#idol survival show

[hourlyhoon]

im dying but holy im gonna cry he's so (first 4 cropped by me)

[saxytalks]

CLOSE YOUR EYES for COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE Korea

[boarloved-art]

i LOVEEEE idol aus so bad because none of these fucking characters would be caught dead doing any of this shit. your blorbo is NOT doing aegyo on stage for a paycheck! your blorbo is NOT singing and dancing!

[youling-the-ghost]

Within the span of 1 month, I have written 4 fics with a total of 12,611 words, with an average of about 1 fic and around 3152 words per week, all of which were written in the sfth fandom. So thanks, sfth fandom, for causing me so much brainrot that it cured my 6-month long writer's block.

[kpop-bbg]

[shootingshinestar]

LINGQI BARELY MADE IT BUT HIKARI GOT ELIMINATED.... they got separated 😭

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First minseo and now hikari.... I'm not over it.... starlight boys went by so fast, and tbh if the show did 3 elimination rounds instead of 2, then hikari would still be there 🤔 the ending of ep. 9 got me like 😭 lingqi and hikari separation is so emotional.... I'm so nervous about the final ep. Anyways good job, hikari 🫶 and good luck, lingqi 👍

Ngl i love how hikari served faced throughout the show

[lady-hibiscus]

for the seven people always liking my lifesteal kpop au posts, thank you (pt. 3)

pt. 1 | pt. 2

[navi-llera]

Where are UNI.T. Members Now? (As Of Sept / Oct 2024)

{ UNI.T. was a 9 member Female Korean Pop group. The group officially debut May 18th 2018 and Disbanded October 12th the same year.

UNI.T. were formed through a survival show called, The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project. Where it would debut 1 female and 1 male group with pre-existing idols! }

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1- Euijin

Euijin ranked 1st with a total of 108,066 votes. She was the Main Dancer, Lead Vocalist and the Center. On September 8th she was FREED from the abomination known as TS Entertainment, Leaving Sonamoo, And re-debuting under Mellow Entertainment, with the name Hezz.

She has 2 Instagram accounts ! @ _hongeuijin , I think is a more Personal account & @ hezz_offcl for her soloist career, In which she debut March 3rd 2022 with her single "The 8th Spring". And On Her Spotify, Hezz , She has 3 Singles. Alas, She has not released any new music since 2022. But She Made her Acting debut in the 2024 6-Episode Series, King of Saju ALSO KNOWN AS Four Lords: The Destiny Changer as Lee Ha Young.

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2 - Yebin

Yebin ranked 2nd with a total of 83,910 votes. She was the Main Vocalist. After UNI.T.'s disbandment, she went back to her original group DIA. Until in September of 2022 it was announced the group parted ways to do seperate activities (as far as I'm aware they haven't disbanded and are just doing different things).

She has 2 instagram accounts, yeah_b_film , A Photography based account (I think?) and yeb1n_100 a more personal account. On the 7th of July 2021, Yen debuted as a soloist with her single, Yes I Know.

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3 - NC.A

NC.A ranked 3rd with a total of 82,074 votes. She was the Main Vocalist. After UNI.T's Disbandment, she returned to her career as a soloist, Her latest release being in January 2024 with the song Universe. She has a instagram account, love_nca where she posts soloist stuff and other stuff!

NC.A has also acted in some K-Dramas such as, Itaewon Class, Reply 1994, Phantom School and She has appeared in much more.

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4 - Yoonjo

Yoonjo ranked 4th with a total of 78,519 votes. She was the Vocalist. She was a member of Hello Venus before Departing in 2014, Due to Pledis Entertainment and Fantagio Entertainment ending their merger, and Yoonjo chose to rejoin Pledis entertainment.

January 6th 2022, to was announced that Yoonjo signed an exclusive contract with Y-Bloom Entertainment. On November 10th, It was announced that Yoonjo would be getting married to Kim Dong-ho, The couple deciding to privately get married November 19th. Yoonjo shared her wedding pictures on her instagram _yoonjo !

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5 - Hyunjoo

Hyunjoo ranked 5th with a total of 72,090 votes. She was the Vocalist & Visual. Hyunjoo was a member of APRIL, but she left in October 2016, Due to health issues and Wanting to start an acting career!. Some K-Drama's she's starred in are: Summer Guys, Touch Me If You Can & My Father Is Strange.

