. Played by Son Ye-jin.

HONG SHINUI (1975) … Historical consultant for Fable. Korea University adjunct professor. Historian specializing in the middle period of the Joseon dynasty. Played by Lee Tae-ran.

JEON DAEWOONG (1995) … Fable's manager. Former SM Entertainment trainee, 2014-2017. Always thinking about who he could have been. Played by Ahn Hyo-seop.

LEE AERIN (1990) … Neon Nights' manager. Not their first fan, but still their biggest one. Played by Tiffany Young.

NAM CHOHYUN (1998) … Jaesun's manager. Also his cousin. Otherwise unqualified for his job. Played by Han Gichan.

SHAREHOLDERS

LEE TAEIN (1969) … 60%. Founder and CEO.

AHN JINGUK (1978) … 15%. Danyoung Group CAO and fourth son of the current chairman. Played by Gong Yoo.

JUNG SEOBUM (1990) … 10%. Venture capitalist, representing Daehan Ventures. Played by Lee Junho.

KANG GYEONGWON (1981) … 7%. Lawyer, the eponymous Kang of law firm Kang & Cho. Played by Ock Joo-hyun.

HAN CHEOLHWAN (1969) … 6%. Senior Superintendent in the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency. Played by Yoo Jun-sang.

LEE JAESEOP (1995) … 2%. Idol, member of Fable. Played by Kim Doyoung.

[lovesick-gxrls]

RELATIONSHIP WITH EXO-K

kim junmyeon (suho) x lee gaeun

parent #1

this man will not hesitate to embarrass gaeun at any given moment but also will defend her to the end of the earth. he has many stories about gaeun since they have know one another for so long

gaeun is constantly finding a way to annoy junmyeon but they really do love each other.

byun baekhyun x lee gaeun

besties for life

they are usually inseparable, if they don’t see each other they’re usually face timing or texting through out the day

fans love this pair together, lots of skinship and overall gushing about one another

gaeun tells baekhyun all her gossip

park chanyeol x lee gaeun

gaeun’s second big brother

she would class chanyeol as family now and have spent many holidays together, very protective of gaeun

they always try and have dinner together at least once a week if they aren’t promoting together

gaeun is chanyeol’s biggest supporter

do kyungsoo (d.o) x lee gaeun

the awkward duo

at first gaeun and kyungsoo found it hard to find anything in common and would be awkward around each other which everyone else thought was hilarious

eventually they grew closer and sometimes it’s hard to shut them up when they start a conversation, they like to watch movies together and complain about the others

kim jongin (kai) x lee gaeun

most shipped pair

gaeun and jongin have always been close as trainees and we’re very happy to debut in the same group.

constantly holding each others hands or hugging in videos

they both used to have a crush on each other and fans have speculated many times that they are dating

oh sehun x lee gaeun

maknaes on top

constantly bickering with one another but will easily team up and pick on someone else usually junmyeon or minseok.

they used to argue a lot but it was clear that it was never serious they actually love each other a lot.

they hang out together a lot during their free time.

gaeun m.list | masterlist

[svt-kiki]

( 🩹 )　𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏　⌅ .

꣑꣒　　kiki　+　misamo　──　heisei galz　...　98%

THE famous jp girls in kpop 🤩

THE BIG 4

like their impact is insane??? they literally paved the way for japanese kpop idols in industry

as seungkwan once said, svt and twice’s comeback schedules often overlapped with each other, it didn’t take long to form a friendship within girls

fans favorites are isac moments ! they always greet and cheer each other, sometimes kiki just blended within twice and spend time with them since all of twice girls adores her, make once jokingly mourns they can never beat kiki

they have few of matching accessories and that led kiki to have dating rumours with all of them ( once & carat’s inner joke )

although they being iconic twiceteen friendship, she’s close with most of twice girls ( jihyo and kiki is bestie )

꣑꣒　　kiki　+　yuta　──　kiyu　...　94%

the most iconic friendship among the 3rd gen idols !

