First Look at YG’s Next Boy Group “Winner” at “WIN” Press Conference

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

YG Entertainment held a press conference today for their upcoming survival program “WIN: Who Is Next?” which premieres August 23 through the cable channel Mnet at 10PM.

“WIN: Who Is Next?” is being produced by YG Entertainment to select the members of the agency’s next boy group. The agency’s last boy group debut was that of Big Bang seven years ago. Through the program, eleven of YG’s trainees will be divided up into two teams, “A” and “B,” and compete to win over the public’s hearts. Their fate rests in the public’s hands, as fans will be able to vote to decide which team gets to debut. The winning team will be using the official group name, “WINNER,” to debut right after the survival series finishes.

Included in team “A” is YG’s latest solo rookie artist, Kang Seung Yoon, and Lee Seung Hoon from the survival audition show “”K-Pop Star”.” The average age of the team is 20, and there are five members in the team.

Team “B” has six members with the average age of 17. B.I., a 17-year-old rapper who was featured in MC Mong‘s “Indian Boy” track back in 2009, is in team B. There is also Goo Joon Hwe from “K-Pop Star.”

“WIN” is slated for ten episodes and premieres August 23, first on Mnet at 10pm and then on tvN at 11:20pm. Stay tuned to Soompi for more updates from the press conference!

Team A

• Name: Kang Seungyoon (강승윤)


• Birthdate: January 21, 1994


• Height: 178cm


• Position: vocal


• Weight: 59kg


• Hometown: Busan, South Korea


• Education: Busan Music and Arts High School

• Name: Lee Seunghoon (이승훈)


• Birth date: January 11, 1992


• Hometown: Busan, South Korea


• Position: Rapper

• Name: Song Min Ho (송민호) - op note: apparently he's the leader yay!


• Birthdate: March 30, 1993


• Height: 180cm


• Weight: 67kg


• Star sign: Aries


• Blood type: A


• Position: Rapper

• Name: Nam Tae Hyun (남태현)


• Position: Vocal


• Birthday: 10 May 1994


• Blood Type: A

• Name: Kim Jin Woo (김진우)


• Position: vocal


• Birthday: 29 September 1991


• Blood Type: A

Team B

• Name: Kim Dong Hyuk (김동혁)


• Birthday: 3 January 1997


• BloodType: O

• Name: Goo Jun Hwi (구준회)


• Birthday: 31 March 1997


• BloodType: A

• Name: Kim Ji Won (김지원) - Bobby


• Birthday: 21 December 1995


• Blood Type: O

• Name: Song Yun Hyeong (송윤형)


• Birthday: 8 February 1995


• Blood Type: A

• Name: Kim Jin Hwan (김진환)


• Birthday: 7 February 1994


• BloodType: A

• Name: Kim Han Bin (김한빈) - B.I.


• Birthday: 22 October 1996


• BloodType: O


• Position: Leader

source: soompi + cszska + tanziiGD + fy-winner 1, 2

If you need help matching the faces to the names click here (Team A) and here (Team B)

Comments

[takaki.livejournal.com]

It's the delusional EXO stans thinking they're so great that everyone sees them as a threat and is trying to put out their own version to ride on their success or something lol. Like in the pic they just look like mini Big Bangs to me not EXO.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Exo was the first group to debut with a song aswell, everyone's copying my fav because they're so original and not manufacture like every other kpop group out there that's copy and pasted stuff from the 80s/90s and Jpop and what's come after.