Hyuna's career
A short introduction to the history and context of Hyuna's career - from debut in Wonder Girls to Hyuna signing with P Nation.
A long note on Hyuna's and Dawn's relationship annoucement and finishing the contract with Cube:
There's a bit of a misconception going around in regards to how Hyuna's contract with Cube finished. Most articles and the above video mention "getting kicked out" but it wasn't as simple as that.
Hyuna revealed the relationship after a lot of nasty rumours about her started spreading. Cube didn't do anything about the spread of such rumours and Hyuna being painted in negative light. Cube only denied rumours about their relationship.
Hyuna and Dawn (after discussing with other Pentagon members) decided to come forward with their relationship.
– 02.08-03.08.18 – Hyuna and Pentagon‘s Dawn contacted Yonhap agency to confirm that they have been dating since May 2016.
– Cube cancelled all of Triple H's scheduled promotions.
– 13.09.18 – Cube officially announced that Dawn and Hyuna have been kicked out from the label. The company stated that "having mutual trust with their artists is deemed of importance" and that Hyuna and Dawn aren't trustworthy. The artists haven't been informed about this decision and learned about it from the news...
– On the same day (13.09.18), Cube's CEO retracted the statement and released another one saying that nothing had been officially decided yet and a final decision will be made next week. It's worth noting that "the comment followed a 6.57 percent drop in Cube’s stock price on Thursday".
– 04.10.18 – Hyundae News reveals that Hyuna sent a letter addressed to the CEO asking for a final decision and threatens with creating her own press conference if Cube doesn't respond. "Despite my feelings, my image has hit rock bottom and my reputation has been tarnished because of my removal from Cube."
– 05.10.18 – “Ilgan Sports” released a report stating that Hyuna and Dawn will be leaving Cube Entertainment.
– 15.10.18 – Cube Entertainment announced that Hyuna left the company after coming to a mutual agreement. Cube Entertainment and Dawn agreed to the termination of the exclusive contract on November 14.
– Hyuna (as well as Dawn) joined PSY‘s new label, P NATION on January 25th, 2019.
Why is it important? It's important because Cube didn't actually kick out Hyuna due to how important she was to agency's brand image. She had to ask with an open letter for the contract to end so using the phrase "kicked out" doesn't really fit what happened in this very complicated situation. Also: I want to make sure that everyone knows that what Cube was doing throughout those two months was so much worse than just kicking Hyuna and Dawn out.
Iconic Hyuna Performances
An hour long video of Hyuna's performances before P Nation. The exact timestamps are available under the video.
1. CHANGE
2. ATTENTION
3. Bubble Pop!
4. JUST FOLLOW Feat. ZICO of Block B
5. TROUBLE MAKER - Words I Hate To Hear
6. TROUBLE MAKER -TROUBLE MAKER
7. TROUBLE MAKER - One @ 2011 MBC MUSIC FESTIVAL
8. Green Apple
9. Ice Cream
10. TROUBLE MAKER - INTRO + Now
11. Black list Feat. LE of EXID
12. Red
13. Get Outta My House
14. Roll Deep
15. Freaky
16. How's this?
17. BABE
18. Lip & Hip
19. Bubble Pop! Remix (With WJSN) @2017 MBC MUSIC FESTIVAL
20. Lip & Hip Remix @ 2017 MBC MUSIC FESTIVAL
21. Triple H - 365 FRESH
22. Triple H - RETRO FUTURE
HYUNA'S INTERVIEWS
Billboard's Exclusive interview with Baby Hyuna in 2013. Hyuna talks about 2012, working with PSY, her artistry, her image, entering the US market and her hopes for the future.
#A+ interview. Short interview on her thoughts about her newest album at the time and what it means to her, her interests, hobbies and favourite food.
Hyuna talks about the production process behind Roll Deep, working with different artists and writing lyrics.
Hyuna and Dawn talking about their relationship and the reasons why they love each other during their joint showcase.
Hyuna opening up about her depression, panic disorder and vasovagal syncope and describing how she takes care of her health.
