KIM SEJEONG has made a long-awaited return with her latest mini-album, [I'm]. As of today, "Warning" featuring lIlBOI has been released as the title to a lovely five-song album from this multi-talented artist. allkpop spoke with SEJEONG virtually to talk about her newest release, latest inspirations, and songwriting process. Keep reading for our interview and a special message of encouragement from SEJEONG.
allkpop: Hi SE JEONG! How have you been since youโve finished shooting your hit drama? We're excited to speak with you about your latest release!
์๋ ํ์ธ์ ๊น์ธ์ ๋, ํํธ ๋๋ผ๋ง <๊ฒฝ์ด๋ก์ด ์๋ฌธ> ์ด ๋๋ด์ จ๋๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ง๋ด์ จ๋์? ์ต์ ๋ฐ๋งค ์จ๋ฒ์ ๋ํด ์ธํฐ๋ทฐํ ์ ์์ด์ ๋๋ฌด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค!
์ธ์ : ์ ๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ธํฐ๋ทฐ์ ์ํ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค. <๊ฒฝ์ด๋ก์ด ์๋ฌธ>์ด ๋๋๊ณ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ํด์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๋ฉด์ ์์
์ ๋ชฐ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ์ฌ์ด ์์
ํ ๊ณก๋ค์ด๋ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ณก๋ค์ ์ฐ๊ณ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด์ ์์ด๋์ด๋ค์ ๋ชจ์ ์จ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ฆฌํด ๋ณด์๋๋ฐ์. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์จ๋ฒ ์ค๋น๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉด์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํ ๊ณตํํ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ ์ ์ฑ์์ง ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
KIM SEJEONG: I am also very happy to have this interview with allkpop. Since I finished I have committed myself to working on my music. I have organized the songs I have previously written and songs I wrote additionally and organized them into an album. I think it allowed me to fill the emptiness from acting as I prepared for the album.
allkpop: Share a little about the process and concept for your latest comeback with your new mini-album [Iโm]! How did recording this album go?
์ด๋ฒ ์ปด๋ฐฑ ์จ๋ฒ [Iโm] ์ปจ์
๊ณผ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ค๋ช
ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์! ์จ๋ฒ ๋
น์์ ์ด๋ ๋์?
์ธ์ : ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ ์ปจ์
์ ๋ค์ด์ด๋ฆฌ์
๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๋ณด์ฌ์ง๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋ชจ์ต๋ค์ด ์์ง๋ง ๋ณธ์ธ๋ง์ ์ผ๊ธฐ์ฅ์์๋งํผ์ ์์งํ ๋ง์์ ํํํ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ์์ ๋ด๊ณ ์ ํ๋ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ ์์งํ๊ฒ ๋ด๊ณ ์ ๋
ธ๋ ฅํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ์ ๋ง์ฃผํ๋ ๋์ค๋ถ๋ค์ ์
์ฅ์์๋ ์์งํ ์๊ธฐ ์์ ์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๊ทธ๋ ธ์ผ๋ฉด ํ๋ ๋ง์์ ๋ค์ด์ด๋ฆฌ ์ปจ์
์ผ๋ก ๋์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ์ ์ ๊ณก ์์ฌ ์๊ณก์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ๋
น์ํ ๋๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฐฝ๋ฒ๊ณผ ์๋ฆฌ๋ค๋ก ์ฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๋ํ ๋
น์ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด ๋ค์ํ ๋์ ์ ํด๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค.
KIM SEJEONG: The concept of the album is a diary. Everyone has appearances they want to show to the public, but in a diary, people express their true feelings. So, I put effort into an honest message in this album. I have come back with the concept of a diary as I wished for the public audience who would engage this album to picture their honest selves. I have participated in lyric writing and music composition for all songs in this album and as I wanted to broaden my genre with different singing methods and sounds while recording, I have tried various things.
allkpop: The title of the mini-album is [Iโm]. Is there any meaning behind the title of the album? How did you come to choose the title?
์ด๋ฒ ๋ฏธ๋ ์จ๋ฒ ์ ๋ชฉ์ [Iโm]์ธ๋ฐ์. ์จ๋ฒ๋ช
์ ์ด๋ค ๋ป์ด ์๋์? ์จ๋ฒ๋ช
์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ง๊ฒ ๋์
จ๋์?
์ธ์ : ์ฒ์์๋ ์จ๋ฒ๋ช
์ด [I]์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๊ตญ์ด๋ก ํ๋ฉด โIโ๋ โ๋โ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ โ์์ดโ๋ผ๋ ๋ป๋ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ ์ด๋ฆฐ์์ ๋ถํฐ ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง์ ๋ด๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅํ์๋์ง ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๋กํด ์๋์ง์ ๋ํด ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์์งํ๊ฒ ๋ด์๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
KIM SEJEONG: Initially, the title of the album was [I]. In Korean โIโ means โmeโ and can be perceived as โchildโ. I wanted to contain with honesty, how I grew up to be the person I am now and how I have comforted myself.
allkpop: Tell us about your title track, โWarningโ. What is the song about and what inspired you to write this single?
