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keiaraok this is a fun update: song jaewon, also known as hwarang (ex-tempest), has been spotted for the first time 9 months and spoiler! he enlisted.
let me give you a short summary of the whole catasrophy that led to us losing one of the greatest idols of all time (biased opinion). in october 2023, while korean boy group TEMPEST was promoting their song 'vroom vroom' (shit song btw), member hwarang was injured on stage. it was some shoulder injury and he had to get surgery and rest so he went on hiatus from late october to late december, ~2 months. by the start of 2024 things were moving normally, they had a fancon coming up, a korean comeback, japanese debut, their 2nd anniversary, and hwarang had even landed a MC gig at show champion.
then everything changed when the fire nation attacked blah blah Ok so basically in mid-feb, literal hours before the 1st group teaser was supposed to drop for the group's upcoming comeback 'lighthouse', a burner account posts a video of an audio from when she went to a tempest fansign. in the audio, she tells hwarang that she saw him at a club, and he admits to it saying like 'haha yeah i was there with some friends and we listened to music' or whatever. obviously umm idols in the club (he was w/ 4 other nugu / mid-tier idols) the post got like 10k+ qrts and a ton of attention. yuehua put out a statement a few hours later like 'umm yeah we confirm that and hwarang's sorry and also teasers will be delayed a day' and then that day ended. so like ok obviously everyones going ??? and we're all on edge but after maybe 3 days things go back to normal. teasers are posted, bubble messages are being sent, twitter posts, etc. like everyone moved on. they celebrated eunchan's birthday in late feb and their 2nd anniversary on march 2nd with livestreams. then on march 5th, literally 3 days after they had their ani livestream where they were like Yess tpst ot7 4ever lets stay together for a long time, yuehua puts out a SECOND statement saying that hwarang will be put on an indefinite hiatus for failing to establish trust with the agency. thus begins the time from march 5th to august 11th until finally they release a message saying 'ok yeah he left the group byee' and then tempest ot6 goes on to flop on road to kingdom 2 (i mean cmon man, you couldn't beat 8turn? YOUNITE?).
throughout this time theres been 0 sightings of him. unlike how people saw seunghan apparently going 'hoooly shit' outside SM building or whatever, we never got any hwarang photos (because he has like 10 fans: 5 of them are in China and3 of them are my friends and i). everyone kind of has their ideas of what happened such as upcoming survival shows (i didn't think this would happen, you cant just get kicked out ur group for clubbing and then join a ss) and military enlistment: the 2 year period that korean men have to serve in the military. the military made sense cause like this guy has been training for what, 10 years to be an idol? only to actually be an idol for 2 years? yeah man i'd also, as twitter user hammypies put it, want a "hard reset".
it was maybe 11:30-ish at night, i was on a twitter space with some friends when all of a sudden im scrolling through twitter and just stop. in front of me, in a post from around a whole hour ago, are 3 fansite photos from twitter user trigger0423, showing a man in military uniform saluting, the name 'song jaewon' stitched on his shirt.
"HOLY SHIT" <-- (my reaction live on space)
funnily enough the space ended due to poor connection like 2 minutes later but for those 2 minutes, my mutuals and i lost our collective minds because holy moly guacamole we just got a picture of hwarang. 'he didn't kill himself!', said one. 'his face is still great!', said another. slowly but surely the photos went from having 3 likes and 100 qrts to 3k qrts and 1k+ likes, all flaming the fuckk out of the OP fansite.
now see, trigger0423 isn't an ordinary fansite. maybe you could tell that just from the fact that she took photos of him from a f*cking military base, but this crazy ass stuff started wayy before then. she has been one of tempest's more notorious sasaengs, standing out from some of the groups other stalker fansites due to the fact that she made hwarang cry at a fansign event once. she basicaly just said 'ur hair is ugly change it it looks bad' and he teared up and apologized and then she posted the video on twitter, got flamed, and deleted it once she got flamed. awesome stuff all around (also the hair she didnt like was his dangerous-era black hair which literally made me a fan of the group but to each their own ig). however, hwarang is just a more recent choice of hers to terrorize; she's also known among korean fans of other boy groups for a scammer and such. but circling back to her getting dragged in the qrts, do you wanna know what the cherry on top of all of this is? people theorize that she's the burner account that posted the audio that got him kicked out in the first place.
YUP! theres now a whole conspiracy that she got him kicked out in order to try to get closer to him, seeing as she is still following him around to the military when he's now just an ordinary korean citizen. when the fansite photos were posted, she got ratioed by a krn hwarang fanpage that hadn't been active in months (obviously) basically telling her she's crazy and needs to leave him alone. like brother thats song jaewon now hwarang is gonee you need to drop it. i don't know how or why she is still doing all this and like okay kind of legendary that this is how we get our first photos of him in ages but also dang. he's for real in the military at 23. he LITERALLY should've been in the club.
anyways hwarang was like the only male idol i ever really gaf about (unless you count zhang shuaibo umm #plz debut in uni league with a good team thanks) and my interest in tempest started to fall around may of 2024 when they continued to release music i didn't care for with fanservice that did not interest me. it's like once hwarang left all of a sudden no one wants to gaybait anymore! just another piece of evidence to show he was a legend. i still like tempest kind of sort of considering i did like ult them for like a year from may 2023-may 2024. the members are chill and dangerous is a fantastic boy group song all around, but i just do not care for them like that nowadays. hopefully they start making good music again, hopefully hwarang has an easy time in the military or whatever (he enlisted oct 2024 and will be discharged apr 2026 i believe).
