#minjung nature

[riskith]

was that ning yizhuo ? oh, no, that’s xiao " lilith " lihua , a twenty-three year old archery counselor from the activities department who uses she / her pronouns. i hear it’s their second summer here. they kind of remind me of fanning the flames of violence, lighting a candle in the darkness, + daring to be overlooked . i wonder what they did last summer…

hi all! here with lili; the most unemployed employed person you'll ever meet! beneath the cut you'll find her full intro / bio,, please like this intro if you'd like to plot and i'll make my way to your dms! i've got discord if you'd prefer that too ( i'm fine with either ! )

⠀full name⠀ xiao “lilith” lihua .  ⠀nicknames lili , lil, hua . 

⠀birthdate⠀⠀january 8th, 2001 . ⠀zodiac⠀⠀ capricorn, year of the metal dragon .  ⠀gender⠀⠀cis female (she/her/hers) . ⠀hometown⠀⠀pudong, shanghai, china . ⠀languages ⠀fluent mandarin (wu dialect) . advanced korean, english . 

⠀position⠀⠀archery counselor // activities department . ⠀education⠀⠀peking university (( journalism + minor in photography ))  ⠀sexual orientation⠀ heterosexual .

⠀alignment⠀⠀chaotic neutral .⠀ ⠀temperament⠀⠀choleric  .

⠀virtues       observant, tenacious . ⠀sins ⠀⠀temperamental, reckless, possessive

𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬 + 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬    skateboarding, the lake after dark, lilac, hoteok, plain shaved ice, polaroids, the “ off-limits “ glade, hong shao rou, weekends, cold weather, archery, nicotine, strong hands, arguing, sharp incisors, stargazing,...

𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨

.✦-- she’s a recent graduate from peking university! moved to korea two years ago following her graduation to focus on nurturing her archery career with some of the best archers + coaches in the world.

.✦-- has won numerous gold medals both independently and with her university’s team most notably at the asian games, and 2018 youth olympics where she won gold for women’s individual recurve.  

.✦-- becoming an archer was originally a dream her parents imposed on her until she realized she was something of a natural and loved the praise so much she threw herself into it. still, she views it as a job of sorts.

.✦-- she does love skateboarding however and wished to start training go pro when she was 13 but due to the resources that’d been put into archery by that point, it was quickly dashed. 

.✦-- she insisted on going to university as she wished to experience regular life as a young adult, she quickly goes off the rails enjoying this newfound freedom. it shows in her archery and her parents don’t take a liking to this new lihua. 

.✦-- international friends she meets at university dub her lilith and it sticks following her even after the move. 

.✦-- following her failure to qualify for the 2024 olympics she ( her parents ) decided it’d be in her best interest to move somewhere away from potential distractions so she could truly focus on improving.

.✦-- their anger manifests in a strict budget despite her being alone overseas for the first time. she has no choice but to get a job. her first job. 

.✦-- camp saesori offers itself up on a silver platter, the job secured by her current coach’s recommendation and her evident skill. 

.✦-- she hears whispers about han minjung the last few days of camp, the woman with red-rimmed eyes whispering nothing to herself. it doesn’t concern her so she simply ignores the woman. 

.✦-- getting re-hired is always easier than getting hired, her second summer rolls around faster than expected. the note catches her off guard. it upsets her. whatever she did it was for a reason and now the consequences are hers to bear. 

these are just some overarching points / super general info on her vibe. i’m a bonafide brainstormer so i dont have an current wcs but i’m eager to get plotting with you all <3

[damnable-bell]

Please, dear friend, write your Minho Manifesto (Minhonifesto)!

Bulb, you are an absolute gem. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about my number one boy (and thank you @shojojidais for encouragement, ilu Maryam).

This post got way out of hand. I'll put the basic text below, but the full version with detailed footnotes and an index of all the YouTube videos I linked is on Google Docs, if anyone would like to see it.

Sorry for my inevitable typos.

Now, without further ado...

Choi Minho: An Appreciation

Who is Choi Minho?

