everyone saying he’s gonna dress professionally cuz it’s the UN and he comes in with a ripped t-shirt and a beanie. i love him. pls don’t ever change mark lee
esquire korea update with mark
“hello everyone this is mark. its been such a long time hasnt it? you probably just watched my performance of ‘ready or not’ and because this song means so much to me, i was really really happy to finally share it with all of you. it was a great honor to perform this song in celebration of the world environment day and im cheering all of you on as well! please continue to look forward to whats coming next!! thank you!!”
watching him perform with just his guitar and a simple outfit completely blew me away. that stripped-back stage felt like a powerful declaration of intent—it showed his strong determination to share his own music with the world as "artist mark lee" from now on. this is truly the perfect beginning of his new chapter🥹✨🎸
mark’s speech for the world, at the world environment day 2026
“hello everybody, my name is mark lee. it is an honor to be here today. thank you so much for inviting me to world environment day and to Azerbaijan here in Baku. it is a beautiful city. before i sing you guys a song, i would like to tell you a short story.
i visited kenya earlier this year, and at that time, i was going through a very important time in my life. i had to make a very important decision for my career and for my life. and so i had a lot of people giving me advice, asking me questions that i didn’t really know the answer to. i was going through a strange, confusing period of time.
but i was in kenya and so i went on a safari. i saw so many beautiful animals, and i saw a lion. and at that moment, i kind of realized that sometimes its not really important to know the answer to all these questions or to know if you’re perfectly ready for everything, but rather whether you’re willing to take the next step toward real change.
so i made this song in kenya. its called “ready or not” and if i am correct and if we’re all getting the same memo, i do believe that our planet is asking us the same question. not whether we’re ready, but whether we’re willing to raise our voices and take this step. whether we’re willing to care enough to create real change.
i believe our souls all have this longing for a better world and i think thats one of the truest pieces of evidence there is that a better world could exist for everybody.”
#marklee : I visited Kenya earlier this year and at that time I was going through a very important time of my life. I had to make a very important decision for my career and for my life so I had a lot of people telling me a lot of advice, asking me question I don’t really know—
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Mark Lee, Canadian-born rapper, singer-songwriter has spent over a decade shaping K-pop - 45M+ albums sold, # 1 and #3 on the Billboard 200. Mark joins World Environmental Day not simply as an international artist but as a voice supporting a global movement for climate awareness and environmental action.