Instiz: The idol group who had extreme rumors during their rookie days
When Shinee was a rookie, they had tons of rumors, including iljin rumors and gang rumors.
1. Minho was a well-known delinquent in Incheon. He was known as a heavy smoker. His parents have passed away and he lived with his grandmother. The only reason why he never messed up with girls was because his grandmother told him to be clean with relationships... He was scouted into a gang and was a gang member for a while. But he became a singer because it was his grandmother's last wish.
This rumor was spread by someone who claimed to be his high school classmate. But in reality, Minho's father is a soccer coach and his mother and his brother are all alive. He was all about soccer when he was a student.
2. Shinee Key was known to be very rude and was in a motorcycle gang in Daegu. But in reality, he was a formal water-skiing athlete.
3. Taemin is actually a girl. A male trainee who got into SM by Heechul screwed up with his double eyelid surgery, so Taemin cross-dressed and debuted as Shinee.
Taemin was too pretty when he debuted so Taemin himself had to clarify these rumors. When Shinee debuted in Japan, these rumors again surfaced in Japan. EXO Kai was accused to be Taemin's twin when his teaser was released. Rumors said people caught Taemin calling Kai "oppa" and Jonghyun knew his real gender
More about this rumor:
1. Kai and Taemin are twins. They don't have a good sibling relationship so Kai got his dad's last name (Kim) and Taemin got his mom's (Lee)
2. Kai is an older brother and Taemin is a younger sister
3. Kai got into SM with special entrance through Heechul, who is Kai's cousin. SM made Kai get double eyelid surgery
4. The surgery turned out bad. They didn't have time to get it re-done
5. Taemin cross-dressed and debuted instead of him
6. Taemin got popular so Kai debuted in EXO
4. Taemin was an elementary school iljin in Cheondamdong. A high school girl got her money taken by Taemin
5. Jonghyun was a top iljin in Gangbuk. He was also a son of a gang's boss. The gang was one of the top three gangs in Korea.
6. The reason why Minho was so quiet during his rookies day was this - Jonghyun and Minho fought with each other because they both wanted to own SM. Jonghyun got pissed and told his father about it. Minho, who was the gang member, had no choice but to listen to Jonghyun's father (his boss). SM also got scared and didn't give Minho singing parts and told him to be quiet. Fans heard Minho saying "you know what, I'm just gonna fight today" as he walked into their dorm.
7. Shinee Key or Jonghyun got caught smoking by Yunho. Yunho scolded him but he threatened Yunho that he was gonna burn Yunho with cigarettes.
8. Onew was an extremely talented rapper from Jilin, China. He was talented enough to beat Outsider (a veteran rapper). Outsider fans hated Onew for it. After finding out that Onew was a vocal member, Outsider fans apologized
Believe it or not, these rumors did exist in the time and Shinee got so much hate
(TN: I also heard about these rumors before lol)
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- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋHow could you believe these
- Taemin/Kai twins rumor is really daebak ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Where's the rumor that Jinki was a Chinese rapper ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- EXO was rumored to be the Nintendo-dols ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Shinee was an enemy of every fandom back thenㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Minho was only crazed with soccer and you're saying he was a gang member ㅋㅋㅋ
