SM introduces 3 new rookies + SM Rookies to Star In Variety Show “The Mickey Mouse Club” 💀

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

SM Entertainment has revealed three new SM Rookies!

On July 9, the agency introduced the three new SM Rookies through an announcement via their official social media accounts, along with pictures of each of the new Rookies.

The three new rookies revealed are Hina, Ko Eun, and Herin.

Ko Eun is the oldest of the three, at 16 years-old. She has been a trainee since she was in grade six. Hina is a Japanese trainee who is 15 years-old, and specializes in dancing. Herin is the youngest out of the three at 13. She hails from Manchester, United Kingdom.

Check out the three new SM Rookies’ profile images below!


Ko Eun:


Hina:


Herin:




source: SM Rookies via soompi




The long-running American sketch variety show “The Mickey Mouse Club” ended its run in 1995, but it launched the careers of several huge stars such as Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, and Britney Spears. Now young Korean hopefuls will have the chance to get a similar boost to stardom, as the Disney Channel in Korea is giving them a platform to show off their skills by rebooting the classic show.

The “mousketeers” in Korea’s “The Mickey Mouse Club” will be nine of the members of SM Entertainment‘s pre-debut group SM Rookies. The boys group includes Mark, Donghyuck, Jaemin, Jeno, and Jisung.

The girls group features Lami and new SM Rookie members Herin, Hina, and Ko Eun. Herin is said to be a bubbly girl from England, Hina is a dance prodigy who can speak both Korean and Japanese fluently, and Ko Eun is not only excellent at singing and dancing but also has amazing flexibility.

The show will be MCed by Super Junior‘s Leeteuk, and it will include musical performances, games, and skits. It’s planned that the show will have two pilot episodes and ten episodes in the series. The first episode of “The Mickey Mouse Club” will air on July 23 on the Disney Channel.


Source: sports chosun + heraldcorp via soompi | SMTOWN (1) & (2)

Comments

[beanii.livejournal.com]

SM is starting to look more and more like a co-ed johnny's.

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

ikr
i wouldnt be surprised if sm had more than just sk distrubution deals with johnny

btw have you heard that someone tipped johnny ent that tumblr exists? people are having posts removed and blogs are getting enough copyright strikes to be banned from tumblr forever. i just hope they wont find 8tracks, i dont want to go to jail because of boybands

[huanyia.livejournal.com]

so herin can speak english? maybe? niiice.

She speaks English in this YT clip!

[seishin.livejournal.com]

[miyozari.livejournal.com]

... the fuck

[madielou.livejournal.com]

i feel so old looking at their ages.

sm is really pushing the variety route on all their idols + trainees. what are they trying to achieve exactly?

(also whats disney channel in korea like)

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

what are they trying to achieve exactly?

omnipresence tbh

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

i said it on that 'kpop songs original demos' post and i will say it again
disney have a thing for sm

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

Well how fun is it if the Mousketeers are all from the same company? Eh, I'm not interested anyway, so it shouldn't matter. Though Shinee's supposed to be on it, I think, so I'll watch for the babies and the Rookies.

[xyznee.livejournal.com]

I think Key is the show's first guest. I don't know about the rest of SHINee.

[misspoirot.livejournal.com]

Are those three new rookies twins or am I seeing things

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

SM living that Johnny's life...

[pom-li.livejournal.com]

Better than a survival show.

[elimoum.livejournal.com]

I agree, at least nobody is (publicly) promised a debut soon, and it seems like a better way to promote their trainees. Because that seems to have become a thing in Korea lately, with all these survival shows.

[lilykt7.livejournal.com]

Actually babies. So hyped for this tho.

[oxfordowls1.livejournal.com]

this is weird. the nb comments for this is jokes and i kinda agree that sm are pushing their trainees into things i.e. yuta in abnormal sumit

[springsky.livejournal.com]

Lol, I used to be obsessed with this show. It would be nice if it was peeps from different companies though.

[aeromi.livejournal.com]

why they look the same

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

The show will be MCed by Super Junior‘s Leeteuk, and it will include musical performances, games, and skits
This is basically a co-ed version of "The Shonen Club".

[tokyocinema.livejournal.com]

LOL this

[premonitioner.livejournal.com]

way to give the newbies the same hairstyle, makeup and clothes and make them completely indistinguishable from each other sm! srsly, hina and koeun especially, since they apparently used the same shade of hair dye.

how are they meant to establish a fanbase if they look the exact same? at least do what you did with snsd in 2007 and put them in sweaters with their names on, geez

[bloods-rose.livejournal.com]

MANCHESTER!! This makes me unreasonably excited: wierd to see the North of England being recognized as well, existing (i.e uk=london a lot of the time...) I wonder how a 13 year old from Manchester ended up with SM?

[jihansol.livejournal.com]

She participated in Star Audition (or whatever it was called) on MBC when she was 9 years old. Guess SM found her there.

[yuzuruhanyu.livejournal.com]

i misread eeteuk for ewteuk n was like for a hot second omona has that tag??? lol

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

This looks interesting! But I wish Heechul had been picked to be MC instead.

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

heechul in disney!! lol
i can see his frozen mania coming back

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

So who is Britney, Xtina and JT?

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

JENOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[annayism.livejournal.com]

whoa herin doesn't look 13?? she's really cute. i'm glad this isn't a survival show at least...

[welljustguess.livejournal.com]

herin looks adorableee. so young tho, i thought she's older than her age

[slowitdownbaby.livejournal.com]

Jisung is adorable.

[carmine-pink.livejournal.com]

That Jeno kid in the first picture... a creepy combination of Donghae's + Amber's faces.

At least this is just a talent show a la Shounen Club and not a survival competition.

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

that jeno kid is srlsly goodlooking!!! sme even uploaded a vid of the two (donghae&jeno)

[extraenchanted.livejournal.com]

lol so johnny's. kind of predictable for SM, but i wonder, why only now? there have been lots of similar shows (there used to be a show on nhk that featured preteen boys and girls too) in asia, from the '80s until the early 2000s. why now when that format isn't popular anymore? nowadays people watch more "reality" shows and pseudo-docu shows, even in korea.