SEVENTEEN Seungkwan “Camping with TWICE Jihyo, Becoming Closer to Families”

Seventeen and Twice, who are celebrating their 10th debut anniversary together, showed off their friendship.

On the 15th, a video celebrating member Jihyo’s 20th anniversary since she joined JYP was released on Twice’s YouTube channel.

The event was prepared with a ‘20th birthday’ concept and was attended by fellow idol seniors and juniors.Twice’s Nayeon and Jeongyeon, GOT7’s BamBam, Day6’s Sungjin, I.O.I’s Sejeong and Nayoung, and Seventeen’s Mingyu and Seungkwan attended.

On this day, Jihyo explained that she entered JYP Entertainment as an acting trainee in 2005.She said, “I was taking acting lessons, but then switched to being a singer trainee,” and added, “In 2010, when I was a trainee for 5 years, something incredible happened,” revealing that Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Sungjin, and BamBam entered the company that year.

Seungkwan suddenly said, “I’m jealous,” which raised questions.He confessed, “I failed the JYP audition in 2010.It was the only agency that came to Jeju Island… If you search through your external hard drive, you’ll find Seungkwan Boo.”

Jihyo trained for 10 years and debuted as a member of Twice in 2015 through the audition program ‘Sixteen’.She said, “It’s been a happy year to meet Seventeen as friends.” They are ‘same generation’, Seventeen debuted in May 2015 and Twice debuted in October.

Seungkwan confessed, “The survival show ‘Sixteen’ came out and stole all our attention.I was a little excited, but I still had so much fun watching it.” He continued, “We weren’t close from the beginning, but we became closer as we gained experience.One day, Mingyu hyung called me over, so I went to the camping site that(Jihyo noona)parents owned.That’s when I became close with my younger siblings.” He continued, “I wasn’t close with Jihyo noona at all, but I played Rummikub with my parents and younger siblings.”

Jihyo added, “Seungkwan was coming back from the dermatologist,” and “Mingyu and some of his friends were there.I was thinking, ‘Should we go eat some meat at my parents’ campsite?’ and Seungkwan happened to be there with me.”

Reporter Jeong com -yeon, Donga.com shine2562@donga

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