JJ magazine interview translations.

[purplesky]

OKAY Here is a full translation of all five of the members' interviews in JJ magazine. I did the best I could. There may be some errors here and there, and I have littered the translations with notes and explanations when I didn't think my translation was clear.

Lalala enjoy and please help me out on any parts where I couldn't get the translation and/or point out any glaring, horrific errors I may have made.

Yunho's interview was horrible and I gave up trying to translate it directly halfway through :\ So help with the specifics on that would be appreciated.

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TY and enjoy :D



Changmin [pic]

Q01: Do you have a Valentine's Day memory?
Changmin: I started getting chocolates in middle school... Something like that (lol)

Q02: Is there a place in Japan you want to go on a date?
Changmin: (We'd go on) a casual, relaxing day trip to the onsen.

Q03: Would you make your appeal to the girl you like through a phone call? An email?
Changmin: I'd meet up with her and confess.

Q04: What've you bought lately?
Changmin: The small bag I have with me everyday.

Q05: What would you be in trouble if you didn't have?
Changmin: Water.

Q06: How many emails do you send in a day?
Changmin: Around 10 I think.

Q07: What's your favorite Japanese food? What can't you eat?
Changmin: I like yakisoba. I dislike the food you see on TV shows called kusaya.

Q08: What do you always do when you're in the middle of moving? (TN: I think this means like when they're traveling around?)
Changmin: Relax.

Q09: What's your favorite way to relax and relieve stress?
Changmin: I watch 3~5 hours of interesting TV shows that I recorded and laugh.

Q10: What's your favorite movie?
Changmin: I like "Love Story"

Q11: Do you drink alcohol? How strong?
Changmin: I love shochu! I like it pretty strong.

Q12: Something that surprised you recently?
Changmin: When we came to Japan earlier, I was told it was the coldest day of the year but I thought to myself "isn't it kinda warm?" Korea is really cold.

Q13: What about Japanese girls do you think is "cute"? Korean girls?
Changmin: Japanese girls have high voices and cute noses. It's a cute image. Korean girls have beautiful skin.

Q14: What's a good point about Japanese fans?
Changmin: They come to concerts with their families. When I see that I get happy.

Q15: What do you sing at karaoke?
Changmin: It's embarrassing to sing DBSK songs so I don't. I sing songs by Korean artist Shin Seung-wan.
(TN: Who?)

Q16: Do you have something you treasure?
Changmin: My diary that I write in every day, I've been writing it for three years now.

Q17: Some Japanese you've learned recently?
Changmin: "Batsuichi" ("divorced"). Because there was a guy in a drama who was divorced... (lol)

Q18: Please tell us your impression of JJ.
Changmin: If I was a girl I think I'd definitely read it.

Q19: In JJ, which girls' fashion and hair do you like?
Changmin: For fashion, I like (girls who wear) a miniskirt, their hair long and neat/tidy, with a elegant/high class image.

Q20: Finally, say something to JJ!
Changmin: "This year is difficult because the flu is spreading. Next year, please take care of your body and let's go to the World Cup!"

Yoochun [pic]

Q21: Do you have any Valentine's Day memories?
Yoochun: Last year, my younger brother's girlfriend made me a small chocolate. It's kind of sad/depressing, but I was happy. (lol)

Q22: What action that a girl does makes you think "cute"? Also, what don't you like?
Yoochun: I like watching her figure while she's doing laundry or when she doesn't have makeup. I guess I don't like girls using dirty language.

Q23: You get all "Heee ♥" when a girl says...?
Yoochun: When she praises a song I wrote.
(TN: Not the literal question but the best I could do 8D)

Q24: What food do you want to make for a girl you like?
Yoochun: Home cooking, tofu miso soup...

Q25: Where do you go on the first date?
Yoochun: The road from school to her home.
(TN: lmfao Chun is that a date?)

Q26: When you're in love, are you dedicated? Indifferent?
Yoochun: I'm dedicated with both contacting and meeting (whoever he's in love with).

Q27: When you're in front of girls do you change your attitude/how you act?
Yoochun: When I'm in front of girls I change.
(There's another short phrase here but I have no idea what the first kanji is.)

Q28: Your dream when you were a child?
Yoochun: A basketball player or a racer.

