Soyeon will be acting as leader of the group through promotions for their new repackaged album single “Lovey Dovey.” Core Contents Media stated, “Soyeon is the team’s main vocal as well someone with a strong sense of responsibility. This is why she is now leader following Eunjung, Boram, and Hyomin.”
The leader of T-ara acts as the intermediary between the group and producers as well as stylists for six to eight months to make a decision on the style the team will take on.
Soyeon is currently consulting with the members to showcase a completely different side from “Cry Cry” when promoting “Lovey Dovey.” T-ara will be promoting with “Lovey Dovey” starting on January 1st, 2012.
15 November:
T-ara‘s Soyeon has left a stern warning for a creep haunting her Twitter.
On November 15th, Soyeon tweeted, “Dear delusional patient. This is my first warning. I will report you from now on. You’re definitely not a fan.”
The term “delusional patient” in her tweet made many netizens speculate that she was referring to a specific anti-fan. Later in the day, however, Soyeon left a longer explanation on the situation, which read:
“The tweet I left for a specific person yesterday is not for an anti, but for someone who is close to a criminal. This is my first warning to the delusional person who has been mentioning lies and purposely sexually harassing me for a long period of time. I think it’s been about a year since I tried to look over it, thinking that it’s just his personality.”
Concerned fans and netizens responded, ”What is going on?? Please be safe!“, “Her manager should call the Cyber Police if this gets too far,” and ”There must be something serious going on since she incorporated sexual harassment into the message”
In related news, Soyeon will be making a comeback on Mnet‘s ‘M! Countdown‘ on November 17th with T-ara’s latest title track, “Cry Cry“.
30 September:
On September 29th, a few photos were uploaded on an online community with the caption, “T-ara Soyeon’s pictures in middle school.”
In the photos, the younger Soyeon is seen posing with a victory sign while looking into the camera. The baby fat on her face seems to add even more to her cuteness. With her slightly pouted lips, slim jaw line, and big round eyes, Soyeon once again proves her natural beauty.
Netizens commented, “Wow, totally the same! Even the shape of her mouth is the same,” and “You haven’t changed. You must have been popular in school.”
T-ara is currently in the midst of promotions for their Japanese version of “Bo Peep Bo Peep”, and has become the first Korean girl group to reach #1 on the Oricon Daily Singles Chart with their debut single.
22 July:
She wrote, “Whose bride am IIIIIIIII? Hehe.”
The picture shows Soyeon all dolled up in a simple white dress, with a mini tiara to top off her look. Her dark, sparkly eyes definitely make her look like a perfect little doll.
Fans commented, “I don’t know whose bride you are, but you’re gorgeous”, “My bride, my bride!”, and“Sooo adorable!”
She also tweeted another photo 2 hours later, saying, “With my clone, Barbie Doll hehe. Sigh… Please let me sleep… ㅜㅅㅜ”
Source + Photos: Everyday Economy via Naver via allkpop29 June:
On June 29th, Soyeon updated her Twitter, tweeting, “I can’t sleep.. thinking about this and that, even things I don’t need to think about. Night is definitely for sleeping.” She added, “Yesterday, T-ara became Bo Peep girls for the first time in a long time.”
In the picture, Soyeon is wearing the vibrant costume from T-ara’s hit song “Bo Peep Bo Peep, and the trademark kitty ears on her head while displaying a cute pose and expressions.
Netizens commented, “Even the name Bo Peep girl sounds cute” and “Soyeon unnie, I think you are getting prettier by the moment.”
16 April:Back in December, we reported about an outdoor performance T-ara held at the Gyungbok Palace for a special music program. Fans worldwide expressed outrage over how ill-dressed the girls were for the -15.1°C weather, the coldest day Seoul experienced in almost 30 years.
At the time, T-ara wore short sleeved dresses made out of mesh material. Soyeon revealed in an interview, “After the performance, we all cried really hard. It was unimaginably cold and everyone sobbed out loud. We also complained a lot to our manager. It was so cold that my body felt like it received burns.”
“There was a communication issue at the time so [our outfits] were not checked over. We were sorry that our stylists received some harsh words from fans who were worried about us. But after it passed, it was sort of funny.”
Commenting on her school life, she revealed:
“I had talent ever since I was little, but didn’t begin my training until I turned 16. By conversing frequently with other friends who had the same dreams as me, we were able to connect. It’s true that I did stick out a bit as a student.I wasn’t obsessed with my grades and led a relatively normal school life. I think it’s because I was sure of my dream that I focused on that entirely, and it was easy to make friends with people who had similar dreams since I went to an arts high school.One of my closest friends is MBLAQ’s Seungho. We’re still close, and thanks to Seungho, I’ve gotten to know the other members of MBLAQ as well.”
Turning to the topic of KARA’s Gyuri, who’s actually her high school junior by a year, she said:
“I actually have something I’m very thankful towards her for. Our high school was strict with the juniors honoring the seniors. Gyuri was calm, though, and wasn’t a student that stuck out, and I wasn’t the type of senior that would berate her juniors either. We never had the chance to bump into each other at school; I just knew that she was my junior.KARA then debuted, and I later debuted through T-ara. We were at the broadcast hall and Gyuri approached me first and greeted me, saying, ‘Senior, hello.’ I greeted her back using honorifics and she told me not to. I thought she was really nice then, and she’s still one of my favorite juniors up until now.”
