Going it alone
Kyuhyun, best known as a member of South Korean boy group Super Junior, was back in Thailand recently, this time without his bandmates for a solo concert, “Reminiscence of a Novelist”.
Staged at Thunder Dome, Muang Thong Thani last Sunday, it was packed with more than 4,000 screaming K-pop fans.
The 29-year-old Korean started his show with sentimental songs “Ways to Say Goodbye”, “Because I Miss You” and “Piano Forest” from his second solo album “Fall, Once Again” before greeting fans in Thai.
He had the audience up and dancing to “Love in Time” and “When with Me” from his third solo album “Waiting, Still” and appeared with a hologram of himself in “Two Men.”
Fans went into ecstasy when Kyuhyun sang his hit “Blah Blah” in Thai with Stamp Apiwat who wrote the Thai lyrics. He followed up with covers of Thongchai “Bird” McIntyre’s “Lao Soo Kan Fang”, Scrubb’s “Thuk Yang” and Boyd Kosiyabong’s “Huajai Pook Kan”.
“It taken me two years to come up with a way to thank Thai fans and finally I decided to sing ‘Blah Blah’ in Thai. I was worried about pronouncing the words correctly but it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be,” Kyuhyun said.
The K-pop boy rapped in “Forever” and covered Twice’s “Cheer UP” before ending with a medley of Super Junior’s songs, “Magic” and “Devil”.
The young man is now off to do his military service, a path that must be followed by all South Korean men, even pop stars.
