Oh exactly…
For sure.
But I was on my grind when I was young.
I don’t know why my hands are like this.
Hello.
I am a South Korean musician Bang Yong Guk.
Nice to meet you.
Let me begin my .
Yes, I am Bang YongGuk.
Bang from Onyang…It shows my family name’s origin too.
Actually I was born in
Gil hospital in Incheon.
So I think it needs to be modified.
I spent my elementary school years in Incheon.
And moved to Seoul right before middle school.
Ah~ You can see this information when you click on it.
My height is not 180cm.
I am actually 178.8 centimeters tall.
It’s so called celebrities’ ‘Rounding Off’.
I guess it’s why it’s 180cm.
And then there’s my dog ‘Tigger’.
I was discharged after my military service.
My label is called ‘CONSENT’.
Which was established just last year.
It’s a new company that has just been founded.
People say you are a ‘wise saying maker’, is that correct?
I don’t know…wise saying?
I am not a talkative person.
So because I usually don’t talk much,
I think my fans take it seriously when I say something once in a while.
What do you think was the coolest sentence you have ever said?
Oh the coolest sentence?
‘We are back’
Actually it was not a wise saying.
But I remember this because in 2015,
BAP was involved in a lawsuit
With our former management company.
I said this in an interview we did
when we released a come-back album after that lawsuit.
I still vividly remember that moment.
Because I am not good at giving interviews,
I was actually intimated
When they asked me some questions during that interview.
But on screen, it seemed like I was very mad.
Oh exactly…
This is exactly what happened.
For sure.
This is my life motto.
I even got a tattoo with it.
It was the first tattoo I’ve ever got in my life.
I have been thinking about this from my teenage years.
And I am trying to follow this motto still in my 30s.
I like this sentence.
The concept was to wear hoodies.
‘You should cover your face’
People said ‘You look good when you cover your face’
So I didn’t intend it but I covered my face.
But it made me look even scarier.
So I think it matched the stalker concept very well.
We shot this on a location and it was so cold, around -10 degrees.
But I didn’t feel the cold because I was young.
The memories are coming back in my head.
Ah ~ I look so young.
That’s right! I did a lot of part-time jobs.
But people say I don’t look like I had hard times in my life, when they see my hands.
But I was on my grind when I was young.
Most of the time, I worked part time jobs after school.
And because I didn’t have school on weekends,
I did another part-time job on weekends.
I don’t know why my hands are like this.
What was the hardest part time job you have ever had?
First of all, I had a job called telemarketer.
And it was very tough mentally.
Usually when a service engineer is done with a repair,
My job was to call the customer
to receive his/her feedback and evaluation.
Usually everybody is busy so
When I mention why I called,
They say ‘Why do you call me for things like that’
There were people swearing.
That’s right.
is
There is a Japanese whiskey called which I like.
It was just a prequel I made.
This was not a part of an album.
I had so many ideas in my head.
And I wanted to express and embody those ideas.
So I produced it at my own expense.
So there are a lot of fans who ask me to include this song in my album.
But that’s impossible
Because of ’s trademark right.
So I can’t release it in an album.
But if you want to listen to it,
Please take a listen on my YouTube channel.
Should I keep watching?
But there’s a thing I want to mention.
I am the one who first started LieV(doing a live lying down) within K-POP industry.
The reason why I did something like this is,
I hated doing a live with my fans
With my hair and makeup perfectly done.
It felt too official.
I just wanted to do a live before I go to bed.
So I was lying down from the beginning till the end.
And my fans really liked it.
I can’t read it.
Please let me read it alone.
Do you have any plans to do lieV again?
I haven’t been able to do it often as I took some distance from modern civilization these days.
But I promise to do it more often.
Ah Sleepy uploaded this.
I had no plans to record things like this.
But Sleepy told me that
It would be great to record it
since it happens only once in your life.
So he took the video and edit it, and uploaded it.
Is there anything changed after serving the military duty?
I feel nothing has been changed.
I have the same personality as when I was 20.
It’s the preview of my first solo album
Which I produced on my own for the first time.
After I left the company.
I think I did a good job.
Actually I was playing games
listening to some music.
I remember this shot as it looked so cool.
From your first album, what’s the song you feel attached the most?
I think the song called ,
The song and the music video
represented me at that time the best.
I started to work on an album
After I left the company.
And the theme of the album was ‘Bang Yong Guk’.
We thought, why not make a documentary filming the process of making an album.
At first, we began without thinking much.
But then we thought that there are not enough artist documentaries
In Korean music industry.
So the project got bigger.
Anyway that’s how it became a movie.
My favorite thing when I study is
To take notes of the book I study.
I summarized around 5 books about wine
And made it into one book.
I was just into studying different types of wine
Whenever I got some spare time.
What’s your favorite type of wine?
I like Italian wines made with Sangiovese grapes.
And there are grapes called ‘Tempranillo’ and ‘Carignan’ in Spain,
Which grow mainly in Priorat area.
They have good flavors and not too heavy.
Very good to have with food.
Actually,
I have driver’s license but I don’t have a car.
is the first single
I released after I got discharged from military service.
Since I had not been producing music for a while
I worked on this song with a mindset of fresh new start.
When you think of as a life,
We are on a race of our own.
I thought life is pretty much same with a race.
So I named the title as .
I tried to express that
Let’s begin the race again, even if you have stopped.
In some ways,
The things I thought when making this album were
My second ego among several egos I have.
The second chapter of my life.
It has several meanings and that’s why this EP is named as <2>.
Unlike my songs in the past,
I tried new styles for this album.
So I wonder how people will react when it’s out in the world.
This has been my .
I was honored to be a representative
And to have a photoshoot at global location.
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