As they embark on the fifth year of their career, Men's Folio speaks to members Keeho and Intak to understand how they have finetuned this resonance in joy to spread so far and wide.
Humour hinges on high intelligence. Whether emotional, intellectual or interpersonal, an implicit understanding of a subject matter is needed before that knowledge is spun on ever so slightly in meaning for, well, fun. Being unintentionally funny is charming because those moments are hard to replicate, but when you know you can leave people in fits of laughter and flex that to your advantage - that is genius.
In K-pop, you can't mention humour without P1Harmony; its sparkling hilarity and giant social media presence are the icing on a cake of genre-curious - and culturally respectful - bops. Keeho, Theo, Jiung, Intak, Soul, and Jongseob have the perfect make to appease today's online-heavy content consumption habits, playing or getting down to business at all the right times. But behind that is some intense inner work that its six members are willing to do out of their initiative. It is the grit to persist and learn how to assess - with lithe grace - when and where to act out, step up or speak up.
P1 Harmony projects self-assuredness, which resonates with everyone's yearning for the same conviction of self.
They lead the new generation of more globalised and independent idols who are loved not just for the package they come in but also for the heart that continues to sing beyond debut.
How they managed to get here despite growing pains and the inevitable transience of humour is a story that needs to be told.
Men's Folio speaks to the group's Canadian-born leader Keeho, 23, and prolific rapper-and-dancer Intak, 21, to better grasp just how this fourth-generation idol group barely five years in the running is on an express train up the charts and ranks of K-pop's cut-throat environment.
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