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Little Winners article: HyoYeon Profile
As I will always preface these translation attempts: THESE TRANSLATIONS MAY NOT BE ACCURATE! I do not have a knowledge of Korean grammar though I really wish I did.
Corrections [[]] made 10/8/09.
LITTLE WINNERS 효연 (HyoYeon)
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이팔청춘, 올해 열여섯 효연이는 초등학교 2학년 때 부터 라틴댄스를 배우다(꽤 어릴때;;) 단장님의 소개로 의너스 스쿨에 들어오게 되었다고 했다. 인터넷에 돌게 된 효연이의 사진을 본 SM실장님으로 인해 캐스팅되었다는 효연이는 꾸준히 기획사와 위너스 스쿨을 오가며 연습한다고 하였다.
짙은 속눈썹이 인상적이었던 효연이와 인터뷰를 시작하였다.
Ipalcheongchoon, 16-year-old HyoYeon was in her second year of elementary school (quite the child;;) when [[she began taking Latin dance lessons and]] with an introduction from her Latin dance teacher she was let into the Winners School. [Trans. note: I think the first part of this next sentence says that HyoYeon was cast/scouted by SM because of her pictures on the Internet] . . . [and now] HyoYeon steadily traverses/travels between [기획사: SM? her hometown? I have no idea what this term is] and the Winners School to practice. [With] dark eyelashes, HyoYeon was impressive and the interview began. [Trans. note: I'm not sure about this last sentence.]
Wow. So I'd remembered recently that HyoYeon had been introduced to the hip-hop style and Winners through her Latin dance teacher but now we have an actual time period. [[No, but now we know when she formally started Latin dance lessons: 2nd grade!]] I knew that Hyo had joined Little Winners around 2000/2001, around the same time that she'd become an SM trainee, but what occurs to me only just now, really, is that Hyo had been doing pretty much Latin and perhaps jazz dance up until that period (7th, 8th grade?). Hyo is so embedded in my mind as a hip-hop dancer that I find it difficult to picture her getting her Latin dance on!
And not only that, but if I'm reading this correctly, HyoYeon joined Little Winners first and her involvement there possibly led to SM finding her. HyoYeon hasn't ever really talked explicitly about how she was scouted. Sica was spotted while shopping with her mother. SeoHyun was spotted on the subway/train. Like those two, HyoYeon also had to go to the SM offices to officially audition and we know now that Hyo was actually led to her audition by her mother, who was an H.O.T. fan, because HyoYeon herself didn't have an interest in being an entertainer. I always thought she was street-casted but maybe not? I wish I could understand that sentence better.
But this would explain a lot to me. 1) Winners came first so it wasn't SM's decision to enroll her there. Rather, the Winners Dance School was a recommendation from Hyo's other connections to the dance world. 2) SM wanted Hyo to continue cultivating what Winners could give her, i.e. a popping, locking, animation education. They themselves encouraged this course of her dance development by enrolling her in the boys' dance classes at SM.
This shows me, too, that being at Winners was something HyoYeon wanted herself. That is, once SM took her in, she could have decided that doing both was too much trouble but she stuck on attending training at both for years. Huh.
This may not be new to anyone else but I found it interesting! Of course, that all depends on whether or not my attempt to translate is correct, lol!
Corrections [[]] made 10/8/09.
LITTLE WINNERS 효연 (HyoYeon)
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이팔청춘, 올해 열여섯 효연이는 초등학교 2학년 때 부터 라틴댄스를 배우다(꽤 어릴때;;) 단장님의 소개로 의너스 스쿨에 들어오게 되었다고 했다. 인터넷에 돌게 된 효연이의 사진을 본 SM실장님으로 인해 캐스팅되었다는 효연이는 꾸준히 기획사와 위너스 스쿨을 오가며 연습한다고 하였다.
짙은 속눈썹이 인상적이었던 효연이와 인터뷰를 시작하였다.
Ipalcheongchoon, 16-year-old HyoYeon was in her second year of elementary school (quite the child;;) when [[she began taking Latin dance lessons and]] with an introduction from her Latin dance teacher she was let into the Winners School. [Trans. note: I think the first part of this next sentence says that HyoYeon was cast/scouted by SM because of her pictures on the Internet] . . . [and now] HyoYeon steadily traverses/travels between [기획사: SM? her hometown? I have no idea what this term is] and the Winners School to practice. [With] dark eyelashes, HyoYeon was impressive and the interview began. [Trans. note: I'm not sure about this last sentence.]
Wow. So I'd remembered recently that HyoYeon had been introduced to the hip-hop style and Winners through her Latin dance teacher
And not only that, but if I'm reading this correctly, HyoYeon joined Little Winners first and her involvement there possibly led to SM finding her. HyoYeon hasn't ever really talked explicitly about how she was scouted. Sica was spotted while shopping with her mother. SeoHyun was spotted on the subway/train. Like those two, HyoYeon also had to go to the SM offices to officially audition and we know now that Hyo was actually led to her audition by her mother, who was an H.O.T. fan, because HyoYeon herself didn't have an interest in being an entertainer. I always thought she was street-casted but maybe not? I wish I could understand that sentence better.