Choi Minho was born on December 9th, 1991. In May 2008, he debuted as a member of the boyband SHINee, meaning that Minho has been in our lives for almost 15 wonderful years now. His official position in SHINee is main rapper and visual (i.e., the face of the group), but these days he sings about as often as he raps. (His voice is especially lovely when he gets to sing in his natural range, which he almost never gets to do with SHINee, sob sob).

Minho originally hoped to become a soccer player, but his father, the soccer coach Choi Yun-kyum, denied him, saying he hoped Minho would pursue a less difficult career. Unfortunately for Coach Choi (but perhaps fortunately for us), Minho was just born too pretty to do something more normal. At age 14, he was scouted by SM Entertainment while visiting a ski resort with his family, and the rest is history.

Why I love him

He is a true genius of hard work

In spite of the fact that he more or less stumbled into being an idol, Minho has always given 100 percent of himself to SHINee—in fact, Minho always gives 100 percent of himself to everything, whether it’s singing, rapping, dancing, acting, speaking English, sports, or drag. He hasn’t always been good at everything he does, but part of what makes Minho such a special person is his endless capacity for growth.

(When will Goddess Choi Minjung return from war? It's been eight years...)

Here’s what he had to say about being criticized for his acting in To the Beautiful You (2012):

Even from my point of view, I more than deserved those criticisms. I struggled a lot in my first lead role in ‘To The Beautiful You,’ but looking back, it is because of that past that I have confidence now, so I definitely don’t consider it a taint on my history … Back then, I just stubbornly thought that I just have to do well. At a young age, I was in a leading role and I needed to lead the drama by paying attention to the people and situation around me, but I wasn’t able to. A lead isn’t someone who just acts well on his own, but leads the entire drama. I should have paid more attention to the other things, but I focused too much on myself, and it resulted in me just awkwardly standing out. But I learned a lot from that, and it was ‘medicine’ for me. To be honest, being criticized so much was a huge lesson for me. It’s a lie if I say that I am not scared of being criticized for doing badly. But I think it’s something that I should put up with. It’s only right to acknowledge what I’m lacking and correct it. Of course, everyone wants to do well from the start. But I don’t think I’m gifted that much so I need a lot of experience.

Similarly, on writing his own raps for SHINee:

At first I was very bad at it. But if I didn't do it then it would be detrimental to me as well as to the members so I thought that I should really try to do it properly. It's true that when you put in effort your skills change. I thought, there isn't anything that can’t be done if a person really tries…

What makes Minho’s growth doubly impressive to me is that he’s not a naturally confident person. On the contrary, he’s painfully self-aware and takes deeply failure to heart:

After filming Dream Team, on days I won I would be in a really good mood, and on days I lost I would keep thinking about it. It's the same as when I make a mistake on stage. When I mess up on one step on stage, I feel hateful towards myself. I grow angry. Wondering why I did that that during that step. I think it's because my competitiveness is so strong. But that doesn't mean I enjoy competing. Instead, if there is a competition I tend to avoid it. Because if one wins, the other loses. Because any person, no matter who it is, dislikes losing.

When Minho first debuted, most people immediately clocked him as the weakest member of SHINee—and he knew it. He couldn’t rap (his infamously terrible rap on “The SHINee World”—which he really wants you to know he did not write—is legendary both in the fandom and beyond), he couldn’t act, and while he was never the worst dancer in the group, he didn’t stand out much either.

It also didn’t help that SM saddled him with the part of the ‘cool, silent type,’ when his real personality is goofy, warm, and sentimental—not to mention teasing, nagging, nurturing, full of natural aegyo, and loud. Variety is usually a place where K-Pop ‘visuals’ get to prove their worth, but in SHINee’s early variety appearances, Minho was just sort of...there. 

In his own words,

Looking back, I went through a slump during my early debut days. I first thought, “Why did I debut?” I couldn’t dance or sing, and I couldn’t say anything in variety shows. Before debut, I was good at talking and confident, but standing in front of the public as a celebrity isn’t an easy job. (161208 SHINee’s Choi Minho - Media Interview (3))

Now, it’s never made sense to me that anyone could praise SHINee’s live stages out of one side of their mouth and trash Minho’s performance skills out of the other—there’s just no room in their choreo for any member of the group to be lagging significantly behind the others.

