Two weeks have now passed since the passing of Moonbin, and his loved ones have expressed their heartfelt messages for him in various ways. Many wrote letters for him at his memorial, and some have also shared photos and messages through social media.
Here are memories and words shared on Instagram by some of his close friends:
SF9’s Chani
Kim Bo Yoon
Oppa.
You were an older brother who always told me to contact you if something happened at the end of our conversations, and I wonder why I couldn’t have said such easy words to you even once.
Many people will long miss and remember singer Moonbin, but I will remember actor Moonbin the longest.
Including when you worried everyday from the day the script came out to the day of filming in order to act without hurting Oh Je or Da Heen, when we worried over each and every line while putting our heads together for four hours at a time until filming began on the day of filming, when you were sorry for about a week when you made a mistake reciting your lines, and when you told me what parts you liked when you monitored [our performance] after filming.
My 2019 album is full of “Moments of 18,” and among those, I have the most photos of Oh Je and Da Heen.
I will be sad for just a brief moment, and I will treasure it as a good memory for a long time.
Leave all that pain behind here, and take fresh air, beautiful scenery, happy memories, rice, Nesquik, meat, lots of what you liked.
Thank you for acting with me.
I hope that you will be less mature and less hurt there.
Farewell, oppa. And I’m so very sorry.
Moon Ga Young
Every moment is vivid from our beginning up to when you completely surpassed my height and I had to look up to you.
Ungjae
I feel like I’m in a dream I can’t wake from. Even when I try to wake up, nothing changes. I met you at 19, and we lived our 20s together. I really liked you, and I admired you at times. I wanted to meet you soon to tell you how awesome of a person you are, but my heart aches thinking that that now [the wait] will be a little longer. You were more warm-hearted and thought more deeply than anyone else, so I respect all your decisions. I just want to meet you for one day and tell you that you worked so hard and that it’s not your fault in the slightest. I really didn’t have a single difficult moment when I was together with you, and I was just so happy, so please be well and at peace.
You’ve always been a great source of pride for me for a long time, and I was always grateful for being your friend. Let’s for sure be friends next time and the time afterwards. Everyone will live well, and you won’t wish for the people you love to live in pain, so we will live even brighter and more beautifully, so it’s okay to be a little hurt over thoughts of you, so I wish you would show up in my dreams to see you face from time to time. I really want to see you even if it’s just for one day, one hour, once, Bin.
Let’s meet again not too late.
I love you, Mungnyang.
Lee Suji
I have so much I want to say.
I always wanted to tell you, and I should have been braver.
Thank you for being with us in your most beautiful years.
Thank you so much for coming like a gift so beautiful that is a shame to even unwrap. Like you said, you really are the greatest person in the world. That’s right. It was an honor to have met you.
“Hold my hand when you need someone. I’ll be that somebody.”
It would be a relief if our song that you liked gave at least a little bit of comfort to you. And I’m sorry because I don’t think I was able to hold your hand as much as in the lyrics.
I was also able to breathe a lot and dream a lot due to your music.
In addition to me, and to the many people who loved you, you became a light. I am so grateful that there are songs that the six of us can remember each other by.
Now, I’m dreaming of a new dream through you.
I will live as a bright ray of light that will light up the darkness in this place.
I’ve become more simple and more bold. I don’t think there’s anything to be scared of now.
I will help the people who have fallen stand up, hold the hands of the people who are alone and walk with them, help those who have lost their dreams to dream anew, and show happiness to the people who have lost their laughter.
As I picture you saying, “That’s right Suji! That’s it!” in heaven, I will take strength until the end. Let’s meet again for sure. And let’s stay as one family forever.
It’s a relief that you will be enjoying to your heart’s content the deep love, peace, and freedom in heaven that you couldn’t feel on this land.
I’m really happy having even a taste of that heaven now, and how much incomparably greater it should be for you..!
I won’t begrudge the time given to me nor my life and will run to you after spreading light. Rest easy until then.
And your family that you loved so much, we will be their family and will be with them. It will probably be so hectic because they will have gotten so many new sons and daughters, sisters and brothers. You probably won’t worry, but don’t worry