G.NA Calls Cube President Hong "Father"

[mysteory.livejournal.com]

Gina started her trainee life under JYP Entertainment back in Korea.

Although she was called the 'second Park Jiyoon taken care of by Park Jinyoung', her future looked uneasy.

An opportunity came to Gina. As a company that knew her potentials, they sent Gina to JYP USA in New York with individuals like Im Junghui. Min, who was living her trainee life in the US under JYP Entertainment, lived with Gina at that time.

But, another misfortunate event occurred. After 5 months, Gina had to receive surgery because a knot formed in her vocal cords from the rough treatment of her neck. Gina, who returned to Korea, was resting while she appeared in 2PM's music video.

Also, she had to make an important decision. When Gina found out that Representative Hong Seungsung left JYP Entertainment and moved to CUBE Entertainment, she also followed him and changed companies.

Hong Seungsung is the most thankful person to Gina. Gina calls him 'father' instead of 'president.' "He told me to just call him 'father'. He said it was too strange to call him 'president'."

Although it may seem like an expression of intimacy, the word 'father' is unfamiliar to Gina. "Because my father passed away when I was little, I never got the chance to say the word 'father'. The word itself was awkward to me. But now, I call the president 'father' so easily."

Now, Gina started her solo training once she felt at home in her new company.
"When I moved to CUBE, I first met Songwriter Kim Dohoon. Although he worried about my surgery on my vocal cords, he promised "I will take responsibility of you and I will work with you" after he listened to my voice."

Although 4minute (from the same company) was preparing for their debut at that time, Gina was excluded by the 4minute members because of the fact that she was better off being solo than being in a group. Then, the other members of Five Girls all debuted and started their activities, which received much attention from the public.

"Truthfully, I was jealous. I think I felt really jealous when I heard that Yubin was doing well and advancing to America. I thought that it would be nice if my day came quickly."

As Gina was experiencing hardships, she became stronger.

CREDITS: Herald Media (SOURCE); kiwiannabear@ROYALGNA(TRANS)

Comments

[lovesaranghae.livejournal.com]

ooowww...
gna keeps going on :)
fighting :))
but wait did she appear on 2pm's mv? which one? 10/10?

yep

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

Re: yep

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

I bet the others were very jealous

Re: yep

[aileenback.livejournal.com]

Oh that's G.NA alright. Boobs and all.

[needsm0retime.livejournal.com]

Her voice is great but she needs a new song...This article makes me like her (and Cube Ent.) more though. :D

[i-n-o-j.livejournal.com]

umm no she doesn't, that song is amazing and it's burning up all the charts. she's good at ballads, we don't need another Hyori/Dambi/whatever.

[xkeirafanx.livejournal.com]

ily

[yongjunhyung.livejournal.com]

+1
I love her album and all her songs.

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

Calling him father seems kind of strange but I won't judge it since he seems like a good guy. I can't imagine her in 4minute at all lol.

[cinho.livejournal.com]

CUBE'S president is sounding like such a sweetie lately, what a cute article.

[crossedlanding.livejournal.com]

Queen Gina<3 I wonder if the vocal chord surgery affected the tone/sound of her voice? She still sounds amazing now ^^ Awww I love all these positive stories about CUBE. Hong Seung Sung seems really nice.

[cher-ex3.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about the vocal cord surgery too.

In my mind, it helped in making her voice as strong as it is now.

[erikarafaela.livejournal.com]

/brb watching 10 out of 10 MV

[say-o-kay.livejournal.com]

Love her. : ) Cube is a lovely company to be with.

[katiewenchh.livejournal.com]

pretty much all the cube idols call hong "father",
but that doesn't make this any less cute :3

however, gina needs a new hair style. now.

[nene718.livejournal.com]

Call me when she finally takes a hint and gets rid of that awful hair color.

[spacesuitmonkey.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't know any Asians who look good with that dirty blonde/orange/etc hair.

[fuuism.livejournal.com]

The pres.

It's all sorts of interesting to me to see Cube getting more and more of a good rep while JYPE gets flak. I'd love to know how the management overlaps with the subsiadiaries but I'm too lazy to research.

[lilykt7.livejournal.com]

i think jype the company gets a lot of flak, but omona tends to be quick on defending jyp the person.

imo i think he's a good guy. He's known sunye for like half her life and she's pretty loyal to him. theres gotta be something there. also alot of his old artists are still on friendly terms with him.

[piratedlove.livejournal.com]

idawtc

People can tell that JYP's artists adore the guy. JYPE though, they're not as bad as SM but still gets flamed when they deserve to be flamed.




I'm starting to like CUBE Ent. a lot more and I'm glad they debut such strong bands and artists over this last year or so.
But I guess when you're sister company with JYPE you can afford to release quality bands groups instead of half ready groups from small companies.

[lilykt7.livejournal.com]

im glad cube is getting all this good press but honestly you just never know what goes on behind close doors.

I think hong definately has a good business sense though. from what i've seen he seems kinda serious, which isn't a bad thing i mean a boss is a boss.



for reals though g.na needs to get a darker hair color. she's pretty regardless but she's a stunner with dark hair.

[jyului.livejournal.com]

suddenly I'm thinking of casting couch...

[mystrillium.livejournal.com]

Years have quite passed by, let's hope she'll shine more in the future ^^