- I go through ins and outs of I love traveling,
I love meeting new people
and then everybody leave me alone.
I almost cursed. Can I curse?
What happens if I say like [bleep],
what would happen?
I'm kidding.
[laughs]
Hey guys, this is Eric Nam
and I'm here today at Glamour
to dive into the internet to see
what you guys have said about me.
Nam Nation get ready,
I'm going to debunk all these myths.
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kprofile.com.
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All right so, first fact,
"He used to have a crush on BoA"
"and Lee Hyori when he was younger." That's true.
But also like who didn't have a crush on them
when they were younger?
Growing up in the States, you didn't see
a lot of Asian women
or Korean women on TV or anything
but then like what I came across I was like, hi.
Second fact, "He speaks fluently in English and Korean"
"and a good level of Spanish and Mandarin."
How's my English?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
Yes, I speak English 'cause I'm American.
Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean
I was not always.
When I got to Korea, I was constantly put
on TV shows not knowing what was going on.
So that forced me to learn Korean
so I could stop looking like an idiot.
And it was great.
Nam Nation, [speaks foreign language]
My Spanish is decent, burrito and taco.
[laughs]
And my Mandrin is now horrendous.
So that I would have to correct just a little bit.
I've forgotten a lot of it, corrected.
So Mandarin, I picked it up,
I spent a year in Beijing studying
but then when you don't use it,
languages, you just kinda forget it all.
[speaks foreign language]
Bye bye.
"When he was younger,"
"he was part of the Atlanta Boy Choir"
"and got to tour Italy when they sang mass"
"at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome."
That is correct.
I was part of the Atlanta Boy Choir
probably like fourth and fifth grade.
I personally didn't enjoy
the type of music that we were doing.
I was more into like whatever was
on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
But the cool part was we did get to tour Italy
so we went to Venice, we went to Rome,
we went to Assisi
and we sang for masses
and I got to do solo parts in St. Mark's in Venice
and really interesting places
so, it's cool, I guess,
to yeah, it's cool, right?
It's cool, it's cool.
"Before making it to the K-Pop industry,"
"he was already making cover songs"
"and posting them on YouTube."
That is also true.
I say that is how I got into K-Pop.
I've been doing covers,
probably since I'd say early college
or at late High School.
This TV show in Korea saw it
and they invited me out to Korea
and then the rest is history.
And I know everybody's wondering,
can you find these on YouTube?
The official answer is no.
Next fact, his hobbies are trying new foods,
meeting new people
and visiting new places.
I mean, honestly just sounds like living life.
[laughs]
This kinda seems like,
well we don't know how to wrap this up
so let's just say these overarching themes
that apply to almost everybody
unless they're terrified and introverted
and do not leave the house, not correct.
Not that I dislike these
but my hobbies include songwriting.
I don't feel like I get enough time
to actually write what I love to do
songwriting is still a hobby for me.
A recent hobby of mine is to just stay at home
and allow myself to watch TV
and just eat.
And I love massages.
That's, a hobby.
That is a great underrated hobby,
people are like, meh, I'm like yeah,
they about take all that money, corrected.
We're gonna move on to KProfile comments, I'm nervous.
Wait, if it's comments,
does this mean anybody could just submit stuff?
Internet's a scary place.
Here we go, Saim Sajid Rehmani,
"You should add his quote."
I feel like I should read this the way it's spelled out
with weird capitalizations,
"Your dog speaks Chinese."
It is a quote, I did say this.
Early on in my career,
we did a YouTube video with some friends.
It was a challenge where we were eating watermelon
and we had to break it open
but we couldn't use our hands.
As we were doing this,
a friend's dog decided to come over
and try to get some watermelon
and she yells,
[speaks in foreign language]
which means "Jack, Jack go home."
At that moment, as I was devouring a watermelon
and drowning in watermelon juice,
I was astounded that the dog went to his little crate
and I said your talk speaks Chinese?
And it became an instant meme
and it has followed me around for years, sorry.
I mean, honestly, I get it, it's funny
but I don't wanna be known as
the "Your dog speaks Chinese" guy, okay?
Every engagement, whatever someone's like,
I'm singing some like romantic love song
or some like heartfelt breakup song
and someone in the crowd goes, "Your dog speaks Chinese"
and I just, I lose it.