p.s. i'm still not calling him Jaewon; your ass is Hwarang.
let me give you a short summary of the whole catasrophy that led to us losing one of the greatest idols of all time (biased opinion). in october 2023, while korean boy group TEMPEST was promoting their song 'vroom vroom' (shit song btw), member hwarang was injured on stage. it was some shoulder injury and he had to get surgery and rest so he went on hiatus from late october to late december, ~2 months. by the start of 2024 things were moving normally, they had a fancon coming up, a korean comeback, japanese debut, their 2nd anniversary, and hwarang had even landed a MC gig at show champion.
then everything changed when the fire nation attacked blah blah Ok so basically in mid-feb, literal hours before the 1st group teaser was supposed to drop for the group's upcoming comeback 'lighthouse', a burner account posts a video of an audio from when she went to a tempest fansign. in the audio, she tells hwarang that she saw him at a club, and he admits to it saying like 'haha yeah i was there with some friends and we listened to music' or whatever. obviously umm idols in the club (he was w/ 4 other nugu / mid-tier idols) the post got like 10k+ qrts and a ton of attention. yuehua put out a statement a few hours later like 'umm yeah we confirm that and hwarang's sorry and also teasers will be delayed a day' and then that day ended. so like ok obviously everyones going ??? and we're all on edge but after maybe 3 days things go back to normal. teasers are posted, bubble messages are being sent, twitter posts, etc. like everyone moved on. they celebrated eunchan's birthday in late feb and their 2nd anniversary on march 2nd with livestreams. then on march 5th, literally 3 days after they had their ani livestream where they were like Yess tpst ot7 4ever lets stay together for a long time, yuehua puts out a SECOND statement saying that hwarang will be put on an indefinite hiatus for failing to establish trust with the agency. thus begins the time from march 5th to august 11th until finally they release a message saying 'ok yeah he left the group byee' and then tempest ot6 goes on to flop on road to kingdom 2 (i mean cmon man, you couldn't beat 8turn? YOUNITE?).
throughout this time theres been 0 sightings of him. unlike how people saw seunghan apparently going 'hoooly shit' outside SM building or whatever, we never got any hwarang photos (because he has like 10 fans: 5 of them are in China and3 of them are my friends and i). everyone kind of has their ideas of what happened such as upcoming survival shows (i didn't think this would happen, you cant just get kicked out ur group for clubbing and then join a ss) and military enlistment: the 2 year period that korean men have to serve in the military. the military made sense cause like this guy has been training for what, 10 years to be an idol? only to actually be an idol for 2 years? yeah man i'd also, as twitter user hammypies put it, want a "hard reset".
it was maybe 11:30-ish at night, i was on a twitter space with some friends when all of a sudden im scrolling through twitter and just stop. in front of me, in a post from around a whole hour ago, are 3 fansite photos from twitter user trigger0423, showing a man in military uniform saluting, the name 'song jaewon' stitched on his shirt.
"HOLY SHIT" <-- (my reaction live on space)
funnily enough the space ended due to poor connection like 2 minutes later but for those 2 minutes, my mutuals and i lost our collective minds because holy moly guacamole we just got a picture of hwarang. 'he didn't kill himself!', said one. 'his face is still great!', said another. slowly but surely the photos went from having 3 likes and 100 qrts to 3k qrts and 1k+ likes, all flaming the fuckk out of the OP fansite.
now see, trigger0423 isn't an ordinary fansite. maybe you could tell that just from the fact that she took photos of him from a f*cking military base, but this crazy ass stuff started wayy before then. she has been one of tempest's more notorious sasaengs, standing out from some of the groups other stalker fansites due to the fact that she made hwarang cry at a fansign event once. she basicaly just said 'ur hair is ugly change it it looks bad' and he teared up and apologized and then she posted the video on twitter, got flamed, and deleted it once she got flamed. awesome stuff all around (also the hair she didnt like was his dangerous-era black hair which literally made me a fan of the group but to each their own ig). however, hwarang is just a more recent choice of hers to terrorize; she's also known among korean fans of other boy groups for a scammer and such. but circling back to her getting dragged in the qrts, do you wanna know what the cherry on top of all of this is? people theorize that she's the burner account that posted the audio that got him kicked out in the first place.
YUP! theres now a whole conspiracy that she got him kicked out in order to try to get closer to him, seeing as she is still following him around to the military when he's now just an ordinary korean citizen. when the fansite photos were posted, she got ratioed by a krn hwarang fanpage that hadn't been active in months (obviously) basically telling her she's crazy and needs to leave him alone. like brother thats song jaewon now hwarang is gonee you need to drop it. i don't know how or why she is still doing all this and like okay kind of legendary that this is how we get our first photos of him in ages but also dang. he's for real in the military at 23. he LITERALLY should've been in the club.
anyways hwarang was like the only male idol i ever really gaf about (unless you count zhang shuaibo umm #plz debut in uni league with a good team thanks) and my interest in tempest started to fall around may of 2024 when they continued to release music i didn't care for with fanservice that did not interest me. it's like once hwarang left all of a sudden no one wants to gaybait anymore! just another piece of evidence to show he was a legend. i still like tempest kind of sort of considering i did like ult them for like a year from may 2023-may 2024. the members are chill and dangerous is a fantastic boy group song all around, but i just do not care for them like that nowadays. hopefully they start making good music again, hopefully hwarang has an easy time in the military or whatever (he enlisted oct 2024 and will be discharged apr 2026 i believe).
p.s. i'm still not calling him Jaewon; your ass is Hwarang.
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