DEFINITION OF ETERNAL PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP

they met when svt & nct were doing promotions at the same around time, aju nice & fire truck back in 2016

had known each other since then, became friends shortly after

yuta silently pulls out kiki’s chaotic side successfully

they are the main reason for other ncteen friendships, they all grow closer to one another like “oh it’s kiki / yuta’s bestie’s member”

besically have joint custody for shotaro

she roots his solo activities passionately

he asked her for help about the acting project a lot

kiki is very proud of him, teared up when saw yuta on the screen for the first time

they held the famous washoku house party time to time when they miss their home country’s food

꣑꣒　　kiki　+　changkyun　──　kikyun　...　87%

the wiseman said, kiki and yuta are 100% platonic friendship but kikyun let us feel there’s a slight possibility of something else

and that’s true

🚨 sexual tension 🚨 ( not in public eye ofc )

she’s close with the most of monsta x members ( they adore their little sis too much ) and changkyun is the closest among all of them

he speaks to her in casual manner since their birthdays are less than a year apart and that makes them in the same grade in japan

but he calls her noona which is kinda confusing to other people especially if u consider he is not her member, but it’s their own way to communication

always hyping up each others solo work, mention in vlive and stories

midnight calls when someone is struggling to sleep, til one of them fall asleep over the phone

he teaches several languages esp how to do french pronouncing

꣑꣒　　kiki　+　seulgi　──　seulki　...　73%

call each other jagiya quite casually

quite suspicious potential gay couple

they’re just not LOUD, but if you take a look closer you’ll notice something… is going on…

talking like everything is normal while their faces are just really close and lips are just inches apart

someone said “they should be banned to interact publicly unless we all gonna have serious problem to our heart,” and that’s true-

attends each others concerts and fangirling over with it

seulgi: *sends lots of pics from japan trip* kiki: why she visiting japan more than me this year 🥲

˖˙ ᰋ 𝒽𝗈𝗇𝗈𝗋𝖺𝖻𝗅𝖾 ── 𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌

꣑꣒　　kiki　+　gaeun　──　kieun　...　61%

carats can’t take them without crying 🥹

like they tried to hide how much they care each other and success with it but that hug? after they find out gaeun couldn’t make a debut? one of the most sick moments in the entire pd series

the experience in pd 48 literally traumatized kiki

carats suspected the ranking manipulation in the program caused an eternal beef between some of the topsides in pledis ( including han seongsu himself ) and kiki and that’s

now it’s rare to see their interactions in public but most of kiki stans are aware of the preciousness in their friendship

꣑꣒　　kiki　+　minhyun　──　kinhyun　...　53%

nothing crazy, just good old friends

minhyun knows every juicy tea related to kiki he has a LIST of people who has a crush on her ngl

kiki is still close with all of nu’est boys, kinhyun is the most contacted pair, keep in touch time to time ( i mean they are the og oppas… just bring back nueteen like yeogi ga heavennnnn )

both love reading, exchange the book information they read and talk about it

sending the coffee track to each other’s drama 100%

꣑꣒　　kiki　+　yunjin　──　kijin　...　44%

yunjin being the representative of longing kiki committee in the 4th gens 😂 ( like there’s too many idols who look up her as their idol )

they knew each other before the produce 48 program, kept contacting even after yunjin quit the trainee and went back to the state

not she shouting eonniiiii from across the hallway of hybe building and jump up to her back

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[originalvisual]

btw idk how many of you follow madein/limelight but gaeun (the victim) just turned 19 and the group has two members younger than her. i'm not suggesting anything happened to them but their parents need to get these girls out of there ASAP

[lgcmanager]

SIDE EVENT 020 (REWARDS)

thank you all for your participation in love month this year again ! this year, legacy trainees have been tasked to send appreciation letters to a coach/staff member, an idol and a fellow trainee. as you all know, having a likeable personality can open many doors in this industry, thus, WON YEONWOO and LAI WENJUN, as, respectively, the idol and the trainee with the most letters received are rewarded +3 NOTORIETY. congratulations the both of you! for points reference, please link this post to your points sheet.

