i i was really guilty for not for
for being bad that i had no say in the
matter
okay this is the first time i've
told this story so my fans wouldn't even
know oh wow
until today until now
i guess for people who don't know who
aren't aware how did you
end up here here what happened as me as
uh tpm um
i went to i went to this korean festival
in
in downtown l.a in k-town yeah um
because
when i was living in america in in
california i would say i'm from l.a
but i'm actually from rancho cucamonga
which is like
around an hour from from l.a and if
you know in california if you don't in
america mostly in california if you if
you don't have
before uber yeah if you don't have a car
you can't go anywhere right
you're trapped except for your tongue
you know
yeah so um i never really went into la
until that day um my friends were like
hey let's go
there's like this um concert with like a
bunch of
there's god and rg
and a bunch of like other singers coming
i didn't know any of them
so i was watching the the concert and um
some lady approached me speaking korean
and i'm like no idea no idea what you're
saying
still talking to me lady i still don't
know what you're saying but then next to
her
was a translator um she's from jyp
and um she would like you to follow her
back to the
hotel to tave an audition i'm like wait
that does not sound so suspicious
i would be killed i don't know like um
yeah so i said no
um and the fact that i had no talent at
all
like i was never interested in in
entertainment
oh except for piano like i liked to play
the piano back then but
nothing like singing or dancing i
couldn't even speak in front of the
class
oh so you're very like so nervous yeah
but um anyway like
they kept calling me within like that
week because before they
they would have to come back to korea
they were like i need to get you on tape
i need to get you on tape i'm like
nope nope nope until they were like okay
we just want to we just want to sit down
and talk to you
so they came to to my tongnay
and uh we sat down at a coffee shop
starbucks yeah at the busiest time
around 8pm
when people were there studying yeah
talking business and
and we were talking inside and they set
up the camera outside of
starbucks shut up that's where i taped
my audition so you taped an audition
in front of me in like a parking lot i
did everything
that they asked me to i did everything
that they asked me to what was the weird
what did they ask you to do
i guess well first they they had me
stand in front of the camera and they
were like
introduce yourself in all the languages
you can speak it was just english and
thai
um and then do some
poses poses like modeling yeah
so i was like
it's him it was really awkward it was
really awkward and they were like okay
sing something
and i'm like i don't i don't know how to
just it's okay just sing we just want to
hear your voice yeah
so i sang um all or nothing by old town
oh what a song
yeah i sang that song because that was
like the last song that i was listening
to with my friend
sang that song embarrassed and that
wasn't enough for them
right they were like like this this kid
is not embarrassed enough
so we're gonna make him even more
embarrassed yeah pulled up
escal his there they rode in and
um escalate right pull that up right in
front of starbucks
roll down the window cranked up yeah by
usher
so everyone in starbucks is just staring
at you
what the hell are they doing oh my god
dance and i'm like i don't know how to
just just do anything we just want to
see you move like
oh my lord so yeah yeah yeah like
okay yeah and they they left after i'm
like
okay they're never going to call me back
yeah and they did
like two weeks after they're like my god
i want we want you to move to
to korea but so what what got you to
other than
i mean you were saying you had no
interest in doing anything entertainment
so what was it was there a moment where
you're like oh okay well i guess i
should try it
actually i might my head was just blank
back then like i didn't have a future
like
because um towards actually towards
junior and senior year
um i was actually getting out of line uh
not really showing up to school okay
hanging out with my friends
it wasn't even like partying or like
bad things i was i was hanging out with
my friends playing badminton
[Laughter]
it's so stupid i ditched school to go
play badminton in san gabriel
dude nikon was a rebel it's so stupid
like
it wasn't like hey man i was at this
great party
i was go out man oh god it wasn't that
it was like
hey come out my friend like my friend
who was in college it was
like this is 11 00 a.m probably like
second
or second third period hey come out i'm
in the parking lot
okay let's go play back
the best thing ever that's hilarious
and um yeah i was getting out of line i
was
i wasn't really going to school and my
dad was like
you gotta go this is this is your chance
to turn your life around you gotta go
and at that point i i was
really guilty for not for for being bad
that i had no say in
in the matter okay this is the first
time
i've told this story so my fans wouldn't
even know
oh wow until today until now so yeah
that's that's the reason why i came it
was
because i was being a bad boy i was
being really naughty
playing badminton yeah playing badminton
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