I ran up to her and I was like, "Oh, my god, I'm the biggest fan."
I love you so much.
I certainly was not a good dancer when I first started.
I ran several fan accounts.
I think I had like a Taylor Swift fan account, and then at one point, I had like a My Little Pony account.
Hey everyone, welcome to Variety's Up Next.
I'm Tiana, and my guest today is Yunjin from LE SSERAFIM.
Thank you so much for being here.
Having me.
It's my first podcast ever, so I'm so excited to be here.
I love to yap.
I'm honored.
I can't wait to talk about everything in terms of your career and how you got to where you are,
but first, we do have a little fishbowl sitting here with all the Google Trends from your name today.
So, everything people are searching about you today.
So, everything people are searching about you today.
Really?
I'd love for you to pick one and try and make sense of why maybe people are searching this or Oh, that's so fun.
Okay.
This is so cool.
This is so cool.
What are they?
What are they searching about me?
All right.
Here we go.
Ooh, Yunjin's birthday.
Ooh.
Yunjin's birth—That's very interesting because I actually—the last time I was in LA was during my birthday,
and I had like a little birthday party with the staff that I was here with.
So, that is cool.
When is your birthday?
It's October 8th, 2001.
Libra?
I'm a Libra.
What are you?
Me, too.
You're a Libra?
Two Libras.
I'm a—Are you an October Libra?
Or October Libras are the best?
Do you feel like a Libra?
Does that feel true to who you are?
I—I definitely—Yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot of Libra in my chart.
I have like a Libra stellium in my chart, so there's just Libra in my chart.
It's a lot, but it's like Libras are balance, right?
Balance and indecisiveness and like very I guess sensitive to language.
Are you into astrology?
Oh, I'm so into astrology.
Are you into astrology?
I've like entertained it.
Like I believe in certain things.
This certain account where they like—it's like an astrology bot—and whatever they say just rings so true to me.
It feels like they're fortune-telling something.
So I feel like if they, like, for example, they'd be like, 'Libra, you are doing the right thing,' and then I was like, 'Thank— you.'
Like, I am doing the right thing.
Doing the right thing, and it's therapeutic.
It's nice.
Okay, I have to get more into it then.
Yeah.
I want to go all the way back to the beginning, basically.
Where did you grow up?
Where were you born?
Goodness.
We're starting all the way at the beginning.
My life story.
Story.
Wow.
Um, uh, so I was born in South Korea.
I was born in Seoul, and then at like eight months old, I moved to the US, and I spent my entire childhood growing up in Wisconsin and then New York.
And, um, but it was upstate New York—like near Albany.
I'm not sure if you're familiar.
But, yeah.
Yeah.
Upstate New York—I grew up there—and I have, like, two younger siblings, and I had always been really interested in writing, like making stories and storytelling.
I remember my first work—my first work was like this: the story of a vegetarian vampire at eight years old—and, yeah, I was just so into creative stuff.
And that kind of bled into the career path I ultimately wanted to take, and, um, yeah, the medium for what I wanted to express my stories through kept changing.
Like, at first I wanted to be a writer, and then a painter, and then an actor, and then a musical actor, and then, um, I discovered songwriting.
I fell in love with that, and, um, I bought my first guitar with all of my savings—my piggy bank.
You can play a couple instruments as well, right?
Yes.
What instruments can you play?
My first instrument ever was, um, violin.
With the orchestra, right?
Yes.
Yes, school orchestra, first violin.
And, um, piano, and then I self-taught myself guitar and ukulele.
Self-taught—that's amazing.
Thank you.
Teach yourself?
Like YouTube videos or YouTube videos.
YouTube videos.
My first song ever was Taylor Swift's 'Fifteen'.
And I remember specifically my sister—when my dad likes to play guitar just as a hobby,
so he used to always have this like nylon-string old classic guitar—and my sister
and I would just like play on it, and then one day my sister like whipped it out,
and she was like strumming chords, and I was like, "How did you learn that?"
"Where on Earth did you learn?"
Um, and she was like, "I just saw it on YouTube."
And she inspired me to like, "Oh, then I should start."
And then I would like secretly steal my dad's classic guitar, and, um, learn Taylor Swift songs at like 10.
Would you say your family is very supportive, then, of your musical career, or what do they think?
Oh my gosh, yeah, they're my number one supporters.
They're so they're such big fans of everything that I do, so I feel really supported and really loved by my parents.
