Mgm television teams with korea’s sm ent. for u.s. k-pop competition show

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MGM Worldwide Television Group is partnering with Korea’s SM Entertainment to develop a competition series to scout young American men to form a U.S.-based K-pop group.

To be more precise, the new boy group, NCT-Hollywood, will be the latest subunit of SM’s hit “concept” group NCT, a growing collective of members (currently numbering 23) who can be combined into various subunits: NCT 127 (Seoul-based), NCT Dream (originally a teen-only group) and WayV (China-based).

The talent search will be open to “America’s most talented emerging artists” who are males aged 13 to 25. Contestants will be flown to Seoul for K-pop bootcamp training at the SM campus, where each episode they will compete in dance, vocal and style tests and will be judged and mentored by SM founder Soo-Man Lee as well as various current NCT members.

Plenty of K-pop artists have hailed from different nationalities and Asian ethnicities (NCT includes members who are Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean American and Korean Canadian), and competition shows to form new groups are a fixture of Korean television. However, a series produced in collaboration with an American company to form a U.S.-based K-pop group would be a first; in February, BTS’ company Big Hit Entertainment (now known as HYBE) announced a strategic partnership with Universal Music Group to do the same thing.

Founded in 1995, SM Entertainment is one of K-pop’s traditional “Big 3” agencies/labels, birthing such major artists as Super Junior, Girls Generation, Shinee, Exo, Red Velvet and SuperM. Today, K-pop is a $5 billion global industry that generates more than 20 billion downloads and streams worldwide, with more than 62 million listeners tuning into the genre every month on Spotify alone.

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So they want BSB amd *NSYNC but make it K-Pop

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if it's not in Korean idg how it's K-Pop, but that's interesting. 

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Lee Sooman is really crazy for this when the company can't even properly promote the current existing NCT-units. Hope this doesn't come true.