But this would explain a lot to me. 1) Winners came first so it wasn't SM's decision to enroll her there. Rather, the Winners Dance School was a recommendation from Hyo's other connections to the dance world. 2) SM wanted Hyo to continue cultivating what Winners could give her, i.e. a popping, locking, animation education. They themselves encouraged this course of her dance development by enrolling her in the boys' dance classes at SM.
This shows me, too, that being at Winners was something HyoYeon wanted herself. That is, once SM took her in, she could have decided that doing both was too much trouble but she stuck on attending training at both for years. Huh.
This may not be new to anyone else but I found it interesting! Of course, that all depends on whether or not my attempt to translate is correct, lol!
I think I'd befriend JoKwon.
...
Anyway.
While by your admittance they may not be 100 percent accurate, I still more than appreciate your attempt because quite honestly I'd probably end up blacklisted from soompi after harassing people to translate it for me. I wonder though, does SSF have a section where you can submit articles to be translated? I assume they'd be easier than translating videos since half the job isn't needed i.e timing, encoding, etc. I haven't been to the site myself though aside from checking out the collab section recently lol.
Anyway, this is definitely still very interesting. All the dancing we've seen from Hyo aside from that one show (Where american women spoke impressive korean) only showcased Hyo's hip hop dancing so to hear that she started with something else just adds that much more potential to her skill set. It's also interesting, or atleast in my mind, interesting to see that while Hyo herself said she had no intention of becoming an entertainer, she was still enrolled in a professional dance school. I mean sure some people join simply for the hobby, but at such a young age? I wonder who inspired her to start dancing in general or how that interest even began, unless her mom was also the reason for that since I had assumed she only encouraged her to join SM.
I am sure this has to be a sign of things to come! Sure of it! I'm taking this as an omen, this translated article, the possible reconnection with the Winners dance school on a professional level, this has to be something! I'm still positive that they wouldn't (curiously) switch out Yoona and Sooyoung if they didn't plan on focusing on dancing a bit more. IIRC Yuri also had a brief latinlike~ dance on Star King as well, and since what they did seemed choreographed, I love the idea that Hyo got her into the basics.
That, and I saw a bit of the Hanbok episode of HB and was infinitely amused with Hyo's comfortable brand of awkwardness lol. It reminds me of that dating scene she had in Horror Factory that I had to re-watch a few times. <3
Btw, off topic and to the left of the point, but I'm in love with this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcEGNryOzQs&feature=player_profilepage
I totally forgot Jo could sing.
Re: I think I'd befriend JoKwon.
Well, after being an idiot, I finally figured out that's it really easy to set Vista up to type hangul on my keyboard and now it's so easy and so much faster that I went back and watched the clip of Hello Baby just to type all the stuff on the screen to see what was going on!
(Cute things: HyoYeon's wish, since Chuseok is a time when you make a wish, is that SNSD be united in one cause. SeoHyun was like, "We're already united!" And SooYoung started teasing her. And then Taeng brought it back and was like, "For our next album to be a big success!" And Hyo added that everyone should be healthy and SooYoung added that there be no accidents. So much more went down, of course, but I love Hyo for always thinking about the group, even if she said it in a funny, kind of not-serious voice.)
There probably is a section at SSF but the article is so old that I don't think anyone would care. I'd rather they focus on the shows anyway.
I always knew she had a different dance background--she talked about it in her MTV episode. I just hadn't realized that she potentially spent a lot of years in Latin and jazz, depending on how old she was when she was enrolled in dance classes. If little Hyo was what adult Hyo is like, she was probably ALWAYS dancing around and her parents were probably like, "We need to get this kid into dance classes, stat!"
I agree about the point of her being enrolled at Winners being interesting when you consider she didn't intend to be an "entertainer." I think she might've meant more in terms of an idol star, who sings and dances and does every other form of media entertainment (variety shows, dramas, radio shows, etc.). Basically, a celebrity. She has plenty of dancer friends now that dance professionally but they aren't "entertainers," I guess.
I do think it's interesting that she's a female idol with experience competing in dance competitions, like Street Jam where the article says Little Winners took first place. It's not something you picture your idols doing.
This article is OLD, btw. January 2004. Way before she debuted.
I wonder, though, about the switching out of YoonA for SooYoung. I think they're at the same level. I think YoonA might be crisper but that her expressions hold her back. SooYoung can hit beats but her moves don't come off as sharply as YoonA's, yet she brings much more appropriate attitude. When you line them up, the YoonA-HyoYeon-YuRi line up does look visually pleasing, though, because YoonYul have such similar builds and features.
YuRi did a tango. Not sure if Hyo had anything to do with it, though; YuRi probably just worked with the dude she was dancing with on Star King who was being showcased. =)