Big thanks to Alexander for this great interview! itโs his birthday today so make sure you guys go to his IG and say happy birthday! ๐ ๐๐ปinstagram.com/xander0729/ anyways thank you all for watching :)
@cheryldailey5310
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Done! Though it might seem random getting birthday wishes from an American. LOL!
@autumnsky5025
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Done bro. And i tell him that Moorim School is one of my fav drama. His acting is amazing. He dida great work. I hope there will be more project next time. Tysm so much for this video Jay. Pls stay healthy ๐
@felypratiwi5727
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Aaaahhh thank you so much. Miss U-KISS crazily :"
@imtikumlaao3071
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So glad to see you again after so long Xander! You're missed. ๐ค๐
@cyrylgregory1696
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Filipino FANS loved him so. Alexander is a KINDHEARTED person. God bless you always.
I remember being really bummed when he left. i didn't remember that he was there for only 3 years. I thought he had the best standing in variety shows and was one of the most popular member overseas. So I didn't understand why he had left. They were raving about the number of languages he spoke. The fact that jobs still come for him even though he does not actively reach out, shows that he already had a lot of popularity. The company was blind.
@sweetescape4489
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Truthfully ukiss as a group deserve more. They have nice songs. It was also a rumor that after kibum left, xander left along bcs he felt it was unfair.
@csy897
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Sweet Escape well now we know that he was basically asked to leave. Thank God he had an imo to tell the Sajangnim off and let Xander go. Xander was blessed. He had a group the moment he entered and was able to leave cleanly when things turned sour. Angels are definitely on his side.
@GeminiX31
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Yeah I hope alexander debut in a good company and become popular..he deserved it so much..
@ZebstrikaGirl
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Kissme since 2008 here, I know for sure Xander was one of the post popular members at least among American Kissme. The member swap hurt the group more than it did help.
It makes emotional but happy at the same time that heโs comfortable enough to talk about ukiss openly now. Iโll never forgive the company for doing this to ukiss. They ruined ukiss. I loved Xander and Kibum so much, they deserve everything.
@Tronda550
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Well even though NH Media ruined U-KISS, without U-KISS there wouldn't be NH Media.
@nataschazehar2639
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Same I feel the same and when Jun Jun came in I was like shit this poor baby won't get to do a lot of korean music video's and that pisses me off.
@jidori2258
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That was the best lineup of U-KISS ๐ข
@visualbeauty3427
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@@nataschazehar2639 how what did he do?
@nataschazehar2639
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@@visualbeauty3427 what do y mean ????? I was talking about how NH media don't ever promote ukiss like they should unlike Japan
I really enjoyed Alexander's attitude. He is very real. Being a positive support in the future for KPop industry sounds like a really solid and good idea. Best of luck!
@juno1765
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Well actually for male idols it's not as hard living as a kpop idol as female idols... But not every idol has the same difficulty because it depends on the companies and how popular you are
@siuchiho3054
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happy birthday
@aussiesarah9962
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@Juno Felix, Unfortunately you are correct. The info I have read concerning female idols is far different and quite a lot of it concerning.
@juno1765
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@@aussiesarah9962 yes they go through hard things such as weight, discrimination, harrassment and scam etc...
@aussiesarah9962
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@@juno1765 none of which is OK. I am fairly new to the world of kpop and all its ins and outs. I am actually shocked at the way a lot of idols are treated and I personally feel that the companies shouldn't be able to have so much power over them. They are still people. And the issue about idols private lives is a whole issue that gets me cross to another level. Nobody should have a say in that other than the person themselves. If you're a fan, be a fan, do not try to control someone else's private life. It is quite literally none of their business. I have big issues with this. It could be a cultural difference but it makes my blood boil.
Ohmygosh Alexander ๐ญ๐ญ I miss the old UKiss days, the first group that got me into kpop! This is such an eye opener to what was actually happening behind the scenes, I'm glad he was able to finally talk about it
@sirup9189
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omg i feel the exact same way!!
