Ha Dong Hoon (하동훈), stage name HAHA, born on August 20, 1979 in Germany, is a Korean singer and host.
Ha Dong Hoon's mother is called Jin Yujing, is a doctor of psychology (the Internet also says that it is a master's degree, but DREAM WORLD Church as a pastor), once published a book called "Like HAHA Mother Hahaha", and also released a single "Food Song", and Ha Dong Hoon's father is called Ha Yoon-koo, said to be a German, some netizens said that Ha Dong Hoon's father is bankrupt, there is debt, but about what Ha Yoon-koo does, there is no clear information on the Internet.
In addition, he has a sister, River Julie (ph.D. in music majoring in piano), who is a professor at Matilda University.
HAHA debuted in 2001 as a member of the three-man hip-Hop group Zikiri and released the album A/K/A Check Up, which he later flew solo.
In 2002, he starred in the youth sitcom "NONSTOP3", which was also his screen debut, playing a laughable role in the play because of the frequent trouble.
In the same year, he co-hosted the Mnet variety show "What's Up Yo!" with MC Dream, in fact, when it comes to HAHA, MC Dream and his story cannot be told separately, but there is no hurry, I will rearrange it later, more convenient to understand.
As I said, "What's Up Yo!" was HAHA's first officially hosted variety show, and in 2003, he got another chance to host the MBC competition reality show "Happiness of Ten Thousand Dollars".
Many stars and idols on this show have also been on in the early days, plus HAHA also has a lot of acting experience in those years, of course, they are more funny or nonsensical roles.
On February 18, 2005, HAHA finally released his debut album "The Beautiful Rhyme Diary", which contained 23 songs including the title songs "I Love You" and "One For All".
This time was also the time when he quit the hosting of "Ten Thousand Dollars of Happiness", and then he appeared in the 36th episode of "X-Man" that aired in May, first in the Ginger team, and then a few episodes later transferred to the same team as Kim Jong-kook, and produced many chemical reactions, including imitating Admiralty In couples, Turbo dance show and so on.
There is a small episode here, HAHA's album results were not particularly good at that time, in "X-man" with the company's Park Myung-so complained that he has been imitating The Kim Jong-kook, the result of that show, Kim Jong-kook also imitated HAHA, danced his new song, and later the three of them also formed a small group of "Ha Myung-koo" in the show.
Since 2005, HAHA has also started experimenting with New Things Radio Host (DJ, but not the kind of Club DJ), and his first radio show was SBS's HAHA'S Tenten Radio.
In December of the same year, he co-hosted the MBC reality show "Infinite Challenge" with Yoo Jae-seok and Park Myung-so, which was the second reform of "No Pick", when the name of the program was "Unreasonable Challenge".
After the third revision, HAHA still stayed in the no-pick program group, and at the end of 2006, he joined KBS's music program MUSIC BANK, as the 19th and 20th MC, and here HAHA has experience as a host in the three major stations.
In fact, all the way down, do you think HAHA is quite smooth, singing, acting, variety shows are involved, mixed up quite open.
No hurry, wait for me to come one by one.
In a Win Win episode that aired on KBS2 on April 13, 2012, HAHA and his mother said in an interview: "I entered the agency because of a dream as a singer, and the CEO said, 'I don't have enough money at the moment, so I can only pay you a little later.'" He also borrowed money from me, and my mother borrowed him. ”
"In the end, the money was swindled out of us at all, and my mom came out with the money for my album because it was my dream. In 1995, my debut album was released through the OJ Project (OK Jung Project). ”
So before HAHA debuted as Hiphop in 2001, he had already released an album with the support of his mother, and he was cheated and did not have good results, and he spent about a year and a half of extreme depression.
Besides, the development of the group is not so optimistic, until 2005, even if he singled out the album, the results were not very good.
Besides, most of the TV dramas and those roles he starred in were supporting roles and funny components, and none of them could be played.
Therefore, this whole process is still quite similar to Liu Zaishi, and there is also a nameless period of nearly ten years.
On November 30, 2007, HAHA released the digital single "You Are My Destiny", and on January 18, 2008, in his own "Music Bank", he beat Park Ji-hyun and SEEYA with this song to win one, which was the first time since his debut that he won the first place in the music ranking as a singer.
In the 2007 MBC Year-End Awards, all the members of Infinite Challenge (Yoo Jae-seok, Park Myung-so, Jung Joon-ho, Jeong Hyung-do, Lo Hong-cheol, HAHA) won the award together.
Just as he was at the peak of his life, like Kim Jong-kook, he also received a notice of service, and on February 11, 2008, HAHA completed the enlistment procedures at a recruit training camp in Gangwon Province, received a four-week basic military training, and will serve as a public welfare service officer for 25 months.
In March and April 2010, "Infinite Challenge" specially did two special issues of < the god of arts > to welcome haha's return, but the vacant two years, HAHA returned like Kim Jong-kook, unusually confused, he is no longer the funny boy, but the state and reaction are because of the life of the army has become relatively sluggish, can not keep up with the pace of others, Kim Jong-kook was also like this when he first joined "Family Birth".
In THE 2011 broadcast of "The Theater of the Life of a Star - HAHA Chapter", HAHA poured out his powerlessness and hardship in front of the camera.
