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“Mom, Dad, have you been doing well? It was when I was in elementary school. It took me about 4 hours to go back and forth from Mokpo to Jeonju and my mom was fetching me to there by her car. I don’t know how I had courage to stop playing soccer, which I was practicing hard, and then insist to do music. Mom and Dad let me go, even though they were worrying. Honestly, I think they thought I couldn’t pass back then. Those were days when I was playing soccer, so I had tanned skin and long hair. I really looked countrified. But thankfully, I passed and since then my mom was taking me to terminal every day, bringing me clothes and lunch every time. She passed through a lot of trouble because of that. However, one day my mom told me to go to take a bus by myself. I got angry with no reason and later I knew it from my older brother. My mom’s body hadn’t been feeling good because of stress. And so, I feel very sorry. I made a promise with my brother then-‘We have to succeed!’ Like that I clenched my teeth, and when I got accepted in Seoul, me and my mom got separated from my dad and my older brother. We were living in an apartment in Seoul. My mom had to do the housekeeping in three houses and she had a very hard time. But I, who could only watch that, thought about her even in the midst of training and I bursted into tears. I hope that my mom will forgive the immature me who was always nagging and asking her to buy me things. When I got separated from my mom and entered into TS, there was once when I met the stylist director and the b-boy teacher. They offered to fetch me home. I sat on the back seat and I was looking at their appearance from the back. That’s when I felt I was missing my mom and dad a lot. So now, Junhong, who wasn’t a child who didn’t know his mind, realized his dream of wanting to become a singer and debuted as B.A.P’s youngest member Zelo. Mom and Dad, those many people you see, they are supporting Me-Zelo, and B.A.P. These many BABYZ are another family to me. Are you watching? Mom, Dad, I will be a good son in the future. Me, the 18 year old Choi Junhong, going by the name of B.A.P’s Zelo, I will really be kind and I will be a son you can be proud of. Mom, Dad, and my another family-BABYZ, I love you all”. -Choi Junhong

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