Pretty. . . isnt it ?

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Buy everything he says with a grain of salt. A huge grain. These articles he publishes about how he is so “hands-on” with Jongsuk? He is just doing it to gain a good image of himself. That is all YG ever does. He wants people to think he is that caring and wonderful leader that everyone loves.

Whenever his artists get any accolades, he does not hesitate to take most of the credit. His image-making is truly amazing in its shamelessness. Even in the article I just translated, there were comments going, YG I don’t think you manage your music artists well either, so maybe you should focus on those before you brag about treating your actors right. Most people know he just likes to throw his artists under the bus to save his own face: whenever they delay the CD, it is always because they can’t write good enough songs, and not because he is a shitty manager.

But enough of my YG rant (because I can go on for days – years).

The reason I wrote this is because the article seems to insinuate that Jongsuk is so hard to work with that people quit because of him. First, great thing to say about your own artist, YG. (/SARCASM) Secondly, so many of Jongsuk’s staff have been with him for years. Would they have been if he was hard to work with? He gave them each monogrammed jackets in the winter! How many times have we seen him doing aegyo with his coordi????

In any case, I would much rather believe that Jongsuk would rather work with his own staff (because he is shy with new people) than some new YG staff members. That’s all. Nothing more. Ugh YG. Why do I have to clean up your bullshit again?

Source: W Korea Translation note: Sorry… work has been crazy. [Part 1]

W: You observe things really closely. Are you originally a person who is curious?

I am easily curious and also quite sensitive. I also easily feel inferior to others. When I look at some of the actors around my age, I find that there are a lot of them who act very well… Sometimes I feel that even if we have lived the same number of years, they seem to have experienced a larger range of events. I grew up with relatively few ups and downs. The most I can say happened to me are stuff like ‘can’t work out a problem’ or ‘chances not coming to me’. For an actor who has to use his emotions a lot, sometimes failures in life would be a good source material to work with; at those times, I find myself lacking. For example, if a scene requires me to tear up, I don’t have many memories to capture that memory from. I can insinuate from dramas and movies, but this method has its limitations.

W: Has this kind of sensitivity ever become an obstacle for you?

A lot. I admit that I have a ‘glass’ mentality, it’s rather weak. Sometimes when a piece of news comes out or even when there is a small incident, it would end up affecting my work. Even my manager had said that if there are news that would shock me, they won’t tell me before I film the bust shot (T/N: filming the upper body area, mostly for facial reactions), since it would be written all over my face. I like that beer ad tagline, “If you don’t do anything, nothing will happen.” I actually like the kind of life where nothing happens.

W: If you really wanted a quiet life, shouldn’t you have chosen the job of a lighthouse keeper or something like that? How do you cope with a job where the public’s love and attention plays a big part?

Of course, I receive good reactions a lot as well; I just tend to get scared first.

W: For you to have such an introverted personality but also the strong determination to act well, it seems quite amazing to me.

Because I love my job. I want the dramas I participate in to be successful and lots of people watch it. This is my job and one that I want to do well for. However, the character in the drama is one that the drama imagined up, even though he has my face, he is a completely different person from me.  That’s why a drama is always a fantasy world for me. Even in a romantic drama, I would have my hair and makeup done, so it looks much more perfect than real life. When I try my best to become this perfected person, my world expands as well. 

But sometimes, it is still difficult and my face would become red all over. Although the process of filming a drama is tiring, the reason why I can get over it is because of the immense pleasure I get from watching the finished product on broadcast.

W: I remember reading an interview where you say you are compromising with a perfect flower boy or flower man image since it’s what people want, but you actually want to be a macho actor.

I aspire towards the kind of image that I lack. Among actors, I like those like Lee Min Ho or Kim Woo Bin, who have a strong, well-defined line to their features. Objectively, I have some doubts as to whether I can assume that kind of image. That’s why I wanted to do crime dramas or those with a lot of testosterone. Last year, there were a few projects I was considering, but ultimately I gave up due to fear and uncertainty. While I am still in my 20s, I want to go with my own strengths first. ‘W’ is just in the middle – so even though I can’t become fully macho, I want to use this drama to see how far I can go.

W: In ‘W’, you appear as a shooting athlete. Do you think this sport that requires 100% extreme attention is suitable for you?

I was the kind of student who hated physical education lessons. I would give the role monitor 1000 won or a bun, so that he would allow me to stay in the classroom. Lately, I’ve been doing weight training, and if it is for a drama, I would learn swimming or table tennis. For a person who doesn’t do anything, I get to learn all sorts of things! Once, I was watching ‘Black Swan’ with my actor friends and a sunbae-noona said, “We really do our art too easily!” Natalie Portman was really so amazing in that movie – how much she must have worked to play a ballet dancer, you can tell just from the back muscles and the way she dances.

W: What is the most fun you have had lately?

One day, because there was too many lines to memorize so I was reading the script until 1 or 2am, when suddenly I wanted to eat fried peppers. I called my manager to eat it together, but felt sorry that I was dragging him out in the middle of the night, so we started playing a soccer game with bets. I don’t really know how to play games so I thought if I lost, I could give him some pocket money also. In the end, I tried my best at the game and still lost around 300,000 won to him, and I started getting angry instead. But that’s the only kind of small episodes in my life. If I drank alcohol, I guess I would meet loads of people and get to know many nice restaurants… but I don’t even drink.

W: Don’t you talk about personal things on SNS?

I just have my manager take some proof shots and then upload it with some emoticons… When people are enamoured with an emotion, they tend to want to express it, but I feel that it is quite dangerous so I try to minimize my expression. If I let people know that I am exhausted, I worry that it will cause misunderstandings. Even when I am texting someone, if you’re feeling hurt, somehow the text message will take on that nuance too. Then if that person interprets the message just by the words, the issue may get even more twisted. So when my friends are using Instagram, I would satisfy myself with watching the timeline from the side and feel like everyone is having a good and happy life.

W: You say that you are introverted, but it feels that you always share your worries and weaknesses straight-forwardly in interviews.

I don’t have many chances to talk to a person non-stop in real life. Even when I meet up with high school friends every six months, we just keep talking about the same things that happened in the past. When you work with people day-in day-out, your conversation dwindles to just daily conversation. After entering society, you form relationship networks and you try to be careful with what you say, so I say as little as possible. During these interviews, since you keep asking questions, it feels food to rediscover myself through answering them. 

W: Lately, have there been any ideas that form a ‘sting’ in your heart?

Some of us might believe that only beautiful people are attractive. But actually, we find people attractive based on other factors aside from physical appearance. In fact, the charm and attractiveness of a person are not always determined by their physical appearance. The main thing here is the magic of the attractiveness.