Mnet prepares to launch biggest girl group trainee program Korea has ever seen

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Korean cable channel Mnet will launch the biggest girl group project we have seen so far this year.

According to a music industry official, Mnet has been secretly been preparing a debut project called PRODUCE 101 that is set to launch this September.

PRODUCE 101 will be Korea’s first multi-agency girl group project to ever take place as 101 female trainees are chosen from different agencies to compete against one another with the TOP 10 trainees forming a unit group and debut. According to the exclusive report published by My Daily, large agencies such as SM Entertainment and YG Entertainment has opted out to participate in the upcoming project.

The project will take place over the course of a year and the winning trainees will win the chance to not only debut, but temporarily promote under Mnet until they are able to debut under their own label.

Undoubtedly, there has been a peaking interest in trainee survival programs such as Who Is Next: WIN, MIX & MATCH, NO.MERCY, and currently, SIXTEEN. However, PRODUCE 101 is the biggest yet as over 90 trainees will be dropped during the year-long competition.

[+792, -12] Dozens of kids will be eliminated… it’s upsetting to think of the kids who won’t debut

[+694, -38] What is this.. Sounds like AKB48…. Is our country copying Japan now……

[+502, -8] Is this..real..

[+449, -3] Just thinking of all the kids who will be eliminated, so many..

[+53, -5] Everytime I see things like this, it reminds me of that girl who was eliminated from KARA and committed suicide;;; How can they eliminated dozens of them out of 101 without care.

Koreaboo, my daily via naver

Comments

[allegsiseu.livejournal.com]

[+694, -38] What is this.. Sounds like AKB48…. Is our country copying Japan now……


now???

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

lol was going to say the exact same thing

[iftheshoefits88.livejournal.com]

LOL! this!

[laeryn.livejournal.com]

Came to say this lmao.

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

ROFL!

[hozrien.livejournal.com]

Why.

[chenetic.livejournal.com]

So basically every episode is about these poor girls who don't make it? That's pretty harsh ngl

[horichansenpai.livejournal.com]

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

i can never see why these kind of shows being called harsh, cruel, etc.

[carra-mia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not like it's something that doesn't happen normally, the diffrence is: here it's kinda in public. When they eliminate you out of lineup in agency almost nobody knows, in program - a lot of people. You screw something up - everybody knows. So basically the tiltle of that boy/girl that didn't make in x/y group will follow you around for years and even if you manage to debut elswhere people will always drag this out you want it or not and it will heavily mark your initial umage unless you manage to build something on your own.
For me it's more like big risk, that can give you a lot (even if you don't win or smh) or drag you down, more than cruelty

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

And unless the company they train in force them to join, they can always say no to this show /shrug/

[cosmopudin.livejournal.com]

Is Korea's entertainment industry the Hunger Games?

[chimpansee.livejournal.com]

omg lol

[adenar.livejournal.com]

I actually prefer this because at least these girls will generally be put against strangers instead of being ousted from a company that's nurtured them for a long time

But then how wise a plan is it to debut a group of girls from different agencies who barely know each other and have literally just competed against each other andknocked out each other's friends? Also how will this group even work if all the girls end up coming from different agencies, we've seen what happens to groups who don't do well/when there are immediate differences of opinion (exid, hv). I really can't think how this will work, logistically

[a-seagreen.livejournal.com]

i hate how these survival shows are becoming popular... it seems so humiliating for the trainee to sacrifice years of hard work then be eliminated for entertainment. ugh
hoping that there are no suicides from the 90 girls that don't make the cut :/

[mamamoos.livejournal.com]

mte

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

exactly. After what happened with Sojin from Kara Project I get really worried.

[burqaswag.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it's better than Sixteen. I was so excited for that show and it turned out to be a huge mess.

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

I haven't kept up with this show. What happened?

[burqaswag.livejournal.com]

Severe lack of talent amongst the trainees,really gross favortism from JYP, and my fave was just eliminated!

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

CORGI BUTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chanyeolized.livejournal.com]

I read the othet comment again and again to see where the commenter mentioned corgi button before I realized that you were talking about the dp. And I laughed for a whole minute.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, corgi make me go crazy

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

OMG let me link this blog to my boyfriend
CORGI CORGI EVERYWHERE

[audiograms.livejournal.com]

messy mnet is going to be messy af

[marsinblue.livejournal.com]

multi-agency group?
How does this even work? I need to see the terms & conditions for this because this screams 'mess'

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

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[soft-taozi.livejournal.com]

Am I a misunderstanding something. I'm taking it that the group is just a project group like say Big Byung and it'll help the respective trainees get some recognition?

[fabulousdoll.livejournal.com]

I thought that too

[mamamoos.livejournal.com]

this is my understanding but it worryingly sounds like the other trainees will be dropped from their respective companies? which doesn't make sense and is just an all-round bad, cruel decision so i hope something's been lost in communication

[seroquels.livejournal.com]

Why though? 101 and only 10 debut? Yikes. Good luck to the participants.

[mlmello.livejournal.com]

so if one of the companies decide to debut their trainee, will the mnet group have a replacement?! or will it be over? so many questions about this..

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

mte; this is so confusing and potentially messy

[kjc48.livejournal.com]

AKA Mnet is going to legally steal trainees (that are already probably ready for debut) from other companies to form the next T-ara~ (more like 5Dolls lol).

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

this sounds INTENSE.

i hate survival programs because being a trainee is hard enough as it is.

yet there is something about this that makes me want to watch.

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

Wtf? Where did they find all these people?

[treaclyena.livejournal.com]

when will the idol bubble burst?

right now the teen population is like 50% regular school attendees 50% idol/trainees

[xxhna.livejournal.com]

okay so....they'll compete to promote as a group under mnet....then debut separately in their previous companies??

ugh. mess.