It's really nice to have that kind of support, especially when I'm pursuing it in a different country than they're in, so it's a lot.
What does your grandmother think of your music?
'Cause she is a singer, right?
She's not an opera singer.
She also likes to do singing and music, I guess, like a hobby.
She's been doing it for a really long time.
Like, she's—I'm so like I love my grandmother so much, and I'm so in awe of her
because even at this age she's like doing auditions and challenging herself to like be in different choirs in her neighborhood, in her city.
It's so cute, and it's really inspirational because, um, yeah, she loves to sing,
and I think at a young age I got a lot of influence from my grandmother
because like she would take me to her choral rehearsals, and I would go see her shows, and, um, yeah, and we'd go see musicals together whenever she was in the States.
So, my first musical ever was Matilda with my grandmother.
Yeah.
We got floor seats.
It was like—I don't even remember—like third grade.
It was so nice.
So, your grandmother's your number one supporter then?
You're like, 'Yeah.'
It's an 'in it all together' kind of thing.
We have like a group chat and she's always sending me links first.
Like, "Oh my god, when did you do this?"
It's so cute.
What were her comments on the new album?
Oh, she loves it.
She loves it so much, and, um, she's always super supportive of the songs that I write for our albums.
songs as her caller ring.
Like the ringtone.
Ringtone.
Wait, that's so cute.
It's so cute.
Okay, so you grow up in the States.
At what point do you realize, "I think I want to do K-pop"?
"I want to be a K-pop idol."
How do you even start once you have that realization?
Well, I had always wanted to pursue music and songwrite, but the point when I kind of realized that, oh,
K-pop is another like medium for that is when I discovered how conceptual it is—and there's so much world-building in K-pop.
It's not just the music.
It starts with the music, and then there's like choreo that goes with it.
There's visuals that carry out the vision, and then the members.
I think a big part of why K-pop was so—like, I don't know—interesting to me is because it's such a team effort.
Since I was young, if I ever wrote something, I would always want to do it with my sister,
or like I would get the neighborhood Korean-American kids and then be like, "Oh, I wrote a play.
Let's like perform it for our parents at a dinner party."
And I just love to do collaborative things, and the fact that K-pop can be so collaborative was a big—like, I don't know—selling point for me.
And yeah, and I remember, uh, watching—I think it was like 2016 or 2017—BTS won an award at the American Music Awards,
and that was really, really inspirational for me as a young Korean-American kid who had been,
you know, dealing with identity crises and wondering, you know, how I can share my story in my own language with, you know, authenticity—and, um, yeah, it was really big.
I hear you are a big BTS fan as well.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh, who isn't?
Is it true you ran a Twitter account dedicated to being a stan of BTS?
Oh my god, that was like—oh my god, I think that was like middle school.
As you do, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
I ran several fan accounts.
I think I had like a Taylor Swift fan account.
And then at one point, I had like a My Little Pony account.
And then I had like a very versatile one.
And I had like a My Chemical Romance account as well.
I think I just ran like, you know, so many, so many like side jobs.
You feel like I have to let that go now.
Now I am a K-pop idol.
Yeah, yeah.
To step back.
So, when did you move back to South Korea to pursue K-pop?
'Cause you moved when you were about 16, is it?
Yes, I moved alone.
I think it was either 15 or 16.
There was like a back-and-forth kind of thing.
I went first at 15 and then did K-pop at one label for like a month and then went back to the States; uh, started sophomore year.
And then I think I went back to Korea at 16.
And then stayed for the rest of the time.
And then—oh, and then there was another time where I moved back.
I was like, "Ah, you know what?"
I've been doing this for, I don't know, like three or four years.
Um, there were like a lot of ups and downs, as, you know, things are in every industry.
But um, at one point, I just kind of questioned myself: "Is music something that I really do?
Do I really have it in me to pursue this?"
And at that time, it was—no, I don't think so.
You know, I could be living a different life, and that life was more enticing to me at that time.
So, I went back to the States, and in the span of like two months,
I applied to as many schools as I could;
um, got into a school that I wanted to get into, and I had put in my admission fee.
And then the next day, got the call for LE SSERAFIM.
So, that was a really big moment for me because during those couple months of, you know, pursuing a completely different lifeline, I kind of came to terms with the fact.
That, oh, I can't really let go of music.
I can't let go of the storytelling dream I have in me.
So, that call was a huge moment, and it literally felt like the stars were telling me where to go.
It felt very right at the moment, then.
