When asked about K-pop trainee culture in a recent interview, Rosé, a Blackpink who succeeded in being single with “Apartment,” replied, “I survived.”
“I woke up at 9:30 a.m. and practiced until 2 a.m., and I wanted to use the practice room by myself, so I stayed after work and kept doing it,” she said. “Contents about Korean trainees are definitely glamorized. The loneliness I experienced became a bit of a trauma. But as you know, I survived.”
“If I failed, I would have had to go back to my Australian friends who said, ‘Where have you been, I don’t understand what you’re doing,'” Rosé said of her passionate work background. “I didn’t want to explain the whole process after I failed and returned home.”
Regarding the grievances of K-pop idols, Rose also said, “We are always trained to express ourselves in the most perfect way,” but added, “But we are not trained to talk about our feelings, feelings, and experiences.”
He mentioned K-pop’s anti-fan culture. “You’re going through that, aren’t you?” Eroze said with tears in her eyes, “I think so, but I don’t want to get emotional about it, because I want to say I’m pretty strong.”
Rosé said, “I judge things very positively and wisely,” but added, “I actually felt really bad when it happened to me. When I see something like that on the Internet, I’m shocked, and I wonder why I’m just going to let him do it.”
He mentioned that K-pop agencies have strict rules on idol relationships. “It wasn’t normal and it wasn’t normal,” Rosé said. “It’s not normal for me either. It’s because I never actually said it, and I didn’t think there was any need to check or talk about it.”
SALLY LEE
US ASIA JOURNAL
