Dayoung confessed on 'Playlist 109' about her "remarried family and parents' divorce"... Revealed childhood hardships including living in a goshiwon and debt.

Singer Dayoung revealed her family history during childhood and the process of growing as a singer on a broadcast. Dayoung, who is from Jeju Island, stated that she nurtured her dream of becoming a singer by performing songs and dances for customers at a san-gom eel restaurant run by her mother. She said that since elementary school, she helped with the basic setup of the restaurant and assisted her mother’s work. She said, ″When I was young, I thought every day about how not to be a burden to my mom and how to help her,″ and mentioned that she grew up in a remarried family and matured early due to the tens of billions of won in debt left by her biological father. She revealed that when her parents divorced when she was seven and a large debt was left under her mother’s name, she felt like she became an adult at that moment. Her mother worked outside from dawn for a living and ran the restaurant in the evening. Dayoung, as an only daughter, wanted to help her mother and promised to succeed and support the family by a certain age. She added that her mother also supported that promise. Dayoung said she auditioned for the audition program ″The Great Birth″ at age 11 but was eliminated immediately. At 12, she applied for the ″K-pop Star″ audition, which involved SM, YG, and JYP, and said she advanced further than expected. She explained that at the time, her mother was running a restaurant in Jeju Island, so she lived alone in a goshiwon in Seoul while participating in the audition. She described herself as thinking, ″I considered myself to be 40 years old.″ She also mentioned her mother’s positive personality. Dayoung said, ″I am my mom’s mini-me,″ and said that when the number of Chinese tourists in Jeju increased, her mother self-studied Chinese every day for two years and obtained the HSK certificate. She also revealed that she studies English steadily following her mother’s advice. Her mother advised, ″Opportunities come to everyone, but when an opportunity comes and you try to catch it, it runs away, so always be prepared and catch it when it comes.″ Even after debuting as a singer, Dayoung dreamed of solo activities. About five years ago, when renewing her contract with the group, she expressed her intention to pursue solo activities, but the company opposed it, citing difficulties in the solo market. She took a three-month leave and went to Los Angeles, USA, to carry out a solo project herself. She invested all the money she had saved during the three months in LA to complete the solo song ″body″ and said she revised the demo 40 times. Additionally, she revealed that ″number one rockstar,″ included in the same album, was originally a gloomy song titled ″flopstar,″ but she changed the lyrics and completed it with a positive message.