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BLACKPINK member Jisoo shared anecdotes from their past dorm life.

On the 5th, the Netflix Korea YouTube channel released a video titled ‘A love-hate romance of rabbit-face&fox-face superstars | We did come to promote Monthly Boyfriend, though’. The video was hosted by TV personalities Jonathan and Yoo Byung-jae, with singer-actor Seo In-guk and Jisoo appearing as guests to promote the Netflix drama ‘Monthly Boyfriend’.

Screenshot from the Netflix Korea YouTube channel.

In the video, recalling the filming of the Netflix documentary ‘BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky’, Jisoo said, “We laughed a lot among ourselves while watching trainee-era footage and Lisa’s audition video,” and added, “Filming the documentary was fun.”

Screenshot from the Netflix Korea YouTube channel.

She continued, “It was our first time shooting a documentary, so the camera kept following us around and asked us to talk about our inner thoughts,” adding, “We hadn’t done much variety, and we hadn’t really shown ourselves like that, so we filmed while thinking, ‘Is it okay to talk like this?’”

Screenshot from the Netflix Korea YouTube channel.

When Yoo Byung-jae asked, “Was that when you were living in a dorm?”, Jisoo answered, “Yes. Back then we were all living together in a dorm.”

Jonathan then asked, “When you live in a dorm, aren’t there times when habits don’t match? For example, some people clean right away while others clean later, right?” Jisoo said, “I’m the type to clean right away, but I’m not the ‘We should all clean together’ type. If I don’t want to see the mess, I just clean it myself.”

She also shared another dorm-life episode. Jisoo said, “We had only one TV, so sometimes one person wanted to watch the live broadcast while someone else wanted to watch something different. In those cases, whoever had started watching first had dibs.”

She added, “Whoever had sat down first had dibs, and as we watched, going, ‘What is this?’, we ended up all watching together, so our tastes were shared by force.”

Screenshot from the Netflix Korea YouTube channel.

To these down-to-earth dorm-life anecdotes from BLACKPINK, netizens reacted, “They suddenly feel more relatable,” “People’s lives are all the same,” “In every home, the person who claims the TV first has dibs; that’s the ‘national rule’,” and “I thought with BLACKPINK it would be one TV per person, but that’s a twist,” among other comments.

Meanwhile, BLACKPINK’s third mini-album ‘DEADLINE’, released on the 27th of last month, received positive reviews and, within a week of release, sold over 1.77 million copies, setting a new first-week sales record for a K-pop girl group.