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DETAILS

CURRENT AGE: 31 DEBUT AGE: 24 TRAINEE SINCE AGE: 22 SKILL POINTS: 07 VOCAL | 10 DANCE | 10 RAP | 13 PERFORMANCE SECONDARY SKILLS: Music production (hip-hop and r&b)

INTERVIEW

The eldest of a five member group would usually be the one who was the most responsible and made sure to keep the others in check. Cleaning up, making sure the others were well taken care of and weren’t overworking themselves. The older brother, or dad, of the group so to speak. That was how 99 Entertainment tried to market Siwon in the beginning. The hyung that all the guys wanted to be like and the oppa that all the girls were infatuated with. It worked for a while, for the most part. The public ate it up. That is until Siwon was involved in his first scandal in the latter half 2012 after the release of Jackpot, relatively early in their career. It was an attitude related scandal, something that the public hadn’t been expecting from the eldest member. It was said that he was on the set of a photoshoot speaking informally to his seniors, being rude towards the staff, and having an overall bad attitude throughout the entire day. When the scandal broke and there were people jumping on the hate bandwagon, 99 took action and forced him to issue a public apology. The apology was lackluster and didn’t hold any real remorse, which caused him to gain even more hate from the public. Even with the year long hiatus, that took place afterwards, the public didn’t seem to warm up to him all that much. Instead of seeing him as the older brother type, they saw him as the black sheep, the one who caused issues for those around him. They don’t like his personality, but they love his talents. Despite his first scandal and the ones that followed subsequently, his rapping and dancing skills are undeniable. Almost to the point that the public are willing to overlook his bad habits. Almost. 