Hyunjoo was apart of the April bullying Scandal, as on February 28th 2021, her ALLEGED brother came out to say that her former group members (APRIL) used to bully her when she was still apart of the group. (that is all I will be writing on that. if you want more you could find YouTube videos OR go to Lee Hyunjoo's Kpop Profile.)

She is on instagram ! hyun.joo_lee and her most recent post was in august!

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6 - Jiwon

Jiwon ranked 6th with a total of 68,193 votes. She was the Lead Vocalist. Jiwon was apart of K-pop group, SPICA until they disbanded 6th February, 2017. After that, Jiwon went back into acting!, Her latest roles being, Unpredictable Family (2023), The Witches Game (2022) & Love Naggers Season 3 (2020). Jiwon also appeared in a Musical Play, That went from Aug 10th - Sep 7th!, Called Love in Buenos Aires.

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7 - Woohee

Woohee ranked 7th with a total of 66,054 votes. She was the Leader, Main Rapper, Main Dancer and Lead Vocalist. She is a Member of DalShaBet, (A member, Serri, Stated in an interview that they had not disbanded, but the member did leave the company for seperate activities). On her Spotify, She has not released any music since 2022, with her collaboration with Kim Younggeun. And she has a instagram! woohee91.

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8 - ZN (now known as Jinye)

ZN ranked 8th with a total of 61,023 votes. She was the Lead Dancer and Vocalist. She is a current member of LABOUM ( which has not disbanded, they are on an indefinite hiatus, just looking for a new company! ). On her instagram, baejinyea , she seems to just post personal photos, And it looks like she was in a Theatre Production March 22nd - May 12!.

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9 - Suji

Suji ranked 9th with a total of 60,954 votes. She was the Lead Rapper, Lead Dancer, Vocalist and The Maknae. Suji was in the Kpop group The Ark until their disbandment in 2016. Then she joined the group Real Girls Project OR R.G.P. formed through The Idolm@ster Korea ! She has a personal instagram 1998_suji_ya. And she recently had her wedding anniversary (congrats !).

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THE GIRLS INSTAGRAM NAMES (bc I can't put links to them :( )

Euijin - @ hezz_offcl & @ _hongeuijin_

Yebin - @ yeah_b_film & @ yeb1n_100

N.CA - @ love_nca

Yoonjo - @ _yoonjo

Hyunjoo - @ hyun.joo_lee

Jiwon - @ wldnjs62

Woohee - @ woohee91

ZN - @ baejinyea

Suji - @ 1998_suji_ya

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INFO SORCES:

( IF ANY INFORMATION IS WRONG PLEASE LET ME KNOW SO I CAN CHANGE IT! )

[fleurciti]

⌞ 🎞️⋆｡˚₊⌝ NAOMI LEE ( 나오미 ) is a trainee under promise creative's survival show, dive: into the future . she is known for her vocals and dancing skills and has over 5 years of training.

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backstory <> her closet <> misc <> socials

[sn-quest]

[ S 퀘스트 ] ╱ S QUEST, is a fictional survival show made to debut a four membered girl group, the show will consist of 17 trainees who will create a permanent group.

☆ Brought to you by ISTAR Records [ 아이스타 레코드 ]

MASTERLIST.

─── Written by Odette, inspired by @dreamquest

[hourlyhoon]

my fav breed of dog !! 🐶😍

the award goes to..SONG SEUNGHO 👑🏆💋

HE'S SO CUTE WAAAAA THEY UPDATED AGAIN I'M SO HAPPI I SAW THIS BEFORE SKL AND IT MADE MY DAY GOOD 😭😭

[saxytalks]

I LOVE MY BOYFRIEND - CYE EDITION

[ampersandra]

watching chuang 2021 is just making me a fan of zhou shen.

[stuff-diary]

The 'signal song' release seems like the perfect moment to say I've been following this Oen High survival show, where Hybe will form its new J-pop group. I'm not sure the producers/editors/whatever are being fair to all the contestants, and there's some pretty obvious favoritism going around. Overall, I feel like this is a much crueler format that &Audition was. But still, some of the boys are quite talented and I'm curious to see what the final group will look/sound like.