Because 10 years of "No Pick" is no longer the experimental product that just started, but a national variety show that has grown and precipitated for two years, he does not know how much his return can help the show, coupled with some voices on the Internet that think he is boring, which makes him feel pressured.
On July 4, 2010, HAHA and MC Dream co-hosted the SBS variety show "Haha Dream Show" again, and on the 11th, they began to co-host the SBS outdoor competitive reality show "Running Man" with Liu Zaishi and Kim Jong-kook.
Whether it is MC Dream or Liu Zaishi, the popularity at that time can be said to be horror-level, which is the top pillar of the two outdoor variety shows "No Pick" and "21".
Out of help to their friends, they shot at the same time, bringing HAHA almost at the same time on the SBS show.
Of course, I can talk about "Running Man" here, but there are several characters behind it, and I feel that there are many opportunities to mention "RM", so this issue will focus on the story between HAHA and MC Dream.
First of all, the two of them were the same age, and since 2002, when they co-hosted What's Up Yo!, they had formed "W.U.Y." with a man named Jerome. As for the name of this WUY, it is easy to guess the abbreviation of "What's Up Yo!".
In 2005, HAHA's solo series "The Beautiful Rhyme Diary" < Disrespect you >, which MC Dream helped feed.
MC Dream is now banned, but this man was really super hot before, so to speak, he is another Golden Bell State on the singer's side.
Because in 2006 his third solo album "The Way I Am" was only released for two months, at the end of the year, the Mnet KM Music Festival and the Seoul Song Awards, as well as the Hiphop Awards at the Golden Disc Awards ceremony, these three awards made it a veritable HIPOP Triple Crown.
And because he and Jiang Hudong filmed the first season of KBS's "Two Days and One Night", the excellent level of funny also made him gain super popularity.
In 2010, after HAHA returned from service, MC Dream chose to pull his former friend and host "Haha Dream Show" with him.
But two months after HAHA's return, MC Dream evaded service because of the delay in enlistment seven times in seven years and the suspicion of deliberately pulling out teeth.
After getting off the bus from programs such as "Two Days and One Night" and "Haha Dream Show", the following year, the lawsuit continued, and finally at 11 years, he was acquitted of evading military service but was guilty of postponing military service, and was sentenced to 6 months in prison, suspended for one year, and provided 120 hours of social service.
On July 9, 2013, Ha Dong-hoon and Kim Go-eun's son Ha Meng'er (하드림) was born, nicknamed Dream, (what does it mean that I don't need to analyze it).
On November 3, 2014, MC Dream released the sixth album "MISS ME OR DISS ME" on various music websites on the same day, AND HAHA left a message on Twitter: "Friends, miss you", and linked to MC Dream's MV.
As a result, messages accusing HAHA erupted on the bulletin board of MBC's Infinite Challenge. Fans have said: "What a disappointment! "What is this for?" ", "No idea", "Don't bring influence to "Infinite Challenge", etc., some netizens even asked HAHA to get off "Infinite Challenge".
Under the pressure of the environment at that time, all the colleagues in the show business who expressed support for MC Dream on the day ended with apologies and deletions, but only HAHA has insisted on not deleting tweets.
In 2015, HAHA and his wife Star starred in the "Healing Camp" program as guests, talking about the boycott of HAHA for MC's dream, and afterwards it was a wild scolding.
In fact, desertion is indeed a kind of big thing that can hardly be saved for Korean stars.
So why is HAHA scolded so badly? Quite simply, as I said before, HAHA himself serves as a public welfare soldier.
In the Kim Jong-kook chapter, I explained that the Korean people will wear colored glasses to look at the stars who serve the public welfare, not to mention that HAHA you serve the public welfare also go to catch an attempt to escape, so the Tolerance of The Koreans for HAHA is so low.
In fact, the exact same thing was experienced by Kim Jong-kook in the early years, but it was repeated in HAHA.
In 2004, Kim Jong-kook took a leave of absence from the "X-MAN" crew, thanked the people around him for their kindness, and then flew to the United States. For him, this controversial journey in the eyes of others was just attending the wedding of a good friend, who was Liu Chengjun, one of the members of the Dragon Brothers in the early years.
Liu Chengjun was banned from entering the country because of the incident of desertion of military service in the United States, and has not been able to step into South Korea, including the death of his relatives, and he has not been able to pass after repeated pleading.
After the news of the desertion came out, countless people in the Korean showbiz circle drew a clear line with Liu Chengjun, including those close relatives of the Dragon Brothers, and at that time, Liu Chengjun's wedding, the entire Korean entertainment circle was only Kim Jong-kook alone.
Like HAHA, why the Kim Jong-kook public welfare soldiers have been scolded for so long is nothing more than the measures to fish for former friends, and after the public welfare soldiers are linked, the attitude and feelings of the Koreans towards the two of them are very bad.
It may be that two people with the same experience, two people with the same morality, can safely give themselves to each other, except for HAHA, I really have not heard that Kim Jong-kook has a partnership with another person to do business, and no one is really treated like a brother like him.
In the same way, in HAHA's eyes, although the colleagues of "No Pick" and "RM" are family-like beings, when the news of the marriage was announced, he only pulled Liu Jae-seok, Kim Jong-kook and Lee Kwang-so.