BIOGRAPHY

Cold. That’s a word that could accurately describe Oh Siwon’s childhood. His father was a soldier in the military. A hard working man who dedicated his life to the service. His line of work was the most important thing in his life. At some points in time, Siwon even felt as though his father cared more about his work than he did about him, which was a pretty easy conclusion to come to when you saw how Siwon was treated. Because his mother passed away during childbirth with him, Siwon was left in the care of his grandparents while his father was in the service. He rarely saw his father for the first eight years of his life. It wasn’t until his father was injured in the line of duty that he began to see him consistently again. What Siwon thought would be the opportunity for him to finally connect with his father on a deeper level only proved to be the exact opposite. His father was too harsh, too strict. Not to the point of abuse, but to the point where the boy hated being around him. He couldn’t make too swift of a move without being scolded for it, and the scoldings had become so frequent that he had began to ignore them. His grandparents tried to interfere and help him. They tried talking to his father to get him to relax and ease up on him, but that only angered the ex soldier. He didn’t think he needed anyone telling him how to raise his child, so he packed up their things and moved them from Busan to Seoul when Siwon was thirteen years old. Seoul is where he was introduced to the underground rap community. He was young at the time, very young actually, but that particular genre of music struck a chord him especially. He discovered his talent and penchant for rap and hip-hop music shortly thereafter, and began spending more and more time with the people who had introduced him to it. There was something about the music that, as cliché as it sounds, spoke to him, and that was when he delved deeper into the culture. His father who was watching closely over him, just as strict as ever, saw his growing interest in rap music and tried to nip it in the bud early on, but to no avail. Many an argument happened within the Oh household over the subject of music, and they continued to happen throughout the years until Siwon became of age. His father immediately demanded that he enlist, like he had when he was his age. Siwon wanted to refuse to do so. He was beginning to really crack into the underground community and make a name for himself amongst the other rappers. Enlisting meant jeopardizing everything he had worked for, and he didn’t to do that. Unfortunately in life many instances came up where things that didn’t want to be done, had to be done. Military enlistment was one of those things. He didn’t have any other choice but to go. As soon as his required service time was up, he didn’t hesitate to leave, much to his the chagrin of his father. Since then, the relationship between the two of them had become even more strained. His father wanted him to stay in the service like he had, but that wasn’t the kind of life that Siwon wanted for himself. After being discharged from his military service, Siwon had to find a job in order to support himself, because his father wasn’t going to do so anymore. He was an adult, so he had to handle responsibilities like anyone else his age. He struggled with finding a job for a few months, before he finally caved and went to his grandparents in Busan for help. His grandfather, who owned a dance studio, was getting older and he couldn’t dance like he used to, so he offered Siwon a job at the dance studio helping him teach classes. Siwon had never been that big on dancing, although when he was younger and still living with them, his grandparents used to make him join in on their dance classes. He enjoyed it, but it wasn’t something that really struck him as something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Working at his grandfather’s studio was just something he would do while he continued trying to pursue his rap career, and as soon as that took off, he would quit. The underground community, unsurprisingly, gave him a hard way to go when he made a comeback, although he had spent a lot of his downtime while going through physical therapy brushing up on his skills, so it didn’t take very long for him to earn their respect back. In 2009, he was approached by a man he had never met before, a man who had been watching him pretty closely over for several months. He wanted him to audition to be an idol trainee and eventually debut in a boy group they were putting together. He turned him down the first time. Not only was he not interested in being stuck in a group with other guys, but he didn’t want to get into the kpop industry. He had heard that it was filled with nothing but cookie cutter types, that they stripped you of your individuality and left you as nothing but an empty shell of a person. It wasn’t until one of his rap buddies had surprisingly encouraged him to do it. ‘Opportunities like this don’t come about everyday. You can spend your life underground, or get a taste of what it’s like to be above.’ That was enough encouragement for him to reach out to 99 and accept their offer. He came into the trainee life as a full grown man surrounded by what seemed to be little kids with their heads in the clouds. It made him sick. Not the kids themselves (although they were apart of it), but the fact that they were so blind and naive to the fact that they were going to be screwed over so many times in the industry before making it - if they even made it, that is. The majority of his time as a trainee was spent trying to brush up his unpolished singing, perfect his natural dancing ability and teach him how to properly behave as an idol. The latter would prove to be the hardest thing to do. Siwon had never been one to try to conform to what other people wanted from him. It was during his second year as a trainee that he was approached by 99 and was told that he would be joining a rap survival show with another rap centered trainee. The opportunity to showcase his skills on a national platform and get money for wiping the floor with the other rappers? How could he possibly turn down an opportunity like that? Unsurprisingly he swept his way through the rounds, his polished rapping skills over the years having helped prepare him for the show. He had picked up the reputation of being one of the meaner, harsher rappers. He had no qualms about hitting below the belt, using facts about the other members’ lives that he knew would cut deep. That was why (in his painfully biased opinion), he didn’t win the entire competition. He was too fierce, too tough. People couldn’t handle him, and that was just fine. At least he knew deep down that he was the best at what he did. One thing that pissed him off in regards of the survival show was that people assumed that 99 Entertainment had bought their moderate success on the show, which was insulting. It was insulting because it was a slap in the face to his skills. Just because he was training to be an idol that meant that he couldn’t possibly have any real rapping skills, right? He was confident in his rap ability, but there was a small part of him that was worried that the allegations were true. Whenever he asked 99 Entertainment about it, they denied playing a hand in their success, but he couldn’t be too sure. He wanted to believe that it was all due to their hard work, and he did for the most part, but it was hard to keep that mentality when rumors like that were being thrown around. Even if he wanted to speak out against those allegations, which he did, he couldn’t. The executives at 99 wouldn’t allow him to. Besides that, he was gearing up to finally make his debut. The first two years of Poizn’s career, he was able to hold it together and play the perfect idol, but he soon grew tired of being someone he wasn’t. After his first attitude scandal came another, then another. Soon it would be no surprise to see him making headlines on netizen articles because of his attitude or “diva like” personality on the set of photoshoots, M/V shoots and even variety shows. It had gotten to the point where 99 had outright stopped sending him to variety shows. He hasn’t made a variety show appearance since 2015. The scandals didn’t stop there though. From attitude scandals to dating scandals, Siwon had become Poizn’s number one punching bag when it came to hurling hateful and negative articles at. The only thing the public praised Siwon for was his rapping and charisma, two of the only things that really mattered to him. He couldn’t care less if they enjoyed his personality. Because even if they didn’t enjoy his personality, they still enjoyed his art. So who was really winning? Him.

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