@hazelleandabook
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Same, they were my first Korean boy band I obsessed about!
I'm so glad you did this interview segment with Alexander. Ukiss was definitely one of the 2nd gen groups that really brought me into kpop. I watched their arirang english kpop shows and their variety shows, like the cooking show that showcased their chef skills. Alex may not have been popular in korea, but internationally he would attract overseas fans. One of the reasons why I was intrigued at first with Ukiss was because he was a foreigner and had a unique look about him. His humor quickly won me over. I hate how the company just threw him aside. I never did believe he left voluntarily to pursue his studies, and this interview just proves how shady companies are. The member changes never sat well with me, and my interest in Ukiss's direction decreased. This talk was enlightening. Thanks for sharing! Hope good things are lined up for Alex in the coming future ๐๐
I LOVE that he wants to work at an entertainment company to provide psychological support to the trainees and artists there!! I think that's something they really need to focus more on! Like always, loved this video :)
Omg it makes me so mad that the company kicked him out. He was one of the most outgoing and fun members. I still love Ukiss. I'm glad he told us his side. I wish nothing but the best for him and all the members โค๏ธ
@LuisHenrique-uf3lv
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i can already see koreaboo and allthekpop making articles about this video
@peekatooo
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So truee like they cringe af they be simping on any korean guys
@forreal4461
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PEOPLE read those shit websites???
@YN-hv7sn
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Yes ikr so STOOPID like some koreaboos in Korea when they see a guy They like they instantly go up to them asking for their phone number and wechat and. Ig I know this coz my bestie lives their ๐
I definitely agree - these idols need psychological support, just to make sure they're mentally and emotionally well. They're in a very cutthroat business that takes the best out of them.
Xander was my bias and I was so bummed when he left but I'm really glad we get to keep seeing him
@BlackWolfGuardian
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U-kiss was the second ever kpop group I learned about. First was SS501, initially I thought Kibum was Hyung-jun from SS501 & was very confused. Then I learned that they were brothers lol. U-kiss & Xander will always have a special place in my heart.๐ค๐ฆ๐ค
I am a ukiss fan since 2010, and i really love all of them, I always thought that Alexander has an amazing personality and he deserves all the good things in the world
I know I'm not the only kissme who's hoping for u-kiss to come back but I just hoooope that someday we can see them perform again as u-kiss. It would be the death of me if they perform man man hani again
@tequerer8463
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3 of them.ady got married and.dongho even a divorcee.time has fly so much
@helgapataki7618
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Omg "Not Young" by ukiss was and still is my jam โจ
Alexander wanting to help in young idols mental health is so heart warming, I really hope he can achieve that because is so necessary. Good luck King!!!
I've been a U-KISS fan since your guys debut with Not Young!!! Still hoping for a reunion one day. Still bitter to this day about the compony letting you go, honestly the worst mistake. Love always!
Alexander and UKISS were literally the ones who brought me into kpop all those years ago, and basically changed my life... Hearing him talk about everything that happened really hit hard... ๐ญ
This is exactly how my friends talk at times๐คฃ Peak bilingual culture
@cessd2860
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I miss U-KISS...and alexander is really a genuine person...hopefully he could get more projects as an actor or artist or host in the future๐
@syirahaffan5842
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god i remember how im soooooo obsessed with ukiss back then, i literally cried when xander and kibum left but continue to support them after aj and hoon joined, omg let me tell u tht ukiss is just the best and talented group out there! they are definitely a strong group with top notch choreography with powerful vocal ngl, they can go far with their career, they got the potential to be big in overseas, but their company give no shits about them, they deserve much better :( now, most of the members left and we only got soohyun, jun and hoon... im still gonna support them and im sure i still gonna support xander, kibum, aj, dongho and the rest for what they want to achieve in the future man, the KISSME in me will nver die! :D
@georgetteaprilpolicarpio6479
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Watched his drama in the Philippines, "My Korean Jagiya" and it was so cute!
