In 2012, Rosé's dad jokingly suggested that she should attend the YG Entertainment audition in Australia. "I didn't think that there was much of a chance for me to become a singer – especially to become a K-pop star . . . I was living so far from the country that it never really occurred to me as a possibility," Rosé said in a previous interview with The Sydney Morning Herald. She ended up placing first and within two months, she was on a plane to South Korea for the trainee program.