TeSTAR

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## TeSTAR

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## General Information

### Agency

T1 Stars (previous)
 Stars Orbit (current)

### Catchphrase

Take your star! TeSTAR
Let's show 'em, TeSTAR!
 TeSTAR will show you something today!

### Social Media

테스타(TeSTAR) (Twitter)
테스타(TeSTAR) (InHeart)
별의별곡 (WeTube)

### Group Colors

Three Tones of Sky Blue

**TeSTAR (테스타)** is a 7-member multinational boy group from South Korea. The group was formed through the K-pop audition survival show Relisted! Idol Incorporated and debuted on June 18th, 202x. The final voting ranking was Park Moondae, Cha Eugene, Seon Ahyeon, Kim Raebin, Ryu Chungwoo, Lee Sejin B, and Lee Sejin A in order of first to seventh place. In the original timeline, the debuting group was called STier.

## Members

### Lines

* Hyung (Elders) Line: Bae Sejin, Ryu Chungwoo
* Same-Age Line: Seon Ahyeon, Lee Sejin, Park Moondae
* Maknae (Youngest) Line: Cha Eugene, Kim Raebin
* Older-Half Line: Bae Sejin, Ryu Chungwoo, Seon Ahyeon, Lee Sejin
* Younger-Half Line: Park Moondae, Cha Eugene, Kim Raebin
* Vocal Line: Park Moondae (EX), Ryu Chungwoo (A), Bae Sejin (C-)
* Dance Line: Lee Sejin (S-), Seon Ahyeon (A), Cha Eugene (S+)
* Rap Line: Kim Raebin (A+), Cha Eugene (B+)
* Visual Line: Seon Ahyeon (S-), Bae Sejin (A+)
* Producing Line: Kim Raebin (composer, main producer), Park Moondae (demo singer)
* Sejin Line: Bae Sejin, Lee Sejin
* Scaredy-cat Line: Lee Sejin, Park Moondae, Cha Eugene

## Characteristics

### Name

The name "TeSTAR" was chosen through compounding the words Test + Star. The meaning behind it being, "Your investment has been verified. Your idol, your star."

The fandom name was revealed on the group's first W Live broadcast on July 15th of the year they debuted. "Loviewer" was made by compounding the words Love + Reviewer in connection to the word Test in the group's name.

### Worldview

Through the interpretation of the music video for "BETTER ME" by WeTuber "Haeori Potato'", the foundation of the worldview was revealed. Its contents are as follows:

* Park Moondae and Bae Sejin are the same person
	+ Park Moondae and Bae Sejin are the same person with different personalities. Both deal with the constraints of time and space, Park Moondae is the one who imposes constraints, and Bae Sejin is the one who destroys them.
* Park Moondae returns to the past through the act of sleeping.
	+ The timeline is seen as a time slips through Park Moondae's dreams is "Airplane" → "Magical Boy" → "BETTER ME" → "BONUS BOOK"

## Activities

### Fan Sign Events

 (2nd week) Weekday
 (4th week)

 January 21, 202X Saturday

### Events

 (5th year)
 (6th year)
Chapter 479

## Awards and Achievements

### Music Show Awards

 Popular Music
 (1st year) October
 (4th year) January

### Music Chart Rankings

* Debut Album enters the 24Hits chart (1 Hour)
	+ Hi-five (rank 85) / Magical Boy (rank 88)
* Debut Album rank after a day (June 19th)
	+ Hi-five (rank 17) / Magical Boy (rank 19)
* Debut Album rank after one week (Saturday) on 24Hits chart
	+ Magical Boy (rank 14) / Hi-Five (rank 16)
* Debut Album rank after one week (Sunday) on 24Hits chart
	+ Magical Boy (rank 10) / Hi-Five (rank 13)
* Debut Album rank after three weeks (Monday)
	+ Magical Boy (rank 5)
* Debut Album rank after three weeks (Tuesday)
	+ Magical Boy (rank 3)
* Repackage Album rank on the 24Hits chart after five days
	+ Picnic (rank 7)
* Movie OST rank on the Billboard200 album chart
	+ <Cosmic Gunner> Special Edition (rank 2)
* Movie OST on the Billboard Hot100 chart
	+ Black Hole (rank 9)
* Billboard200 album chart rank
	+ WEAPON for you (rank 8)
* Billboard Hot100 rank
	+ Savior (rank 15)
* Dotify Global Chart ranking
	+ Savior (rank 26)
* Dotify USA ranking
	+ Savior (rank 25)
* Billboard Hot100 rank
	+ Bad Feeling (rank 1)