So, right, yeah.
Did you ever—I don't want to say regret the decision not to do university—but did you ever second-guess that decision of choosing music over university?
Or I guess now you know you chose the right path.
Like, my favorite movie is Everything Everywhere All at Once.
And, you know, the whole multiverse—there's another, you know, parallel universe where I'm pursuing something completely different.
But, in the end, like they say in the movie, the life that I'm currently living now is the best version of me that there is.
And I truly do believe that.
I think anybody can—I don't know.
Like, reminisce or just imagine what things could be, but ultimately I think everything does happen for a reason, and what I'm doing now is really the best.
Thing that could ever have happened to me.
It's obvious it was meant to be, especially when you start so young, being so creative and being able to play instruments.
I think it was always meant to be your path.
When you were training in Korea, what are the steps to becoming a K-pop idol for people that don't know?
'Cause you do have to train under, you know, an entertainment agency.
So, explain to me a little bit about what those steps are.
Mm.
I think, um, it's it can be different for each label or for each person.
Um, but when— for in my experience, I had auditioned several times.
Um, I had my first audition in Korea, which I didn't make, and then I had an audition in the States, um,
when labels are doing global auditions, and there were also times where I did like video auditions where I would send them in—no callbacks.
Tape kind of thing?
Do you have to sing for them?
Sing for them, like dance for them?
And, like, yeah, it's it was embarrassing to look back on those videos,
but um, yeah, there's a lot of different ways to audition,
but uh, I got a callback, and then they had me come to Korea and um, train.
Uh, there would be like dance training, vocal training, language training—like I learned um, Japanese; my first—it was like my third language at the time.
Oh, no, I had also learned French, which—oh my goodness.
I Lola—I saw Lola also; she she learned French in high school from watching the podcast.
I learned that.
But yeah, same with me, I I learned French in high school—cannot speak it now—but um, started learning Japanese thanks to our label.
Are you fluent?
Oh, no, not at all.
I—you very well could be.
Obviously speak English, you speak Korean, so Japanese next.
Yeah, Japanese next.
I'm working on it, I'm working on it—not not quite there yet—but um,
yeah, uh, there's a lot of like different intensive training that goes in,
um, and and then there's like I guess like a vision they have for a certain team,
and um, I guess their vision aligned with—or I aligned with—their vision for LE SSERAFIM,
which is why I got the callback even when I was still, you know, in the States trying to do something different.
Um, but yeah, sometimes uh, you train for a number of years and uh ultimately don't end up being in the vision for the concept or the group.
And that was what happened with me before joining this team.
Like I had trained at several different labels, but ultimately, you know,
I didn't match up with what they wanted for the group,
which I respect because, you know, no matter how talented you are, I think ultimately it's—you know—there's so much that goes into making a team.
It's like a puzzle.
Like the puzzle has to fit perfectly with the vision.
Yeah, it's not personal, and that's how I kind of took it,
which is why I think I could have done it for
so long even after, you know, almost making it and then not making it.
I think for me, it was just, 'Oh, what is right for me will ultimately come find me.'
And I just need to do my best in whatever situation.
And truly, everything happens for a reason.
That mindset, I think, has built who I am today—up until joining LE SSERAFIM—and even after debuting as LE SSERAFIM.
Um, yeah, so that's how, I guess, I became part of this group.
Training sounds very intense.
It was very intense.
Do you have to be a good dancer to be a part of a K-pop group?
'Cause everyone can dance.
Gosh, oh my god.
I think—well, I was not—I certainly was not a good dancer when I first started.
I was actually very—like, even in our fandom, it's known that my nickname before debuting was Giraffe.
No.
Because, why giraffe?
My first dance teacher ever gave me that nickname.
And it's because she saw me dance and she was like, 'Oh my god, you look like you were just born—you look like a newborn giraffe.'
No, you're like hanging.
I was like, 'You know what?'
That's kind of cute though.
So, I kind of like—I just took it in, and it was my nickname for a while,
but now it's like—it's funny because I think I've um, I've kind of outgrown that nickname.
Yes, you can certainly dance now.
I try my best.
I'm still working on it, but, yeah, I think I can enjoy dancing a lot more than I did when I was a trainee.
So, being a good dancer is—yeah, I think it just comes with a lot of training.
In 2018, you competed in the reality survival show Produce 48.
What was that like?
You obviously met Chaewon, who's in your group now.
What do you remember about that time?
