LOONA TV Season 9 – Choerry

The eighth member of Loona, Choerry, appears! She is preparing for her first photoshoot and shows off her fancy earrings. HaSeul, YeoJin, Kim Lip and JinSoul have shown up to support Choerry for her first photoshoot, YeoJin says that she and Choerry are close because they are both the youngest members of Loona. JinSoul provokes YeoJin by saying “Choerry said her best friend is me” and YeoJin replies that she knows everything about Choerry! Cheerful Choerry appears and the members say that Choerry is always happy, even when she makes a mistake.

Kim Lip and JinSoul are behind the scenes at Choerry’s photoshoot to cheer her on. Choerry is asked to make a charismatic facial expression and shows off her facial prowess. She shows her poker face, an awkward smile and a kiss face.

Kim Lip introduces JinSoul and YeoJin as losers and then herself and HaSeul as all four losers of today. HaSeul tells the camera that she and YeoJin are the real losers of today and YeoJin explains that she’s actually a webfoot octopus (similar pronunciation in Korean). HaSeul and YeoJin talk about their appearance in the web-drama “First Love Story” (Woomanna) and the director asks Kim Lip and JinSoul what they think of HaSeul’s acting, they respond that it’s good and very realistic. They say that YeoJin’s acting is just like real life YeoJin. YeoJin asks if she is too loud and the director says yes, YeoJin then starts talking into a shoe, pretending to act out a scene.

YeoJin and Kim Lip have left the photoshoot location and are going for a walk to a café, Kim Lip mentions that she and YeoJin are country girls. They arrive at a famous coffee shop and are going to buy watermelon juice. YeoJin sends a message to her mother on camera and says she misses her. The girls bring back some drinks for the staff because they always work so hard.

JinSoul and Choerry are doing a photoshoot together and are wearing all white. JinSoul jokes that the dresses look like onion bags and Choerry says it looks like a fishing net which JinSoul remarks is suiting because her animal is a fish. YeoJin is behind the scenes taking selfies and dancing for the LoonaTV camera. Kim Lip remarks that YeoJin never gets tired but after goofing around, YeoJin falls asleep on set and HaSeul falls asleep next to her.

Choerry is doing a photoshoot with Kim Lip and JinSoul this time, Choerry wants to dye her hair blonde, JinSoul says it’s okay to be blonde just once. JinSoul and Choerry say that they will be a summer unit, Choerry says they will be a hot unit. The three girls talk about the CFs they want to do – Air Conditioning and Ice Flakes.

Choerry is preparing for her next photoshoot and tells the camera that she’s wearing the most charismatic clothes so far. The photographer tells Choerry that she’s good at posing.

Choerry tells the camera that her photoshoot is almost finished. HaSeul explains that she and Choerry became trainees at the same time and they lived close together so they would take the bus together to commute and have become close. She recalls that Choerry said to her “HaSeul can we debut?” and HaSeul said “I think we can do it!” so when she found out that Choerry would be the next member of Loona, it was almost like a sibling was debuting. YeoJin interrupts and tells HaSeul that YeoJin is her sibling.

Kim Lip, JinSoul and Choerry work hard on their photoshoot whilst HaSeul and YeoJin are relaxing behind the scenes. YeoJin pretends she’s on a radio show and reports on what’s happening, she then begins singing My Melody and HaSeul sings along but YeoJin will only lip sync the song.

HaSeul, YeoJin, Kim Lip and JinSoul have gathered in front of the camera and JinSoul tells the viewers that they left home at 5am and that it’s now 7pm, HaSeul says that the eighth member, Choerry, has a lot of charm and hopes that the viewers will give her lots of love and support. JinSoul says that the audience might wonder which members will be included in the second unit of Loona as nothing has been decided yet, the girls then congratulate Choerry on her debut. Choerry’s photoshoot has come to an end.

HaSeul, YeoJin, Kim Lip, JinSoul and Choerry have gathered at the airport to depart for filming of Love Cherry Motion. Jeju Island, the episode throws back to and earlier episode with Kim Lip and JinSoul, Kim Lip tells the camera that she wants to go to Jeju Island because she likes it there. Kim Lip asks the camera what Jeju is famous for and HaSeul responds that it is tangerines …and black pig. JinSoul says she wants to ride a horse and Choerry wants to visit the Hello Kitty Museum, the girls tell the camera to please visit Jeju Island. The girls try to fool Choerry into believing that there is a horse riding scene in the music video, the director agrees that there is a horse riding scene and Choerry is shocked because she didn’t see it on the script but she thinks that riding a horse will be fun.

The Loona girls have arrived at Jeju and the weather is windy, JinSoul exclaims that Jeju is known for wind, women and rocks. They head to their hotel room and settle in for the night, Kim Lip and JinSoul take selfies in the bathroom mirror.

It’s the first morning in Jeju and the Loona girls have gathered in the hotel lobby, they head out to the first filming location for Love Cherry Motion. Filming begins on a beach but it quickly starts to rain, Choerry suspects that it’s because of HaSeul, HaSeul apologises for bringing her curse to Jeju.

Filming for the pool scene in Love Cherry Motion begins, the episode shows the pool from the music video vs the reality of the pool which is much less vibrant and rainy. HaSeul, YeoJin and Choerry begin filming the pool scenes but the water is cold and HaSeul confesses that she is afraid of water as well. Kim Lip watches on and tells the camera that she likes water and that the scene looks fun so she wishes she could join them. The director asks HaSeul which is harder – filming in Iceland or filming fiving in the water and HaSeul says diving was harder.

The girls head back to the hotel to dry their hair after filming the swimming pool scenes. HaSeul tells the camera that the next filming location is a closed school building. Back at the hotel, JinSoul tells the camera that two boys were in front of the elevator and asked amongst themselves if JinSoul and Kim Lip were twins and said they were beautiful. They giggle and JinSoul says she is embarrassed, JinSoul then exaggerates what the boys said “Don’t they look like angels from heaven?” They share the story with Choerry when she comes down to meet with them and Choerry repeats what the boys said while looking at JinSoul and Kim Lip.

Tubular Bells plays while the episode begins by showing the filming location, an abandoned school building. The girls remark how scary the location is, HaSeul thinks ghosts might live there and Choerry thinks the ghost would think well of her. Mosquitos are actually haunting the location and the staff and Loona members keep getting bitten while setting up for filming, HaSeul reports from the car that she can’t open the car window for long because there are too many mosquitos around and that Kim Lip has been bitten over twenty times!

The second day of shooting begins and Choerry starts off by applying lots of sunscreen because of the sunny weather and the filming taking place out in a field. Choerry tells the viewers that she has practiced the choreography a lot but the details keep changing so she is nervous about how well she will do. The audience gets to see filming of Choerry’s choreography scenes as she confidently dances along with the backup dancers.

JinSoul and YeoJin report on the weather in Jeju while filming for Love Cherry Motion continues. Filming in Jeju finishes up and Choerry has an awkward awards speech. The Loona girls head off to the airport to go home.

HaSeul, ViVi, Kim Lip, JinSoul and Choerry have gathered back in Seoul for Choerry’s last day of filming. Kim Lip and JinSoul will be filming along with Choerry but HaSeul says she and ViVi are there for support. HaSeul and ViVi are gushing over Choerry because she is cute.

Kim Lip and JinSoul’s dance parts with Choerry begin. Behind the scenes, HaSeul is dancing along and ViVi is drawing a picture of Choerry with Kim Lip and JinSoul. Filming for Love Cherry Motion finishes and ViVi shares her completed artwork.