Facing their 3rd anniversary, History (Song Kyungil, Na Dokyun, Kim Sihyoung, Kim Jaeho, Jang Yijeong) share their joys and regrets from the past three years.
History, who are currently promoting their 5th mini-album “HIM,” met with Star News on April 26 to give an interview. “[Looking back at the last 3 years] it feels like we’ve really lived diligently,” they all agreed.
Leader Kyungil said, “There are a lot of things I regret, but at the same time, I think there is a lot that we’ve accomplished. It’s half regrets and half successes. Since we’ll continue our activities in the future, we’ll be working even harder.”
Dokyun said “In the last 3 years we’ve lived really difficultly but enthusiastically,” and “In that time, I regret that it feels like we didn’t spend a lot of time with our fans. I would love to have a show with the fans and be able to have events together with them. That way I could happily suffer the difficulties.”
The members of History have displayed many different images and have been active as singers for 3 years. They debuted on KBS 2TV’s “Music Bank” on April 26, 2013 with their first single “Dreamer,” and say they still remember it vividly.
Sihyoung claims, “I even remember where I was standing in the waiting room.” Dokyun commented laughingly, “And after we finished the pre-recording, we went to eat bibimbap.”
Kyungil reminisced, “Finally shedding our trainee identities and standing onstage for our first performance was difficult but we were really happy. Although we still can’t watch the video because it makes us cringe, at the time it felt like we could do anything.”
Compared to the growing awareness of the group in Korea, their popularity in foreign countries is considerable. In other words, History’s success in their own country is in many ways disappointing. So they turned their attentions from the already over-saturated domestic idol market, to the wider foreign market. The result was success.
They traveled to England, France, Finland, and even Romania on a Europe live tour, as well as officially debuting in Japan with regular on-going promotions there. As a result, they have received a lot of love.
Last summer, they regularly appeared on the Tower Records weekly charts with their two Japanese single albums, and even reached as far as 3rd place on the Oricon singles charts.
Following the end of their international promotions, History returned to Korea on April 11, with their 5th mini album “HIM.” They come with an image a step above what they’ve shown in the past.
All the songs on the album including “Queen,” “Wild Boy,” “Baby, Hello,” Dokyun’s solo “Whenever,” etc. were written and composed by the members themselves, displaying their improved musical ability.
Jaeho said, “We have yet to achieve what we want most: a big result in Korea, but since it seems like each of us has gained individual skills and stage experience, as well as writing and composing experience, it’s satisfying.”
History said that their goal was to gain as much popularity in Korea as they have received overseas.
Dokyun stated, “If the opportunity arises, I’d like to have a concert in Korea just like we’ve had overseas,” and “It would be great to gain recognition from album sales and music broadcasts. We’ll be working hard so please show History a lot of love and interest.”
Check out the music video for “Queen” below!
[FANCAFE] 150517 Jang Yijeong
[T/N: He posted this in the cafe and it was later deleted. We decided to post it anyway because it seems like a message he wanted to say to STORIA and we thought it would help everyone better grasp what this comeback really means to HISTORY]
STORIA~
It’s been an eventful 1 year break
We can’t explain every little thing but
A lot happened. Officially and privately,
It was disheartening, and some days there were even thoughts of just dropping everything,
Well, even though it wasn’t that long of a time
For a rookie group to spend 1 year of their 2 years since debut resting, there was a lot of dissatisfaction at the company and since we had nothing to give during that time there was a lot of anger right. A feeling of urgency
Of course there is a reason, some complications
Among them, because of an unbelievably brazen and selfish person, it was even more difficult. But they have now become an unrelated person.
I don’t know how many times the members gathered and thought to ourselves ‘whenever our album finally comes out, let’s think of it as our last’. And since the time that was meant to be a short resting period kept getting longer, we also felt a sense of shame.
No matter how you see it, the thought of just wastefully missing the most important time of your 20′s is even more worrying right? Seeing friends who’ve done well, being jealous. Blaming the company and thinking ‘I could do that too’ㅋㅋㅋ
After spending listless days like that, I thought ‘if HISTORY could definitely make it once it’d be great’ and a song I wrote, ‘Might Just Die’ became the title song, and something about going back into the work of making an album brought our spirits back up.
Filming the MV, practicing the choreography, once again doing all the things we used to do properly; it wasn’t the same feeling as when we made our past albums. Because this is a title we’ve made ourselves and a song that we wanted to do.
It’s the first time we’ve felt this confidence you know. All our activities before were all the ideas of others. So during that time, not being able to show HISTORY’s real images to people was really regretful. We’re still not completely happy but rather than looking right in front of us, we’ve decided to think of HISTORY in the long run.
For that cause, we can’t make the same mistakes as before right
The company too, us too
Less than three days til our first broadcast
Thank you to the STORIA who suffered through the long break and congratulated us on our comeback and in the future we won’t have this kind of issue. We’ll work harder without rest. This time, please protect the HISTORY that’ll come out of this decision.
More than any other time, it’s an album we want and have prepared for diligently
This time, let’s try to do this right
I don’t want to say this because it seems like I say it a lot, but thank you and I love you always~
p.s the teaser that’s coming out soon is a-mazingSource:
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1theKEmphasis mine. I feel like LOEN's idols lost a lot of support when they got split off to LOEN Tree (/Collabodadi) at the end of 2013, tbh. Sunny Hill's all but disappeared... Since this post is a little depressing, here's Sihyoung demonstrating why he was chosen as the group's visual at debut.
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