Some other extra videos (all with english subs):
↳ Happy Together (2016.08.04) - appearance with Junhyung, they talked about being friends, Hyuna discussed being offered a role in the movie The Wailing, her sleeping habits etc.
↳ Star Date with Hyuna - 2013 - talking about popularity of Trouble Maker, playing a yes/no game.
↳ Star Date with Hyuna - 2012 - talking about censorship for Change, popularity of Ice Cream, the global success of Gangnam Style.
↳ The Return Of Superman (2017.11.05) - Hyuna meeting tiny William, very short clip!
↳ Guerilla Date With Hyuna on Entertainment Weekly (2014.08.16) - Hyuna promoting Red and interacting with fans + a short interview.
↳ Hello Counselor (2015.03.02) (with 4Minute's Gayoon!)
↳ Guerilla Date with Hyuna on Entertainment Weekly (2016.08.01)
↳ Happy Together - What's Your Name Special: Henry, Kyuhyun, Dasom, Hyuna & more! (2013.07.24)
↳ HyunA's Brag About DAWN [E-news Exclusive Ep 134] - Flower Shower promotion, some context about Hyuna's and Dawn's relationship + Hyuna talking about her decision to disclose their relationship
↳ Hyuna and DAWN on Knowing Bros
↳ Hyuna on Running Man (2019.11.11) - conversation with Hyuna starts at 7:27 - Flower Shower promotion, talking about how happy she is lately, some info about PNation and PSY.
↳ Clips of Chef & My Fridge - Hyuna showing the contents of her fridge and eating food prepared by the chefs. (1, 2)
She also appeared on episode 92 of Knowing Bros, After Mom Goes to Sleep with Triple H, 2 Days & 1 Night, School Attack, she was a part of several different 4Minute docs & variety shows and many more. This isn't meant to be a list with every link possible, just a list to help you with getting started with Hyuna content.
HYUNA SOLO SHOWS
If you want to spend some time watching videos of Hyuna there's nothing better than her solo shows, especially her recent Youtube vlogs.
Note: It's hard to find some episodes and clips of the older shows due to the passage of time and Hyuna changing her agency. All the links here have english subtitles but there are fan translations to other languages available online.
We recommend focusing on the newest content and watching her solo shows because she's pretty shy on variety shows.
HyunA-ing (Flower Shower era)
HyunA-ing is her newest show. It's recorded mostly in a vlog format where Hyuna herself records her surroundings and talks directly to camera. In the episodes we can see Hyuna doing some mundane things, working but we also get a glimpse at her relationship with Hyojong, family, friends and coworkers. Each episode focuses on something different and their titles are quite self-explanatory.
The whole show is edited to look like a recording on an old camera. Every episode has english subs.
↳ Link to an official playlist with all HyunA-ing episodes.
HyunA's x19 (How's this era)
HyunA's x19 was a solo reality show she recorded under Cube. Most of the episodes focus on her career, we follow her through press conference about the disbandment of 4Minute, see behind-the-scenes footage of Hyuna's album preparation but also see her day-to-day life.
There are 5 episodes. Each one of them has 50 mins.
↳ Ep 1 on Youtube, Ep 3 on Youtube. For reasons unknown to us the other three episodes are not on Youtube anymore (except for reposts for fan translations).
↳ A lot of clips from the show are available to watch with english subs. Here's a playlist.
↳ The whole show is available on kshow123.
Hyuna's Free month (Red era)
Hyuna's Free month was Hyuna's first full solo reality show.
"Find out what she's really like behind-the-camera as this reality-documentary series follows her along her work schedules and personal life in the month leading up to the release of her third solo EP album 'A Talk'".
↳ Playlist with all the episodes on Youtube. Note: the english translation available on youtube is a bit awkward at times.
↳ This translation is more accurate but the only available quality is 360p.
A VERY LONG TRIVIA PAGE
We recommend watching "An unhelpful guide to Hyuna"!
CAREER
↳ She participated in a lot of one-time units and special performances. One of them is Dazzling Red with Hyosung, Hyolyn, Nana and Nicole.