APPRECIATION (TRAINEES)

additionally, all the trainees who have participated are rewarded a total of 9 SKILL POINTS distributed as follows: +3 (discipline of the coach/staff picked), +3 (highest skill of the idol picked), +3 (lowest skill of the trainee pick, skill must have a minimum of 5 points in it).

a tally of what has been received follows right under. for points reference, please link this post to your points sheet.

baek byeongkwan: + 3 lyric composition, + 3 singing, +3 hosting

carter jaejin: +6 singing, +3 lyric composition

cha sori: +3 rapping, +6 music composition

chen maylin: +6 dancing, +3 chor. (pop/hiphop/street)

cho iseul: 3 dancing, 3 rapping, 3 variety

choi hailey: +3 acting, 3 performance, 3 lyric composition

han noeul: +6 singing, +3 modeling

han rowon: +3 modeling, +3 dancing, +3 hosting

hirawa emi: +3 acting, 3 performance, 3 chor. (pop/hiphop/street)

jo eunwoo: 3 dancing, +3 rapping, +3 variety

kang yoojoon: +6 singing, +3 rapping

kim gaeun: +3 rapping, +3 performance, +3 variety

kim seyoon: +3 dancing, +3 performance, +3 japanese

kuramoto misaki: +3 variety, +3 performance, +3 hosting

kwon hyuntae: +6 singing, +3 hosting

lai wenjun: +3 notoriety

mae jasper: +3 korean, +3 performance, +3 hosting

min hanbin: +3 singing, +6 rapping

moon jiah: +6 singing, +3 rapping

noh areum: +3 acting, +3 singing,        +3 hosting

park chaekyung: +3 dancing, +3 music composition, +3 variety

park jaekyung: +3 japanese, +3 rapping, +3 acting

park seojin: +3 singing, +3 rapping, +3 music composition

park taeha: +3 japanese, +3 singing, +3 hosting

seo nina: +3 dancing, +3 performance, +3 japanese

son haeun: +6 singing, +3 english

sung haneul: +3 dancing, +3 singing, +3 japanese

takanashi asami: +3 lyric composition, +3 variety, +3 hosting

won yeonwoo: +3 notoriety

xu lili: +3 singing, +3 performance, +3 chor. (pop/hiphop/street)

[suhyeos]

sorry to the new limelight members whom i dont even know but they will never be miumiu suhye and gaeun

[boysplanetrecaps]

The Great Produce 48 Rewatch: Ep 3-4, Peekaboo Challenge

When we left off, the trainees had just finished their performance of Love Whisper. And now it's time for the Great Peekaboo Fuckup of 2018. Are you psyched? You should be -- we'll be seeing AleXa, Yiren from Everglow, Lee Gaeun, Jang Gyuri, Yujeong from Lightsum, and a bunch of other great trainees. Plus, place your bets now on how many times you will hear a slightly vocally challenged "fine". I'll give you a hint: a lot.

We start off toward the end of episode 3, at 1:58:30.

Lee Seungki comes out to introduce the next song, and as you have already deduced from the above paragraph, it’s Peekaboo.

The two teams come out and introduce themselves.

LTR: AleXa, Jurina, Yiren, Gyuri, Gaeun, and Eunyeong. Sorry that my screen shots are so low rez -- I’m doing my best, fam. 

Team 1 Introduces themselves as “Peeka-chu.” (In Korean, “chu” is a slang word for a kiss, hence the A*pink song Mr Chu and the f(x) song Chu.) 

LTR: Kim Yubin, Kato Yuuka, Kim Dahye, Hong Yeji, Shitao Miu, Lee Yujeong

Team 2 introduces themselves as “Kiss Blowers.” 

