K-pop star Kang Daniel on his SpongeBob SquarePants collaboration, upcoming solo concert debut and his music company Konnect
- South Korean singer Kang Daniel is tickled about working with the team behind Nickelodeon cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants – he was a fan as a kid
- Kang likes hard work – he’s recently starred in Rookie Cops on Disney+, been MC for TV shows, has a company to run and his first music festival date coming up
He’s not a yellow sponge, or a square, nor does he live in a pineapple under the sea, but South Korean singer Kang Daniel thinks there’s a surprising amount of commonalities between himself and SpongeBob SquarePants.
“SpongeBob is so optimistic and very chill,” says Kang. “In most other cartoons, if there any kind of problem, the characters will usually try to fix the problems. But in the case of SpongeBob, there are a lot of episodes where he doesn’t even try to fix things.
“I think that is probably a way SpongeBob can keep being very happy, by just accepting the problem as it is. For me, being happy and optimistic is also very important.”
Both of them also have pets, although the 25-year-old Kang is more of a cat guy while SpongeBob is more of a snail guy, although his pet snail Gary does make cat sounds the similarities still fit.
“And we both try to give out positive energy to the people around us, me through my music and him through being him,” he later adds.