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🔥from debuting 3 times to fixing the city's water supply 🥹

7HaneulAm2026.10.11 10:07👁 4031💬 38♥ 92

ok this one made me soft 🥹 Kang Hyunsoo debuted in 2021 with NIK, a Korea-Japan group, and that was after other debut attempts and audition shows. One YouTube channel literally titled his story "debuted 3 times, now a civil servant?!" 😭 then

now

When the idol chapter ended he went and studied electrical engineering, passed the exam for a technical civil servant job, and now he works in the water supply department at Boryeong City Hall. TJB News filmed the orientation for Boryeong's 74 new hires and spotted him there, and of course he ended up on stage for the talent show part 😭✨ some things never leave you.

The articles say fans who remembered him were just happy to see him doing well, and same honestly. No sad ending here, he picked something stable and still grabbed the mic the first chance he got. Boryeong got a new hire with stage presence and I hope they make him perform at every city event forever 🫶

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7Gaeun2026.10.11

Imagine being the other 73 new hires and having to follow that act with a polite handshake.

7Junseo2026.10.11

water department is such a respectable plot twist

7Dahye2026.10.11

Water department. Meanwhile my building can't fix one faucet in six weeks. Send him over.

7Geonwoo2026.10.11

Pension, dental and a talent show slot built into onboarding. Idol contracts could learn a thing or two.

8Taeho2026.10.11

What I like is that the idol years didn't get hidden. They came to the orientation with him, and the new colleagues clearly wanted that. Careers don't have to be a straight line.

7Minjae2026.10.11

This is the kind of update you hope for. Most of the time you never hear what happened after a group quietly ends.

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8Taeho2026.10.11

Civil service exams in Korea are very competitive, so 'just passed the exam' is doing a lot of quiet work in that sentence.

8Dabin2026.10.11

WAIT the talent show 😭 he still has it

7Junseo2026.10.11

water department is such a respectable plot twist

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7Dahye2026.10.11

Water department. Meanwhile my building can't fix one faucet in six weeks. Send him over.

7Nari2026.10.11

Boryeong Mud Festival needs to book him immediately

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7HaneulOP2026.10.11

YES mud festival headliner please 🙏

8Dabin2026.10.11

no bc 3 debuts and the 4th career comes with a pension. who's the trainee now

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7Geonwoo2026.10.11

Pension, dental and a talent show slot built into onboarding. Idol contracts could learn a thing or two.

7Junseo2026.10.11

the 공무원 route is a way bigger flex than it sounds there. idol to city hall on merit, no connections lol

7Junseo2026.10.11

boryeong city hall just got the best-promoted new hire of the year and didn't spend a won lol

7Nari2026.10.11

Orientation talent shows in Korea are optional the way a group dinner is optional. Nobody asks, they just look at you until you stand up.

7Gaeun2026.10.11

Not to rain on it, but a headline that leads with 'debuted 3 times' is a bit rough on the guy. He studied and passed an exam, that's the story.

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7Minjae2026.10.11

Fair, though the headline is probably why anyone clicked. Sad that 'passed an exam' alone wouldn't have got the views.

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8Dabin2026.10.12

the 3 debuts headline stings but it's also the reason i clicked, so i'm part of the problem 😭

8Taeho2026.10.11

What I like is that the idol years didn't get hidden. They came to the orientation with him, and the new colleagues clearly wanted that. Careers don't have to be a straight line.

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7Minjae2026.10.12

Not hiding the idol years is the best part. Most people would've kept that off the resume.

7Soomin2026.10.12

Not me getting emotional over a guy in a water department. I just hope the break room has a karaoke machine.

7Geonwoo2026.10.12

Idol, electrical engineer, civil servant. Career speedrun, any% glitchless.

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7Gaeun2026.10.12

Any% glitchless, but this run actually ends with a pension.

8Dabin2026.10.12

imagine his mom at family dinner like 'yes he debuted 3 times, now he does the city's WATER' and everyone nodding 😭

8Dabin2026.10.12

imagine the water bill reminder call is just him. i'd pay late on purpose 😭

8Taeho2026.10.12

Passing the technical civil servant exam after years of idol schedules is its own kind of debut. New audience, same discipline.

7snowpea2026.10.12

pension, stable job, and he can still sing at orientation. best exit from an idol group i've seen

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