FT Island returns Beautiful Journey

FT Island returns with mini album “Beautiful Journey”, after a break of one year.

Fan numbers decreasing in fan cafes
Ranked top 5 on Japan Oricon chart

“Until the 100,000 fans who had left, return to them…”

FT Island returns to Korea after taking a “beautiful journey” in Japan, where they had a major debut and two singles up on the Oricon chart top 5 rankings.

They are now back after a one year break, releasing their 2nd mini album “Beautiful Journey”.

“We started everything from scratch in Japan. Therefore, everything felt different to us. It seems that we had grown up a lot too.”

Vocal Lee Hongki sounded confident in saying that. However, behind the glamour and confidence they had achieved, were tears and sweat of the 5 members.

“Initially, when we had attained a certain level of popularity in Korea, we asked ourselves, ‘why do we want to go Japan and suffer?’ Times were that difficult. It wasn’t that bad during the times when we did Indie music in Japan 2 years ago.” (Lee Jaejin)

Though schedules were packed, their number of fans increased as they held more concerts. They also increased their level of confidence and gained lots of experience during their concert tour.

“It was rather stressful to perform in front of a group of new audience. But we felt amazed to see our fans increasing in numbers gradually and we have also thought of how to make our performances more interesting for the crowd. Confidence is what we have gained most during this period of time in Japan.” (Choi Jonghun)

Though they had achieved success in Japan, during this period of time when they left the Korea music industry, idol groups were ruling the music scene, whereby album promotion activities lasted for a longer time and comebacks were more frequent. It was indeed a risk and danger for FT Island to leave their positions for one year.

“Therefore we came back before it’s too late. Many idol singers came and left. We also felt worried, thinking if people will forget about us. It was sad to leave Korea and drift apart from our fans who had once supported us and like our music. What’s more, we had about 100,000 fans who left our fan cafes. To see them leaving us to support other singers was heartbreaking.” (Song Seunghyun)

FT Island understands that they had to get their fans back. Their new title song “Love Love Love” follows their original music style and will be something good for the fans who liked them.