I don’t know what’s up with all the kisses -- it’s not a direct reference to a lyric or anything, so I guess they’re just flirting for votes, and I say, get it, girls. 

Seungki talks to Jang Gyuri, and at mention of her name, there are loud male bellows from the audience. Those loud male bellows always make me like 10% uncomfortable. Seungki asks, Does she have any smack talk for the other team? Gyuri smiles and says, “Please yield this match to us.” Hong Yeji, who is somehow only 14 despite being possibly the tallest person on stage at the moment, replies, “We’re younger than you. We’ll show how energetic we can be.”

And then…. It’s showtime! By which Seungki means it is most definitely not showtime! It’s time for a flashback package! Woot!

Let’s see how rehearsal went for Team 1.

The members:

Jang Gyuri, Fromis9 member, who landed in F and was most recently ranked 14th, is the main vocal.

Bae Eunyeong, who landed in B and was most recently ranked 30th, is subvocal 3.

Lee Gaeun, our Pledis queen, who was always an A+ girl and was most recently ranked 1st place, is subvocal 2. 

Wang Yiren, future Everglow visual, who landed in C and was most recently ranked 7th, is subvocal 5.

Matsui Jurina, queen Jurina, who stayed in B and was most recently ranked 12th, is subvocal 4.

AleXa, who landed in C and was most recently ranked 86th place (ouch!), is subvocal 1.

We left off with the lingering question of, is Wang Yiren the right choice for center over Jang Gyuri? 

We pick up with Mary J Lee helping the girls decide who should be their center. There’s a whole weird flashback-with-a-flashback, but the gist of it is that Mary J Lee says that Wang Yiren needs to sparkle more and asks if anyone wants to challenge her for center. Gyuri challenges, and they both audition. We find out that Gaeun thinks Gyuri should potentially take over, while Eunyeong continues to prefer Yiren. Ouch, Eunyoung! No loyalty to your label mate, huh? In the end, Mary J Lee says they both do well but thinks Yiren should stay the center.

We head over to vocal lessons, where we find out that Gyuri became the main vocal since there isn’t anyone much better in her group. What we’re hearing of her voice in rehearsal sounds really great, actually. Singing without accompaniment, she goes slightly off key, but it’s hard to sing without accompaniment, and Soyou gives her a lot of praise.  She says she’s going to rehearse a lot. Don’t rehearse too much, Gyuri. Drink some throat coat tea and take care of yourself.  

We see them at dress rehearsal, and now Gyuri’s voice sounds shaky. She says she’s losing her voice, and it’s her fault for not taking better care of her throat. ARGH. The fact that this happens every season on these shows drives me nuts. She says there’s nothing she can do now, but I hope that at least she’s putting herself on complete, 100% vocal rest. No whispering. Friends, if you ever lose your voice, don’t whisper!! Don’t even clear your throat harshly. Hot liquids only, and drink lots of slippery elm tea. Trust your unnie -- I talk for a living, and used to lose my voice all the time until I figured out what to do.

Ok, the show starts. Here is PD48 Editing’s blessed edit of the performance. Definitely check it out, because the MNET editing on this one is particularly atrocious.

My thoughts: 

Alexa, Jurina, Yiren, Gyuri, Eunyoung, Gaeun

Vocally, this was almost flawless. You’d hardly know that Gyuri was having trouble with her voice, except for a slight scrape on one of the high notes, and on one of the last “Yeah yeahs.” Honestly, it’s barely noticeable. It’s not really any worse than the slight scrape Wendy herself has on the same note in this performance. Gyuri has a really nice vocal color and hits those ad libs with confidence. In fact, I was so surprised by how nice her voice was that I have raised my estimation of her significantly. I had gotten the impression that she was one of those idols who was only popular because of her looks, and this performance showed me she really has talent.

AleXa sounds fantastic, too -- I’m so glad that we get to keep AleXa in the land of Kpop, no matter what happened on P48. As good as she sounds, though, she looks kind of... off. Like she's trying too hard with her facial expressions or something? I've heard that she was working around a leg injury, so that may explain it.

