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•Micky Yoochun: •

"With Yunho And Changmin, We Still Get Along Like We Used To"

Micky Yoochun, member of the group TVXQ, said, "With U-know Yunho and Choikang Changmin, nothing has changed and we still get along like we used to in the past."

On 15 July, at the press conference held at Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, the filming location for KBS2's drama [SungKyunKwan Scandal], Micky Yoochun said, "They were both busy (Yunho and Changmin) so we didn't contact each other as much as expected" and "But after that (the lawsuit), our relationship didn't change much."

Since the lawsuit for an injunction against their exclusive contracts with SM Entertainment was filed last year, this is the first time that Micky Yoochun made a solo public appearance.

When asked how he passed his time then, Micky Yoochun said, "I spent it peacefully, learning music, composing, practicing acting and also went to watch movies." Also, "As we were very busy, I never had the time to visit my parents so I made the decision to spend time with them."

Micky Yoochun, who made his acting debut in a mobile drama in June this year in Japan, will also greet Korean audience this autumn, not as a singer, but as an actor.

Taking over [My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox], [SungKyunKwan Scandal] is set to air in September this year. Micky Yoochun will be playing Lee Seon Joon, who excels in all aspects - intelligence, wealth, looks - and is the only son of a rich family. A character who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth, Lee Seon Joon develops a taboo love relationship with Kim Yeonhee, who cross-dresses in the drama, which makes it very difficult yet makes the drama interesting.

With regards to why he expanded his activities to include acting, Micky Yoochun said, "I've always been interested in acting" and "compared to anything else, the reason why I really want to do it is because ever since I debuted as a singer, I've only had one image - Micky Yoochun - but as an actor, there are many other charms that I can show to the audience."

Youngwoong Jaejoong had continuously given his support to Micky Yoochun before he made his acting debut.

Micky Yoochun laughed as he said, "Jaejoong-hyung told me this before the filming - 'You should die once too' and other things that encouraged me." Jaejoong has already made his acting debut ahead of Micky Yoochun.

Finally, Micky Yoochun said, "After such a long time, I'm really excited and moved to sit here and greet all of you. I will try hard. I want to show my best to everyone. I would really like it if through this drama, I can get an opportunity to show everyone a new side of me."

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•ELLEgirl Editor’s Blog•


ELLEgirl August Issue, Backstage Secret Talk 【Changmin version】
2010/7/14
By Culture correspondent Miyacco

Everyone. Sorry for the long wait! In the ELLEgirl August issue on sale now, there’s round 2 of Project Changmin in it! At the same time, backstage and other projects will continued to be uploaded online yo!

There’s something regretful I have to tell you this time…… Like in the issue last time, everyone must be waiting for the video interview, but in fact something bad happened, and there’s no video (tears). Right till the day before the shoot, we we’re hyped up for the video, and even prepared two teams! And even though we had such a great standby like that……! However, we have many photos and backstage interviews, so please wait for those.

Well moving on, about the magazine’s interview, there’s quite a bit we want to supplement.

First is visual.

This time we could only use two cuts, so it was really hard to select them~. We were worrying right until the end about one picture that we didn’t include, but we included it in the making page even though it was small, and yet there’s also these other precious shots!

The arm’s muscles somehow look manly and cool! That was what we thought, but because it covered the face, sadly it didn’t get chosen. Such a casual pose too, just doing it without being requested to is really amazing!

Next is the interview.

First is “the things fans ask for don’t feel real”. This, is of course not because you “totally can’t feel it”, I gathered some statistics that would create a great reaction(online PV viewership numbers, data like that) and told him, and he was surprised by it, having a nuance and said “I didn’t realise that it was that good”. Then, because he was such a modest character, he spoke humbly like “no no, I’m not that good……”.

For example, when there’s clothes that fit him well and everyone praises him, he would go “no no, not at all”, and says things like, he saw his own looks already and has no confidence.

By the way, we told Justin Bieber that “you’re really popular now”, and he smilingly said “Thank you!” without a hint of modesty (laughs). As expected of an American. This might be a culture difference!

Anyway, about how passionate Changmin’s fans are, I told him clearly already, so please don’t say saddening things like “Why didn’t you tell him!!” anymore~.