Oh my god.
Uh, during that time, I had not trained at all.
It was like two months of really intense training—and also, it's before the years of training.
Oh, before.
It was after I had auditioned and they called me to Korea, but before going to Korea, they were like, 'There's also this show.'
Would you like to be on the show, or would you just like to train?
And I wanted to challenge myself because I think in my head I had always imagined—'cause there were like previous seasons to the show.
I would always imagine, 'Oh, if I was on that show, I think it would be really fun.'
I manifested it.
I remember always like ruminating on it in the car.
But yeah, so I took on the challenge, and yeah, it was a really great learning experience.
I think I had never been in that intense of an experience ever.
So, yeah, I learned a lot.
I grew a lot.
I got to meet two of my members.
I think the red string theory is real because who would have guessed I would be with them now?
But, um, yeah, I think it made a lot of who I am today.
who I am today because it was it really was my first experience as in like in the K-pop industry.
How did that feel when you got eliminated from a show like that?
Do you feel like it's the be-all and end-all, or are you like, 'Okay, back to training?'
Do you feel like it's like the be all and end all or are you like okay, back to training?
Like let's try something else.
Because at that time I was so young, and I was so—I was at the start of this whole thing.
Because at that time I was so young and I was so like I it was my start to this whole thing.
So, I was like on fire.
I was so passionate with so much energy, and it really felt like end-all be-all.
Um, but then, you know, with talking with other trainees that I had trained with—like older, more experienced girls—they would tell me that, "Oh, everything happens for a reason.
There's going to be something that's more meant for you to come.
Um, let's just train together and have fun and just like build more skills to make sure you're ready when that time comes.
And um, that's the mindset that I took on, and um, I remember thinking like, "Oh,
there's going to be something that's more meant for me that's going to come eventually as long as I stay true to the moment and do what I can control."
And I guess it's exposure as well.
You're putting yourself in front of an audience to potentially go back into training, and people will remember you.
Right, right, right.
So, when you go back into training, what was it that made you um sort of decide to go back to the States and then get that call for LE SSERAFIM?
It was just really intense, and I had kept thinking about what my life could be,
and I think I had such a—um, you know, looking back on it now—hmm, I think I was just burnt out.
I was just burnt out.
I missed my family.
I missed my friends.
I missed my dog that my family adopted while I was in Korea.
You're like, "I must have left for my dog."
It was like a mix of a lot of emotions, but um, and it is difficult to,
you know, lose friends along the way because it's like, you know, a little elimination process as well.
So, um, yeah, that's just kind of how the system is, but, um, yeah, I think I just missed home and then left.
So, I went back.
A lot of people would feel that way.
You know, you're not where your family is, your friends.
It's harder to stay in touch with friends when it's long distance.
So, I think that makes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
But talk to me about the call that you get to join LE SSERAFIM.
What did that feel like?
I mean, were you expecting a call, or was it a cold call?
Even after going back to the States, uh, our label was like, 'Oh, no, but we still want to do something with you.'
So, just like stay on the line.
Um, and I was just like, 'Yeah, whatever.'
See you never.
See you never.
Whatever.
Yeah, I was like, 'See me at school.'
But, um, and then they called me for LE SSERAFIM, and they were like explaining the team to me, and I was like, 'Hmm, hmm, maybe I will see you in Korea.'
Did you remember the names of the girls you had met in Produce 48?
Did that ring a bell?
Of course.
Oh my gosh.
Of course.
And it just, like, hearing the concept of the group, it just felt like exactly what I wanted to do.
I think, um, you know, as I mentioned before, storytelling and, uh,
like expressing my personal narrative or sharing my thoughts is a really big part of who I am and what I want to pursue.
And that's ultimately why I started K-pop, because I wanted to do that in the language that K-pop has.
Um, and this seems like exactly the team where I could do it.
Did they want you in part as well because you are a songwriter?
Was that like a big sell?
It doesn't happen a lot in K-pop where, like, the idols are also really true songwriters.
Like, there obviously are many idols that do that, but you are a writer; you can play instruments.
Was that part of why they wanted you?
You know what?
I actually don't know.
I don't know.
I've always, like, thought about it.
Like, oh, is that why they called me back?
I wonder what it was that they wanted me in this group, but, um, you know, it could be.
I could have been like—that could have been one of the reasons.
I'm not sure, but yeah.
So then you get that call; you're back in the States.
Then do you have to go back to Korea now?
Because you have to make an album and make music.
