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TXT’s Soobin and Taehyun <\/p>\nThe K-pop industry is no stranger to stories about how tough it can be for idols before they debut. Behind the glamour and global stardom lies a notoriously competitive system where young trainees are pushed to their limits. But over time, as K-pop has gone international and idols have found support in millions of fans worldwide, the industry has slowly started to leave behind some of its harsher, more conservative practices.<\/p>\n
TXT’s Soobin and Taehyun <\/p>\n
Recently, TXT leader Soobin shed light on just how intense those trainee years were. In a now-viral clip from a Weverse livestream, he revealed that both he and his bandmate Taehyun were subjected to physical punishments while learning choreography. According to Soobin, this all happened when they were still kids. \u201cThis was when me and Taehyun had just been dancing for a week or two we were both extremely young kids, 8th and 10th graders who couldn\u2019t even stretch our arms out properly\u2026the seventeen hyungs do really hard choreographies, right? And they suddenly asked us to dance to this song and it\u2019s not even like the teacher taught us the choreography, they told us to learn it ourselves by watching the video so me and Taehyun watched the video at 0.5x to learn the choreography and it seemed reallllly tough, so it was a given that we wouldn\u2019t be able to dance well to it.\u201d <\/p>\n
To which Soobin added, \u201c(Sighs) Taehyun ended up saying it but we did get hit back then\u2026we got hit while we learnt it\u2026\u201d The leader further admitted that some other trainees actually had it even worse than them. <\/p>\n
While the revelation was shocking for many fans, Soobin reassured them that the industry is no longer the same. \u201cThey had physical punishments back then but if they physically punish someone now, they\u2019d get in huge trouble,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
For MOAs (TXT\u2019s fandom), the livestream was a mix of emotions \u2014 heartbreaking to hear what their idols endured as middle schoolers, but also relieving to know the industry has made progress since then. \u201cThis is actually so heartbreaking and I hope him and everyone else who endured this treatment have healed and are okay\u2026 that company can go to h3ll like,\u201d was one comment under the post. One more comment said, \u201cI’m glad they talked about it, people need to realise what this industry is like. I’m glad they’re not beating people up any more, but that doesn’t mean they’re not being treated harshly anymore :(.\u201d Another concerned fan wrote, \u201cThis is so upsetting how was this allowed???\u201d<\/p>\n
TXT, short for Tomorrow X Together, is a five-member boy band under Big Hit Entertainment \u2014 the same label that launched global icons BTS. The lineup includes Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and HueningKai. They officially entered the K-pop scene in 2019, with their debut EP The Dream Chapter: Star, fronted by the energetic title track Crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The K-pop industry is no stranger to stories about how tough it can be for idols before they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,63685,134,39327,63687,136,63684,63686,63683],"class_list":{"0":"post-84647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-beomgyu","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-htcity","13":"tag-hueningkai","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-soobin","16":"tag-taehyun","17":"tag-yeonjun"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}