SHINee's Key and Minho's Playful Banter Shines in Hyoyeon's YouTube Video

SHINee's Key and Minho's playful chemistry was on full display in Hyoyeon's latest video.

On Girls' Generation Hyoyeon's YouTube channel, 'Hyo's Level Up,' a video titled 'Why is SHINee considered 2nd generation when Girls' Generation is?' was uploaded.

In the video, Hyoyeon mentioned to Key, "Minho was on the show before," adding, "He really scolded me and gave me a lot of life lessons." Key responded, "Why is he always scolding people?" Hyoyeon replied, "I actually find it amusing because he's so different from me."

Key noted, "You can learn from people who are different." Hyoyeon then asked Key if he watched the episode with Minho, to which Key replied, "I did, but I didn't really watch it." Hyoyeon burst into laughter and asked, "Is it because he drains your energy?"

Key humorously admitted, "Just greeting him is exhausting. I don't need to watch it on purpose." He added that Minho's enthusiastic tone made him think, "It's probably all like this for 20-30 minutes," so he chose not to watch it. Hyoyeon then recalled, "Talking about Minho reminds me of Taemin. Festivals are for enjoying music, but I ended up having a serious conversation with Taemin there."

Hyoyeon shared, "I trained with Taemin, but we never had such deep conversations even after debuting. Recently, I got to know his personality better. It was a deep conversation, and I thought, 'Wow, we can talk like this now,' but I was also wondering when it would end," she laughed.

Additionally, Hyoyeon mentioned SHINee's 17th debut anniversary single 'Poet Artist,' a song written and composed by the late Jonghyun. Key commented, "I was waiting for the right time to release this song. I was contemplating how to include it in an album, and this felt like the right moment." He expressed, "It was great and heartwarming. It's comforting that we can still release his songs and sing them." Key added, "We decided not to remove his voice intentionally. Jonghyun's demo vocals were left in as his part."

Reporter: Chaeryeong Lim, TenAsia syjj426@tenasia.co.kr