BBC, SM Leisure announce new actuality present ‘Made in Korea: The Okay-Pop Expertise’
BBC have teamed up with Okay-pop company SM Leisure on a brand new actuality sequence, Made in Korea: The Okay-Pop Expertise, which is able to air this summer season.
Made in Korea: The Okay-Pop Expertise will probably be a six-part actuality sequence that follows 5 contestants from the UK as they endure the rigorous Okay-pop coaching system in South Korea, based on BBC. The contestants will practice for 100 days at SM Leisure in hopes of changing into a brand new world boyband.
SM Leisure is without doubt one of the greatest Okay-pop firms in South Korea. The company has produced quite a lot of the business’s hottest teams over the past twenty years, together with Ladies’ Era, SHINee, EXO, Purple Velvet and NCT, amongst others.
Along with their coaching in vocals, dance and efficiency, the contestants may also be immersed in South Korean and Okay-pop tradition and obtain life teaching classes. The method will probably be overseen by Hee Jun Yoon, who’s described by BBC as “the inventive pressure behind a few of the greatest Okay-pop bands of the final 20 years”.
“Cameras go behind closed doorways at SM Leisure for the primary time to witness the band working with the world’s biggest choreographers, singing songs from the perfect songwriters, and being tutored by a few of the most revered consultants within the Okay-pop enterprise,” reads the abstract for the sequence.
The sequence is created by Moon&Again Media, which was concerned within the manufacturing of hit music expertise reveals like The X Issue, and has labored with bands like One Course. It’s launched in collaboration with South Korea’s SM Leisure and Kakao Leisure.
“This distinctive acquisition will showcase a way of precisely what it takes to make it on the planet of Okay-pop. Witnessing the band come collectively and be put by means of their paces guarantees to be a really thrilling prospect for audiences,” says BBC Head of Leisure Kalpna Patel-Knight.
SM Leisure CEO Daniel Jang provides: “By way of this UK boy group challenge, we anticipate a palpable synergy between SM Leisure’s prowess in Okay-pop manufacturing and Moon&Again Media’s experience in growing music-genre TV reveals. This collaboration will yield distinctive content material that can captivate pop music followers, not solely within the UK, however worldwide.”
The sequence will air on BBC and BBC iPlayer later this summer season. On the time of publishing, BBC has not introduced a premiere date for Made in Korea: The Okay-Pop Expertise.
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