Once upon a time, I wrote about the strange meeting of DBSK , who was doing great in Japan, and Rose Motel (Jangmi Yeogwan), a rock band named after a soft porn series in Korea.
Imho it was one of the strangest encounters in all of KPop history.
Rose Motel, now called Yook Joongwan Band (Yook Joongwan was the leader and vocal of Rose Motel, and after its contract ended he and a member formed their own band named after Yook himself)was there in another strange meeting between Tiffany Young and Shin Mirae, about her I will tell below.
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Tiffany Young became the first KPop figure to be honored in a major award
At the Youtube Award of 2013.
It was probably the zenith of her career.
However, after SNSD effectively disbanded, she tried a few things, including trying to become an Asian celeb in USA and also trying to start a singing career there.
After the Covid thing hit, she returned to Korea to start in the musical "Chicago". (Musicals are quite hot in Korea, and quite a few Kpop figures tried musicals as well, like Kim Junsu. )
Probably not what she expected when she was at the top of the world back in 2013.
Now, I will explain who Shin Mirae is. Shin Mirae, born 1990 as Shin Eunjin, was a contestant in a now forgotten JTBC audition , singing old style songs in the 1930s and 40s back in ... 2013.
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8 years later, while working as a physical therapist, Shin Mirae auditioned for KBS's trot show Trot National Festival. While not qualifying in top 8, she gained a lot of fans which made her a full trot singer.
And, now, this strange scene occurred
Who the f in the world would have imagined back in 2013 that Tiffany Young, who actually went to meet all the celebrities of the world back in 2013, would be sitting with a mere contestant in a forgotten audition show back in 2013 and now a somewhat known trottist little more than a rookie?
It will be hard to dispute that it is a strange journey indeed. (I am aware that she will appear with Sunmi as a mentor at Girls Planet 999. Which is also another change since she didn't really deal with Sunmi during the wonder girls years)