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[EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW] KIM SEJEONG talks newest mini album [I'm]

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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 youโ€™ve finished shooting your hit drama? We're excited to speak with you about your latest release!

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š” ๊น€์„ธ์ •๋‹˜, ํžˆํŠธ ๋“œ๋ผ๋งˆ <๊ฒฝ์ด๋กœ์šด ์†Œ๋ฌธ> ์ด ๋๋‚ด์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚ด์…จ๋‚˜์š”? ์ตœ์‹  ๋ฐœ๋งค ์•จ๋ฒ”์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!


์„ธ์ •:
์ €๋„ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์— ์‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. <๊ฒฝ์ด๋กœ์šด ์†Œ๋ฌธ>์ด ๋๋‚˜๊ณ  ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ํœด์‹๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ์ž‘์—…์— ๋ชฐ๋‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์ด ์ž‘์—…ํ•œ ๊ณก๋“ค์ด๋‚˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ณก๋“ค์„ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๋“ค์„ ๋ชจ์•„ ์•จ๋ฒ”์œผ๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋ณด์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์•จ๋ฒ” ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณตํ—ˆํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋„ ์ž˜ ์ฑ„์›Œ์ง„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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 [Iโ€™m]! How did recording this album go?

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ปด๋ฐฑ ์•จ๋ฒ” [Iโ€™m] ์ปจ์…‰๊ณผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”! ์•จ๋ฒ” ๋…น์Œ์€ ์–ด๋• ๋‚˜์š”?

์„ธ์ •: ์ด๋ฒˆ ์•จ๋ฒ” ์ปจ์…‰์€ ๋‹ค์ด์–ด๋ฆฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ง€๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ชจ์Šต๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ณธ์ธ๋งŒ์˜ ์ผ๊ธฐ์žฅ์—์„œ๋งŒํผ์€ ์†”์งํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์ด๋ฒˆ ์•จ๋ฒ”์—์„œ ๋‹ด๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋„ ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ด๊ณ ์ž ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์•จ๋ฒ”์„ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ๋Œ€์ค‘๋ถ„๋“ค์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋„ ์†”์งํ•œ ์ž๊ธฐ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๊ทธ๋ ธ์œผ๋ฉด ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋‹ค์ด์–ด๋ฆฌ ์ปจ์…‰์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์•จ๋ฒ”์€ ์ „๊ณก ์ž‘์‚ฌ ์ž‘๊ณก์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋…น์Œํ•  ๋•Œ๋„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐฝ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋“ค๋กœ ์žฅ๋ฅด๋ฅผ ๋„“ํ˜€ ๋…น์Œํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋„์ „์„ ํ•ด๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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 [Iโ€™m]. Is there any meaning behind the title of the album? How did you come to choose the title?

์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ์•จ๋ฒ” ์ œ๋ชฉ์€ [Iโ€™m]์ธ๋ฐ์š”. ์•จ๋ฒ”๋ช…์˜ ์–ด๋–ค ๋œป์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์•จ๋ฒ”๋ช…์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง“๊ฒŒ ๋˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”?

์„ธ์ •์ฒ˜์Œ์—๋Š” ์•จ๋ฒ”๋ช…์ด [I]์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด โ€˜Iโ€™๋Š” โ€˜๋‚˜โ€™ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ โ€˜์•„์ดโ€™๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป๋„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์‹œ์ ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜์˜€๋Š”์ง€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์œ„๋กœํ•ด ์™”๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ด์•„๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KIM SEJEONG: Initially, the title of the album was [I]. In Korean โ€œIโ€ means โ€œmeโ€ and can be perceived as โ€œchildโ€. 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, โ€™Warningโ€™. What is the song about and what inspired you to write this single?

์ด๋ฒˆ ํƒ€์ดํ‹€ ๊ณก โ€˜Warningโ€™์˜ ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ณก์€ ์–ด๋–ค ์ฃผ์ œ์ด๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ค ์˜๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ด ๊ณก์„ ์“ฐ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‚˜์š”?

์„ธ์ •์ด๋ฒˆ ํƒ€์ดํ‹€ ๊ณก โ€˜Warningโ€™์€ โ€œ์‰ฌ์–ด๋„ ๋ผ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„โ€ ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‰ฌ๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์ •๋ง ์‰ด ํ‹ˆ ์—†์ด ๋ณธ์ธ์„ ๋ง๊ฐ€ํŠธ๋ ค๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค์˜จ ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‰ผ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ฑธ์Œ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์ด์ฏค์ด๋ฉด ์ž ์‹œ ์‰ฌ์–ด๋„ ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ์‰ฌ์–ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋•Œ ์‰ฌ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ„ฐ์ ธ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ง™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์š”์ฆ˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํž˜๋“  ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ํ•ด์†Œ๋˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์Œ“์ด๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„ ์ง€๊ธˆ์ด ์œ„๊ธฐ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์œ„๋กœ์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KIM SEJEONG: The title song โ€˜Warningโ€™ has the message โ€œYou can take a break. Itโ€™s okayโ€. It doesnโ€™t 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 itโ€™s okay to take a short break. If you donโ€™t 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 โ€˜Warningโ€™ and [Iโ€™m]?

์ด๋ฒˆ ์•จ๋ฒ” [Iโ€™m]๊ณผ ํƒ€์ดํ‹€ ๊ณก โ€˜Warningโ€™์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํŒฌ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋‚˜์š”?

์„ธ์ •:์ด๋ฒˆ ์•จ๋ฒ” [Iโ€™m]์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด ์ž ์‹œ ๋ณธ์ธ์„ ๋Œ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ๊ณ  ์ž˜ ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ž˜ ํ•  ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ† ๋‹ฅ์—ฌ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ„๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KIM SEJEONG: I hope through this album [Iโ€™m] you can have a time of looking back on yourself and I hope it can approach you as a comfort acknowledging youโ€™ve 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?

์ตœ๊ทผ ์–ด๋–ค ์Œ์•…์„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค์œผ์…จ๋‚˜์š”? ์–ด๋–ค ๊ณก๋“ค์ด ๊น€์„ธ์ •๋‹˜์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๊ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ์ฃผ๋‚˜์š”?


์„ธ์ •์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฅด, ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ, ๊ตญ๊ฒฝ ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ๊ทธ๋‚ ์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ •ํ•ด๋‘๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ œ์— ๋งž๋Š” ๋ฌด๋“œ๋‚˜, ๊ฐ€์‚ฌ, ํ†ค ๋“ฑ์ด ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์— ๋„ฃ์–ด ๊ฐ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ์ƒ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณก๋“ค์€ ์ €์—๊ฒŒ ์ž๊ทน์„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KIM SEJEONG: Recently, regardless of genre, artist, and country, Iโ€™ve 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?

๋ฐ”์œ ์Šค์ผ€์ค„์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋‚ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊น€์„ธ์ •๋‹˜! ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ํŒฌ ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์‘์›์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”!

์„ธ์ •:ํŒฌ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์ •๋ง ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ณด๊ณ ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํž˜๋“  ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋งŒ ๋๋‚œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํŒฌ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋‹จ์ˆจ์— ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋ชธ๋„ ๋งˆ์Œ๋„ ์•„ํ”„์ง€ ๋ง๊ณ  ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€๋„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์› ๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ž˜ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ~!

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. Iโ€™ll do my best~!

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This was awesome! What a cool little interview. More of content like this and less of the rumours and unfounded accusations ๐Ÿ‘

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That beautiful smile

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