They only have one group out, SeeArt, but the list of choreography they’ve taught other groups is tremendous (Brown Eyed Girls’ “ Abracadabra“, EXID’s “ Up and Down“, Produce 101’s “ Pick Me“, and pretty much all of T-ara’s hits to name a few). Run by Jung Bae Yoon, better known to most of us as Kahi from the pretty-much-dead After School, the company is better known for its choreography than its groups. I’ll go company by company and highlight the ones that I think are truly worth it. The market is over-saturated and we don’t have time to waste it on someone who doesn’t have talent. If you’ve read my other reviews of K-pop survival shows, you know that I like to separate the contestants into those that have talent and those that don’t. We’re introduced to YG, which is really nothing special, but we get to meet this episode’s guest judge, CL, who took time from her busy schedul e to help YG. We are immediately introduced to one of our host? I think? Anyway, No Hong-chul is here and he spends a good five minutes surveying the place.Įmergency exit or trap door leading to the basement?
Then they go up to that person, tell them to leave, and publicly embarrass them not only on the bus, but on live television.
In true YG fashion, trainees are to get on the bus with a card showing the person they’re going to replace. There are two buses: the debuting bus, which will host 9 trainees that YG feels are good enough to debut right now and the training bus, which will hold trainees that YG likes but need a little more help.īut wait, you’re thinking, if there are only two buses and 70 companies, that means that some trainees might be moved off the buses. YG and the guest will go to 70 agencies and recruit the trainees that they feel are good enough to grace the YG stage. This section of the show can pretty much be called “Musical Seats”. Using famous idols as guest judges to keep us interested, let’s get started on this mess of a show. But, unlike The Unit, these groups will have to compete against each other for the winner to be promoted (big money it’s the boy group regardless of how horrible they are). This time it’s an idol survival show, so he rips off borrows the same format of KBS’s The Unit to go through 70 agencies and get 170 contestants to dwindle down to two 9-member groups based of gender. Like the Beetleguese of K-pop, YG appears whenever something is successful so he can take it and run it into the ground. That’s not saying that there haven’t been a lot of successful groups created by survival shows (Monsta X with No Mercy, VIXX with MyDOL, TWICE with Sixteen) but it seems like a huge mess to waste all this money on a group that might not even chart.Īnd because I said the word mess, let’s talk about YG’s attempt to cash in on this. Since the success of Produce 101’s group I.O.I., there’s been a scramble in Korean television to have as many idol survival shows as possible to create as many groups as possible.
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