A Kim HyunJoong’s 28 years old summer day
Journalist’s preamble :
I’m thankful for his frank replies (…)
I couldn’t bear to trim any of his wacky and witty speech, cherishing, making the most of, and sending it as it is.
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Actually you have been quite comfortable with water isn’t it? You have 6 or so scuba diving certificates.
I really dislike the sea when I was young, I got so terrified watching it that I never go to the beach at all. Then I tried scuba diving and find it very interesting.
I may be the person who got the master certification within the shortest time in Korea. Because it didn’t take me more than a few months to get all the certifications.
During all that time, I stop my activities and I practically lived in sea. When I go into the water, I see a total different world.
I heard that there was a photo of you breaking ice and scuba diving in the middle of winter.
If you break the ice in the snowfield during winter and go in, there is nothing interesting there. But when thickness of the ice is about 70~80cm, if you look closely at the colour of the freezing ice, it’s extremely beautiful.
I really like scuba diving and I’ve done it alone many times before. I’ve a busy schedule, but I took some time and went to Jeju island for it.(…)
You were 18 years old when you debut as the SS501 leader in 2005. You’ve spent your twenties as a celebrity, as an idol, as a Hallyu star. Seems like you’ve lived it through very well.
Do you have any regrets?
I don’t have any regrets, because I do what I want to do, so I am happy. A person cannot be always happy in a job. Just like an office worker gets stress from his workplace, I get stress in my work too, but I am grateful and happy even for that.
In a previously interview, you talked about all your plans for your 20 years from now. Is that still valid?
Right, I talked aboutt that.
Do you have a specific plan ?
Now I do activities for my album, after I’ll serve my military service, after II’ll act till I’m 40 years old. After that, I want to do other things.
So what do you want to do when you will be 40 years old ?
I will build a pension in Jeju island. Open a scuba diving shop, actually, I don’t think I would make money out of it.
Though I don’t want to look like I’m an environmentalist, but actually this is how I felt after I scuba dive. The sea surface looks really pretty but the inside is very dirty. Empty rice wine bottles, beer cans, A pile of garbage that shouldn’t be there. Even if you want to clean it up, you are unable to pick them all.In the future I want to make a good culture of cleaning the sea by gathering other scuba diving lovers to do it together.
If we don’t have fishes anymore, I will also set up a fish shelter.Corals are known to be the slowest growing marine life. It takes 20 years to grow into a palm size of about 20cm. And they are trapped in the nets thrown in by people.
So isn’t it better to prevent those things beforehand and try to perserve oceans ?
Kim Hyun Joong’s plans may have evolved since then, but Jeju Island is still appealing to him.
By the way, he only has 6 years left to be 40, still he plans to go into exile in Jeju and stop honoring us with his beautiful presence?
Speaking of presence, the one on his right side is his brother (Don’t even think about it ! Don’t touch ! He’s married and have a family.. Nasty girls.)
We thought that KHJ’s craft mold had been used just once but it had already been used a year before he was born. After they broke it…
Thank you Madame KIM for your masterpieces…