Jonghyun’s Mother Motivates SHINee, Keeps Promise To Hold Japan Concert

Remaining SHINee members will help Jonghyun to fulfill the promise with Japanese fans!

On January 8, SHINee uploaded a dedicated handwritten letter onto its official homepage to inform fans that the group’s upcoming concert in Japan will still be held as planned after Jonghyun’s passing.

In the letter, the four members respectively expressed respects to their late bandmate as well as showed their sincerity to keep their promise with fans.

Minho wrote: “Though we don’t know the right answer, we believe that this is the right answer, and we would like to keep our promise to you. Nothing can replace Jonghyun hyung, and we have a lot of concerns with regards to the quality of the concert, but we prepared it wholeheartedly with the thought that Jonghyun hyung will be with us in all our performance in the future.”

Key expressed his gratitude to fans: “Thanks to many of you who worried for me, I’ve managed to pull myself together, and I’m trying to return to my daily life. We thought that Jonghyun hyung would have wanted us to make this decision, and that showing good performance while keeping our promise to the fans is what makes us SHINee.”

Taemin expressed the expectation that the group would still stay together despite Jonghyun’s passing: “To be honest, at first I was not confident about the concert. But I wanted to keep our promise to the fans. Also, I didn’t want SHINee members to break apart.”

At the end, SHINee’s leader Onew shared that it is none other than Jonghyun’s mother who motivated him to work harder for the group’s coming concert.

He said: “Thank you for being there and worrying for our beloved members, and I’m sorry for causing the fans to worry. I thought we wouldn’t be able to do it. I thought we wouldn’t be able to hold the concert either. However, when Jonghyun’s mother told us to never give up, I decided that I need to work harder if only we could console those who miss Jonghyun and are in pain.”