The others do their jobs properly, even on the cheesy sing-talk-rap thing in the middle. I've listened to this song a million times and the Korean rap sounded pretty right to me -- I couldn't swear to it, but my ears sort of nodded. Yes, my ears nodded. That's what I meant to say.

Dancewise, I think they do really well, though as usual the camera work seems designed to prevent you from being able to see the dancing. The choreo isn’t unusually difficult, Boombayah style, but it requires precision, especially in the bridge, where they do the arm trick. (Did you ever notice the arm trick in this choreo? I’m a big fan of this song and I still somehow missed the arm trick the first few times I watched this choreo. The viewer has to be lined up just right for it to work, but when it works it’s cool.) I’m not a dance expert, as you know, but they looked good to me.

Stage presence wise, I think they’re all did just about equally well, especially if you watch their fancams. It’s a tough song to pull off and they did the thing. I even was won over to Jurina -- this is the first time I’ve seen her look natural in a performance. She fit here, somehow. 

However, when you watch the full performance, some of the girls sort of fade away in the group. I feel like AleXa’s overall presentation kind of suffers from her being a few inches shorter than the rest of the girls -- if there was more variation in height it wouldn’t matter as much, but having just one girl be several inches shorter than all the rest was kind of noticeable. Not fair, I know. I’m really short myself, and I don’t hold it against her, but it does affect the optics in a way that I think Koreans in particular would notice. I looked it up and AleXa is 149 cm/ 4'11, which is quite short. Maybe that’s why she works best as a soloist.

It is also a little odd how little of an impact that Gaeun had if you watch the full performance. She’s apparently Subvocal 2, but you don’t hear or see much of her in either version of the edit. I think it’s a combination of the choreo shoving her to the back -- sometimes quite literally -- and the camera man preferring to show Gyuri whenever possible. I watched Gaeun’s fancam and she did great, so I don’t know why we didn’t see more of her. It’s almost as if the show couldn’t hide the fact that she almost was center and was really popular? But also didn’t want her to win…? Hmm.

Ok. Deep breath and let’s talk about the MNET edit, starting at 2:05:20 .

I had a feeling that the tiny scrape in Gyuri’s vocals would take over the whole performance, and it does. We approach the vocal run -- fine, fine, fine, fine-fine fine-FINE -- literally five times. 

The first time is at 2:06:06 and it takes almost a full MINUTE before we actually hear the final “FINE” with the scrape in it. In the meantime it’s all flashbacks about how Gyuri’s worried about her voice. Then we hear it, and we hear it SIX times. Then the episode ENDS! It ends on Gyuri’s horrible, horrible, unforgivable, slight vocal scrape, x6. 

MNET WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS. 

Well no, it doesn’t END there -- there are several minutes of preview of some of the other teams, including a few seconds of Wonyoung wiggling around at the beginning of Very Very Very, and some pixelated members of the other team. and then they give the current standings of the trainees. I’m not going to concern myself with their new ranking since we’re going to have a big vote off in episode 5, and we’ll worry about it then. There’s also a preview of Sakura getting yelled at while tears run down her cheeks. 

Anyway! Let’s go on to episode 4! We’re doing great. Here’s the link.

After a brief recap, the episode dives back in to the challenge mission, reminding us, of course, about Jang Gyuri’s vocal scrape. We go right the fuck back to the whole damn “fine fine fine….” vocal run, and hear the problematic “fine” FOUR more times. That's a total of ten. We jump ahead to the gym bathroom Results Zone and see all the girls crying at the results, and then jump back 20 minutes to see why they’re all crying. Thanks, MNET! Thmnet. 

If you are watching along, you can skip to 2:17. This time we get to watch the whole performance. I’m struck again by how pretty Gyuri’s voice is, and Alexa’s as well. We have to hear two more instant replays of “fine” -- so that's 12 times now, THANKS-- but at least this time they show the whole performance. The show is presenting the tiny problems as if they're the end of the goddamn world and it’s driving me nuts because if you just watch the unedited video, it’s so minor. 

