One of a Kind 'Key'

It's an interview from Dazed and Confused Magazine. I was taken a back reading this interview. I just don't believe that Key is just a year older than me. He ain't a boy. He is a man. I admire him... for being so different then the others.

★Key★

"I can't hide who I am. I can't say things I don't mean, say that I like things I hate, or hate things I like. And more than anything, I can't lie to myself."

Q: You are the first celebrity who thoroughly remembers the models in the latest "Dazed and Confused" issue. You must be particularly interested in fashion.

A: If you ask me what I like, #1 is music and #2 is fashion. Truthfully, I only got interested in fashion after becoming a singer. After seeing Ha Sang Baek's styling, I thought "Where did these cool clothes come from? I don't see it in Myungdong or in department stores."

Q: Do you have thoughts of studying fashion officially?

A: I've thought about studying abroad. I also have thoughts of being in the fashion business, maybe as a fashion magazine editor. I did art as a kid, and my child dream was to become a painter.

Q: If you were a fashion magazine editor what kind of photoshoot or article would you want?

A: Something very experimental, independent of luxury brands or societal myths that gives off a visual effect of freedom...that's what I'd...want to make! (laugh) That's what I'd say when I don't know anything.

Q: Ah, does that mean you know more now!

A: Well, each magazine needs to abide by their own concept and there might be censoring by the publication company. But then again they're all professionals, they would've done it even if they couldn't.

Q: I've heard you were pro at water skiing before debuting.

A: I was a 'pro'...but there weren't that many kids so anyone who participated was pretty much a pro. Water skiers in one area made up only about 3 people?

Q: If you're from Daegu you were probably raised under conservative parents. How are you?

A: My dad is very conservative. I really liked singing and dancing as a kid but only did it in my room alone. But in 8th grade I told my parents that I wanted to legitimately be a singer and my dad was shocked and said, "There's no way a well-mannered, quiet kid like you can become a celebrity!" (laugh)

Q: Do reporters ask you your ideal type in every interview?

A: Many people ask. But I'd probably be curious too. Ah, and a lot of people ask about my new hairstyle with this album concept.

Q: So I think I'll be different and remove all the hairstyle questions, then. But I'm still curious about your ideal type.

A: Your difference. I like it. (laugh) My ideal type is Chloe Sevigny.

Q: Chloe Sevigny? You're the first person I know of your age who chooses such a "chic" fashion icon for an ideal type. Of course, fashionistas are different.

A: I think Chloe Sevigny is really cool so I even contemplated buying a shirt with her photograph but...it was a shirt with her nude! (seriously dissatisfied face) Then I can't wear it!

Must've been this:

Q: Chloe Sevigny is not a typical pretty face so she's not very popular among men here.

A: I think girls with style are more beautiful than ones with a pretty face. Small face, skinny, double eyelids...if guys keep going after that plain look, every girl's face might look the same. It'd be a scary day.

Q: Your character seems extraordinary in many ways. How would you characterize yourself in words?

A: I can't hide who I am. I can't say things I don't mean, say that I like things I hate, or hate things I like. And more than anything, I can't lie to myself. And in a moment of disappoint I can't make excuses to make up for my behavior...

Q: People who are the strictest and harshest to themselves aren't very shaken by criticism from other people.

A: I try to hear bad, bitter things about myself in a better, sweeter light. I always repeatedly ask in case I forget. But I don't consider looks or anything I can't change to be a bad thing about myself. So rather than dwelling upon things I can't change, I'd rather develop the good things about me. So my dream isn't to become the "best", it's to be someone who I'm not ashamed to be. Not that I don't want to become the best (laugh). For everyone who wants to become the best, second place would be considered failing. Since the best can always only be one person.

Interviewer: Sorry, but is he really a 91er? People in their 10s don't usually think this maturely...

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source: shakizi | translated by: filmsession @ omona_prection