Men's Health Magazine January 2022 and Theatre Plus Magazine January 2022 Review

My friend has graciously blessed me with a magazine haul during her trip to Seoul in January^^ I'm especially grateful as she trekked through the brutal cold to many stores to find these~ January was a great month for magazines with Golden Child's Daeyeol on the cover of Men's Health and Infinite's Sunggyu on the cover of Theatre Plus.

Men's Health January 2022

Daeyeol as Men's Health's January 2022 cover model, he is the second Golden Child member to be on the cover following Jangjun in November 2020, and he and Infinite's Sungyeol are the first brothers to have been cover models for the magazine. But above all, I believe this is the first magazine shoot outside of OT10 shoots for Daeyeol, which is very exciting for Golden Child's leader to have his time to shine especially when he has to enlist soon...version A is on the left while version B is on the right.

I really like how the spine of the magazines even state the cover model with "골든차일드 이대열". I don't really see this with other magazines often.

Interestingly enough, version A came with a really nice fitness desk calendar for 2022. And if you look back at the cover photo above, printed on the bottom right corner of the magazine is a callout stating this calendar freebie (whereas when I look at this magazine online the text in the bottom right corner matches my version B).

Here is Daeyeol on the table of contents, along with cleaner versions of both cover photos. Both versions have the same exact content, except of course for the cover.

And here is the start of Daeyeol's pictorial! His section contains 12 pages.

I cannot get over this photoshoot. I am not one for exposure (as I had learned from Jaehyun's teasers for YES. and then again for Game Changer) but these photos are seriously a work of art. The fog, the lighting, the shadows, they all create such a beautiful backdrop for our cover star!

Just look at the confidence and power that Daeyeol exudes!

The action shots like the one on the right are especially stunning.

Seriously cannot get over this new side of Daeyeol!

At the end of the article, Daeyeol demonstrates his workout. It's really cute how they have actual photos of Daeyeol doing each step.

Theatre Plus January 2022

Sunggyu is the cover star of the January 2022 edition of Theatre Plus! The cover already looks like such a fun and joyous shoot, contrasting heavily with Daeyeol's covers. It's nice seeing Sunggyu's further growth in his solo activities and his musical career as we wait for OT6^^

Here is the beginning of Sunggyu's pictorial! It contains 10 pages.

Gyu is too precious here! And here is one of the two pages dedicated to his interview.

I love how many different vibes this one pictorial gives, from fun to serious, and how many different photoshoots are comprised of this.

I am in love with the bubblegum photo - it's like an upgraded version from his 27 photoshoot.

The last page has a beautiful black and white photo along with another page of the interview.

Overall, I'm so happy to have these magazines! Both show such great growth (Daeyeol having a solo pictorial and Sunggyu advancing in his musical career) and give such different vibes. And Sunggyu's is a great reminder that enlistment doesn't mean the end of the world, and that Daeyeol will be back soon enough^^