Ex-Wanna One star Yoon Ji-sung on Miro, his new K-pop album born of sadness but full of ‘beautiful sounds’

At one point during the making of his mini-album Miro, Yoon Ji-sung of now-defunct K-pop group Wanna One sat down and cried out of pure frustration

Yoon felt as if people saw him ‘as a dawdler’ – but now the worst is behind him and he simply hopes his fans will enjoy his new music ‘anywhere, anytime’

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Yoon Ji-sung of now-defunct K-pop group Wanna One is releasing Miro, a new album for his fans. Photo: courtesy of DG Entertainment

Published: 4:15pm, 2 May 2022

By Dong Sun-hwa

Believe it or not, but Miro, K-pop star Yoon Ji-sung’s upcoming EP and collection of feel-good spring songs, was born out of the singer’s sorrow.

Yoon, a former member of now-defunct project boy band Wanna One, was stuck in an anxiety loop while working on the mini-album. At one point, frustrated and feeling like nobody recognised his hard work, he sat down and cried while walking his dog.

“All the tracks in Miro have beautiful sounds, but I did not look beautiful at all when I was gearing up for this EP,” Yoon says, choosing his words carefully during an interview at the headquarters of his record label DG Entertainment in Seoul, South Korea.

At one point during the making of Miro, Yoon sat down and cried. Photo: courtesy of DG Entertainment

“I was busy preparing for my mini-album and a musical, and I also appeared in a television series. But it seemed that most people did not know about this.