Onew: Dazzling You with Silliness

Onew’s Korean fans once revealed that sometimes, his brain seems to be missing a tendon, and he is always doing silly things, even if he is a high flying student in school, even if he is SHINee’s leader. His Chinese is not proficient, and when he in Taiwan, he even introduced himself as ‘Wo Niu’(snail) instead of ‘Wen Liu’(Onew). His psychomoto skills are bad, and he is always tripping, and each fall is always very hard.. Personally I felt that there is not much to investigate about him, but during this trip to Changsha, the reporter has managed to affirm the fans’ thoughts — He is definitely ’silly’! When he first met with the reporter, he just kept grinning, and started greeting without caring if the people around him understood Korean or not. It was until he finished saying 4 or 5 sentences that he realised : “Oh, you don’t understand Korean?” Looking at his expression and also his tone then, there was this urge to open out his brain to see what exactly is inside his brain. Just when we thought that he would not say any more silly stuff, his low laughter on the other hand had everyone at a loss of what to do. Most people upon seeing him grinning would ask: “Why are you smiling?” And he would then ask back: “What did you just say?” This is how the phrase ‘donkeys’ lips don’t match horses’ jaws’ originated. When it was meal time, the reporter thought that he would not have anything to be silly about. But he started distributing burgers to his buddies like a cafeteria uncle who distributes food: “This is yours, this is yours, oh and this is mine.” Throughout the whole distributing process, his eyes were dazed looking, and he was just staring at the burgers he was giving out. Looking at this scene, few were not baffled — Even though he is the oldest member of the group, but he is definitely not at the age to turn senile right? After all he is only just 21 years old,but that expression and tone is really not something that a 89-er should have. We say that fortune favours the fools, and this charmingly naive leader does possess leadership qualities that is hard to speak about. Even though he always receives ‘dirty looks’ from his members as a result of saying somethign ridiculous but when it comes to key moments, he is really quite useful. When they were asked about H1N1, Onew said seriously : “This question will be answered by Jonghyun!” Jonghyun then straightened up in his seat and answered the question, and when he was done, he did not forget to look at the leader who instructed him, as if looking to be praised by the leader. Seems like no matter how silly a leader is, he is still the head, we definitely cannot not see Onew as the cadre!