DAY6 drummer Dowoon revealed his pre-debut dream.
On the Oct. 10 broadcast of tvN's 'You Quiz on the Block', the band DAY6, celebrating their 10th anniversary since debut, appeared as a full group.
That day the DAY6 members said they did not expect to debut as a band. They said they auditioned and trained to become singers and then prepared as a band.
Meanwhile, Dowoon said, "While I was attending university, a teaching assistant told me, 'The band said the drummer spot was open,' so I auditioned. But maybe the image fit. I'm not saying it's because I'm handsome," he said, adding, "My dream was to be a drum academy teacher. I wanted to be a teacher like my father. But I trained for three months and then debuted. Everyone else trained for five to six years, but I trained only three months," he confessed.
Dowoon said he still practiced dancing, "We practiced stuck to the wall. I came to play drums, so when they suddenly told me to dance and sing, there was no time to practice drums. I cried to my father and said I couldn't do it, and he told me, 'Be quiet,'" and Young K added, "Thank you, father." Young K then praised, "As the only major, he could raise the band's level of completeness."
The members said they practiced 14 hours a day, more than 100 hours a week. Young K recalled, "Because we didn't know how to work hard, we did a lot. Of course blisters formed. I learned for the first time that a blister can form inside a blister. When they burst, we wrapped them and practiced," he recalled. Wonpil said, "We practiced with the lights off," and Sungjin added, "We really got everything wrong."
But DAY6's debut did not mean immediate success. Dowoon said, "I thought when I became an entertainer, people would shout 'Wow!' right after debut. But we wondered why we felt so shabby," and Sungjin confessed about their dreams, "We even wanted to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show, but we immediately felt shabby."
[Photo] Broadcast capture
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