The judges say they’re proud of her for not giving up. Backstage, Gaeun kindly tells Gyuri that she did a good job -- WHICH SHE DID -- but she shakes her head and says she was terrible. She interviews that she’s mad at herself.

She didn’t know that if she sang a high note all day it would strain her voice. Hey, vocal trainers, who failed this girl? I’m remembering all those trainers who said to “practice hard” and “do it 100 times.” Did anyone tell her to take care of her voice by not overusing it? I’m guessing not. 

Anyway, that's behind us now, and it’s time for the second group!

GROUP 2

As the girls take the stage, we hear AFUCKINGGAINHOLYSHITWTF Gyuri’s tiny vocal scrape on "fine". That’s 13 times now we’ve heard it, and I assume we'll hear it again in the future. Anyway the girls in team 2 think that maybe they can win since team 1 made a mistake -- but maybe not, since team 1 is full of popular pretty girls.

Let's see how their rehearsal went! 

Here’s team 2: 

Hong Yeji, 16, one of the CNC girls, the one who fell down in her video evaluation and then fell from B to F, is ranked 76th.

Kim Yubin, 16, one of the CNC girls, fell from B to D and is currently ranked a very low 93rd. OUCH.

Lee Yu Jeong, 14, future Lightsum member and C-class mainstay, is ranked 48th.

Kim Da Hye, who auditioned with I Don't Like Your Girlfriend and fell from A to C, is ranked 89th.

Shitao Miu, 17, who wore the hat on her waistband in her Mister audition, stayed in D and is ranked 45th.

Kato Yuuka, 20, who auditioned with Funny People and rose from C to B, is ranked 73rd.

When we left off, we met the team (which was chosen by Yubin) and learned that Dahye is actually fluent in both Korean and Japanese. That’s about all we know about this team.

When we catch up with them, we find out that things aren’t going well. Dance teacher Mary J Lee has told group 2 that they made a lot of mistakes and that they’re likely to lose to team 1. And poor Shitao Miu is having a lot of trouble with the choreo.

She’s obviously starting to cry a little, but she does keep trying, and I appreciate that about her. The mental exhaustion of being away from home and not being able to consistently speak your first language just makes everything more difficult. 

Mary J Lee asks her what’s wrong -- not unkindly -- and Miu gives a really mature answer, I think. 

“I’m upset. I’m mad at myself for being unable to catch up. It makes me cry. I’m causing other members trouble.” 

Later on, leader Yubin kindly tells Miu, “We didn’t get a compliment, but I don’t want you to blame yourself.” The other girls stroke her hair and make consoling noises, and Miu says that the other members’ bright energy cheered her up. Aww! 

Over at the vocal lesson with Soyou, who I am currently a bit annoyed at, we find out that Yeji is the main vocal.  She is, to my ears, a bit pitchy. Yeji asks Soyou if it’s ok to sing it in falsetto, rather than with full voice (the translation calls it “original voice”), and Soyou says she can, but it will probably make them look a bit bad. 

We see that Yeji is practicing over and over even in the dorm -- great plan, definitely sing it over and over and over and over until your throat is raw. Her teammates tell her that rival Gyuri sings the notes in full voice, so Yeji has to, too. 

Dress rehearsal doesn’t go well. The judges make faces. 

Jeremy's doing a "red" concept.

Dance Bae tells Yeji, “don’t worry, just sing.” Jeremy tells Yeji, “you need more confidence.” Then the Wizard of Oz tells Yeji she’s had the power within her all along! 

It’s time for the actual performance. For whatever reason, that blessed angel PD48 Edits didn’t make an edited version of the performance, which is fair, it must have been a lot of work and they did most of them. 

Here’s the full version, MNET edit and all. 

