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WHY IS U-KISS SO BLONDE?!?!?!
BUT I FIND SEOPPIE HANDSOME @__________@ :”> :”> OMG :”> <3
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so cute :)) <3 <3
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Ten to 12-hour work days, seven days a week – that is the life of a K-pop star-in-training. Of course, the honor of even getting to this level is afforded only to a select few. The six members of U-kiss, a boy band that debuted about a year ago, are among the lucky ones.
U-Kiss (the acronym stands for Ubiquitous Korean International Super Star) is, in many ways, the perfect embodiment of the modern K-pop group. The six members, Soo Hyun, Alexander, Ki Bum, Eli, Kevin, and Dong Ho, come from three different countries (South Korea, the United States, and China) and each can speak and understand at least two to three languages. Alexander was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Macau, is biracial (his father is from Hong Kong and his mother is Korean), and can speak an astounding seven languages: Cantonese, English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish. When I told him that his Wikipedia entry included French as well, he said that he only took it for a little while and didn’t want to say actually spoke it. Suddenly, I felt guilty about having put “Japanese” down on my resume after studying it for only a few weeks during grad school.
On a rainy Wednesday in July, I spoke to U-Kiss about their careers and was surprised by their frankness and honesty during the hour and a half conversation. Although a part of it was taped by their company for promotional purposes, their manager left the room for the majority of the interview and let the boys…well, be normal boys. They joked around, didn’t stick to a script, criticized their company’s more questionable fashion decisions, and were even willing to reveal one of the more memorable bits of wordplay they had seen about their name: before their debut, an anti-fan had written “You can kiss their ass goodbye before they even start.” Normally, I find this type of snarky criticism entertaining, but there was something about the group’s earnestness and sincerity that made me want to post a video on YouTube telling anti-fans to “leave U-Kiss alone.”“In other words,” I remarked, “your company is, like, do whatever you want. As long you do it in thirty seconds.”
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