These days, I would be shocked to find anyone who doesn’t see Minho as an integral part of SHINee. But it’s worth taking a minute to acknowledge what a dynamic, well-rounded performer he’s become in his own right. I was so happy when I saw other people calling Minho’s rap in “Atlantis” the best part of the song, 1) because IT FUCKING IS, and 2) it made me realize just how many great rap moments Minho has had going back years. The Story of Light alone is full of them (have you guys listened to “Retro” yet today?), but there are so many older favorites, too (it’s actually pissing me off that the previous video I linked doesn’t include Minho’s part in “One Minute Back,” so here it is).

Minho hasn’t just become a strong idol-rapper (he’s never going to be on the front cover of XXL Magazine or whatever, but that’s fine, because it’s not his job); he’s also grown into a strong vocalist, a damn good dancer, and an excellent variety idol and MC (he is seriously so funny, you guys). As an actor, he’s worked hard to earn genuine praise from audiences and critics while accepting relatively ‘risky’ parts (he played a delinquent in the indie drama Derailed—where he smoked! and swore! and got beaten up by Ma Dong-seok!—as well as a gay character in the drama Yumi’s Cells). He’s also an underrated lyricist, with more than 40 songwriting credits throughout SHINee’s discography.

Last but certainly not least, Minho has (flaming) charisma and stage presence for days, as well as an astonishing ability to ‘commit to the bit’ that’s elevated many a goofy SHINee performance (my current favorite example is this performance of “Girls Girls Girls” at SHINee World III in Seoul—notice how many of the comments mention that Minho was obviously feeling himself in that bathrobe!).

Since he finished his mandatory military service, Minho has been branching out with more of his own solo activities, including a radio show, Best Choice (again: he is so funny, you guys!), and a forthcoming solo album, Chase. He seems to have become comfortable in his own skin in a way that we should all hope to be in our early thirties. As a fan, I consider it a privilege to have watched him blossom into a better, more confident version of himself. He is a true genius of hard work, and I could not be more excited for his solo.

He has the biggest heart

I love Minho because Minho has so much love to give. He’s the kind of person who leaves notes telling his friends he loves them while they’re asleep. He once saved all the SHINee members’ names in his phone under “My Lovely ___.” He writes the longest dedications of anyone in the group. He’s thoughtful and dedicated and has a lot of feelings (though by his own admission, he tends to hide them, so that he can continue to give strength to others). He is, for lack of a better word, all ooey-gooey inside, with a sentimental streak a mile wide.

Minho always goes the extra mile to support the other members of SHINee. SHINee’s leader, Onew, once called him the group’s “heart aid”:

Whatever happens, he is by our side and calls out to us. Minho is really a person who becomes our strength in any situation … It’s not only with me, even with other members, he is our heart aid and is a very important existence to all of us (2014)

When the other members cry onstage, Minho is often the first to comfort them. Who could forget the iconic photo of Minho hugging an inconsolable Jonghyun to his bosom after SHINee’s first music show win for “Juliette,” or all the many times he comforted Jonghyun—always the crybaby of the group—onstage thereafter?

Here are just a few more examples of Minho showing his support for the other members of SHINee:

Hiding away his emergency money to buy a birthday present for Key, even though they hated each other at the time

Surprising Jonghyun on his birthday at Jonghyun’s radio show, Blue Night (150409)

Flying to Japan to attend the second day of Taemin’s Tokyo concert in 2018 (181125), then flying back to Korea to attend Key’s concert showcase the very next day (181126)

Surprising Jonghyun at Jonghyun’s X-Inspiration concert in 2016 (161204, or click through to “…and Minho” on this Omona post for all the cute fan accounts)

Surprising Jonghyun on the last day of Blue Night—and bringing lots of tissues, because he knew Jonghyun would cry (170402). (The part of this video everyone remembers is the part where Minho tells Jonghyun that he brought the softest box tissues “because Jonghyun-hyung’s skin is precious,” but really, every second of it just radiates compassion and care. We should all be so lucky to have a friend like Minho.).

