- [JUNNY] I was all excited... till like the last few days.
I started packing up and I realized...
Man I'm… like there's nothing—
Like I don't know what’s there for me yet.
But I'm packing all my stuff.
I'm going to a country that I've never lived in.
I've always lived with my parents my whole life…
And now I'm moving out…
But it's not like I'm a few blocks away.
- [JUNNY] I’m like faaar away. - [Ashley] 14 hours away,
- [BM] Completely unfamiliar place.
- [JUNNY] Yeah. That hit me when I was going to the airport.
Like, “Oh man. Is this right?”
- [Peniel] The airport? That’s pretty late.
- [JUNNY] It’s late man.
- [BM] But that’s when it hits you the hardest.
And then the last moments you have with your parents…
Before you say peace out to them…
I remember that time when like…
I was driving to the airport and then I looked at the back…
You know, the back mirror.
And then I see my parents just like looking at my car drive away.
And it’s like,
“Damn. It’s kind of scary.
I don’t know if I can do this.”
And then I’m like,
“You know what… Let’s go.”
- [Ashley] I was like bawling on the whole plane ride.
Well half of the plane ride.
- [Peniel] Oh really? - [Ashley] On the way here.
- [JUNNY] I would have…
Yeah I would have done the same.
- [Peniel] It hit me like… I think like…
The night or like two nights before...
I had to fly out and I was like,
“Am I making a mistake?
Should I cancel everything right now?”
And then it felt like it was like the last time I was going to see my parents.
- [JUNNY] How long did it take you guys to like settle in?
- [Peniel] In Korea?
- [JUNNY] Yeah. Like legit settle in.
Like, “Oh this is where I live now.”
- [Ashley] I also came to Korea when…
3 months before I turned 21, international age.
So that's when I started my trainee life.
So I feel like the first half of my twenties went by so quickly…
‘Cause it was just about trying to survive in the trainee world...
In the company and debut.
Also when you're preparing to debut…
Even after you debut you just live such a crazy hectic life.
And you don’t have time for personal—
Your personal life.
It’s just work, work, work.
Even when you're a trainee…
Maybe Matthew’s a little different but…
They're really strict… And you know…
You don't have—
You don't really have friends.
You don't really go out.
So I kind of have had like no life in my 20s.
- [BM] You were strict on yourself though.
- [Ashley] Yeah. Even after debut.
- [Peniel] Why did you look at him like that before you said that.
You were like… And then…
“Maybe it was different for Matthew but…”
- [BM] I’ll tell you exactly why.
I’ll tell you exactly why.
Let me tell you how Ashley spent her 20s okay?
Let me tell you.
Okay, so she’s the leader of her group, right?
She made sure…
Herself and her groups— What time was it?
- [BM] Like 9? - [Peniel] 10 pm.
- [BM] 10 pm? - [Peniel] Yeah.
Everyone had to be home at 10 pm or else she got like…
- [JUNNY] Oh so she made the rule.
- [Peniel] She made the rule? I thought it was a company…
- [Ashley] No. The company gave us the rule. Okay?
- [BM] Didn’t the company say eleven and you made it ten?
- [Ashley] Noo. Why would I do that?
- [Peniel] No I think they said like 12 and she made it 10.
- [Ashley] No no no no.
- [Peniel] I’m just kidding. Not but…
That was like the first year or something.
- [Ashley] Yeah yeah. The first year.
The first like two years.
- [BM] The first like five years, no?
- [Ashley] No and then the com—
- [Peniel] She made it the other three years.
- [JUNNY] You know what was crazy?
The delivery was crazy for me.
- [Ashley] Yeah yeah. - [BM] Yooo.
Everything’s so convenient out here.
- [Peniel] I remember the first time McDonald's delivered…
I was like, “Hold on sir.
May I please take a picture of you?”
I was like, “I got to brag to my friends back in America.”
- [Ashley] Legit?
- [Peniel] Yeah.
I took a picture of him and I sent it to…
I was like, “Yo! McDonald’s is delivering!”
“America got to step up their game.”
- [BM] I think they got like DoorDash now.
- [Peniel] Yeah I mean...
America has stepped up their delivery service now but...
- [JUNNY] Even Canada. Yeah they’re stepping up.
- [Peniel] But it’s still nothing compared to Korea so…