### Album Sales

* Debut Album total sales- 670,000 copies
* Single Album (Title Track: Airplane) total sales- 780,000 copies
* 1st Full Album Time to Go total sales- 830,000 copies
* 2nd Full Album Chakhogapsa total sales- 1.1 million copies
* The Ocean of Wonder total sales- 1,558,114 copies
* <Roll The Dice> - 1,823,281 copies
* Bad Time - 2,083,375 copies (initial) - 3,428,611 copies (regular)

## Controversies and Incidents

### Before Debut

* There was a controversy about Lee Sejin's participation in school violence and smoking as a minor. In one community post (such as Twitter or Instagram), a picture of Lee Sejin holding a cigarette was posted along with an article stating that the author of the article was a victim of Lee Sejin's bullying. Afterwards, an article was posted on the same community site claiming that the original photo was found and that the photo that was spread was an edited version proving Lee Sejin's innocence.
* There was a controversy over the theft of sanitary pads by Park Moondae. In a community site, there was a post about Park Moondae dropping out of high school in the past because he was caught stealing a women's sanitary napkin. That night, the victim posted that although it is true that someone stole her sanitary napkin, the perpetrator was someone else who framed the theft on Park Moondae. The controversy was settled to be a lie and Ha Iljoon later posted a testimony about Park Moondae's personality. Due to this controversy and several other reasons, Park Moondae ended up as first place on ICorp.

