On the latest episode of BoA's V Live reality show, Nobody Talks to BoA, the veteran singer enjoys a candid conversation with long-time managers Kim Eunha and Choi Seongwoo. They laugh as BoA reveals the name of her talk show. Eunha says that the title is "perfect," with Seongwoo agreeing that in the past, "it was harder to approach her before. But as she got older, she became more easy-going."

The conversation expands into how SM juniors think of BoA. Eunha, who's worked with EXO and Girls' Generation, admits that "they think you're difficult to be with. You're a scary senior." She notes that they don't have a chance to sit with them often. Although recently, BoA's gotten close to Girls' Generation's Sunny and is drinking buddies YoonA, as seen on tvN's show On and Off. When BoA asks how the managers feel, Seongwoo reveals that except the CEOs, he and Eunha "are the only ones who don't call you Ms. Kwon."

The conversation then diverges into BoA's career in Japan. 

"I actually didn't have a big ambition," BoA says. "'What would I do there?' I had no idea. What would a middle school junior know?"

But her fortune changed when she hit 3rd on Japan's Oricon chart. What followed next was her chart-topping, one million-selling album, Listen To My Heart. When it came to her 2009 American debut, Eunha recalls the singer feeling "pressure about going to the States," and how BoA "had to learn a new language, and face a new challenge." 

"I loved and hated going to the States at the same time," BoA says. "I was lonely staying there. Back then it was new to everyone."

The singer remembers how everything felt new to everybody. At the time, only a handful of Asian artists tried to break into the American music market—Utada Hikaru's 2004 album, Exodus, and the Wonder Girls 2009 single, Nobody. BoA says she and SM didn't know much, which made the experience challenging and lonely, but if she could do it over again, she'd do it better. The singer then highlights the fact that K-Pop groups get to be on U.S. talk shows. Seongwoo, who remembers those times, offers the group a bit of solace.

"We had a hard time," he says, "but I think we may have contributed to the development of the industry."

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