์ด๋ฒ ํ์ดํ ๊ณก โWarningโ์ ๋ํด ์ค๋ช
ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์. ์ด๋ฒ ๊ณก์ ์ด๋ค ์ฃผ์ ์ด๊ณ ์ด๋ค ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ด ๊ณก์ ์ฐ๊ฒ ๋์๋์?
์ธ์ : ์ด๋ฒ ํ์ดํ ๊ณก โWarningโ์ โ์ฌ์ด๋ ๋ผ ๊ด์ฐฎ์โ ๋ผ๋ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌด์ฑ
์ํ๊ฒ ์ฌ๋ผ๋ ๋ป์ด ์๋ ์ ๋ง ์ด ํ ์์ด ๋ณธ์ธ์ ๋ง๊ฐํธ๋ ค๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ฌ๋ ค์จ ์ด๋ค์๊ฒ ์ผ๋ ํ๋์ ๊ฑธ์์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ ์ด์ฏค์ด๋ฉด ์ ์ ์ฌ์ด๋ ๋๋ค๊ณ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํด์ฃผ๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ง ์ฌ์ด์ผ ํ ๋ ์ฌ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค๋ฉด ํฐ์ ธ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง๋๋ค. ํนํ ์์ฆ ์๊ธฐ์๋ ํ๋ ์ํฉ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์คํธ๋ ์ค๊ฐ ํด์๋์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์์ด๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ์ง๊ธ์ด ์๊ธฐ์ธ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์๊ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ง์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ก์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์์ต๋๋ค.
KIM SEJEONG: The title song โWarningโ has the message โYou can take a break. Itโs okayโ. It doesnโt mean to take a break irresponsibly. I wanted to warn those who have been running restlessly and destroying themselves that taking a break is another step and that itโs okay to take a short break. If you donโt rest when you need to, you would burst. I think there are many people who are in danger as there are many cases of accumulating stress rather than relieving them, especially with the current situation. I wanted to convey a comforting and warning message to them.
allkpop: What do you hope fans will take away from โWarningโ and [Iโm]?
์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ [Iโm]๊ณผ ํ์ดํ ๊ณก โWarningโ์ ํตํด ํฌ ๋ถ๋ค์ด ๋ฌด์์ ์ป์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ๋์?
์ธ์ :์ด๋ฒ ์จ๋ฒ [Iโm]์ ํตํด ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ด ์ ์ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ๋์๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๋์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ๊ณ ์ ํด์๋ค๊ณ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ํ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ํ ๋ฅ์ฌ์ค ์ ์๋ ์๋ก๊ฐ ๋์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค.
KIM SEJEONG: I hope through this album [Iโm] you can have a time of looking back on yourself and I hope it can approach you as a comfort acknowledging youโve been doing well and that you will do excellent in the days to come.
allkpop: What music have you been listening to lately? What songs inspire you the most?
์ต๊ทผ ์ด๋ค ์์ ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ค์ผ์ จ๋์? ์ด๋ค ๊ณก๋ค์ด ๊น์ธ์ ๋์๊ฒ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ง์ด ์ฃผ๋์?
์ธ์ : ์ต๊ทผ์๋ ์ฅ๋ฅด, ์ํฐ์คํธ, ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ ์๊ด์์ด ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ํด๋๊ณ ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋ง๋ ๋ฌด๋๋, ๊ฐ์ฌ, ํค ๋ฑ์ด ๋ง์ผ๋ฉด ํ๋ ์ด ๋ฆฌ์คํธ์ ๋ฃ์ด ๊ฐ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ธ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ณก๋ค์ ์ ์๊ฒ ์๊ทน์ ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.
KIM SEJEONG: Recently, regardless of genre, artist, and country, Iโve been choosing a topic of the day and add songs to my playlist as long as it matched the mood, lyrics, and tone of the topic and would listen to them. I think all songs in the world inspire me.
allkpop: Thank you for speaking with us amid your busy schedule, SE JEONG! Lastly, can we ask you to give a supportive message to the fans?
๋ฐ์ ์ค์ผ์ค์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์๊ฐ ๋ด์ฃผ์
์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค ๊น์ธ์ ๋! ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ํฌ ๋ถ๋ค์๊ฒ ์์์ ๋ฉ์์ง ๋จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์ธ์!
์ธ์ :ํฌ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ์ ๋ง ๋๋ฌด ๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ํ๋ ์๊ธฐ๋ง ๋๋๋ค๋ฉด ํฌ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ๋จ์จ์ ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ชธ๋ ๋ง์๋ ์ํ์ง ๋ง๊ณ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ์ธ์. ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง๋ ์ฌ๋ํด ์ฃผ์
์ ๊ณ ๋ง์ ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ์ด์ฌํ ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค ~!
KIM SEJEONG: Dear fans, I really miss you so much. I will run to you as soon as this rough period subsides. Until then, please take care of your physical and mental health. Thank you for having loved me always and look forward to my next steps. Iโll do my best~!
This was awesome! What a cool little interview. More of content like this and less of the rumours and unfounded accusations ๐