Between Red and Pink -Yuri
-Your skin is really nice. What’s your secret?
YURI: Really? I’ve succeeded. I normally like basic things the most, and think of it as an important factor, so I don’t wear makeup when I don’t have any schedules. You know how they call it ‘inner beauty’. I’m the type to put emphasis on making the texture and tone of my skin look nice.
-Do you still grind and drink ma (nagaimo)?
YURI: I can’t as much these days. Instead, my mom sets out a sumptuous meal every morning, but a sumptuous meal for me is eating a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits. I drink a lot of blended greens.
-Of your different images, you also give off a very resilient/flexible(?) feel. But your side line is surprisingly nice.
YURI: I’m not sure what my image is either. I hope to be a person with various colors, rather than having somewhat of a limited image.
-Are you satisfied with the flexible image that fans have of you?
YURI: Yes, I like it. There’s a beauty that only healthy women can have. Such as a confident appearance, I see sexiness as a privilege that women can have. And so when I see women like that, I think to myself, I need to become that kind of beautiful woman.
-Today’s concept is white. What color do you normally like?
YURI: I like black, red and pink. You haven’t the faintest idea, right? Haha. I usually wear black or white clothing and carry pink accessories in my bag, or pick little, pink things to put in my bag. I like red because I feel it’s a color that’s similar to me. You know, like colors that girls use a lot when they refresh themselves. I want to have a red image to people.
-When you think red, you think passion, energy. Now that I think about it, you like exercising, too.
YURI: Compared to the past, I can’t exercise as much these days. Because my schedule is so unsteady. When I get the chance, I make sure to work out. For instance, there isn’t an opportunity for me to swim in Korea, so I swim a lot when I go to Japan. I once went to Japan because I wanted to swim.
-Swim? Don’t people recognize you?
YURI: They do, but I’m a lot more free than in Korea. I even got my scuba diving license last year. It’s pretty fun. I want to try surfing next time.
-Swimming, scuba diving, and surfing. It seems you enjoy doing things in the water.
YURI: Yes. I like it because I feel free. I like moving around. I usually exercise, not to watch my figure, but just to live healthily. Living happily is the best thing. Eating and enjoying good food, and exercising. Instead, when I have an important shoot or have to get on stage, I regulate myself a bit more tightly.
-Hearing what you’re saying, saying how you want to live a happy life, makes it seem like you’ve transcended. It seems like you don’t need to receive the topic of this generation, healing.
YURI: I totally need healing. The time I arrived from Hong Kong today was 7 in the morning. When I slept and woke up, it was 10, and arrived here at 11.
-Then do you not even have time to relieve stress?
YURI: I need to have an ample amount of time to relieve stress for my stress to be relieved. But that’s difficult while we’re promoting, so I looked for a solution. I try to put an effort into change my perspective when viewing things. For instance, whenever we go overseas to perform, I think of it as going on a trip with friends. I think, ‘When else will I get to experience this many things?’. I look for the fun in trying new things while doing jobs that are given to me. That’s why I also go to school. I take classes with regular friends without hesitation, and do assignments.
-You really do assignments?
YURI: Yes, I do. It’s overwhelming trying to follow other classmates’ paces even similarly. I feel how much I’m lacking, and crack a lot, too. There are also times where I feel infinitely smaller thinking, ‘How will I present the assignment I did?’
-Don’t professors, who know Girls’ Generation is busy, cut you some slack?
YURI: I’m thankful because they do so much. But I think telling them that I’m [a member of] Girls’ Generation first, as if I hope for something, is embarrassing in itself. I think that because I’m [a member of] Girls’ Generation,t hat I need to do even better.
-You must be really busy this month because of your Japan arena tour.
YURI: In return, I gain a lot of things doing overseas concerts. First of all, there aren’t a lot of opportunities to go to many countries. Seeing how I come across various cultures, I can’t speak a foreign language fluently, but I learn how to get along with different people, naturally. I get to eat lots of tasty foods, and see nice places with my own two eyes. Singing in front of lots of people is also definitely a happy thing.
-When you first debuted, did you predict you would become Girls’ Generation’s Yuri who performs overseas this much?
YURI: It’s something I always dreamed of, so I’m even more thankful and happy. But I didn’t think that it would become like this, handling many schedules to the point where I don’t know if I’m in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, or Paris when I open by eyes.
-Not only that. You’ve now stepped over being a singer and act, too.
YURI: To be honest, my dream when I younger was to become an actress. And so I slowly prepared for a while, and am still dreaming of becoming a good actress now. I try to feel and learn things slowly, one stage at a time. I still look forward to and am excited about acting.
-Is there someone you would like to act with?
YURI: There are really a lot. I really want to act with Shin Hakyun sunbaenim (senior). I watched a film by director Park Chanwook, and seeing Shin Hakyun sunbaenim’s acting in that was really a shock. He was really great. Also, Ha Jungwoo sunbaenim. He’s my school senior (Chungang University, Department of Theater and Film), and when I go to school, like someone who appears in books, he appears at professors’ lessons often (laugh). Honestly, my acting skills are still too poor for me to say which seniors I want to act with, so I just want to learn from all my seniors.
-Of works you’ve seen recently, was there a role you wanted to try?
YURI: There’s a French film called ‘La Vie en rose’, and actress Marion Cotillard plays the role of a singer. Of course, she was even good at acting like she was singing. While I was watching it, I thought to myself that it would be really nice to become an actress like that. From a Korean film, Jeon Jihyun unnie was in ‘The Thieves’. She was a really charming character, that looks pretty even when a girl looks at her. I really want to attempt playing a character like that.
-When are you planning on doing another work?
YURI: There isn’t anything decided on yet. I’m consistently reading scenarios, auditioning, and going to meetings. I plan on doing something whenever an opportunity comes.
-Listening to you, it seems you’re greedy when it comes to acting.
YURI: Rather than being ‘greedy’, I have lots of curiosity and interest. Because I’m curious about how other people live, and my interest moved over to actors, who can live those various lives naturally, and I want to experience that. I don’t have a great ambition for it, haha!
-It seems you have another schedule after the shoot.
YURI: I have a schedule to enjoy cultural life (idk what she’s talking about). (laugh) Sleeping doesn’t seem to relieve my stress. I prefer being busy like this.
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