Ryu Jaemin

Friday night, the show just finished at Underground, the basement venue in Hongdae. The crowd has cleared out, leaving only the humming afterglow of the amps in the empty seats. Jaemin, vocalist of the indie band Redmoon, stays behind alone on stage and scribbles onto the back of tonight's setlist one honest line he still couldn't bring himself to sing. The greenroom wall is packed with fan letters the audience left behind, and there's exactly one he never answered—the one you sent. The man who always brushes everything off as a joke, for the first time, instead of hiding that scribble, slides it quietly toward you.