I wanna be remembered for something special
but not a "Your dog speaks Chinese" just saying.
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This next one is from Kilithekpopfan says,
"He's also friends with Khalid"
"and was with him when he wrecked his car"
"when they were on their way to get tacos."
This is true, this is very true.
Dude tries to get into a parking lot,
completely ran his bumper into the curb.
He was really excited
about this new car that he just got, hit the curb
and he was like, "Oh [bleep] I should back up."
And as he backed up,
he ripped his entire bumper off the front.
[laughs]
But thankfully, nobody got hurt
and we still got tacos
and the entire dinner he just kept being like,
"I'm okay but that was like my brand new car"
"but I'm okay but like I just got."
but I'm like, "You're not okay."
but I think he's doing fine,
miss you, bro.
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aminoapps.com blog post,
"Why I love/Stan Eric Nam"
I'm actually very curious to read this, all right,
"Eric's personality can be seen"
"in the way he interact with Korean"
"and International artists on a personal level."
"He can be very wacky and goofy"
"and it makes me laugh."
"He has a personality to really care for others"
"and his shamelessness is amazing."
Wow, thank you, I'm shameless.
I wasn't shameless.
I wasn't shameless, I would say witty.
Witty, and cynical and sarcastic.
You like that, three for one,
barking, take it, corrected.
Youtube.com
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Oh, yeah, J Fla.
- [J fLa] [sings in foreign language]
I mean, I don't like reacting
'cause she does it better than me.
"She's not just good, she's great."
"Eric would love this amazing cover."
Yeah, you guys are correct, she's awesome.
Thank you J Fla for covering this.
She has such a great voice.
Everybody in Korea listens to her stuff
because she takes a lot of pop songs
and then she covers them
and puts her own little rendition on it
and she kills it.
So thank you, I love her.
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Instagram.
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This is from Yashashree2025.
"Why is your phone upside down?"
Well, listen, when you're taking a mirrored selfie,
lemme just explain,
it's very complicated, okay?
It's not just a selfie,
it's one that reflects into the mirror that reflects you.
It's a double or a triple selfie, you might even say.
So, in order to maximize
the angular composition of the photograph
and for the best whitespace to phone coverage,
your face ratio,
I needed it to be upside down.
This is all very, very scientifically
algorithmically thought through.
There's a reason for everything Yashasree
and now you know, you're welcome.
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At redandbooks, "You should think about acting, just saying"
I will give you my thoughts on acting via FaceTime.
We 'gon call you real quick.
I'm nervous.
- Whoa, hello.
[laughs]
- Hi, how are you?
- Whoa, fine, thank you.
Can't believe it.
- What's your name?
- Mariam.
- Mariam, where am I calling you at?
- France.
- France? [speaks in foreign language]
I'm calling you because you left a comment that says
that I should think about acting.
What makes you think I'm qualified to act in anything?
- Okay, because I think you are a great actor
basically you are doing your MV
and when you're MV
and we are watching it,
we believe what you are saying to us.
- Oh.
- So I think you would be great.
- Well thank you so much.
I don't know if I would be a good Kdrama actor.
It's a very dramatic.
- Yeah but maybe not the first male lead.
- Okay.
- But the second one, you know,
the one that we always [murmurs].
- So you're like sidekick to the hot guy.
- Just for the first role.
- But that's just my first role
so I will upgrade, we will evolve.
Do you want to be my agent?
I will just fire everybody.
- I'm [mumbles] just to come too far.
- [laughs]
Thank you so much.
Have a great night,
I really appreciate you
and hope to see you guys soon,
so stay healthy
and love you, see you soon.
- You too, thank you.
- Bye.
That was cool, that was really nice talking to Mariam,
thanks Mariam for the FaceTime,
for your time.
Acting wise, honestly it's not out of the picture.
It's not gonna happen right now.
I wanna get my acting skills up
so keep an eye on my IGTV
because we have some serious drama
playing now on that channel.
I need to get into some fight, fake fights or something,
do you wanna fight me?
No? Nobody?
All right, Glamour thank you so much for having me.
My name is Eric Nam in case you forgot already.
Hope you had a good time fact checking with me
'cause I did.
I'll see you soon.
Check out my music, have a good life, bye.
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