Yook Sung-jae and Kim Ji-yeon Reflect on 16-Year Bond and Idol Struggles
Apr 10, 2025
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On Park Na-rae's official channel 'Naraesik' on the 9th, 'Yook Sungjae X Kim Ji-yeon |'Wow, I didn't know the day would come when I would kiss you~'" | A video titled 'Revealed 16 years of friendship, trainee days, stories of sleep paralysis, tears of delay, and songs of Yook Sungjae' was posted.
Yook Sung-jae and Kim Ji-yeon met for the first time at JYP Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as JYP) audition and lived together as trainees at Cube Entertainment. Since then, Yook Sung-jae has made his debut as a BTOB member of Cube Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as Cube), and Kim Ji-yeon as a Cosmic Girl member of Starship Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as Starship) and have continued their friendship for 16 years.
Kim Ji-yeon is the style used for Yook Sung-jae. After auditioning for JYP, I auditioned for Cube in less than a year, and I was very tall. It was originally very chubby. When I first saw him, he covered his face with his bangs and was in the 8th grade. He recalled, `Does he see ahead?'" Yook Sung-jae said of Kim Ji-yeon "It's really the same. preservative" he praised.
Kim Ji-yeon said she received a lot of advice from Yook Sung-jae, who debuted first when she was a rookie. In particular, the advice of "Don't think about making money" was impressive.
Kim Ji-yeon says "If you have trouble with the company, it's all the same." Just think of it as working with the person who knows you best among the same people." In response, Yook Sung-jae "was very glorified." I told him to work with a really bad guy on this floor and a bad guy who knows you well. "
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He also shared an episode during the audition for 'School 2015'. Yook Sung-jae said "The director wanted to test my personality because of the character. The director said, 'What are you doing? BTOB? I've never heard of it. My face turned red there. 'No matter what, director. We all have dreams and are working hard toward our dreams, so can't you just say it like that?' and just came out.
Then "The director was waiting outside, and I turned red, so I said 'I don't think I can go to the bottom of this drama in the future." That's how shocking it was. Fortunately, the character Gong Tae-kwang itself was a character with an anger control disorder. The director later said 'This is a funny guy. He said, 'He's a complete rookie, but he went against me.'" He said he left the character of Gong Tae-kwang after seeing that."
Yook Sung-jae and Kim Ji-yeon will appear in SBS 'Treasure Island's sequel 'Going Palace'. 'Gwigung' is a fantasy rom-com in which the body of Yeori, a shaman who rejects the fate of Yeongmae, and Lee Geom-gang, trapped in the body of his first love Yoon Gap, face the octogenarian who has a grudge against the royal family, and his body and soul are firmly twisted.
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