↳ She was a special mentor on The Unit (together with Taemin, Rain, Jo Hyuna, Hwang Chiyeol and SanE) and also appeared as a guest mentor on Produce 101 together with Dawn and Hui.
↳ She had a special promotional photoshoot for Deadpool where she acts like Deadpool's wife. Ryan Reynolds talked about it and even posed with pictures from the interview.
↳ She performed Bubble Pop with several different celebrities - WJSN, G-Idle, MBLAQ's Lee Joon.
↳ Hyuna appeared on Dancing With the Stars in 2011! You can watch her samba, cha-cha (Let's Get Loud), jive (Cabaret), disco (YMCA), tango (Where Do I Begin), and another tango (Phantom of the Opera). She was eliminated for tango for Where Do I Begin. She also promoted Change during the show and even danced to Circus by Britney Spears in one segment.
↳ She has 36 writing credits in KOMCA. Her writer ID on KOMCA is 10000727.
↳ "Bubble Pop!" is featured on Just Dance 2018, Just Dance Now and Just Dance Unlimited.
↳ Hyuna has only 4 music show awards for her solo songs - 2 for Red (encore 1, 2) and 2 for How's this? (encore stage 1, 2). However she got 23 music show awards with 4Minute and 12 awards for Troublemaker.
↳ She had a cameo in Jay Park's "You Know" MV. She even appeared in a special choreography teaser.
↳Brand ambassador of/affiliated with YSL, Calvin Klein, Clride.n, Puma, MAC, GRN, MLB, Tony Moly, Toyota Corolla (she released a special song "My Color" for this partnership), Find Kapoor, SeeYoung. (the links show example videos of cfs, behind the scenes etc.)
↳ Her music video for her debut EP 'Bubble Pop!' in 2011 was the first video of a female K-pop soloist to reach 100M views on a YouTube video.
↳ Hyuna was ranked 17th on Billboard's '21 Under 21′ (2011), a staff-compiled list of notable young acts.
↳ Bubble Pop was listed as ninth place on Spin magazine's "Best 20 Songs of 2011." The other acts that were mentioned were Kanye West, The Weeknd, Britney Spears, Frank Ocean etc.
↳ Trouble Maker was quite a big hit. A lot of famous celebrities covered the song or even parodied it (SNL Korea, Infinite's version during their concert, Hani x Jihun cover, compilation of different parodies and dance covers and a lot more that you can easily find by searching them up on Youtube).
↳ Bubble Pop was also the background music used in Family Guy while they were making a "K-pop song", it also imitates the MV's aesthetic.
↳ Hyuna also was on the cover of Pop Magazine together with Taylor Swift, as the first korean act.
↳ Ice Cream became the fastest kpop MV to gain 20M views for a k-pop soloist at the time. "[...] with an average of 1.7 million a day. That's a watch rate extremely similar to that of Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift videos, placing HyunA in a group of top global stars. (Guardian)".
↳ Rolling Stone magazine said Red is one of the top 10 MVs of 2014.
↳ She once appeared on Funny or Die with Rita Ora.
↳ Hyuna was offered the role that Chun Woo Hee played in the film "The Wailing". Director Na Hong Jin approached Hyuna about doing the film, but she turned it down, saying that she has no acting experience and that she feels too much pressure participating in a film.
FANDOM/RELATIONSHIP WITH FANS
↳ Hyuna gave special gifts to fans who came to see her on her first pre-recording of a music show. She was giving away hoodies, coffee, Starbucks gift cards, blankets, cakes, CDs and even YSL cosmetics. Apparently she even gave coupons that let you exchange for a different color. Fans asked if she's not doing too much but she said: "Well, I make a lot of money. Later on, when I don't make as much money, I can't do those things for you. I can only do these things when I earn money. You won't get much from me later on. (video)". She also wrote small letters for each fan.
↳ Hyuna also had a special giveaway on her Vlive fanship where she was giving away some of her stage outfits.