Surprising Jonghyun at Jonghyun’s The Story concert—and bringing throat drops, because he knew Jonghyun’s throat might be sore. Look how happy and proud he was when they left!

Fuck it, here are two whole threads of Minho showing up for Jonghyun’s concerts. Don’t miss the one where he’s showing Jonghyun off to the camera like a work of art.

While he was in the military, he sent food trucks to Taemin to support Taemin’s comeback (200907)

Minho to Onew in 2020: “But I love having you as company. I love your lame jokes. Just keep making your jokes. It’s just that you need moral support” (201116)

On the day he was discharged , Minho went straight from the military to see Taemin backstage at Inkigayo, without even changing out of his marine uniform. I’ve saved the best for last, so if you only click on one link in this post, please, please make it this one: [탬로그6v6📹] TAEMIN 태민 #샤이니isBack 201119

I should add that Minho doesn’t do all this stuff because he’s not booked and busy himself. He’s constantly filming, doing photoshoots, and randomly upstaging Melania Trump. Supporting the other members isn’t something he does just because he has the time; it’s something he works at consciously.

When SHINee went on Blue Night in 2016, Minho described how he transfers his support to the busiest member depending on the season:

Jonghyun: Then Minho-ssi, which member do you feel the most attached to? Minho: Out of the four? I think it changes with the season. Jonghyun: Who is it in the recent season? Minho: In the recent season, it’s Jonghyun-hyung. It’s because he’s the busiest. He needs to prepare for the concert. I think I try to take more care of the member who’s the busiest. Jonghyun: Then Key has been very busy until recently because of Drinking Solo. Key, did you feel that Minho was taking care of you? Did you feel it, Key? Minho’s love? Key: No, not at all. Jonghyun: He must have just thought about it a lot in his mind. (Ha.) Key: But he really is surprising. I think his day is a little longer than other people’s. I don’t know how he can watch them all [referring to the members’ activities]. Jonghyun: It’s a great thing. It means he has a lot of affection. Key: It’s not that I don’t watch it on purpose. When I turn on TV and find that our member is on by chance, I would watch it then. But to watch something intentionally…it means it’s a plan. Jonghyun: Minho watches everything, all the members’ schedules.

I’ve been a fan of SHINee for a long time—long enough to remember a time when the members didn’t all get along as famously as they do now—and I really believe that they wouldn’t have made it nearly this far if not for Minho holding them together.

I thought about saying something here like, “Minho’s strength is giving strength to others,” but I don’t think that would be giving nearly enough credit. What I most admire about Minho isn’t just that he gives strength to others, but that his love for other people becomes his strength—that it enables him to do the impossible and find that extra hour in the day.

This is all very sweet just by itself, but it becomes even more impressive when you consider—and here is where I start to get into a little bit of conjecture—how easily Minho could have given in to jealousy and resentment.

Imagine, for a moment, that you are 16 or 17 years old, you’ve just made your entertainment industry debut, and you’re surrounded by people whom everyone agrees are more talented than you. This isn’t the first time you’ve been overlooked; at home, you have a brother whom everyone agrees is smarter, more popular, and better-looking, and your own parents joke that maybe he should have debuted instead of you. People on the internet write articles calling you “useless” and “a black hole of talent” (I’m not going to link these!).

I think a lot of people in that situation would have grown to resent their peers. Instead, Minho doubled down on his support for the other members. There is something truly egoless, I think, in how hard he works to care for those around him. Whatever his own insecurities are or might have been, he doesn’t seem to have ever let them get in the way of all the love he has to give.

Of course, Minho doesn’t just show his tender heart in his interactions with the other SHINee members. He’s also endlessly kind to fans. Some of my favorite examples:

When he was a guest on My Last 48 Hours in 2018, the three things he chose to do in his hypothetical last 48 hours were: 1) spend time with family, 2) spend time with SHINee, and 3) spend time with fans. Since there was no time to organize a fanmeet, the producers found just one fan for him to surprise. She started to cry, he got kind of choked up at her crying...it was all too cute for words.

