260608 minhee 🫧 minhee told a story of how he became a trainee at starship: (when minhee was a baby, his mom used to upload photos of him on cyworld. he said he had lots of cute baby photos. one day, someone contacted his parents and asked whether they had any plans to put him into the entertainment industry. however, because his parents lived in the countryside and knew little about that world, they declined the offer. his dad was also against him becoming an celebrity because he felt it was a difficult career. his dad worried that having a job where you’re constantly judged by others would be tough, and he still holds that opinion today) 🐶 then when i was in middle school, i got scouted. this was before starship (random fact: it was jyp). i got cast by chance 🐶 my dad still didn’t want me to do it. but honestly, he didn’t really know much about the industry. and getting cast like that was such a rare opportunity. for someone from suncheon to be scouted like that… it felt unbelievable

🐶 my friends were all around me going ‘minhee if you become a celebrity, don’t forget about me!’ everyone was hyping me up. 🐶 of course i wanted to do it. i was young. at that age, hearing things like ‘you might be on tv’ was enough to make me excited. so i gave them my dad’s contact information and started talking about going to seoul. 🐶 but my dad opposed it all the way. he kept saying ‘no we’re not sending our minhee away.’ so the person who scouted me ended up in a difficult position. i kept telling my dad ‘dad, opportunities like this don’t come often. what if we just try it once?’ 🐶 i kept persuading him. ‘dad, this is a really big company. it’s a great company’. but my dad didn’t know anything about the entertainment industry 🐶 eventually he agreed. we even had a three-way phone call with the person who cast me. they thanked my dad a lot for agreeing. and then… i ended up going to another company. so i accidentally betrayed them. they worked so hard to convince my dad, and then i joined starship instead (🤣) 🐶 my dad’s position was ‘it’s a little early to send him now. he’s in his third year of middle school. shouldn’t he at least graduate first?’ that was the plan. but then suddenly another opportunity came up. 🐶 that company even paid for my academy lessons for a while. since there wasn’t much i could do in suncheon while waiting to graduate, they told me to learn some singing and dancing. so they supported me while i took singing and dance lessons. i practiced like that for a while. 🐶 even then, my dad kept saying ‘this road won’t be easy. are you sure you won’t regret it?’ i remember him saying things like that.

seems like minhee wore woobin’s clothes for today’s fansign