One of the biggest truth about him, he was a runaway teenager who has experienced almost every part-time job out in the world. He is the most four-dimensional celebrity in Korea. He is a rock mania who body would squirm at the cheesy lines he had to say in hit TV series "Boys over Flowers".
Another truth, He is a happy-go-lucky sort of person, unpredictable and hence, we become increasingly curious. Attracted.
Kim Hyun Joong's favorite musician is Seo Taiji. The first record he ever bought was Seo Taiji & Boys' second album. Kim Hyun Joong had enjoyed his studies so much up till elementary school that he would wake up at 6 A.M. everyday to study but after listening to Seo Taiji's music, he gave up on his studies to become a bassist in a rock band.
That is why Kim Hyun Joong took a one year leave during his high school days, went to a new school and ran away from home because his parents were against him pursuing music.
Up to this point, it may look like he walked the typical path many rockers take on in order to achieve their dreams. But Kim Hyun Joong worked part-time at a fried chicken restaurant and did manual labor to buy his own guitar, then worked again for about a year after running away from his house a second time.
He made about a total 100 million won working part-time jobs. Once he said "I taught myself how to live in society by making money earlier than others", Kim Hyun Joong said of how important he considers this time period. This is why as soon as he debuted as a member of SS501, he believed "time is money".
SS501, The five-member group Kim Hyun Joong is a member of. He passed his audition for the group after simply being asked his height, weight and address. It may be because of this but according to member Park Jung-min-I, Kim Hyun Joong played hard to get, not being sure of whether being a member of an idol group was the path he should take.
But Kim Hyun Joong sets his heart on becoming part of the band after looking at the numerous fans looking forward to SS501's debut. Thereafter, the whole group appears in various reality shows and pursues a music career in Japan simultaneously. But they do not care about looking pretty and have promised to never receive expensive gifts from fans, making them the idols they are yet also the guys next door with good morals. They did not gain stardom instantaneously but continue to solidify their fanbase.
On a side not, SS501 stands for the sun and star, as well as 'five become one', but also a name intended to be typed easily on mobile phones and the computer.
Member of SS501 Kim Hyung Jun once said that he will appear in a drama one day like Kim Hyun Joong and gain as much stardom.
Kim Hyun Joong also liked listening to Limp Bizkit and The Calling, making him a pretty-faced singer who is into rock music. This may be why he first thought the role of Yoon Jihoo in "Boys over Flowers" did not suit him. Yet he has a mindset balanced enough to know that "saying hello is not about the respect but acknowledging each other's presence. Problems start arising when people skip on this". He will also say, "I used to be mature for my age but I live like a kid now...I don't want to become stupid so I buy my own plane tickets or rent cars myself".
Whatever he says, it will be fun but to a point where it will not create any problems. That is why he is different from other idols but does not become a troublemaker.
Yoon Jihoo, the character Kim Hyun Joong played from KBS TV series "Boys over Flowers". During the audition, he showed sides to him unbefitting for a role in a drama based on a romance comic but regardless, garnered explosive popularity.
Kim Hyun Joong said he thought he resembled Yoon Jihoo in the sense that he "sleeps a lot, doesn't laugh much and cares a lot about his life although he seems not to". Hence, Kim Hyun Joong analyzed Yoon Jihoo as a character who "knows everything but pretends to be indifferent about life and seems slightly bothered by everything but is warmhearted".
Through Kim Hyun Joong, Yoon Jihoo was born as a mild-mannered yet masculine and at times, considerate person. Of course, his acting was awkward to the point he had trouble in expressing the various emotions his character felt. But the collaboration of his facial expressions, way of speech and his unrealistic looks in which the real Kim Hyun Joong was reflected, provided a unique sense of appeal which can only be explained by the term 'presence'.
Kim Hyun Joong gained the character Yoon Jihoo, a content which can maximize the appeal inherent within his real self and shot him onto stardom. Yet, he became acknowledged for the character and not his ability. Whether it be music or acting, his next 'leap' will come when he actually starts proving his capabilities.
Lee Hyori is the star that Kim likes. He likes her so much that when he appeared on SBS variety show "Family Outing" on which she is one of the hosts, he described that it "feels like looking at a celebrity". Like so, Kim Hyun Joong at times seems like any other ordinary observer of the entertainment industry.
He will also nonchalantly talk about his past girlfriends on talkshows and does not mind too much about what others think. He also does not have aspirations to become a huge star but instead wants to enjoy his personal life and dreams of performing on stage for his fans who have become parents when he is in his 40s and 50s. At the same time, he is mature enough to turn down expensive gifts from his fans. Kim Hyun Joong may end up being a celebrity who lives happily by doing his work, go out when he wants to have fun and garner enough popularity.
T.O.P. (Choi Seung-hyun) is Kim Hyun Joong's friend. The two also performed together on MBC's annual campus song contest. To Kim Hyun Joong, his friends are so important to him that his friends since elementary school and the members of SS501 are the reason he says he is happy.
He also willingly jointly invested in a fried chicken place with his friends. His identity can be seen where he is a guy who likes to hang out with his friends although he is someone who is so popular throughout Asia that he won the prize for top Asian male artist at the 2009 Yahoo! Buzz Awards.
He is a star, yet dreams of living a life as happy as his parents and says he would "find the greatest happiness in engraving a photograph of my happy family on my gravestone than writing a thousand words on it". Ironically, this idol's non idol-like mindset is the foremost reason he is the star he is today.
He will be able to become a star, do the music he wants and make enough money to support a happy family. Which will he choose? He may end up with it all with his happy-go-lucky attitude.
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