This is Hong Yeji’s fan cam, which is a lot less irritating to watch than the MNET edit. Obviously it’s not a full cam but since she’s center, you can see a lot. 

Yuuka, Dahye, Yubin, Yeji, Miu. Hidden: Yujeong

Yubin, Yuuka, Dahye, Yujeong, Yeji, Miu

Yujeong, Yuuka, Yubin, Dahye, Yeji, Miu

Well, first off, Stylist Unnie needs a thorough talking to. Who said that translucent thigh highs were a good look for Yeji and Yujeong? Especially considering that Yujeong is 14…?!? For one thing, they're a bit too sexy for a 14 year old. For another, they dig in to your inner thigh, which isn’t a great look, and they’re just sort of… I don’t know, inelegant and discordant.  They look unfinished. Red Velvet didn’t wear translucent thigh highs. They wore high boots sometimes, which were definitely opaque! I understand that boots might be outside the budget, but why not just completely opaque tights? ARGH! 

Anyway, to the performance itself. It’s so hard to even have thoughts without being able to watch the whole, uninterrupted performance. The MNET edit chops it up so much it's hard to take it in. But overall, compared to Team 1's performance, this felt like the store-brand version of the performance to me.

Dance is so hard to evaluate because the camera doesn’t show their legs 80% of the time. I think they mostly did fine fine fine fine-fine fine FINE. Dahye would sort of forget to dance when it was her time to sing, and sort of overdanced certain steps. There may have been other issues, but it's hard to know.

Vocals-wise: Yeji does her best, but her vocals are overall kind of shrill and pitchy, even if she can hit that high note. I’d rather listen to the Gyuri version, scrapes and all, than the Yeji version. There’s more to life than high notes. Dahye does a good job on Subvocal1, and really no one in the team embarrasses themselves or anything. It just felt less tuneful that the first group. Also, the rappers’ tone was a little… I don’t know, off? Just not as pleasant to listen to. 

Stage presence-wise, I thought they were inferior to the first group overall. Yeji looked confident, but almost like she was just looking into the mirror in her practice room rather than at an audience. Poor Dahye seemed to be fighting with her hair for a lot of the performance. One bright note, though, was Miu. After all the trouble she had rehearsing, I was curious how she'd do and checked out her fancam, and you know what, I think she actually had the best stage presence of all of them! I’ll be durned. 

Shitao Miu understood the assignment.

Since Yujeong has since gone on to maybe the biggest success of this group, I went back to watch her fancam too. She does a totally fine job, but I think she just looks too young to take seriously here in this kind of mature song. She commits fully, though, I’ll give her that, and does a much better job than you'd expect a 14 year old to do. 

I think the worst performer (stage presence-wise) in this group is Yuuka. I feel bad saying that, but she just has this totally bland smile the whole time. Like most of the Japanese trainees, she’s great at looking directly into the camera the entire time, but she looks like she’s just marking the steps in a rehearsal, rather than performing on stage. 

The MNET edit is pretty kind. The judges are especially complimentary toward Yeji, saying she's born to be on stage.

AFTERWARDS

When the performance is over, both teams come up on stage. Lee Seungki asks Jurina which team did better, and she says "ENHH?" which everyone loves. Then, through a sweetly smelling cloud of sugar, she says, "I think maybe team one?"

Then Seungki asks Miu, "how do you feel?"

She pulls a piece of paper from out of her jacket and begins reading in what sounds like phonetically transcribed Korean.

"I won't look back. I'll run looking forwards."

It's cute, and everyone applauds. Seungki says the ever creepy phrase "Vote for your girl!" and the audience votes.

The judges talk amongst themselves. Group 1 went out of key, but they did have a better "aura," so both teams have pros and cons.

top row: Alexa behind the onscreen caption, Jurina, Yiren, Gyuri, Gaeun, Eunyoung bottom row: Yubin, Yuuka, Dahye, Yeji, Miu

Kim Yubin, leader of group 2, acknowledges the popularity gap, but still is hopeful.