[rirants]

Alien Stage is literally js the kpop industry but with aliens, and u actually die if u lose.

also ty to the creators for making alnst but ill never forgive u for creating it and breaking my heart (i love it so very much)

lwk spoiler when u click more

[sanstropfremir]

Hello i hope you don't mind but in your opinion what do you think makes a good survival show. I know you talked about wild idol and 0 year 0 class but i wanted your in depth thoughts on the topic.

ohhhh i looooooove when people indulge my bullshit god bless you anons. before i talk about what makes a good survival show, i want to illustrate why the produce format makes a bad survival show. and we can start that by asking a question:

why is fan voting allowed?

obviously you can give the typical answer of 'if fans are engaged than it will drive up numbers' and that the shows are basically only made for fan engagement because we all know that kpop is profoundly and tragically numbers driven at the end of the day, but let's instead live in a world where the producers who pitch and head these shows actually want to make a talented group. so why are the fans involved? at all? sorry to say it, but fans are stupid. they aren't trained professionals in this field, so do you actually think they're going to be thinking carefully about the trainees that they see on screen every week and how their skills fit together? about the fundamentals of group direction and management? no of course they aren't, they're just going to vote blindly for their precious meow meow of the week. so already, we're at a deficit. and if you include the fact that these companies will rig the shows to their own biases (that are not artistically motivated), a double deficit.

second issue: the 'challenges'. they're trash. yes you do want to test an idol's vocal and dance skills, but just because you put a group of the most talented people in a room together does not mean that they will get along or have good chemistry. a huge part of being in a performance group (of any kind) is how well you communicate with each other, and that requires you to know how to compromise, how to be kind, how to take feedback, how to work collaboratively. but when you run trainees through week after week wringers of difficult choreo and tough vocals with very short deadlines, how can you expect them to actually be able to internalize and act upon any of these other skills? they may on a surface level, but the priority is not placed on it. AND when you add individualized voting into the mix, trainees have no incentive to actually meaningfully work together.

what makes wild idol and 0year 0class different from this typical formula is that the emphasis of both these shows was actually on making a well rounded group, so the shows were structured in order to faciliate that happening. both had limited trainee numbers (wild idol 40ish down to 16 in the third episode, 0y0c 15), have little to no fan voting (none for 0y0c, only in the last few rounds for wild idol) and both had challenges that were about testing 'non traditional' idol skills (throwing fuckin logs around, doing fashion shows and photoshoots, writing poetry/rap, doing a lot of repetition, etc). personally i think 0y0c is the better show in general because it does everything the way i would do it, but also it would never be watched by a korean audience so i think wild idol is the best a korean survival show is gonna get.

the difference that makes the biggest impact on how effective i think 0y0c over wild idol is the fact that the producer (avu chan) is a significant part of the show itself. she's literally there with the trainees in every episode, giving them assignments and evaluating them, talking to them about the issues they're having and why they aren't succeeding. there's discussions with her about why she chose to do the show and what type of group she wants to make, she's incredibly transparent about what characteristics she's looking for in the trainees and also about how difficult the industry is; the tagline of the show is 'welcome to your nightmare' bc that's literally what she told the group in the first episode. she's honest about the fact that it's hard, that you will have to work with people you don't like, that you will be rejected many many times, and that people won't always like you. she puts them through challenges that are meant to bring out how well the trainees understand themselves and also give them opportunities to grow and develop into well rounded people with good communication and emotional skills. watching 0y0c actually made me realize that i sincerely believe that the lack of a visible producer with a goal in kpop survival shows is actually a huge reason why i don't think they work. 99.9% of these shows are transparently just making groups to make money, so they have no artistic focus, no creative leader, no drive except to be the lowest common denominator to get the most fans. why wild idol worked for me was bc the producer was clearly trying to make a 4th gen group in the second gen model. even though it wasn't explicitly stated by anyone, the mentors they brought in, the songs they had them cover, even the styles of original songs they did, made that very obvious. i know people say kpop isn't supposed to be serious but like. the people who make it, the fans who enjoy it, we ALL deserve to have something with creativity and drive to enjoy, not just a race to the bottom of the capitalist money pit.