Q29: Your favorite part of your own body?
Yoochun: I like my wide forehead. You can even play soccer on this forehead! (a header)
(TN: A "header" (or "heading" in Japanese) is a soccer play where the player head-butts the ball. YAY for Wikipedia in Japanese!)

Q30: If you come to Japan, is there a place you have to go or thing you have to do?
Yoochun: A ramen shop.

Q31: Japan, America, Korea "is a ______ kind of place" (not a direct translation but good enough).
Yoochun: Japan has especially good food!
America is a free country.
Korea is where I spend time with my family.

Q32: When did you start learning Taewkondo, that (you??) performed in front of the South Korean president?
Yoochun: I was scouted into it when I was in my third year of elementary school.
(TN: Did Yoochun perform in front of the SK president? :3)

Q33: What's your fashion lately?
Yoochun: UGG boots style!

Q34: What kind of accessory do you often wear?
Yoochun: I got a silver bracelet from my younger brother. It's my treasure.

Q35: What are you collecting these days?
Yoochun: Plates. I don't cook but when I see a beautiful plate I get it. I buy plates and give them to my mom as presents.

Q36: What Japanese have you learned lately?
Yoochun: "ご機嫌うるわしゅう"
(TN: Means something about "good mood is beautiful" I think? not a clue. Is this a movie quote, possibly?)

Q37: What do you sing at karaoke?
Yoochun: Fukuyama Masaharu's "Saiai" ("Beloved")

Q38: Please tell us your impression of JJ.
Yoochun: Photographing honestly looks difficult~ I thought.

Q39: In JJ, which girls' fashion and hair do you like?
Yoochun: I like a simple and natural pants style. As for hair, if it matches the person then it's okay, but I don't like gaudy/flashy styles, I like (styles with) a fluffy, light air (to them).

Q40: Finally, say something to JJ!
Yoochun: Can I be your Valentine? (lol). ご機嫌うるわしゅう.
(TN: Same phrase as before, something about good moods being beautiful or something, idk).

Yunho [pic]

Q41: Do you have a Valentine's Day memory?
Yunho: When I was in middle school, a girl five years older than me made me these little doll-shaped chocolates and confessed to me in a letter. Since she was older and I was still a child, I politely turned her down.

Q42: What kind of fashion makes you think "A girl who wears this kind of clothing is intolerable!" and what color clothing makes a girl seem charming/fascinating?
Yunho: White style. I like an intellectual, elegant style.
(TN: Either he didn't understand the first part of the question or he chose to ignore it.)

Q43: If a girl drops her makeup, is she another person?
Yunho: If I can see inside it's okay. I like it best when she's not wearing makeup. But when it comes to a girl's makeup, there's a lot of expressions she can change to that I like.
(TN: idk what he's trying to say.)

Q44: What's your fetish with girls?
Yunho: Eyes. When I'm talking with someone, I'm seriously looking at their eyes. I myself don't even know what makes a particular eye beautiful, but I think there's a feeling that eyes are beautiful.
(TN: In Japanese, a "fetish" means more like "what's something you really, really like," and doesn't necessarily carry any sexual implications.)

Q45: Do you like "meat-eating girls"? (TN: I'm almost certain this has implications beyond the literal translation. Probably something like voracious, aggressive women?)
Yunho: I like wild girls, so "meat-eating girls" are good. I'm a leader type but when it's just the two of us, I want her to lead sometimes!

Q46: What song do you want to sing to a girl during karaoke?
Yunho: Tokunaga Hideaki's "Rainy Blue" and James Ingram's "Just Once"

Q47: What do you do when you return home?
Yunho: Hanshinyoku, while reading books or listening to music for some 50 minutes!
(TN: Hanshinyoku is "half body bathing," which I guess just means the kind of baths we have here in the US?)

Q48: When you go to bed, what kind of style do you have/wear?
Yunho: Blue or pink jersey, when it's pink (jersey) time, I'll definitely wear glasses.

Q49: What do you like and hate about your own personality?
Yunho: I like the "face foward" part of me, and I hate the "forgetful leader" part of me. Stuff I've forgotten before I'll completely forget (again?)...
(TN: I didn't translate this well, but he uses the term wasuremono which is literally "something forgotten." He also refers to himself as banchou, which my translater calls "a leader of a group of juvenile delinquents." lol what?)