@hommefataltaemin
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Sorry to ask but what does Jagiya mean?? :o
@georgetteaprilpolicarpio6479
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@@hommefataltaemin Hi! If i remember correctly, it is a term of endearment, like "honey" or "love" Not really sure though.
@kadukaable
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Oh my, I just finished it too. I love it!
@anamariesanchez5432
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Me too ^_^
@Dara_YT_Channel
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It's so good to hear all of that story and advice from Alexander. Since competition thing in Korea is so common, everyone wants on top.
oh wow, it's so good to hear from alexander! u-kiss used to be my ult group and alexander was one of my favorite members, but i was too young to understand why he left at the time. he deserves better ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ i hope we'll get to hear about him more :( also i don't care what he says, but not young is still a bop! also the fox part in man man ha ni is so iconic, i didn't even know that it was a fox cause i can't speak korean, but now that i know, i love it even more ๐ค
@carribeanbratzguyanesequeen997
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I found this Now alexander was my ultimate back then in middle school. I been searching for him years.
Man Man Ha Ni was my first kpop song and what brought me here so I'm really thankful for UKISS and keep trying and succeeding Alexander!
@vivianaq2cnopa
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U Kiss was the first ever Kpop that I fell in love so deeply with. I live in Jordan and asked a friend from the Philippines to buy for me an album from them. I used to watch all of their mvs and videos and my ringtone would be of their songs. I still believe that they were the most underated under-appreciated idols and one of the most talented of all time in Korea, although they did very well overseas.
@reinayu3433
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NOT YOUNG WAS ADORABLE. That was on repeat for me during that time hahah I would always point out how Dongho was a baby
@reginayun9898
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When I was younger, I was obsessed with kpop and my favorite band was U-KISS. I remember on Twitter, Xander replied to one of my comments and I was sooo excited. It really made 14 year old me happy.
@seraphicsy_
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I am very impressed ur attitude when you see the world. I saw only 14mins of video and heard what you've been done at least like 10 years. I saw you are not depressed or went worse even though the situation such as ex ent. company's treatment to you was horrible. That postivie attitude and mind brought you more blinging than before :) I hope you doing well and we love ur foxy gesture, for real! ๐ฆ 3๋ ๊ฐ ์ ํค์ค ํ๋์ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ค์์ ๋ฌด์ํ ์์ฒ์ ๋ง๋ค์ ๊ฐํ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ง๋ง ์ ๋ง ์๊ณ ํ์ จ์ด์. ์ํฐ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋๋ฐ๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์ฝ์ง์์๋ฐ, ๊ทธ ์ํฉ ์์์ ์ ์๋๋ผ๋ฉด ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ์ ์ ์์ ๋์์ํ ๋ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ง์ธ๋๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์ง๋ด๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ด ๋ ๋ฉ์ง๋๋ค ๋์ค์ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ด๋๋ค ์ํด ๋ฉํ health ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์ผํ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ด ์ฐธ๋ฉ์๋ค์ ์ฐ์๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ ์ ๊ด๋ จ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋๊ผ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ์ด์จ๋ ์ฌ์ฐ๊ฐ์ girl ์๋ซ! ๋ ์ข์ต๋๋ค! ์๋ดค์ด์๐ฆ
@ndxxmx2416
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Yes! Moorim school I shocked n happy seeing him in the drama. The drama is one of my favorite
@ysabel1989
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Yes we love Alexander's drama here in The Philippines ๐ต๐ญโฅ๏ธ we miss you Xander
@soniatrejo3741
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I hope that Alexander is happy with all his achievements, I really hate it when companies do such horrible things to their people but the important thing is to move on and keep on trying and enjoying their lifes, U-KISS is my first ever kpop group that I knew back when I was 15 years old and I'll forever be grateful to them because they opened a whole new world for me, love you always ^^
@from1__107
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The hair flip shit I love this guy
@AhomeshanTV
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I'm from Perรบ AND Alexander was my bias. I feel sad when he left the group
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