↳ Hyuna's fandom was always dominated by women. Hyuna: "Female fans are all I have, but people have always assumed that I would have more male fans."
FRIENDS
↳ Hyuna's close with Kim Shinyoung (the host of Show Champion). She appeared in Hyuna's X19 where they discussed their first meeting and Hyuna complained that Shinyoung should call her more often.
↳ She's very close with Jessi. She appeared in one episode of Jessi TV (together with Dawn). Jessi has shown support towards Hyuna in various situations - when she announced she's dating Dawn, when there was a controversy over one of her performances, she was even defending Hyuna in the comments of her Instagram post.
Jessi often appears in the comments of Hyuna's instagram lives. Examples: 1 2 3. Hyuna listening to Jessi's song Gucci during her live. You can also find them often posting instagram pictures together.
↳ She remained good friends with Wonder Girls members.
Here's a cute video of her having fun with Sunmi backstage when they were promoting at the same time and a cute Music Bank interaction. Hyuna also posted several pictures of her with Sunmi to her Instagram and Sunmi posted pics of her.
Ha:tfelt (Yeeun) mentioned that she often goes shopping with Hyuna. Hyuna posted dance covers (Look What You Made Me Do, Another One Bites The Dust) with Ha:tfelt. Ha:tfelt was celebrating Hyojong's and Hyuna's birthdays with them, they were also celebrating Wonder Girls' 12th anniversary together. Hyuna also posted a video to instagram in which she tagged her that indicates that she got a coffee machine as a gift from Ha:tfelt. Hyuna posted screenshots of Melon of her streaming Sunmi's and Ha:tfelt's songs, she also posted videos in support of them.
↳ She's close with PSY since they collabed in 2012 for Gangnam Style. He had a cameo in her Ice Cream MV and she talked several times about how her cameo in Gangnam Style helped her in getting a bigger international audience. And now she's under P Nation!
↳ She's very close with her backup dancers and stylists (Lead Dancer: Hana No, stylist: Dooho, stylist: Ssul, stylist: Youngman etc.)! They often appear in HyunA-ing episodes or in her instagram posts & stories. Hana knew about Hyuna dating Hyojong and even helped them secretly arrange dates.
RANDOM FACTS ABOUT HYUNA
↳ She's known for always arguing with Doni and Coni and lying right in their faces during Random Play Dance.
↳ She posted over 50 random pics of shoes on her Instagram. Sometimes she's wearing the shoes and sometime's they are just lying on the ground.
↳ She was known for her Pikachu impression.
↳ Change was known for hip thrust/pelvic thrust choreography.
↳ She has at least 18 tattoos.
↳ She's a dog person! Sogeum, Hyuna's 3 year old dog, (eng. salt) stars in most of her Instagram videos and photos and even special YT vlogs called HyunA-ing. He even got an episodes mostly focused on him (SoGeum's Bath Time). Sogeum even appears in some of her official photoshoots. She's also always encouraging people to adopt pets instead of buying (HyunA-ing "Everyone, please adopt pets from shelters"). Haetnim (eng. sunbeam, most fans spell the name as "Haenim" because that's how it's romanised in Hyuna-ing) is an adopted dog and the shelter they got them from wrote a special thank you note for them. Hyuna generally takes Sogeum everywhere with her while Dawn goes to schedules with Haenim.
↳ She really loves pineapples and Simpsons. She used to get a lot of gifts from fans related to those things.
↳ Despite being known for her cool image, she's very shy and serious when she's not on stage.
DANCE COVERS
Hyuna quite often does dance covers/dance practices on her Instagram. Here are some examples:
1. Amerie feat. T.I - Touch
2. Victoria Monet - Do You Like it
3. Gallant - Sharpest Edges
4. Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U
5. BIBI - Nabi
6. Sean Paul, David Guetta, Becky G - Mad Love
7. The Pussycat Dolls - Buttons
8. Ariana Grande - Bad Idea
9. H.E.R - 2
10. Bishop Briggs - Like a River
11. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do
You can find some of them reposted on this Youtube channel.