{"id":18010,"date":"2021-12-20T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=18010"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:17:58","slug":"beomgyu-declined-to-join-txt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/beomgyu-declined-to-join-txt\/","title":{"rendered":"Choi Beomgyu initially declined to join TXT and explains why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an episode of JTBC&#8217;s \u201cBistro Shigor,\u201d <strong>Beomgyu<\/strong> made his first solo variety show appearance as the show&#8217;s first \u201cpart-time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>During a lunch break, Cha In Pyo asked Beomgyu how old he was when he started in the industry, to which Beomgyu replied, &#8220;<em><strong>I was almost 17 when I became a trainee.<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; Jo Se Ho asked Changmin about his own trainee days, and the TVXQ member replied, \u201c<em><strong>I started when I was 16 years old. I also didn&#8217;t train for long. I trained for almost a year<\/strong><\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Beomgyu then asked Changmin, &#8220;<em><strong>Did they put you in the debut lineup right away?<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; Changmin confirmed, \u201c<em><strong>Quite a bit, yes<\/strong><\/em>\u201d and Beomgyu shared, \u201c<em><strong>Me too<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d prompting Changmin to high five him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YzTUSYn-FTA\" title=\"\uce5c\ud574\uc9c0\ub294 \uc911\u2763\ufe0f \ub370\ubdd4\uc870 \ubc94\uaddc(BEOMGYU)\uc640 \ucc3d\ubbfc(MaxChangmin)\uc5d0\uac8c \ubc1c\uc0dd\ud55c \ub3d9\uc9c0\uc560(?) \uc2dc\uace0\ub974 \uacbd\uc591\uc2dd(Bistro Shigor) 7\ud68c | JTBC 211216 \ubc29\uc1a1\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YzTUSYn-FTA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>However, Beomgyu revealed, &#8220;<em><strong>When I made the first debut lineup, I said I wouldn&#8217;t<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; When asked why, he explained, \u201c<em><strong>I wasn&#8217;t originally planning to become an idol. I originally played guitar, so I was determined to eventually become a member of a band no matter what<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;<em><strong>Because I was presented with the opportunity [to become a trainee], I thought, &#8216;Since things turned out like this, I should work hard,&#8217; but all of a sudden they told me I would be in the debut lineup<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; Fortunately, Beomgyu changed his mind and finally debuted as a member of TXT in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an episode of JTBC&#8217;s \u201cBistro Shigor,\u201d Beomgyu made his first solo variety show appearance as the show&#8217;s first \u201cpart-time\u201d. During a lunch break, Cha In Pyo asked Beomgyu how old he was when he started in the industry, to which Beomgyu replied, &#8220;I was almost 17 when I became a trainee.&#8221; Jo Se Ho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":18011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1082],"class_list":{"0":"post-18010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-txt"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}