SHINee’s Key Gets a Brutal Reality Check After Realizing He’s Almost As Old As A Rookie Idol’s Parents

SHINee‘s Key recently made fans laugh when he realized how young rookie idols are nowadays.

He debuted in 2008 with SHINee. However, he recently learned there is an SM Entertainment idol born in 2010 — A whole two years after his debut!

Key is talking about Hearts2Hearts‘ youngest member Ye-On.

Because of this, he feels like he could be old enough to be her dad.

He also learned that he is only 2 years younger than one of the member’s parents (possibly also Ye-On, though he didn’t specify which member).

Despite already looking young, he shared the whole situation makes him want to work harder to preserve his youth!

Check out the funny clip below.

KEY from SHINee said YE-ON is like her daughter 😭 pic.twitter.com/unxHylqPip

— 하투하 (@2heartsoffcl) July 1, 2025