[ERIC] Have you ever searched yourself or iKON
on Twitter? Are you on Twitter?
[DK] Yes, because for instance
If I'm on, for instance, Daebak Show
I have a schedule or if my album's out, I search.
"Kim Dong-hyuk", what about that or what's there? Rather than those
I check what things the fans liked.
We all do it, we all monitor it.
So you need to catch what people like
And what was popular
You need to know them so that you can remember
and do it for the fans later as a gift
So I check those things often.
[ERIC] Any Tweet you remember?
[DK] They say it's like a 'silly comment'
- [DK] Like euphemisms? That's so much fun. - [ERIC] So much fun.
[ERIC] On top of my head, I don't remember one specific thing
Like,
For instance, something like
'DONGHYUK, I smashed all the walls in my house because of you, and now I have a one-room house.'
Those jokes are so funny.
[ERIC] Right. x2 Reading those is so fun.
[ERIC] Any unreleased "Kingdom" behind episode?
[DK] Unreleased "Kingdom" behind episode, what do I have?
For us iKON, whatever show we're on
We show things as it is
So I don't think they missed anything on us..
[ERIC] I guess it was so busy for you to prepare for each.
Like, what was that?
For one of the "Kingdom" stages, we had to remix or remake
a song from the group ATEEZ
And when we did the stage, we put so much effort
And at the time the whole performances and choreography for us at "Kingdom" was
Lee Jung, who's very popular now.
With that choreographer
And a dancer from our company, in charge of iKON,
called Byung-Gon, so with those three, we really
tried to be creative to make the dances and prepared for it
For the last part we had that altogether slow-motion-like dance
And I came up with that idea
Have I ever talked about that before? Anyways.
[ERIC] I guess you didn't.
First released here.
[DK] I don't know, have I talked about it?
I don't really talk about these things.
[ERIC] With "Kingdom", any new friendship you made from other teams?
[DK] I made so many new friends through "Kingdom".
BTOB, and the friends there,
All seniors and juniors, I got close to them
But especially with BTOB and THE BOYZ
- [ERIC] THE BOYZ? - [DK] And we contacted SF9 so much.
pDK] We did a stage together and stuff
So we'd call each other.
[ERIC] Any close friend
I mean with the COVID it's hard to see anyone lately
But any close friend among celebrities
Like singer, actor, anyone?
[DK] Since I'm mostly working on making songs
I usually meet Seung-Yoon and MINO from WINNER and talk.
- [DK] Of course I'm always with my members so I talk to them all the time. - [ERIC] Right, x2 Of course.
[DK] And as a new hobby?
- [ERIC] Hobby? - [DK] I play ping pong for fun
[DK] So I was with Seung-Yoon
And I got closer to Eun Ji-won from Sechskies too with the ping pong
So I meet up with them a lot.
[ERIC] Interesting. x2