Back from military service, Jeonghan joins bandmate Joshua for the K-pop duo’s first album and the pair reflect on meeting halfway, finding their voices and the warmth Jeonghan brought home
\n\nFor more than a decade, Seventeen’s Jeonghan and Joshua have shared the spotlight with 11 bandmates in one of K-pop’s best-selling groups. Now they get it to themselves with “Dreamscape,” their first album as the duo JxJ.
\n\nThe record is also Jeonghan’s first new music since he completed South Korea’s mandatory military service this summer. While he served, Seventeen kept performing without him, and at times he watched his bandmates from the audience, among the group’s fans, known as Carats. Joshua spent the same stretch producing songs of his own and sending them to their company.
\n\nThe pair met as trainees and recorded the duet “Falling for U” for the 2018 special album “Director’s Cut,” but JxJ is the first project built entirely around the two of them.
\n\nJoshua says their company first suggested they collaborate together. “After giving it some thought, we’ve been together for so long, and we really wanted to show a different side to ourselves,” he says. “Sides that we haven’t shown as a whole group…
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