The editors reveal the votes starting with sub 5 and work up.

Main vocal: Jang Gyuri 78 Hong Yeji 92 Sub 1: AleXa 4 Kim Dahye 26 Sub 2: Lee Gaeun 74 Lee Yujeong 98 Sub 3: Bae Eunyoung 28 Shitao Miu 116 Sub 4: Matsui Jurina 110 Kato Yuuka 102 Sub 5: Wang Yiren 54 Kim Yubin 40

Yuuka voiceovers, "If we were in Japan, Jurina would win by a win by a lot, but since this is Korea, I wanted to win." That made me glad she came pretty close, even though Jurina still won the battle.

Eunyoung is pretty sad at how low her votes are. Presumably AleXa is too, but we don't even get to see her react to her getting the least votes of the entire night. Don't worry, AleXa.

The underdog will strike back!

Everyone is astonished when little Lee Yujeong beats the extremely popular Lee Gaeun, and when Hong Yeji beats the extremely popular Jang Gyuri.

For those of you who don't want to do the math -- group 2 wins!

The group 1 girls cry.

Jang Gyuri is in that stage of misery that is beyond crying, and she comforts the others as best she can.

We're not allowed to see Alexa, you guys. She is kept carefully off screen.

I don't know why team 1 lost here. I'm not saying that they should have won, exactly, but it's just that I thought they would. Maybe they were sort of held back by AleXa's visuals not living up to Korean standards. Maybe Gaeun was literally hidden too often in the choreo. Maybe there were a lot of AKB48 fans in the audience. Maybe the other team really did that much better. I don't know!

But I do know that this is the end of this post! Thanks as always for reading. In the next one, we'll cover team Short Hair by AOA. Come back soon! Love ya!

[seokwoosmole]

I feel like I posted one of these a longggg time ago like when I first started this blog but that was forever ago so here's my updated stan list cuz I'd rlly like to make some new moots & friends. Keep reading to see cause this will be a long post:

Stan Level: Group/Artist (Biases)

Ults: SF9 (Rowoon, Dawon, Zuho), iKON (Bobby), B.I, ATEEZ (Mingi, Hongjoong)

Semi-Ults: KARD (OT4 but mostly BM & Jiwoo), GOT7 (Jinyoung), SHINee (KEY)

Boy Groups/Bands I Stan: Xdinary Heroes (O.de, Jooyeon), MONSTA X (Joohoney, IM), ONEUS (Seoho, Leedo), The Rose (Dojoon, Woosung), ZEROBASEONE [I was a star creator] (Gunwook, Matthew), TXT (Taehyun)

Girl Groups I Stan: Dreamcatcher (Dami, Sua), Purple Kiss (Swan), ITZY (Chaeryeong)

Soloists I Stan: B.I, Seo In Guk, IU, Lee Hi, Wonho, AleXa, Somi, BIBI, YENA

Baby Stan [these groups are either new or I haven't stanned them for long/don't know them as well]: P1Harmony (Jiung, Keeho), ONEWE (don't have a bias yet I just like them as a whole), The New Six (Maybe Junhyeok but he's been in hiatus for awhile so don't rlly know him that well – so maybe Kyungjun or Sungjun?), Limelight (Gaeun), EVNNE (Keita), Cherry Bullet (I've liked them for a long time but more so for the music, idk the members very well)

Artists I want to get more into: EVERGLOW, BOYNEXTDOOR, CRAXY, PENTAGON, AKMU, WOODZ, KANG DANIEL

That's my like FULL FULL stan list but the artists I'm most active in the fandom for/blog the most about are: ATEEZ, SF9, iKON, B.I, Xdinary Heroes, Oneus, Zerobaseone. Sooooo anyway 👉🏼👈🏼 if u wanna be moots drop a like or follow or whatever. I like talking but im just antisocial hahaha so am terrible at initiating conversations lol