A K-Pop star has candidly confessed that he became arrogant after winning a music show.
On August 28th, a video titled “Behind the Scenes of Superstar K Revealed for the First Time in 14 Years” was uploaded on YouTube.
In the video, Roy Kim recalled the time he won Superstar K4, saying, “I had just turned twenty and grew up without ever thinking I would become a singer. I was only thinking about how to spend my summer vacation well and just went in with sheer determination. Suddenly, I ended up winning and becoming a singer.”
He admitted, “Because of that, I think I became somewhat arrogant. I believed the world might flow just the way I imagined it.”
He continued, “Every live broadcast mission, the scenario of ‘If I do this song, this will happen’ turned out to be true, and I ended up winning. It’s actually hard to have such a big achievement at twenty, but at the time, I felt like, ‘I did it exactly as I imagined,’ and looking back now, I definitely was arrogant and thought the world wasn’t that difficult.”
Recalling his debut process after winning, Roy Kim said, “I wasn’t with a major label, I just sang songs I liked and wrote songs with a few chords I knew. But right after winning, I told the company, ‘I don’t want songs given to me; I want to debut with songs I wrote and composed myself.’ That was arrogant thinking—I didn’t know what I was talking about.”
He revealed it was even harder to let go of his arrogance because his debut song “Bom Bom Bom” was a huge success. “‘Bom Bom Bom’ became a mega-hit, so it was honestly hard not to be arrogant,” he said. “Now, when I think back, I’ve changed a lot. I’m grateful for everything.”
Parc Jae Jung, the winner of Superstar K5, confessed, “I wasn’t arrogant after finishing Superstar K5. I became arrogant after Hangout with Yoo.”
Roy Kim responded, “Definitely after ‘Let’s Say Goodbye’, you got arrogant,” causing laughter. He added, “But I think everyone needs that time. Once you become arrogant, the world really hits you hard. When it’s beating you up saying, ‘Get your act together,’ how well you snap out of it seems to determine your final years and future.“