- All the songs, I put it in this album
with the album name being 'Moth'
because that's what I was thinking of the whole time
I was writing these, like, batches of songs.
I was in Korea and I was at a convenience store.
And in front of, like, a convenience store,
usually they have those light signs,
and the light is really bright,
and there were so many moths around it, chasing the light.
I was watching them and when, finally, the moth
landed on the light,
I saw how pretty their wing prints were.
I almost thought it was even prettier than a butterfly's.
So I started thinking on that,
and I started expanding the idea of, like, maybe some of us
just need a little bit of light to shine through us,
or shine on us, to be able to really show our true beauty.
And that was the main idea of it.
Hey, MTV News! This is Woosung
and this is my top five memorable career moments.
My first big career moment is when The Rose got together.
That was a time we finally found the missing pieces
of our music careers, individually,
and when that came together,
it became a full, finalized picture.
I didn't feel like my life was gonna change
when we got together,
my life did change when we got together
and started this band.
I felt that it was gonna be great.
I honestly believed.
We all believed in The Rose, even though no one else
believed us and doubted us
because, you know, being a band is not a common thing in Korea
and it's a harder industry, I believe.
But, we thought we were gonna be great no matter what.
I don't know why.
It was just that energy.
The only thing I want to say right now
is that the message hasn't changed for The Rose.
The message of our albums, I think,
have been very, very similar since the beginning,
and that's never going to change,
which is heal together. And it's gonna be a full, full album.
My next biggest career moment
is when I got into this audition called 'K-Pop Star'
in 2011, and then it aired 2012.
Because that's when my music career actually started.
Before that, I didn't really think
I was gonna get into music as my profession,
so that really changed my goals in life
and once I got to experience what music was really about,
I think that's when I fell in love
and that's what made me change my career path, 180 degrees.
I do not go back and watch my old videos,
and you shouldn't either. [Laughs]
No, I honestly, like -- It's just like,
I think it's with everybody right?
After, like, 10 years, such a long time,
you see yourself and it's kind of cringey.
I still think it was a beautiful moment,
maybe 10 more years have to pass
for me to really appreciate it.
Right now, I'm not so sure. [Laughs]
My third big career moment is
when I did a show
called 'SuperBand.'
'SuperBand' was great.
There were three times that I really felt like
I got better in music.
The first one being, in timeline wise,
when I got into 'K-pop Star,'
when I met my members, and when I did 'Superband.'
These were the moments where I grew
as a musician, and as a person,
and I really, like, overcame
a lot of, like, blockage I had in my career.
And 'SuperBand' was really great
because I got to connect with all these great
and amazing musicians
that were in, like, such a different career path.
You know, saxophonists, violinists, like, classical music.
It was, like, very, very diverse,
and to be able to be in that environment
and consume what they already have been doing
for so long, and to share what I have been doing for a while,
it was actually very beautiful.
I think the biggest lesson I took away from that was
just being a little patient
and learning how to be more calm
about different situations and different people.
I really learned that people are all different,
musicians or not.
During 'SuperBand,' we had to team up
with all these different artists
that were in different world,
and to be able to really connect and understand each other,
I felt like I had to be patient
and trying to listen-- And opening up my ears
and listening to where they're at, in terms
of their musical brains.
I think it helped a lot because I got to incorporate
that to The Rose.
Even though we were very about communication all the time,
once we started talking more
and really opening up those walls,
it became a whole new thing with The Rose.
Another big point in my career
was when we started touring with The Rose.
Our first tour, there was a five city Europe tour.
We got the offer when we had one song out as The Rose.
It was very new to us, everything was.
I didn't even know it was possible
to go to this whole different country
and have people listen to us sing and actually know
all the words, Korean and English,
and sing along to our music.
I honestly did not believe that was gonna come so quickly.
The tour itself really evolved us,
in terms of our music abilities.
We learned a lot.
We learned how to listen to monitors,
we learned how to perform.
Whoever that was there for our first tour,
they saw us grow.
I honestly think we were ready,
but at the same time we weren't ready.
We just had to make ourselves ready.
You know, we had one song out.
I think touring really grew us as a team
and really had us experiencing things on stage
that would later evolve us into just better performers.
With the EpiK High tour, I think I learned many things.
The biggest takeaway for me was that
I get to tour with this legendary band that's
been a team for more than 20 years.
I wanted to learn what their teamwork was like,
I wanted to learn what the energy was like
'cause honestly that's what we wanna do for The Rose.
We want to have this team until we're, like, married and have kids.
40, 50, you know, just being friends and stuff.
And finally, my last biggest career moment
is and is going to be when this 'Moth' EP releases.
I think I finally, and comfortably and confidently, can say
that this right now, this EP represents who I am as a person
more than any other albums that I have released as a solo.
It is me.
It is who I am now.
It is my sound, sonically.
It is what's in my head and what I hear.
And I think it'll be a really good learning experience
doing this EP and really seeing how it goes.
Sonically, for me, honestly,
I think 'Moth' is, like, a matured version of Woosung.
And I think the album that I released before,
which was 'Genre,' those songs that I had written,
like, five, four years ago.
It's more in tune with who I am now, 'Moth' EP is.
And with time, I think I aged,
and also with that, my music aged, as well.
The biggest difference between me now and 10 years ago,
before my music career started, is music isn't a hobby.
So when I'm singing, I'm practicing.
Back then, when I used to sing and play guitar,
it used to be, I'm enjoying my free time,
you know, I'm not doing homework,
I'm just kind of letting the stress out.
And now it is my life.
That's the difference.
Music became my life and is a part of my everyday life.
Work, even, like, relationships,
they're all around the realm of music.
But back then, it was very much school,
and the people I meet at school, and family.
That's the biggest difference, I think.
I hope to see myself just with my band
in the next 10 years. Just, you know, doing shows.
I'm hoping we all have our families
and we could go on family trips with our whole team,
with The Rose, and also with the management,
whoever we work with.
I think the biggest goal right now, for us,
is that we could build this team
and stick with this team forever.