Lee Tae Hee (이태희) - The Light Highlight Medley

This medley features Taehee’s solo album and is the last in my series on M.Pire (엠파이어), unless another member does some solo work or, by some miracle, they decide to release something again like M.Peror did recently.

The album was released on 180514, which before I started writing this all up, was several years after any real, concrete evidence that M.Pire was still together could be found. However, I have since been able to access their official fancafe (no clue why I forget to check it before lol) and found a post from 180601 that implies the group was still very loosely together at that point, but that members Red and T.O did official leave the group back in 2015 (to promote in China and to promote in Japan with B.Crown, respectively). It also stated that Haru was taking a break from the group to focus on other things and that, because Taehee was the first to be discharged from the military, he was granted this solo project.

But, given that 2018 was four years ago, nothing else mentioned by the company ever came to fruition (such as a sub-unit called Get2 featuring Jerry and Useung/Yooseung), and that Taehee (who has since changed his name to Ha Taebin) is the only member still listed on the company’s official website (and even that info is clearly outdated), I still maintain that it’s safe to assume they’ve 100% disbanded at this point. Like, Taehee announced he was changing his name via his instagram on 200803 and it has been updated on the company’s website, yet the last fancafe announcement was the 180601 post mentioned above. Clearly, the company has moved on.

Anyway, as for the album itself, while it does have five tracks, it only truly includes two songs. The title track ‘The Light’ comes in both Korean and Japanese with a regular and EDM Mix for both. The second song is called ‘사랑하는 게’. No music video was ever released for the title track as far as I’m aware and it also doesn’t seem like Taehee/Taebin got very far in a solo career either as this is his only release. The last update to his official youtube channel was only a little over a month later on 180626. Glancing thru his instagram, it does appear that he appeared on the show Mr. Trot in early 2020, but didn’t make it past the first audition. Aside from that, I can’t really be sure what he’s been up to lately.

Tracks Included:

1. The Light - There’s no MV, so here’s the Stage Mix included on his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngNgTmS6BfE
2. The Light (EDM Mix)
3. 사랑하는 게
4. The Light (Japanese)
5. The Light (Japanese EDM Mix)

Unfortunately, outside of the main title track, I could not find these songs uploaded anywhere.

For more info about this group: https://kprofiles.com/m-pire-members-profile/