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HYBE Corp. and Geffen Records have announced their 2024 series along with a companion online show. The companion show, ‘The Debut: Dream Academy’ will start streaming on Thursday. The selection process for their goal has started since November 2021. For the show, there have been over 120,000 submissions across the world. From 120,000 aspiring young females who are willing to be a part of this industry will be narrowed down to only 20 candidates. Not just from Korea these aspirants as from every corner of the world including Thailand, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, the U.S., Sweden, Japan, Belarus, Switzerland, Slovakia, and the Philippines.
Fans of the K-pop industry can follow the entire process starting from the contestants to embark on their final stage of audition. The show will start streaming globally on September 1st at 8 a.m., U.S. PDT on YouTube, and will run for 12 weeks. Japanese viewers can stream on the Japanese broadcast channel Abema. The audition program will end in November and afterwards, the streaming channels will go live to carry out their selection announcement. And by the end, the group will also have a name along with their assorted members.
This extensive three-year process of selecting the best upcoming K-pop group by the K-pop giant HYBE Corporation will finally come to an end. And a new journey will begin with a whole new set of extremely talented music and dancing divas. Along with the YouTube show, Netflix also has dived in to make a documentary out of the entire process. This Netflix documentary will be directed by Netflix’s Emmy-nominated “Becoming” director Nadia Hallgren. This untitled series will aim to illustrate the voyage to universal stardom. The series will also depict insights into the extensive training and development procedure that these young ladies will have to go through. On assembling the group, they will be merged into HYBE’s fandom platform, Weverse, as well.
【『The Debut: Dream Academy』】 #HYBE と #GeffenRecords が手掛ける最大規模のグローバルガールズグループオーディション！
出場者20名(個人写真あり）、日本人3名(コメントあり） #ABEMA にて9月2日（土）午前0時より日本語字幕付き国内独占無料配信 https://t.co/2QjOXwSvj9 #ドリアカ pic.twitter.com/bLZUrzK426
— 韓ペン~Kanpen~ (@_Kanpen) August 29, 2023
Both of them collectively have conveyed, “The one-of-a-kind joint venture marks the first time a major U.S. record label and a K-pop entertainment leader have combined their expertise in artist discovery, and music production to assemble, develop, and introduce an international girl group unlike any other.” According to then the program “represents the first time a U.S.-based, truly global girl group will be created and modeled based on the world-renowned K-pop training and development system.”
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