Former CLC member Sorn recently sat down for a tell-all interview with the Thai YouTube channel ป๋าเต็ด.
Last year, Sorn departed CUBE Entertainment, also leaving CLC. In the interview, Sorn revealed the reasons behind her departure from the company and more struggles idols faced under the company.
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— Sorn Sajakul (@sssorn_clc) November 16, 2021
What many K-Pop fans might not realize is that a lot of K-Pop entertainment companies have CCTVs everywhere, including the training center to monitor trainees. So, management is always aware if they are “slacking off.” If caught slacking, the trainee would be marked with a “warning sticker” by their name on a board, and if a trainee accumulated a total of five stickers, it would result in being kicked out of the company.
Sorn was never kicked out. Instead, after two years of training, she was added to a rigorous training project.
It became so demanding that she dropped out of school and even would rest in the training room along with the other five project trainees. Eventually, it was so bad that the trainees even had mats in the room so that whenever they finished too late at night, too exhausted even to walk, they could just sleep there.
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Sorn won K-Pop Star Hunt at 15 and signed to Cube. Cube didn’t want her to study so she could train more. She had to negotiate to be able to [email protected]_clc #SORN #CLC
pic.twitter.com/l0ibd83ZrO— crystal updates 🏳️🌈 (@updatesCLC) June 10, 2022
The environment for a trainee was not good. It was both demanding and cold as they lived in fear of being eliminated.
