Kim Junsu (Xia), ”Am I happy with my 13-year contract with SM? 'No'... I thought I should end it quickly” = Confession of decision in ”Fairy JaeHee-yeon”

Singer Kim Junsu talked about the process of deciding to leave SM Entertainment.

　On the 16th, the YouTube channel ‘Fairy Jaehyun’ posted a video titled ‘Because of what I heard... (covert)’.

　In the video, Kim Junsu said, "After coming out of SM, I started to have a rest time for about a year. I wasn't ready for the heartache we do. The first time I officially met my fans was in the musical ‘Mozart’. It was our first meeting after being on our own."

　He continued "I met my fans more through the musical than through the album. I remember crying during the curtain call after all the scenes were over. I was really shaking more than that when I first debuted as a singer. So much so that I still remember it really vividly."

　He said that he could not imagine success, and added "I came out of my first start looking for happiness, but I did not dare to think that I could do the activity of singing itself. Thirteen years passed in a pattern like this for me, and my contract ended in my mid-thirties, but in a way my life was about immersing myself in one thing. I thought this was the right thing to do. When I thought about the energy I would use, the things I would give up, there were things I was grateful for, but I had to work every day with only two or three hours sleep. I thought that an ordinary life might be worth more."

　With that, he added "When I thought about it in terms of albums and number of songs, I felt like I had done it for a really long time. But it was five or six years at the most. Almost three times longer I worked as a musical actor than I did as a singer. At the time I felt personally mature, but then I was 25 at the most. 'Will I really be happy when this contract is all over? Will I, the person I am, really be happy?' And the moment I asked the question, I thought, ‘No’. I thought, ‘If I can't do the songs I love, I have to end it now, as soon as possible."

　He said that the musical market was not big at the time and that "I just had to bump into it. I had to work harder and prove myself."