Well, I—I almost went right away.
I think it was like two weeks after the call that I went straight back to Korea.
It was a quick change.
Yeah, very quick.
Yeah, yeah, very quick.
Very, very quick.
I had put in my fees, and then the next day I get the call, and I'm like, 'Oh, I'm going back home—or back to Korea.'
Yeah, back home.
I mean, it is like a back— It's home now.
It's home.
It's definitely home now.
I feel like a lot of fans have said as well that you guys have just some of the best chemistry, um, in terms of a girl group.
How did you achieve that chemistry?
They truly are my sisters, and we have this sisterhood that I think is really hard to explain in words
because it's just an accumulation of all of the experiences we've had together—and a lot of it is nonverbal, too.
Like, it's just something that we feel because we're in the same space, under the same name.
Um, but I think it's just the fact that we understand how different we are from each other because we have such a unique start.
Our formation as a group is—I would say—very unique because normally it's,
you know, you train for a number of years together and
then you grow up in the same space and then come together, but for us, it's—we all—it's like five streams from different mountains that came together in one lake.
That's how it feels because, like Kazuha, she was a ballerina for 15 years.
She came straight from the Netherlands.
Wow.
And then she joined the group.
And then Eunchae was just like a new trainee that had just come in, and, um, she was training on her own and then joined our group.
And then Sakura was in Japan.
She very well could have just stayed an idol in Japan and done her own activities there,
but she chose to challenge herself again and join a third group—her third and final group.
So much respect to that woman because that is an insane decision.
And then Chaewon as well—same thing.
And then me—I was just in the States, completely not thinking about K-pop.
So we joined like that, and then our experience together started when we debuted.
So, um, we just understood how different each one of our paths has been, and, um, yeah.
I think that's what makes you unique.
I think each of you has your own backstory, and it's all different.
Yeah, yeah.
In 2022, in your debut teaser, you said you wanted to change the K-pop industry.
Do you still feel that?
Do you still want to do that?
And even at the time—what did you envision when you said that?
That moment in that trailer was when the director had just, like, he had the camera on me, and, you know, I hadn't even debuted yet.
He wanted to capture the most pure, the most honest version of me, I think.
And he just said, "Say whatever is on your mind."
And that's just what came out.
Like "I got something for you."
Yeah, I got something for you.
He was like, "What do you want?
What do you want to achieve?"
And that's just what I had said.
And um, yeah, I think change is something that happens with, you know, small things.
Just like a toss of a pebble into a pond could start whatever.
And um, yeah, I think change doesn't have to be revolutionary.
It's just, you know, you are your most authentic self.
You express the things that you feel, and if one person resonates with it, I think that counts as change.
It doesn't have to be, you know, I don't know.
Like a huge wave—you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
In that sense, I—of course, of course—everybody wants to change something.
And make an impact as well.
An impact.
I think for me, I just want to uh be a source of courage for people to be honest and accepting of themselves.
Talk to me about putting out that first album, 'cause obviously you guys just released a new album on May 22nd, so we'll definitely talk about that.
But how did it feel to release the first album with the group and be performing those songs?
Oh my gosh!
Um, our first album—wow—that was 4 years ago.
It's, uh, it feels like so long ago, but, uh, Fearless, our first album, it felt so surreal.
Um, because it was something that I had dreamt of for so long.
And to be able to release something with a message that I resonate with so much meant a lot to me,
and I had also written for the album on a song called Blue Flame, which is still a favorite of mine.
Of course, yeah.
So, it felt so crazy, and I wish I could like go back in time and just tell my younger self, 'Keep struggling because it will make good songwriting material,' yeah.
Writing material, yeah.
You're going to be thankful for how much you struggle, so keep struggling and keep like smiling because it's going to pay off.
And now you guys have Pure Flow Part 1, so does that mean there's going to be a Part 2?
God, I don't know.
I don't know.
To be Part 1, Part 2.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I can't say much, but, um, yeah, Pure Flow Part 1 is our second studio album.
It means a lot to us because, um, like the writing process—the creative process—for the album was very, uh, like member-focused.
Like it started with us.
The whole narrative started with us, and then we kind of worked around that.
So, it was really, really fun to make.
Um, it started with like one-on-one interviews with each other.
Like, I would go interview the members, and then we would talk about different topics, and then we took that material and made it into subtopics, and then it became Pure Flow.
It grew from there.
Yeah, it grew from there.