From the letter he wrote to Shawols (SHINee fans) while he was in the military: “As part of the engineering battalion, I’ve received air transportation training. You guys might not know much about it, so to put it simply, our training consists of falling from a plane or a helicopter with a parachute! … I was able to get closer to the sky during training. It was really pretty, and it was great, because I felt like I was looking at you guys.”

...OK, one more quote from the same letter: “I’m reading each and every letter from our SHINee world and I’m treasuring them … Giving your hearts to someone is like giving them your everything, receiving the heart of someone is like receiving all of them and sharing everything with them. I’m really happy that that person is you guys.”

Just the sheer number of times it’s been confirmed he actually reads his fan letters

His Kiseki stage. All of it. It’s maybe the purest expression of Minho to date (his solo stages prior to this were all, like, hip-thrusting to Usher with his shirt off—which, like, fine, I’m not complaining, but the baseball uniform is so much more his style). Every time I rewatch it, I’m just blown away by his sincerity. You can hear it in his voice. Also, I’ll say it: better than the original.

Recently he confessed that he watches fan reaction videos when he can’t sleep (Minhooooo!)

He once spent $21,000 to gift the 800 fans who came to his birthday fanmeet with sweatshirts from his endorsement line (171209). Insane thing to do. When the time comes to eat the rich, I will have no choice but to spare him.

If you’ve never been sucked into the K-Pop Vortex, I know what you’re probably thinking: being kind to fans is part of his job, it doesn’t actually mean anything. And you’re right, it is a part of his job—a part he’s very good at! K-Pop is a fantasy, and entering into a space where you feel seen and appreciated as a fan is a part of that fantasy.

But as a veteran K-Pop Enjoyer, I can tell you that just because something is ‘performative’ doesn’t mean it doesn’t also come from the heart. I also feel that SHINee have worked hard throughout their careers to be true to themselves in public—and to create spaces where they could be closer to fans on their own terms. So it would actually be really unfair to them, I think, to continually insist, against all available evidence, that everything they say and do is somehow calculated. I don’t have any trouble understanding that being an idol is a job, and there are no doubt days when they would rather do anything than talk to fans. But if Minho says that hearing from fans is a part of the job he generally enjoys—and that he cares about us, whether on a personal level or solely in the abstract—I’m inclined to believe him?

I’m cynical about many things, especially in K-Pop, but I just don���t have it in me to be cynical about Minho or SHINee.

I mean, just look at this:

I love him to pieces, and he’s improved a ton, but I’m still not sure he’s that good an actor.

Miscellaneous reasons

I’ve always felt that the extent to which Minho is openly adored by his industry juniors and seniors, as well as by his non-celebrity friends, speaks for itself. His friendship with TVXQ’s Changmin is especially cute (they even had a dating scandal together!).

He’s famously close with SNSD (so much so that Korean netizens nicknamed him “A male idol that people don't get suspicious when he's close to female idols”) and was even the first person to congratulate Taeyeon on the release of “I Call You” in 2020.

He is unfailingly gentle with children—one of only, like, two members who had any business taking care of a toddler on SHINee’s Hello Baby in 2010

He majored in film at Konkuk University and recently said that his “favorite Netflix show” is The Irishman. He also apparently liked Hirokazu Kore’eda’s Our Little Sister? With teasers for his solo album leaning in a moody, ‘90s neo-noir direction, many are speculating that a new cinephile Minho era may be upon us (and by “many” I mean “me”).

He knows how to laugh at himself

Never has been Minho been cuter than while walking through the London Underground on SHINee’s One Fine Day in 2013.

In conclusion,

[diethercordova]

CHINESE ART :

Travelers Among Mountains and Streams by Fan Kuan. (Early 11th century)

• Fan Zhongzheng better known by his pseudonym Fan Kuan Chinese: 范寬, was a Chinese landscape painter of the Song dynasty.

