Mark Tuan Talks "High As You," GOT7, Moving Back to LA

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Tv & Film, Music

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mark Tuan didn’t grow up with dreams of being a singer or K-pop idol — which makes the success he achieved with GOT7 and now as a solo star even more bananas. He joins us in the studio for the first time as a solo artist to talk about everything from his beginnings getting scouted at school in LA to the reality of being a K-pop trainee, juggling school work, vocal and choreo lessons, and learning a new language in a foreign land. The self-described homebody and fan-described Quiet Savage tells us the story behind his 2022 solo album The Other Side and how it lifts the lid on his time being in the idol system, the inexplicable Instagram fame of his father, the future of GOT7, his tattoos, and more.

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0:00.0	Uh, yes. It's the Zach Sang show.
0:03.2	Hi, beautiful human. I'm Zach. That's Dan. We welcome to the studio today, a human being, an artist.
0:08.3	Somebody who's a really very interesting story. K-pop star, member of Got Seven, and a solo artist.
0:13.8	The superfans call him The Quiet Savage. I would like to know why. Say hello to Mark Twon.
0:18.3	Yo! Yes.
0:21.0	Hello. That's up, guys. Hello, hello. Good, good, good. So, genuinely, like, you were in a group for a very long time, and with that comes being around a lot of people. Yes. Do you, is it, are you very much comfortable being a solo artist at this point? Or, like, because, like, it's very much trained in you. Yeah. Like it's a different, right?
0:18.2	Like, it's like coded into your being.
0:20.2	I feel like I'm, point or like because like it's very much trained in you yeah like it's a different right like it's
0:38.7	like coded into your being i feel like i i'm still very awkward and like not used to it but used to
0:45.5	at the same time you know i think there's like a switch that like turns on like when i'm by myself
0:51.4	i still feel like i'm just like regular guy you know i'll go to the gym go out to get food with my friends my family but then like when i'm like when I'm by myself, I still feel like I'm just like regular guy. You know, I'll go to the gym, go out and get food with my friends, my family. But then, like, when people recognize me, that's when I'm like, oh, yeah. Your solo artistry is, like, it's just you, right? And even in this setting, like, before when you do interviews, you had a bunch of other people around you. Yeah. And you shared the burden of the whole thing.
1:11.1	Yeah. But there is something to like, even being in like a very intense like traditional K-pop setting, like, would you just turn on and like be back into it or? When I'm doing my solo stuff now? No, like, would you consider your solo stuff genuine K-pop? I don't think so. it's not kept to the same idle standards
1:08.7	that you were at Got 7, right?
1:10.6	It's different.
1:11.3	Yeah. Do you consider your solo stuff genuine K-pop? I don't think so. It's not kept to the same idle standards that you were at Got 7, right?
1:30.8	It's different.
1:31.4	Yeah, even like the promotion and everything is very different.
1:34.4	Because like back then there's, in Korea they have the broadcasting, like, promotional thing, like the stages.
1:41.3	Yeah, like the TV shows and stuff.
1:43.2	Yeah.
1:43.4	So that's like something I'm not doing for my own solo stuff.
1:48.2	What are some other differences between what you were doing in Goth 7 and what you're doing now?
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