Q50: What kind of child were you?
Yunho: An active adventurer! There was a time when my friends and I made a team and went hiking, lost the trail back home and all cried together.
(TN: ..... what a memory.)

Q51: If you were an animal?
Yunho: I've been told by my friends but, a panther.

Q52: If you could only bring one thing to a deserted island, what would you bring?
Yunho: A book or a diary to write in, a knife.

Q53: In 2009 you were an actor in your first drama. How was it?
Yunho: It was a really great time. I was able to do a different character from the one I am all the time. The character I got to play suited my own person well.
(TN: He said other stuff but I'm stupid and don't understand it. This is the gist of it.)

Q54: We hear you're into four-character sayings, which ones are you into lately? (TN: These are sayings/proverbs that consist for four kanji in Japanese).
Yunho: zendaimimon (unheard-of, unprecidented in history), jigajisan (singing one's own praises), issekinichou (two birds with one stone)

Q55: Do you have a good way of studying other languages?
Yunho: Watch dramas, and talk with the staff members a lot using those words.

Q56: Is there someone you admire?
Yunho: My father. The way he lives his life is so cool. He always says to me, "You can't forget that you're here because of your staff and your fans." My father's words are always in my heart.

Q57: If you didn't enter the entertainment industry, what do you think you would have done?
Yunho: My childhood dream, a public prosecuter.

Q58: Please tell us your impression of JJ.
Yunho: If there was a mens magazine (like this) I'd be happy! Our (as in, all men?) generation wants to present our personality through fashion, so if there was a magazine like this I'd be able to!

Q59: In JJ, which girls' fashion and hair do you like?
Yunho: Something like a one-piece knit (outfit?) is cute. (I like) straight, long hair.

Q60: Finally, say something to JJ!
Yunho: "A new year is starting. Forget this year's sad and bad memories and let's make new wonderful memories. Then, it's almost Valentine's Day, please spent time with the person you really love."

Junsu [pic]

Q61: Do you have a Valentine's Day memory?
Jusu: In my third year of middle school, I got a ton of chocolates! I was really surprised, and when I counted them, there were 47.

Q62: If you get something on Valentine's Day, do you want hand-made chocolate? Store-bought chocolate?
Junsu: If it's hand-made I'll be really thankful!

Q63: A girl confessing on Valentine's Day... What should she say to make you happy?
Junsu: Just straight-out "Can I be your girlfriend?"

Q64: Are you the type to give surprise presents to girls?
Junsu: I am! Just for her, I'll give her a song.
(TN: I think he means he'll sing a song just for her)

Q65: What's your ideal date course? (like, best schedule/plans for a date)
Junsu: At a place where we can see a river or the ocean, we'd drink coffee and chat, just the two of us. Cause I want to slowly/calmly spend time with the person I like...

Q66: If you think of Junsu, you think of oyaji gags. Please tell us the gag you've been into lately.
Junsu: Actually... lately I've sealed the oyaji gags. (lol)
(TN: ?! I think this means he's stopped?)

Q67: When you wake up in the mornings, what's the first thing you do?
Junsu: Drink water!

Q68: What's the first CD you bought?
Junsu: In middle school, I bought a CD from a Korean group called HOT.

Q69: What do you sing at karaoke?
Junsu: Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love Of All"

Q:70: What sports do you like?
Junsu: Baseball and soccer. Even now I play baseball and I'm teaching Yoochun. I want Yoochun to try harder and learn it! (lol)

Q71: Among Korean cooking, what's your recommendation?
Junsu: My beloved gamjatang.

Q72: Is there something you treasure?
Junsu: My passport. We go back and forth from Korea and Japan so many times, if I lost my passport I'd be in serious trouble.

Q73: What's a Japanese phrase you use often lately?
Junsu: "Maa maa"
(TN: has tons of uses, anything from "so-so" to "whatever~")

Q74: If the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? And what would you eat?
Junsu: I'd want to sing the whole time. The last thing I'd eat is hitsumabushi.