• Widely considered one of the great masterpieces of Chinese landscape painting (in Chinese, literally “Mountain and Water Painting”), Fan Kuan’s Travelers influenced countless generations of painters and still impresses viewers to this day with its sublime depiction of nature. The story goes that Fan Kuan took to the depths of the mountains to observe and learn from nature, and thereby transmitted the spirit of the mountains with his brush. Whether true or not, at nearly seven feet tall, the monumental hanging scroll painting lends credibility to the story. The painter used a tripartite division of the composition into near, middle and deep distance and shifted the weight to the deep space at top so that mountains loom over the travelers on a rocky path below, as well as over any viewer standing in front of the painting.

• Travelers among Mountains and Streams, a large hanging scroll, is Fan Kuan's best known work and a seminal painting of the Northern Song school. It establishes an ideal in monumental landscape painting to which later painters were to return time and again for inspiration. The classic Chinese perspective of three planes is evident - near, middle (represented by water and mist), and far. Unlike earlier examples of Chinese landscape art, the grandeur of nature is the main theme, rather than merely providing a backdrop.

KOREAN ART :

Embrace by Min joung-ki. (1981)

• In 1987, after moving from Seoul a yangpyeong in the province of Gyeonggi, began painting landscapes centered on mountains, ultimately defining his style of reinterpreting the everyday landscape in a way that emphasizes its realism and socio-political history. Although he has focused mainly on geographical features and human footprints left in nature, including mountains and water, his canvases indicate an approach towards urban environments and architecture, becoming a painter who merged his discipline with that of an urban planner. Over time, Min joung-ki he accentuated the location in his paintings, involving the historicity of each place and capturing each of its geological and geographical characteristics, defining its place in the guild. This approach to painting that calls it yinyeon, and he has achieved it through the memory of the roads on which he has walked. Through the use of oil painting and the grammar of Western painting, along with the map format, scenery and ancient screens, he has established his method of transmitting his interest in the intersection of place and time. For almost his entire career, and derived from what he has displayed on his canvases over the years, Min has often been dubbed a pioneer of art. minjung, a pro-democratic and populist art movement that prevailed in South Korea in the 1980s, but the artist has refused to be the main figure, however, due to his so-called "barber shop painting", which he created in protest of aesthetic rigorism, he has never been able to completely disassociate himself from this current of art.

• Min JoungKi is a Korean Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1949. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg have featured Min JoungKi's work in the past.

JAPANESE ART :

The Breaking Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai (1831)

• is a woodblock print that was made by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, probably in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea with a large wave forming a spiral in the centre and Mount Fuji visible in the background. The composition of The Great Wave is a synthesis of traditional Japanese prints and Western perspective, and earned him immediate success in Japan and later in Europe, where it inspired the Impressionists. Several museums throughout the world hold copies of The Great Wave, many of which came from 19th-century private collections of Japanese prints.

• The Great Wave off Kanagawa has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art", as well as being a contender for the "most famous artwork in Japanese history". It has influenced several notable artists and musicians, including Vincent van Gogh, Claude Debussy, Claude Monet, and Hiroshige.

• Katsushika Hokusai known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. Hokusai was best known for his woodblock ukiyo-e prints, but he worked in a variety of mediums including painting and book illustration. Starting as a young child, he continued working and improving his style until his death, aged 88. In a long and successful career, Hokusai produced over 30,000 paintings, sketches, woodblock prints, and images for picture books in total. Innovative in his compositions and exceptional in his drawing technique, Hokusai is considered one of the greatest masters in the history of art.

2:55 pm / Nov,19,2022

[minjungfmd]

vogue magazine cover interview

1. you’re styled by dior today — so, in your own words, what is dior to you?

maria grazia chiuri has been nothing short of amazing during my partnership with dior. to me, dior is essence. not defined by a classy timeless touch, but something of essence whether it’s playing with new trends or bringing back the old iterations of past designs. they mix it up to create their own color and scent — they’re undefined by limitations. i think that’s what draws me to the brand in the first place. 

