{"id":4267,"date":"2026-01-14T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:40:21","slug":"im-si-wan-details-harsh-trainee-life-ten-of-us-shared-a-room-i-felt-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/?p=4267","title":{"rendered":"Im Si-wan Details Harsh Trainee Life: &#8216;Ten of Us Shared a Room, I Felt Despair&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\uc784\uc2dc\uc644.\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/image.xportsnews.com\/contents\/images\/upload\/article\/2026\/0114\/1768352662877597.jpg\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Singer and actor Im Si-wan recalled his difficult past.<\/p>\n<p>On the 14th, a video titled &#8220;The Great Person Supported by Left SM and Right Black Label&#8221; was posted on the YouTube channel &#8216;TEO Teo&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Im Si-wan said, &#8220;When I meet with the members of ZE:A, we often revisit those times, especially discussing our living arrangements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Salon Drip 2' channel capture.\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/image.xportsnews.com\/contents\/images\/upload\/article\/2026\/0114\/1768352973955206.png\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;Looking back at our beginnings, including trainees who didn&#8217;t debut with ZE:A, ten of us would sleep side-by-side in one room. If someone returned late, they might inadvertently step on and wake up a sleeping friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Im Si-wan also mentioned, &#8220;Before debuting, we filmed a reality program, prompting a move to a different dorm, and lived like that for about a year. The upgraded dorm then housed four or five people per room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Im Si-wan reminisced, &#8220;When ten of us lived in one room, it was roughly the size of the current &#8216;Salon Drip&#8217; studio. I truly felt a sense of despair, especially after finishing a shoot and barely making it home by dawn, only for the first member&#8217;s alarm to go off shortly after. At that moment, I knew I also had to get up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Image source: Xportsnews, YouTube channel &#8216;TEO Teo&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer and actor Im Si-wan recalled his difficult past. On the 14th, a video titled &#8220;The Great Person Supported by Left SM and Right Black Label&#8221; was posted on the YouTube channel &#8216;TEO Teo&#8217;. In the video, Im Si-wan said, &#8220;When I meet with the members of ZE:A, we often revisit those times, especially discussing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[228,311,681],"class_list":{"0":"post-4267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-issue","8":"tag-im-si-wan","9":"tag-k-pop","10":"tag-trainee-life"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-109.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongonakpop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}