It was really, really fun.
So many of the songs have already gone viral on TikTok.
I mean, you have 'Boom Pow,' where Cat's Eye is doing it, and now you have a song out with Cat's Eye.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, Cat's Eye, LE SSERAFIM, and I—we are so supportive of each other that when we got to do this, it was just—it felt so, so I don't know.
It was just like so supportive of each other.
It was really, really fun.
We had a blast shooting the music video.
I feel like this single might break the internet.
All three of you?
Like, that's crazy.
Ah, honestly, if it does, I'd be really hyped.
Yeah, you guys seem close with the Cat's Eye girls as well.
Like, you'll make TikToks together.
Yeah, yeah.
To get the most out of the Cat's Eye crew?
Oh, um, I'm closest to uh, Sophia and Laura.
Um, I think I'm seeing them tomorrow.
Oh, what are you guys doing?
I don't know.
We're just going to go hang out at one of their houses and get takeout.
I love it.
Just a quick catch-up.
Quick catch-up.
We see each other every time I'm in LA or they're in Korea.
Last time we got hot pot.
Yeah, it was Laura's first time.
First time.
It was really good.
It's like you're writing songs while you're out at these restaurants.
You're like, 'We should make a single together.'
That's how it comes about.
It started off as a joke.
It started off as a joke, and then I don't know.
It became reality.
So, are you excited to go on tour for the rest of this year?
You're on a world tour.
What's a stop that you're excited for?
Like a city or a venue, even?
Oh my god.
Well, our first world tour last year was so fun.
All of our best memories from last year, I think, stemmed from that tour.
Uh, like all our Fearless fans, they're so, so energetic—especially in the States.
Um, so to be back here again is going to be really, really fun.
Um, and we have like new stops—like Washington, D.C.
Um, and like Orlando.
We haven't been in Florida yet, so taking them there is going to be really fun.
Um, I really want to go to Epcot, but I don't think we're going to have time.
Maybe you can like weave it into the schedule.
Yeah, uh, hopefully, hopefully.
To my manager who's watching—hopefully we can do that.
Weave it into the schedule.
In the schedule, I want to go to Hollywood.
Yeah.
Um—uh, oh, and we're also going to Europe.
Mhm.
The last time we were in Europe, it was for the EMAs in 2024.
That was really, really crazy.
I met so many of the artists that I admire there, so that was really cool.
Um, we're going to be back there for our solo tour now, so that's really it's a dream come true.
Who's an artist you've met since you've now like come into fame that you've just been a fan of for so long and then met them and were like, "This is real.
I'm in the industry."
Oh my gosh.
Ah.
Mhm.
Gosh.
Well, uh, at the EMAs, I uh—I think it was also like on live.
I didn't know that the cameras were on, and I just saw Ray.
Mhm.
She was like done with her interview, and I ran up to her and was like, "Oh my god, I am the biggest fan.
I love you so much."
And she was like, "I love you, too."
And like she knew us.
And um, that was surreal.
That was really cool.
I admire her so much.
I respect her so much.
She's so beautiful and so, so talented.
Maybe a collab with LE SSERAFIM and RAY—you know, get her on a feature or something.
Yes, please.
I feel like the past 10 years—and even 5 years—like K-pop has really skyrocketed to becoming mainstream in the US specifically.
What do you think has contributed to that?
Like, have you also seen that rise in the past 5 to 10 years of Americans just really embracing K-pop?
Yeah.
Oh my gosh, for sure.
I think like Korean culture and Asian culture has just received a lot of love over the past few years,
and it's really, really heartwarming and really empowering—especially thinking of how it, you know, how I grew up.
I think when I was younger, I had a harder time embracing my culture than maybe I could have if I was, you know, growing up now.
But I definitely think that our seniors in this industry have paved the way
for younger artists like us to even be able to sit in these chairs
and like talk to you.
Yeah, no, I'm honored.
I'm so, so thankful to even be able to be here—and, um, you know, singing in my language here and have fans sing along to Korean lyrics.
That was really, really cool last year.
I was really shocked by how well they knew the Korean lyrics.
I remember specifically performing 'Crazy,' and they would like sing all of the lyrics.
That was insane.
That's the impact of LE SSERAFIM.
Oh my gosh!
I love it.
Well, thank you so much, Yunjin, for being here.
I'm so happy to have you here, and everyone, go stream the new album!
Thank you so much.
Time to celebrate!
Time to celebrate, for sure!
