"I was scared the most. If I admit this, the people who have supported me until now will turn their backs on me, and I worry about what to do if I can't go on stage again..."
It was difficult to find a distinctive, charming voice and a bouncy charm.
When speaking, after holding a breath for a while, he carefully opened his mouth, and it was evident that he was paying attention to every word.
After about a year and five months of 'self-reflection', singer Hong Jin-young is back.
In a meeting with the media on the 5th before the release of her single 'Viva La Vida', Hong Jin-young looked back on the time she stopped working and said, "I thought she was a more positive person than anyone else. It was the first hurdle I had to go through,” he confessed.
He was greatly loved as a trot singer, but in November 2020, a media report revealed that the plagiarism rate of his master's thesis was 74% as a result of the plagiarism review site 'Copykiller'.
The disappointment of the public was great as the modifier 'Doctor Singer' was always followed from the beginning of her debut, and the aftermath was fierce, such as dropping out one after another from the programs in which she appeared.
Hong Jin-young said, "I really regretted it during my break," she said cautiously, "It happened so suddenly, I was out of my mind and there was nowhere to ask.
He said, "It was a situation that I couldn't pick up because it had already happened, and I just wanted to apologize to many people.
Hong Jin-young said that he thought and worried dozens of times, but he couldn't give up his main job, a singer.
She said, "For me, the job of being a singer, and singing in front of people… means that there is no oxygen the moment I can't do that. Since I was little, I dreamed of only being a singer."
Jinyoung Hong also confessed, "I couldn't do anything for almost 7 months after the incident. I went to the hospital for a while and was prescribed medicine."
He said he couldn't sleep well while preparing for the interview, "'What if I say something wrong?'
“But she has a lot of worries,” she said.
To avoid her stigma, she asked if she would ever want to go to graduate school again, and within a second she replied, "No."
She emphasized on several occasions that Jinyoung Hong had a lot of help from her surroundings until she got her courage like this.
Composer Cho Young-soo, who is close enough to think of him as a 'half family', is one of the people I am particularly grateful for.
From her debut song 'Battery of Love' to 'Living is' and 'Tonight', he said that he has been by her side throughout Hong Jin-young.
Hong Jin-young said, "I had a lot of thoughts and worries before I started again." Composer Jo Young-soo gave this song to me and said, 'You're confident, Jinyoung-ah,' and 'This is a song I took care of'."
'Viva La Vida' is a Latin-style dance song, in which Jinyoung Hong participated in writing the lyrics for 'Gatteri C', a 'minister' (second character).
He sang this song, which means 'Long live life', in both Korean and English versions.
The intention is to allow fans overseas to enjoy music without language restrictions.
Regarding choosing this song as a comeback song, he said, "I thought it would be better to go with a song with a sad atmosphere, but if I go back to the beginning, there was a lot of advice that a song like 'Battery of Love', which started to spread the name 'Hong Jin-young', would be right."
Jinyoung Hong is going to perform on her official stage just once with this song.
(Photo = provided by IMH Entertainment, Yonhap News)