In my case I had a lot of thoughts when our debut was nearing. We were a large rookie group from a large agency and so we attracted a lot of attention. On top of that… should I just say this…? I’m the niece of the agency’s representative. I was greatly handicapped: I joined the group late, I was the representative’s niece, and I only had familiar and plain physical qualities: I was short, chubby and looked ordinary. Because of that I felt overshadowed when we did things together as a group.

But Kim Jaedong oppa gave me some good advice. He said: “As there are people who like you, there will also be people who will dislike you, no matter what. If people like you for a certain reason, then there will also be people who dislike you for that same reason.”

I don’t think I have to change myself because of people who don’t understand me.