### After Debut

* Bae Sejin had a conflict with his former agency, DreamK. DreamK tried to press charges to bring Bae Sejin, who was currently in the agency T1 Stars as a member of TeSTAR, back to their agency. Bae Sejin's antis scorned him by sarcastically saying "An actor is trying to be an idol," but Bae Sejin revealed that DreamK mistreated him by putting him in a poor environment as a child and forcing him to appear on ICorp. However, Bae Sejin claimed that he wanted to remain an idol with his TeSTAR members, and the controversy was ended with the fans' attacks changing targets to Bae Sejin's former company for mistreating him.
* Park Moondae was hit by a water bottle during TeSTAR's debut showcase. Park Moondae's witty response to the incident made it a topic of discussion.
* There was a controversy where someone claimed that ICorp staff manipulated Ryu Chungwoo's votes because of his connection to the ICorp editor, Ryu Seorin. At T1, Ryu Chungwoo and Ryu Seorin clarified that they were distant relatives, more than 15 times removed, and only share a last name without knowing anything about the other. After the clarification, the public's negative response waned.
* A recorded conversation of Choi Wongil, a member of Golden Age, and his inferiority complex toward Park Moondae on the MBS broadcasting station's emergency stairs caused a controversy. The second half of Choi Wongil's apology after hearing Park Moondae's reply was edited and criticized. Park Moondae, who was concerned that his edited reply would spread extreme responses of sympathy towards him, calmed the controversy by arranging a KakaoTalk direct message with Golden Age member Ha Iljoon to clarify that the conversation was edited.
* Seon Ahyeon's dating rumors were controversial. The location, date, comment, and props of the photos uploaded to the TeSTAR Inhat account and Twin T Dami's personal account overlapped, and the captions and the pictures of each one's own content were presented as proof of the dating rumors. Although it was only loose, circumstantial evidence, when it was revealed that an executive of the company that Seon Ahyeon had an exclusive advertisement was Dami's maternal uncle, more people became suspicious. Dami broke the controversy by posting a photo she took with her younger brother in the same place on the Inhat picture that was used as evidence.
* A video was circulated along with the claim that Ryu Choengwoo used violence on a sasaeng fan. However, it only appeared that way because of the camera angle. It turned out that Ryu did not use violence, but rather acted to protect the members from flying objects.
* Seon Ahyeon got involved in a clubbing scandal after CoolIt Choi Kiwoon private Inheart account was hacked. In it, he posted "a clubbing addict pretending to be good natured again," to which netizens assumed to be Ahyeon as the date of the posting and TeStar scheduled match. This has been cleared after Moondae posted a video of the members being together on the said date.
* All members were injured in a car accident in their third year, and Park Moondae was in critical condition. The cause of the accident is that after the first manager of TeSTAR was fired, he deliberately got into the driver's seat of the vehicle the members were riding with resentment. The controversy flared up even more when it was revealed that T1 Stars tried to hide the fact that the first manager got in the van due to neglecting telling the rest of the staff that he was fired.
* There was a controversy about Cha Eugene's attitude during the filming of a documentary for Netplus. The documentary producers were chasing after and bothering Cha Eugene, who "looks good enough", but Cha Eugene refused to answer the question with a negative nuance. When the production team changed the target to Park Moondae, Cha Eugene pressed the camera with his hand and stopped the shooting. Although the recording was deleted due to a contract with the agency, the edited version was leaked "by accident" causing controversy over Cha Eugene's personality. The conflict between Cha Eugene's antis and TeSTAR's individual member fans intensified, and ultimately Cha Eugene's image was severely damaged to the point that they were saying Cha Eugene should be kicked out of TeSTAR/go solo. Later, it was revealed that the documentary production company was an outsourcing company filled with crew of the failed 2nd season of ICorp, which was infamous for abusive devil-like editing. The situation was reversed by exposing the transcript of the video. In the end, the outsourcing production company, which became the next target of the public, went out of business. The internal rift in the fandom subsided after being moved by TeSTAR's Seoul encore concert, agreeing that TeSTAR is the coolest and shines when they are a team of seven.
* A plagiarism controversy arose because the samples of an arrangement of 127 Section's "Time Running" that were uploaded to the Wetube account "Starry Stars" overlapped with TeSTAR's <Cosmic Gunner> OST "Black Hole". When it was revealed in a live stream that "Starry Stars" is a sub account of TeSTAR and that the sample mix-up occurred due to the short time Kim Raebin had to make the ost song, the controversy became a hot topic even in the United States.
* It became publicly known that there was an accident in which Park Moondae was injured due to stage equipment collapsing at a donation concert before VTIC's enlistment. Although this was actually a trick from the system, the broadcasting station was accused by the public of abusing their power and neglecting the management of the event.
* It was suddenly announced 30 minutes before the start of the first day of TeSTAR's 7th year "HUNTING CIRCUS" anniversary concert that Park Moondae would not be able to appear. After wondering why, it was later known that Park Moondae was cooperating in a missing-person case investigation as the last-known contact.

## ETC

* The average height of TeSTAR is 181.8 cm which is approx. 6ft.
* The designated cook and photographer is Park Moondae. While a few other members can do them, some of them are terrible at them, and Moondae has the best skills among the group members in both areas.
* Most TeSTAR members are athletics or have good physical strength.
* They have a tradition of staying in the same room once a week when doing overseas schedules.
* It is a inside joke that they will not likely starve no matter where they are, though the accuracy of this is quite high.
* According to Main Dancer Lee Sejin, the TeSTAR members can be grouped into three different styles of dancing
	+ Standard Line: Ryu Chungwoo, Park Moondae, Bae Sejin, Lee Sejin
	+ Artful Line: Seon Ahyeon, Kim Raebin
	+ Instinct Type: Cha Eugene

