TaeHun. He usually liked sports, he has the rank of 'Body jjang star', he said: "Because I started to do sports and eat chicken breasts I learned how to use Rain senior's 'Kettle Bell'. I succesfully lost 12kg thanks to this but even so I didn't starve. I have the habit of doing sports constantly so I'm really happy."

In all the people you know you don't have any idol you're close too? "That's because I'm not allowed to use a cellphone or to have a minihompy... but, I want to get close to 'C.N Blue''s Jung Yonghwa. Sometimes during the broadcasting the circumstances made that we had to salute each other and it left a deep impression. It seems that this person is shy like me, haha!"

In the past when he thought about his deceased parents, he said that if he becomes a singer he'll come to their graves and will read them the news. "My heart really hurt, when I searched 'Children of Empire' on internet I read a lot of comments, they made an issue about my deceased parents, I was hurt by these comments. If I received words with a nice meaning it would be good.".

TaeHun want to receive the Rookie of the Year award at the end-of-year music awards. Plus, he said that his goal was to someday personally write the lyrics for Children of Empire's album and do the producing.

Credits: The Star

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The 9 handsome men (JunYoung, SiWan, Kevin, TaeHun, HeeChul, MinWoo, HyungShik, DongJun) are performing on one stage. The fangirls who each have a style of men they like seem to be cheering for their voices. From their predebut days to their exceptionnal shows, they made a solid path, they were determined to make Asia's best idol group, after Children of Empire triumphal entry to the singers' world, at the middle of the year, there's already over 20'000 people at their official fan cafe.

Children of Empire already released their third single 'Separation Drip' and showed its teaser who has a wild 'racing' concept with a sporty look, which caught the attention of the fans. They're constantly receiving a lovecall from our whole country, Japan, Thailand, and all Asia's countries, plus on various variety show they showed off they talents and charms, they even received the nickname of 'variety-dol and are actually having busy activities.

"(DongJun) We have to work hard. So it seems that we got the nickname 'Efforts-dol'. Seeing that we have so much members, when were together our competition spirit grows, when something difficult happens or when we're worried, we help each others so we naturally make efforts to get well together. (laugh)"
Children of Empire's passion is so touching that for their third digital single the compositior Park Geuntae revealed hisstrongs ambitions to "make them become Asia's best idol group". Plus, in this album the song 'Separation Drip' is not simply cute and innocent, the members personnality are put on relief with this strong track and it's even more refreshing to the fans.

"(Kevin) I don't want our group to become another simple idol group. My parents stayed faraway in Australia, I came alone in Korea with the decision to become singer but that wasn't an easy thing."

Children of Empire is not a group with mystical tendencies. Since 2006 they prepared themselves and did more than 50 gerilla concerts while doing a country tour and received the nickname 'Road-dol', thanks to their music and their perfomances they received recognition. This outcome means that they're no more rookies when they shed tears and sweat to do their perfomances.

"(JunYoung) I don't want to receive recognition only because of our faces. For this album we couldn't personnally take part in the producing but for the choreography we always showed new things to our dance professor. And for this album concept we wanted to show a really manly side so we learned martial arts from 'Julian Kang' and showed off the 'Kickdance'...We said that we had to do the best performance as rookies and we thought it was the best way to make it."

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With their 3rd single Level Up ready to be released on the 8th,their released teaser of that MV first.I love the concept and the song sounds the best.I really love their new style especially MinWoo,HeeChul and HhyungShik.Check out their teaser MV

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With their 3rd single Level Up ready to be released on the 8th, ZE:A has revealed three new individual album jacket photos packed with the avant-garde transformation, officially marking their highly anticipated countdown.

After revealing Joonyoung and Dongjoon yesterday, Star Empire Entertainment has released photos for Hyungshik,Taehun and Minwoo today

The boys are definitely oozing charisma with their toned and muscular bodies.

Meanwhile, ZE:A will be revealing their teaser video soon, and their album is set to drop on the 8th! So stay tuned you guys!

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TaeHun has been unanimously picked from all of the ZE:A members as the one who takes most care for their body. The reason for picking TaeHun? “His strict diet!“, they all said in unison.

