While Peggy’s parents are proud (and most importantly, she beams, “they know I love it”), they weren’t always overjoyed about their daughter’s decision to take music seriously. Gou was studying fashion in London with her parents supporting her. But during her studies, she realised that she wanted to pursue music and started to skip classes, instead going to a studio with Highlife’s Esa and learning production. She failed her course, and her parents told her that she couldn’t come back to Korea until she passed it (she did eventually). “Asian parents can be very conservative – they want their kids to be doctors and professors,” she says, matter-of-factly. “Nowadays, it’s getting better. A lot of people are more open-minded, there are more tattoos...”

Tattooing is technically illegal in Korea, and when Gou goes back there she still gets some looks from more old-fashioned people. She can’t visit one of her cousins in South Korea because they hate her tattoos.“They think that what your parents gave you, you have to cherish that, you cannot fuck it up.” But it doesn’t make her feel regretful about inking her body; in fact, she says that tattoos make her identity more visible: “I feel like tattoos are Peggy Gou,” she says. “I like this one because the woman is doing the work,” she continues, lightly touching the skin around a tattoo of a man and woman in a rowing boat. In Korea, there’s a traditional mindset about gendered roles, but Peggy says she grew up with the opposite. “If they can do it, I can do it!” was her internal mantra.

Her voice quietens again, a sign that she’s shifted on to a more personal topic. “My brother was always the good student, so that’s why my parents always worried about me: ‘What’s wrong with our daughter?’” But since she’s become an international success, and they can see that she’s doing what she loves on a daily basis, their views have changed. In fact, her father told her recently that he’s learned something from her: if your child doesn’t listen to you… they’re going to do well.

Peggy’s parents may not have supported her move to Berlin at first, but it’s undoubtedly worked out well for her. But although she lives just five minutes from Berghain, she rarely goes out clubbing any more. Instead, she’s been going to the gym – motivated by none other than Honey Dijon. She mimes being on the phone: “Honey was like, ‘I’m in the gym!’ and sent a photo. I was like, ‘I’m coming!’”