A Male Idol Didn’t Tell His Parents He Was A Trainee Until He’d Already Passed The Audition And Moved To Seoul

By Koreaboo on June 12, 2023

Becoming a K-Pop idol isn’t an easy journey. That’s why parents don’t always react positively to their children choosing it as a career.

One male idol was ahead of the game by not telling his parents about his dreams until he’d already become a trainee at an entertainment company.

As KARD chatted with Eric Nam for the Daebak Show, J.seph revealed that he’d initially planned to become a soldier but didn’t pass the exam.

My parents always said, ‘You don’t have a dream, so be a soldier.’ So I actually took an exam for becoming a noncommissioned officer when I was twenty years old in June. I failed.

— J.seph

Despite having no dreams of what to do with his life, J.seph remembered an old dream of becoming a singer. Since he was from the countryside and didn’t have anyone “who’s talented around that area” to look up to, he “started living in a goshiwon” in Seoul to figure out how to become a trainee.

J.seph’s effort paid off. Though he had no clue about how to audition, he passed. He also admitted, “I did the audition without my parents knowing and told them after I passed the audition.”

There was a reason J.seph didn’t tell his parents beforehand. He knew what they would say and took the necessary steps to accomplish it.

If I told my parents that I had something I wanted to do, they would’ve been like, ‘You have to go to Seoul and prepare for the audition. How are you going to do that?’

But I just told them, ‘I passed the audition already. I’m heading to Seoul.’

— J.seph

Although Jiwoo was worried that J.seph’s parents were against him becoming an idol, they had the opposite reaction. J.seph reassured her, “They didn’t say no. They just told me to go.”

Listen to J.seph’s story about being two steps ahead of his parents in pursuing his dream of becoming a singer.