“I gain weight even when I just drink water. That’s why I can never let my guard down.” Taehun grimly revealed the reason for dieting. “Truthfully, I lost 9kg(~20lbs) in the past by working out constantly. If I have any free time, I spend it running on the treadmill. If one of the members is looking for me, the first place they look is the gym(laughs).”

Even though he says it with a carefree air, losing 9kg isn’t something that can be achieved easily. When this reporter asked him about his weight loss secret, he openly told me about his daily diet activities.

“Like any other person, I diet and workout at the same time. I try not to eat after 7pm. I eat chicken breasts almost religiously. Though after doing this for some time, I really can’t stand the smell of chicken.”

These days, it’s not just the actors who have to have new looks for the screen, but singers as well. Asian asked him if he had encountered any difficulties while trying to lose weight.

“I actually really like ramen. After starting my diet, I made myself give up all flour based products. I’m pretty stubborn, huh? (laughs)”

The reason for being so intent on losing weight?

"I learned the importance of dieting early on. When you look at me[in person], I don’t look bloated, but on the screen I looked very bloated. After I saw myself on screen I was really surprised. I thought it was the right thing to do so that I could show a better image of myself to everyone. After that point, I naturally started dieting with a great effort."

“We can’t really tell the difference from before and after the weight loss, you’re not really the chubby type.” Asiae commented. “A lot of people tell me that, but I can see differences, like my jawline has definitely become more defined and sharp.”

Taehun shook his head ‘no’ when he was asked if he had the so-called ‘chocolate abs’ or a 6 pack. em>”I’m really far from a 6 pack.” He admitted. “[My junior] DongJoon has a 6 pack and it’s crazy. I’m really envious of his 6 pack, I still have to work very hard.”

Taehun, who wants to work harder and show a better image to everyone, was asked about his future wishes. “I want to be together with the members, who are like my family. Everyday I fall asleep with them, wake up to them, spend 24 hours a day together…I want to do this for a long time under the name Child of Empire (laughs).”

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Asian met up with ZE:A’s own TaeHun, who is known for his ‘tough guy’ rapper personality. While fans of ZE:A are used to seeing his charismatic roughness on stage, it was surprising to meet the real person off-stage with a naturally-shy and boyish personality.
“As a triple A [blood type], I’m naturally very timid. I was just as timid as a child, but the one thing I really loved was playing sports.” Whether it was baseball, soccer, running, pog, or even spinning tops, he knew all the games that mischievous boys usually played. Eventually he got so good at playing pog that everyone in his town knew him by his nickname, ’slap matching Kim TaeHun’.

“When I was young, I wasn’t that good in school, I was just a kid that liked to play around. I think I was only popular among my friends because I looked like a movie character.” When Taehun mentioned that he resembled a movie character, this reporter immediately saw the resemblance. With his gentle eyes, face full of mischief, young Taehun looked very similar to Macaulay Culkin in his role as ‘Kevin’ from Home Alone.

Taehun burst out laughing when he was asked if the person he had resembled was Macaulay Culkin.



“When I was young, “Home Alone” was very popular. My friends told me I looked like Macaulay Culkin a lot. Thanks to him, my school life was fun.” Taehun’s mischevous character was written all over his face as he talked about his school life.

“Ever since I was young, you couldn’t talk [about sports] without counting me in. When it was sports day, I was like a fish in water when I ran around playing.” Taehun’s childhood dream was to become a bodyguard so he could protect people. In a strange way, imagining Taehun as a bodyguard with a well-fitted black suit and dark sunglasses seems to fit him. “One day I came home crying after getting beat up by a neighbor and from that day forward, my mom sent me to learn hapkido. Starting with a white belt, I steadily earned my second-degree black belt. I still know how to handle the wooden sword and nunchucks.”

His fellow ZE:A memebers tell us that Taehun is the most considerate out of all of them. When another member is sick, he’s the one that brings soup and medicine to help them feel better. Taehun was also picked #1 as having the best manners.“I injured my hip while playing sports. That’s why I had to give up my dream as a bodyguard. Even though I didn’t get to become a bodyguard, I’m still very happy to have become a singer.(laughs)”

Source: Yoon TaeHee@asiae.co.kr
Translation: Julez@kpoplive.com

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