## Notes

1. ↑  The debut year is unknown. This seems to be intentional as some of the dates/days/year from the novel do not line up correctly as they do in real life
2. ↑ At the end of the story[CH 643], they are on their seventh year of activity in 202x.
3. ↑ Direct translation of the korean slogan:아 테스타 오늘 뭔가 보여준다!
4. ↑ Cha Eugene is a US citizen. (South Korea does not allow dual citizenship once adults. Because being a South Korean male citizen comes with the demerit of mandatory military enlistment, it is assumed that Cha Eugene chose to keep his US citizenship instead of his South Korean one.) Although officially a South Korean citizen, Seon Ahyeon also lived abroad in France for a few years.
5. ↑ South Korea's official name in Korean is Daehanminguk (대한민국). To differentiate our world from the novel's world, readers spell the characters' South Korea as Dehanminguk (데한민국) although the spelling is not actually used in the novel.
6. ↑ Bae Sejin's original name was Lee Sejin. He changed his surname from his father's to his mother's after debuting. The two Lee Sejin's on Idol Inc. were differentiated by labeling child-actor Lee Sejin as "Lee Sejin A". The other Lee Sejin was labeled as "Lee Sejin B", and given the nickname "Big (Keun) Sejin" as he was the taller of the two.
7. ↑ This stat is severely outdated as it is from their debut era (ch 108). Ryu Chungwoo has grown significantly since then, but his upgraded stats have not been confirmed to the readers by the status window.
8. ↑ This stat is severely outdated as it is from their debut era (ch 103). Bae Sejin has grown significantly since then, but his upgraded stats have not been confirmed to the readers by the status window.
9. ↑ This stat is severely outdated as it is from their pre-debut era (ch 5). Seon Ahyeon has grown significantly since then, but his upgraded stats have not been confirmed to the readers by the status window.
10. ↑ Cha Eugene is not afraid of watching horror but is bad at experiencing it (eg. horror movie vs haunted house).
11. ↑ The name written in Hangul can be shortend to SyeomByeol (셤별). Test = Siheom (시험) --> Syeom (셤) and Star = Byeol (별).
12. ↑ The trailer video. However, the music video for "BETTER ME" made this impossible
13. ↑ Unit Performance (Bae Sejin, Park Moondae, Seon Ahyeon)
14. ↑ 26,000 seats both days
15. ↑ Improvised Performance
16. ↑ 21,000 seats
17. ↑ 2nd Anniversary Fan Meeting
18. ↑ Park Moondae's Candy Bar Counter
19. ↑ Lee Sejin's Bubble Toy Counter
20. ↑ Seon Aheon's Pen Counter
21. ↑ the TEST part of the name is from TeSTAR's name. Test + Star
22. ↑ Aired Thursday at 7pm
23. ↑ Reaction Video to the show
24. ↑ Aired on Sunday
25. ↑ Ranked 6th place in the World TV Show category of Netplus
26. ↑ Implied to be a variety show based off of the real South Korean Variety show "Law of the Jungle".
27. ↑ The variety show this one was based off of was broadcasted on SBS.
28. ↑ Chapter 351
29. ↑ The self-proclaimed "Asia's largest global music awards" hosted by T1
30. ↑ Temporarily Suspended (due to national emergency, national holidays, sports broadcast, union strike, etc)
31. ↑ New record for male idol debut album sales
32. ↑ As of chapter 193, it ranked 7th or higher in all-time idol album sales.
33. ↑ Golden Age's Seulhui
34. ↑ They have a gym at their dorm and frequently work out
35. ↑ Source: 08/02/22 Kakao Page Demotjuk Magazine Lee Se-jin's Birthday Celebration, Official Interview 2/3
36. ↑ When a choreography demo comes out, we're the type to focus on doing the choreography as similarly and accurately as possible. The purpose is to clearly convey the feeling the movement is trying to convey. We pay special attention to power and detail. Because the reference point is similar, we sometimes discuss choreography with each other.
37. ↑ The type to focus on a lot of details that naturally come out according to the flow while looking at the overall picture of the choreography. They seem to be think a lot about "why is this movement here in this song".
38. ↑ Ahyeon is elegant like a professional dancer, and his range of motion is wide enough to make it seem like he has no joints.
39. ↑ Raebin has a good sense for songs, and that shows in his dancing.
40. ↑ The type that makes the choreography his own with a beast-like intuition. Eugene usually describes the movements are as "chewy", but the only drawback is that even he himself cannot explain how he is doing this.