BEAST Reminisces About Their First Apartment With 12 People To 1 Bathroom: Band Members Still Forced To Share Rooms

Although BEAST's second album "Hard to Love, How to Love," released on July 11, is already a critical and commercial success, producing two top five singles in the Billboard K-pop Hot 100 with "Will You Be Alright?" and "Shadow," it hasn't been an easy climb for the group.

On Thursday's episode of the South Korean television program "Happy Together 3" three of the six members of BEAST remembered their early days--days that included the band sharing a 600-square foot room with six music managers and only one bathroom.

BEAST singer Son Dongwoon said that his privileged upbringing made it difficult for him to adjust to such a cramped living space.

"I came from a pretty good family," Dongwoon said.

"I used to live in a fairly nice environment, but then I had to live in those conditions. I needed a full meal, but we had to eat on our beds because we didn′t have anywhere we could sit down to eat. We also weren′t allowed to have anything that cost over [5 dollars]."

But when the band debuted in 2009, with the five-song EP "Beast Is the B2ST," the singer claims things quickly got better.

"We moved to an 1800-square foot home after our debut, and now we′re living in a 3600-square foot home," Dongwoon recalled.

BEAST still lives together, but now with only two band members per room.

And beyond the revelation that the members of the chart-topping group still don't have private rooms, the other notable moment in the "Happy Together 3" interview came when it was revealed that BEAST singer Yang Yoseob was once again wearing a purple bracelet showing support for an awareness campaign regarding the comfort women of World War II.

An extremely sensitive issue for the Asian nations affected, comfort women were often kidnapped from their homes by the Japanese military, across the countries that had fallen under Japanese Imperial control or coerced with promises of factory or restaurant work.

They were then forced to become sex slaves.

It has been estimated that thousands of Korean women were captured. Once enslaved, the women were forced to work in "comfort stations," or state-sanctioned brothels, set up for Japanese soldiers.

Yoeseob's bracelet was made in January of 2012 by the non-profit organization Heeum, according to eNEWS.

The group hopes to raise awareness about the suffering comfort women faced.

"Blooming their hopes with you," Yoeseob's bracelet reads.

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