2013 SBS Gayo Daejun

[interview] Taemin on Arena Homme October 2013

I watched your audition video. You said “I’ll do my best to death” with a baby face. How old were you?

I was a sixth grader. I liked dancing so much I was practicing without any plan or a role model before the audition. At that time I was really firmly determined even as I look back To the extent it made people uncomfortable from my trainee days to early debut days.

You must have had an intense desire of something.

I got hurt a lot at that time. I thought a singer should sing well but I didn’t have much vocal training because I was going through...