2. a longstanding fashion icon with your various partnerships over the years being a global ambassador for dior, and releasing successful solo albums — what can you say now about taking over netflix with your new drama, our beloved summer?

i never expected myself to ever act — sometimes, i feel like i’m acting in my day to day life. maybe it’s because i resonate a lot with kook yeon soo, or i’m just in a stage at my life where reading off a script doesn’t feel like second nature anymore, but this drama has meant a lot. i can only be grateful that it’s been accepted by the public in such a way. i don’t know if i’ll take over any more series, but i can assure you this one remains close to my heart.

3. the piece is titled ‘we don’t know minjung yet’, why do you think the piece is surrounded around the mystery of you?

if i knew, would there be a piece in the first place? i don’t know why people believe there’s a mystery about who i am — i let myself show in pieces. it’s like a puzzle game for the public to put together to decipher who i am. if you’re good at mind riddles and word tricks, maybe you do know me. if not, then you don’t. i don’t want to define who i am with my own words.

4. but if you had to, how would you describe seo minjung?

someone who feels like pastels on mondays, then monochrome on thursdays. someone who spends the weekends painting memories in watercolors, only to forget the rest of the canvas on a tuesday. i’m a contradiction, but isn’t everyone?

5. being a veteran in this industry, what can you say you took away from your career?

you say it like my career’s over — it’s not over, at least i don’t think so. i’ve met lots of people, and i learn each day how to navigate different intrapersonal relationships while managing interpersonal ones. something they like to call ballance.

6. after a long day, how do you like to relax?

when i tell people, they think it’s sad. but i like to sit down after a long day, on the sofa with my dog, and then open up a bottle of chamisul soju. i drink from a soju glass and pretend like i’m having a conversation with someone who knows every facet of me — who else knows me better than myself?

7. you’ve had lots of memorable moments in your career, what do you think fans remember you most as?

the rainbow dress from peekaboo — i feel like that’s when people knew my name. to know someone’s name is intimate, don’t you think? maybe not a fashion trend, but at least it stuck in people’s minds.

8. lastly, what is the best advice someone has given you?

one time a fan told me that it’s okay to cry. it’s okay to be honest. it’s okay to do what makes you happy — in the moment, people don’t let words comfort them because it doesn’t apply when you feel your heart crack. but in hindsight, you look back and realize the only way it was possible to get through those difficult times was because you allowed yourself to cry, feel emotions, and be honest with yourself.

[yeolog]

ㅤㅤ ㅤㅤ ㅤ ャ sunshine layouts. 🧸

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[leafz0ne]

sunshine details icons ☆

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[choi-soobs]

sunshine

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[velvetclub]

ㅤ 𖥻 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀

ㅤㅤㅤ♥︎ : 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵.

[sailorjisunq]

nature - girls mv icons

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[hyerix-world]

angustia crescente de uma mente dormente

escrita por melodyday capa por @hyerix-world 02.05.2020

[laislandblog]

⌕ icons ✕ soft ๑₊ ༝ sunshine

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@wootaxortofu ♡소 fancy.mp3

[fastnightrs]

random gg icons

nature, bvndit, wjsn, blackpink, gugudan, fromis_9, dreamcatcher

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[jisungsglasses]

pov: you’re me desperately trying to find pics of sunshine from nature

[n4kko]

⠀⠀⠀새봄씨 ─ 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝖿𝖾𝖼𝗍 𝗀𝗂𝗋𝗅 ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ

⠀⠀⠀٫ 𝟗𝟕.𝟎𝟏.𝟑𝟎'𝗌 ⋆ 𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙮 새봄니 ٠ ✧

⠀⠀⠀⌕ 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟 ᴗ˳ᴗ セボム！

⠀⠀⠀─ 我的美丽 𓂅⊹ 𝚜𝚊𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚖 ᵕ̈

saebom messy bios!!

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[f4irycore]

sunshine icons — like/reblog if you use or save, please — have a nice day! ♡

[leafz0ne]

🎡!attencion:: ^__^ SUNshine icons !

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