Q75: What's your favorite motto?
Junsu: "Face foward"

Q76: Please tell us what you thought the first time you came to Japan.
Junsu: With fashion, the personalities are really strong.

Q77: What's your favorite place in Japan? And what kind of places do you like?
Junsu: Cities, oceans and beaches, places with nature.

Q78: Please give us your impression of JJ.
Junsu: There's a lot of cute girls~~ (lol)

Q79: In JJ, what kind of girls' fashion and hair styles do you lke?
Junsu: I like beige and off-white, gentle color coordinations. For hair, I like girly, fluffy, soft styles!

Q:80: Finally, give a message to JJ!
Junsu: Please spend Valentine's Day with the guy you like! If there isn't one... how about me!? (lol)

Jaejoong [pic]

Q81: Do you have any Valentine's Day memories?
Jaejoong: In elementary school there were a lot of girls I got (chocolate) from, but since then, other than the fans, I don't think I've gotten any!

Q82: What's a birthday present that made you really happy?
Jaejoong: A keyboard. Even now I compose on that keyboard.

Q83: Do you fall in love in a day?
Jaejoong: I do! But I can't say anything.
(TN: Uh. I have no idea what this Q and A are trying to say. My best guess is they're asking if Jaejoong is the type to fall in love in a day, and he says he does, but that he won't say anything to the other person or do anything about it. I may be totally off.)

Q84: Do you have a wedding desire? (TN: I think this might just be plainly asking if he wants to get married)
Jaejoong: I do. I want to get married when I'm around 28.

Q85: Do you like to chase after the one you love? Do you like to be chased?
Jaejoong: From the beginning when I fall in love, I want to be loved.

Q86: I hear that instead of the face, you look at girls' hands, but are you also looking at the nails? What kind of nails do you like?
Jaejoong: I dislike nails that are too flashy/gaudy. I like long, thin fingers.

Q87: If the girl you like is feeling down, what do you do?
Jaejoong: I'm bad at having long phone conversations or sending long emails. But if she's feeling down then I'll do my best to call and email her.

Q88: Lately, what's your biggest failure?
Jaejoong: The day before we came to Japan, I thought "I'll write a song," but in the middle of it I started drinking... Eventually, I got drunk, and like that, being unable to write a song... and coming to Japan.
(TN: In other words, his biggest failure was coming to Japan after he got drunk and couldn't write a song.)

Q89: Lately, what's made you the happiest?
Jaejoong: In Q88, when I was drinking, 10 of my male friends met with me. The end of the year (was gonna be spent) in Japan, so having a New Year's party in Korea made me really happy.

Q90: We know cooking is your specialty, but what kind of cooking are you good at?
Jaejoong: If it's Korean cooking, anything!

Q91: Tell us the artist & song you've been into recently.
Jaejoong: m-flo "yours only/lies"

Q92: Doing what kind of things makes you happy?
Jaejoong: When we have a week of vacation, I spend the whole time sleeping. Watching TV and movies on the couch, drinking... without doing anything, being able to relax makes me happy.

Q93: Say something about your own personality.
Jaejoong: Hmmmm. Can I give an example?
Both gentle and strong falling "rain".

Q94: Can you recommend a place to visit on vacation in Korea?
Jaejoong: The famous river in Korea, Han River.

Q95: If suddenly the schedule for tomorrow was free, what would you do?
Jaejoong: I'm always thinking about the next day's work schedule and dieting so, at that time (when there'd be no schedule) I'd go out to eat.
(TN: This was hard to put into plain english.)

Q96: What's your "treasure"?
Jaejoong: The members.

Q97: What point about Japanese girls makes you think they're "cute"? What about Korean girls?
Jaejoong: Japanese girls' curly hair hair is cute.
(TN: I can't read some of the kanji in both the first and the second, so this answer is incomplete unless someone else can tell me what it says.)

Q98: Tell us your impression of JJ.
Jaejoong: I'll buy it (lol). I'll learn things like color usage for my own fashion.

Q99: In JJ, which girls' fashion and hair do you like?
Jaejoong: Pants or skirts are okay but (I like) a girly casual style.
For hair, I like a fluffy girly look.

Q100: Finally, say something to JJ!
Jaejoong: "I'm Jaejoong. I'm also JJ. Gimme chocolate. ♥"