The One I Need 💙 #ITZY #MIDZY #LIA #RYUJIN #YUNA

What happened

ITZY's official channel posted a video tagged with the members Lia, Ryujin and Yuna. The auto captions include the lines "Cotton candy skies like I'm stuck in a dream" and "you're the one that I need." The second line matches the video's title.

Why Koreans care

The title, "one that I need," repeats the closing line of the captioned lyric: "And I've been feeling blue, you're the one that I need." The captions also open with "Dancing in my room, swaying my feet." The material supplied says nothing more about the song or its release.

In the Korean comments

Several comments say the same thing about this trio: no one in the group is there to hold the others back. One comment reads, in translation, "This line is funny too, there's no one at all to stop them." Another calls the three "브레이크 없는 폭주기관차" (beureikeu eomneun poktu gigwancha, a runaway train with no brakes). That comment also pairs the members by chemistry, describing Lia as someone who is out of step with the other two and yet fits with them anyway. A separate comment is about where Lia sits in the group. In translation, it says she is cute every time she is wedged between the youngest members, "even more of a youngest than the youngest." Two comments picture what other people would have thought. One asks, in translation, what the cars beside them made of ITZY. The other says that the drivers stopped at the light must have been at a loss. I can't verify from the supplied material what the video shows, so these read as the commenters' own description of the scene. One comment asks "채령이는 오디갔오?" (Chaeryeong-i neun odigatso, where did Chaeryeong go?). The title tags only three members, and Chaeryeong is not among them.

What the words mean

Two of the comments use playful slang that translates badly. "잼민이" (jaemini) is internet slang for a kid who acts like a noisy, immature elementary schooler. It is not a literal word for a child. The commenter uses it about the three members as "투닥투닥 잼민이 신자매" (tudak-tudak jaemini sinjamae, bickering jaemini-style new sisters). The tone is teasing and affectionate. "장꾸쟁이" (jangkkujaengi) comes from 장난꾸러기 (jangnankkureogi, a prankster or mischief-maker). A commenter uses it for this combination of members, and it is also a fond label.