On keeping contact with her friends, she replied:
13 April:“Right after our debut, we were all too busy to keep in contact and didn’t have cell phones for three months. Even after we got them back, we became so busy that cell phones became meaningless.It took about a year for us to get back into contact, but they were all very understanding. I think it’s because our dreams are all the same and they’re in the same profession that they can be so understanding.”
Soyeon fostered her dreams of becoming a star ever before she could stand in front of a mirror. After getting into an arts high school, she became a trainee at a top name agency in her senior year. Every single day, she rehearsed to the point of sweating through three different t-shirts.
But was her effort not enough? Six months before she was to debut with SNSD, she withdrew from the final line-up. After returning home with an empty heart, she spent the next year and a half in what she personally declared was the hardest moment of her life.
Her hardships didn’t end there, though, as her grandmother and uncle – both avid supporters of her dream to become a star – met with a health crisis that eventually led to their deaths a year later.
Soyeon expressed, “Up until my life right now, the year and a half I spent after leaving SNSD was the hardest point in my life. Not only my parents, but my entire family supported my dreams, especially my grandmother and uncle. But right after I had to give up my trainee life, they passed away in the same year. Both told me one thing: ‘Become a singer.’”
She continued, “After the funerals, I dusted myself off and tried to find my determination to reach my dreams again. I clenched my jaw and said to myself, ‘Let’s try this one more time.’”
Coincidentally, Mnet Media released an article declaring that they were looking for one more member to complete their upcoming five member girl group. To Soyeon, it was a chance that she couldn’t pass up.
Soyeon stated, “I tried looking for anyone that could connect me. In the end, I had to look up Mnet’s company address in order to go to them directly. A week after I begged to see the the CEO, they finally let me in. I auditioned on the spot, and it was right then that I was chosen.”
Soyeon debuted with T-ara in 2009 and finally achieved her dream of becoming a singer. But by then, SNSD had already made their debut, and the members of SHINee and f(x), who were both previously her juniors, were now her seniors.
With a laugh, she continued, “It was really awkward when I first debuted (laughter). At our debut broadcast,SHINee’s Jonghyun and Taemin came to greet me. I treated them like I did when we were all trainees and spoke informally to them. Thinking about it now, I felt that something was off and ended up worrying a lot over it. In the end, we talked it out and decided to just regard each other like we did when we were trainees.”
On SNSD, she honestly replied, “After I left SNSD, I actually was very awkward with the SNSD members. But after debuting and promoting with T-ara, a lot of that has been resolved. It’s only just now that my time spent with T-ara has caught up to the amount of time I spent with SNSD. I was happy with SNSD, but I don’t have regrets on becoming a T-ara member. T-ara is a junior group to SNSD who hopes to become like that. I was the unni in the group with SNSD, and we all still keep in contact. Our parents are close with each other as well.”
After overcoming her obstacles, she’s not only shining in the music industry, but in broadcasting as well. She’s headlined countless times for her witty remarks on variety shows like “100 Points out of 100“, and although there are a ton of idols who are deemed as ‘variety idols’, none have the ability in connecting with each of the guests and cast members like Soyeon does.
In a recent episode, Soyeon took part in a quiz that asked guests to guess the title of a song after listening to a short sample. Despite being born in 1987, Soyeon immediately knew the answer to Kim Ji Ae’s “Hateful Person“, which was released in 1989.
At the time, her castmembers joked that she might actually have been born in 1978 as opposed to 1987 due to her knowledge on past hits.
Soyeon expressed, “(laughter) I really was born in 1987, I can even show you my ID card if you want. My parents often told me that I’d always sit in front of the TV and hum along to songs. I also had a lot of interest in music growing up, so I know a lot of our senior’s songs.”
When asked to reveal one secret for the interview, Soyeon answered, “I might get in trouble for this, but I don’t follow the script I’m given. I only check who the guests for the day are! When I go in for recordings, I just say what I feel at the moment because I think it’s better to be as natural as possible without forcing a certain image of yourself onto the viewers.”
Now that she’s achieved her dream and is at a comfortable point in her life, Soyeon concluded her interview with a bit of advice for those dreaming to become singers.
Soyeon stated, “I began training 10 years ago. If I were to say just one thing, it’s that I want people who ‘really’ and ‘truly’ want to become singers to pursue this path. You can’t just do it, and you can’t just work hard. You have to want it.”
She continued, “By just relying on talent alone, you won’t be able to overcome the long, long years it takes. As a trainee, you might think that all you need are your dreams and passions, but once you debut, that dream and passion becomes your career and your society. You can’t eat, you can’t sleep, and you’re left with no friends. You can’t do anything except stand on stage. Really, only those who are crazy for the career should pursue it.”
12 Februari:
In this recording, fictional announcer job interviews were carried out with a theme of ‘Correct Talk, Nice Talk, Fun Talk’ with KBS announcers Park Sa Im and Han Suk Joon.
In this, Soyeon excelled in games and quizzes related to correct talk, and surpassed 2PM’s Chansung, MBLAQ’s Lee Joon, Miss A’s Min, and Secret’s Hyosung.
With this, when receiving a comment of “Your appearance is most closest to an announcer’s”, Soyeon revealed bluntly, “My original dream was becoming an announcer. If I hadn’t become a singer, I would have tried at being an announcer.”
Source: Maeil Economy via Daum via allkpop
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