Then, about the talk of him receiving energy from his family and lover, many related that to him having a girlfriend right now. From Changmin himself, he said “Although I don’t have a girlfriend” purposely before answering that question, and thought of it only as a ‘maybe’ situation! A gentleman that thinks of his lover over his friends. Japanese men might not have this idea! Different from what we’re talking about just then, Korean men are more like Westerns, I think they have a deep culture of treasuring women~. Lovely☆

Written in the making page of the magazine there’s the online project of “The Ultimate Choice”, and in the following week, there will be around four entries made. Look forward to each time, and please choose to have this or that! Even though there were near 20 questions, we thought he’ll just answer them however, but he took the time to think through each one of them to answer us…… he’s so serious! -That was what the manager said (laughs).

Without further ado, at the pace of a week, we’ll continue through with Project Changmin, don’t miss it!

By the way, we collected questions for Changmin in the blog before, we totally forgot to tell you that it’s already finished, and there’s still a lot of questions that we’re thankful for being given in…… Anyway, we’ve ended the collection of questions, and so, thank you very much! If you have anything to say, please leave a comment!

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•ELLEgirl - Changmin Backstage Highlights•

Changmin who's staying shortly in Japan for a day and two nights. Even though he stayed up late for work the day before, he entered the studio with energy. By the way, the clothes he was wearing was a black deep V-neck t-shirt with denims, and wore sandals which completed a relaxed casual look.

In the studio there was dim lighting. Won't the staff get sleepy then? And they replied "No no no!" and wouldn't let us take a glimpse of Changmin. No matter how sleep deprived they are, until they finish their job, something like the tension must keep them awake.

In the makeup room, he uses half Korean and half Japanese to chat with the staff around him. Sometimes you can hear his laugh from outside.

In the 'first look' revealed in our August issue, the full set of clothes actually looks like this. Changmin said that this style would be the closest to what he wears. Talking about that, at the Chanel show that he attended the day before the shooting, we saw him wearing his scarf rolled up like that.

During the shoot, the staff requested to Changmin that to "think of the cameraman as you girlfriend!". And it worked (!?) Facing bald and fierce cameraman Mitsuo-san, he kept making expressions of love.

By the way this is Mitsuo-san. For this day only, he became "Mitsuko" and took many lovely photos (laughs)

These are the clothes and accessories prepared for the shoot. Are you one that brings a lot of accessories to Japan? And he answered "Before, even if it was a short time, I would stuff my suitcase with many things, but recently it's quite compact. It's cos in the end, you can only use so many things. Things I need are skincare products and some clothes. I don't use the hotel amenities much, and use my own lotion", spoken like a true jet-setter.

Changmin that doesn't have time to buy his own clothes because he's so busy. From the clothes prepared for the shoot, there's been many times that he's bought those clothes. Even though he's not on the cover this time, from the clothes prepared, he seems to fancy the black jacket with shirred sleeves from "ATTO".

Changmin who is getting along like friends with the stylist Sasagawa-san. What type would a good friend be? And asking that, Changmin was being dazed by the answer, and his manager answered instead. "From a third person perspective, Changmin has many youth-like and pure friends around him" watching sports with everyone, drinking at home, passing his time like a normal 22 year old.

Changmin who stretches during breaks, and often massages his face muscles. In the break "Are you bad at smiling" was asked by the staff, and he bluntly denied.... obviously he doesn't like to lose. It's regretful that even though it was mentioned on the cover, in fact we didn't publicise Changmin's smile and hid it privately.

In last time's shoot, Changmin received directions on how to pose, and this time he's working hard on his posing himself. Like putting his hands in his pockets, moving his feet position, flipping his hair...... keeping a crisp tempo, and really a lot of variety! Check out our highly praised August issue for Changmin's friendly shoot, on sale now!! Appearing from the double doors with a "kaboom"!

And lastly, as there were lots of questions from readers about "food", we'll go through it a bit here. Refreshments prepared for the shoot are of the Japanese taste that he loves, Tsukiji's tenmusu! [T/N: Tsukiji is a place name, tenmusu is a Japanese cousine of tempura in a onigiri.]

Something refreshing is Japan's freshest cherries from Takano, Shinjuku. Coming to Japan this time, it seems that there's been cherries at each location.

To Changmin who shouted "I'm hungry~~" after the shooting finished, additionally, we gave as a present, baumkuchen and cookies to mark the end of the day. Last time he didn't eat much because he was on a diet, but this time he enjoyed the tenmusu a lot. Just to let you know, the first thing he ate when he came to Japan was pork ramen and curry udon.

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