KOREAN WAVE 5


Welcome back to the blog which will still be talking further about K-pop and sad news for all, Girls’ Generation just decided that 5 in 8 will continue signing the contract while other 3 will walk in their own way. Sooyoung and Seohyun — will focus on acting and Tiffany will be back to The U.S. which is her hometown and study on what she wanted to learn, the news came out by the day that I had published the last blog. just wow.

back to our new stories.

There is a number of fans who already working a daily life and they decided to take a day off to watch their beloved one but on the other hand. We can see a group of people going around with a camera in their hands, anywhere their idols are, everyone can see them. How they work? usually, they always took a photo and video then upload it to their own website.

which is called ‘Fansite’



The fansite is a website created by fans, operated by fans, the content in the website is a space to upload the idol photos they took, sometimes also videos that focus only specific member they like.




Apart from good fans, there are also bad fans (Koreans calling them ‘sasaeng’) they are a fan who follow the idols everywhere, psychologically. They secretly trying to access to the backstage, to the dressing room and sometimes know the location of the idols’ home. This type of fans is dangerous for the star.

but to be idols are a tough path.

Thousands of kids were trained to sing and dance as well as practice to maintain the character that company required them to be. You should smile, You should not do this and that.



every trainee has to develop themselves to be the best in their company. Usually, every month will have an evaluation that all trainees ought to show what they have and what they have learned if they did great, it raises the opportunity to debut 

nowadays, the trainee in Korea is overflow. There are many teenagers who gave up with their dream because the dream to be an idol is like the goal that you will never know when you will reach, some of them were so tired but they just cannot stop because they gave up so many things before going here, thus, they need to make sure that it is worthy.




In 2016, Mnet started to do the survival tv program for trainees from every company to practice in specific routine and compete.

PRODUCE 101




Produce 101 is a 2016 reality girl group survival show on Mnet. It is a large-scale project in which the public "produces" a unit girl group by choosing members from a pool of 101 trainees from 46 entertainment companies as well as the group's concept, debut song, and group name. The show has the second-largest budget of all shows produced by Mnet at about four billion won (approximately $3.4 million)





Produce 101 is the nation's first agency-collaboration unit girl group project, which brings together 101 trainees from different entertainment companies both inside and outside of South Korea. From the 101 trainees, 11 will be selected to form a unit girl group. The unit group will perform four songs together for a year and release a debut album under the record label of CJ E&M but may later join a girl group that their agencies are planning. The trainees began coming together on December 5, 2015. They took to the stage for their first group mission at the CJ E&M studio in Ilsan on December 27, 2015



The winning team was called 'I.O.I'


after the success from Produce101, Mnet decided to make another season of the famous TV show which called

PRODUCE 101 SS2




Produce 101 Season 2 brings together 101 trainees from different entertainment companies in South Korea, and 11 trainees are selected through audience voting to form a boy band. The group will perform for 2 years together under YMC Entertainment (also the label of I.O.I from Produce 101). The top 35 also performed with the winning team at a finale concert. The winning group will disband after their contracts end, allowing the members of the final lineup to return to their agencies.



the winning team were debuted and called 'WANNA ONE'

apart from the winning team, many trainees who were participated in the show also got a chance to debut, and fortunately, NU'EST, the band that debuted many years ago and decided to participate in the show because they were forgotten, they train as other without any privileges, finally manage to come back on stage again even if they did not win the show.



Not only it is not enough place for trainees but also an idol. Since the K-pop industry began to boom, plenty of new idols were debut while the stage has a limit space. So lots of bands were forgotten.

2017 —  THE UNIT




“The Unit” aims to create the best idol unit by uncovering already debuted singers’ talent and potential in a program where viewers get to pick the unit members. Viewers who get to participate in the first recording will be able to directly see contestants’ performances and personalities before being able to pick the unit hopefuls.





Hope this TV show will help many idols to rise again!

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