I meet Pentagon on a chilly day in Seoul in April. It’s barely 1 p.m in the afternoon and the South Korean group have already had a taxing day–promotions for a new album will do that to you. They make the time to meet me because they’re especially keen to reach out to their Indian fans.
They’ve just performed at a weekly broadcast show and I’m ushered through a maze of corridors in the building to their green room. (We pass several other famous idols on the way, all in various states of relaxation, and it’s terribly hard not to gawk.) I’m shown into a rather large dressing room and there stand eight of the nine members of Pentagon, barefaced and exhausted but cheerful, greeting me with big smiles and polite bows. Leader Hui steps forward to apologize for rapper Kino’s absence (an injury has him out of commission) and there’s a beat of awkward silence before we all burst out laughing and sit down for our chat.
We’re meeting during one of the brief intervals in their day during which they can switch off from being Pentagon and just be a group of twenty-somethings, and it’s a space not many fans get to see. They’re quieter than what you would expect, but it doesn’t take away from their friendliness and positive energy.
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