Red Velvet

Red Velvet [Interview]

Naver interview (1)

Red Velvet (Wendy, Seulgi, Irene, and Joy) is the first new girl group debuted by SM Entertainment since Girls’ Generation and f(x). Their labelmates, TVXQ, Girls’ Generation, Super Junior, SHINee, etc. already gained global popularity, as it took 5 years to form this group of ladies, and their endless support and advice is continuing on.

Under the cascading spotlights, Red Velvet performed their debut stage on the first on KBS’s “Music Bank”. Today Red Velvet sat down for an interview in the “Music Bank” waiting room.

Today Red Velvet expressed their thankfulness to their SM sunbaes. Member Seulgi said, “We fostered our dream as singers when we saw our sunbaes, Girls’ Generation and TVXQ. They had heard the news of our debut today and congratulated us and advised us to work hard. We’re really thankful.”

Irene and Joy added, “f(x), SHINee, and Super Junior sunbaes also congratulated us and we gained strength because of the advice they gave us on how to act on stage.”

Then they said, “We hope to become a globally-known group like our sunbaes. Our dream is to work hard and one day become someone else’s role model.”

f(x)’s Amber and SHINee’s Jonghyun filled their SNS accounts with support for Red Velvet. Amber posted, “Teddy Bear, congrats on your debut. Please cheer on Red Velvet. Happiness!” And also include a photo she took with Seulgi. Jonghyun also deliver his support by posting “Red Velvet is really cute, Happiness!”

Red Velvet had their debut stage today on KBS’s “Music Bank”. Following that, they will appear on MBC’s “Show! Music Core” on the second and SBS’s “Inkigayo” on the third and set the stage with their debut single “행복 (Happiness)” while kicking off full-scale promotional activities.

Naver interview (2)

Idol Kingdom’ SM Entertainment’s new girl group have finally been relevealed and faced the public. The group’s name is Red Velvet. The inviting colour of red and the feminine material velvet was compounded together to make the name Red Velvet, and we met the 4 girls on the 1st of the month, somewhere in Yeouido. After their first debut pre-recorded broadcast ended we saw refreshing members Seulgi, Irene (real name Bae Juhyun), Wendy (real name Son Seungwan), Joy (real name Park Sooyoung) and asked them questions we were curious about.

Q. You finally debuted! You must be relieved.

Joy: It wasn’t as nerve wracking as I thought it would be. Many fans came to the recording sto watch and cheer for us so it gave me a lot of strength.

Q. It’s only just your debut stage and you already have fans. Is it because you’re from idol kingdom SM entertainment? Your sunbaes are also fans of you.

Seulgi: That makes it more nerve-wracking. We’ll work hard to be great artists like our sunbaes.

Q. To be honest, I looked at your image teasers and I thought that you all looked identical. But really being up close to all four of you, I can tell that you have individual charms. Seeing as Joy wasn’t public as an SM rookie member pre-debut, unlike all the other three of you, the fans seemed to react to the remaining member.

Seulgi: Because Joy was revealed like that, she’s the member recieving the most interest, right?

Joy: Actually I don’t think I recieved that much interest and attention. Because the other three of my unnies were revealed differently from me, they had fans even as rookies. But I’m really surprised and happy to be recieving so much interest.