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"Five, Six, Seven...and Done!" A loud, booming voice called throughout a large, echoey dance studio.
Roaring music was blaring in the room, but as the thunderous voice came to a halt, so did the music. Immediately, seconds into the silence, several deep huffs and puffs could be heard as several teens-young adults panted. Everyone had just finished running through a dance routine taught to them earlier that day - the current session had lasted a solid three hours up to the occurring point. Almost everyone's limbs felt sore, and it was quite obvious, so the Instructor, who had just been shouting out counts, dismissed them all to get water.
This was none other than one of the often dance practices of SM Entertainment, one of the largest and most successful pop culture music companies in all of Korea. Some of the biggest names in K-Pop, successful winners, and world renowned idols belonged to SM Ent. Groups and artists like Red Velvet, EXO, Taeyeon, NCT, Super Junior, SHINee and many more belong to the label and continued to grow and dominate the industry to date. Naturally, several fans and young talent wanted to get in on the opportunity to become a hit success as well, so people from all over the world attended several auditions for companies for a chance to be picked up and signed as a Trainee, a novice performer with the potential to eventually become an official artist and make it big. Companies like SM, as well as other big name productions such as YG, JYP, Cube, Pledis, and much more held auditions frequently; always being on the lookout for new talent ranging from singers, dancers, musicians, film acting, managers, etc.
SM Ent. had just commenced their largest ever Global Auditions two months ago in late 2017, judges and agents being spread literally world wide in hopes to find stars in more branched out countries. All together in the spam of 8 weeks, literally thousands of people had auditioned. Several upon several had been rejected, some were quickly welcomed, and some had barely made the cut. This was where dreams would begin to come true for the young talents, and the experience and journey of a lifetime.
Among the decently sized number of performers who had passed the auditions was Park Jihyun, a 17 year old born in Incheon, Korea. He would make frequent visits to Seoul while growing up, due both to his schooling being located there, and his love for the hustle-and-bustle of the city. It was very similar to Incheon, but something about the air there gave it an extra factor that he simply enjoyed being surrounded by. He had grown up singing and acting as a hobby, performing often in school plays and musicals, however around the age of 12 he had picked up dancing - and he realized his true passion for it. Musically, he had fallen in love with korean pop music and tuned in often to endless amounts of music shows and kept up with any idol soloist or group he found interesting. His favorites tended to be the five membered girl group, Red Velvet, and people like Chanyeol, etc. He was secretly a dork on the inside, crushing on all of them. So naturally, when SM Ent. had promoted their new auditions, had to jump at the chance.
In the past couple of years he had actually attended quite the amount of auditions, but always fell short when it came to other companies. A bit resilient and air-headed, though, Jihyun never let those failures stop him. Auditioning for SM was probably one of the most stressful, and anxious-filled things he had ever done - but when results came back and he made the further rounds, he slowly became more confident and hopeful...as well as extremely excited. From the moment when he ended up reading the email informing him of passing the auditions, to the moment he was signing the contract, he held a very hyped composure. The contract was long and actually quite complicated, but he and his parents themselves were so thrilled that they didn't have a second thought before scribbling down their signatures.
That all came to modern day, Jihyun and the others living as Trainees for around a month now. The dyed-blonde sounded a murmer of relief as he hastily absorbed the ice cool water from his bottle. The dance routine at hand had been credibly much harder than the ones the Trainees had learned earlier. Even though it had only been four weeks so far, it seemed that the longer that time went on and the more they improved, practice sessions got longer and more difficult. Shin had expected this, though.
Celebrities didn't reach the top just doing nothing, he guessed.
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"Five, Six, Seven...and Done!" A loud, booming voice called throughout a large, echoey dance studio.
Roaring music was blaring in the room, but as the thunderous voice came to a halt, so did the music. Immediately, seconds into the silence, several deep huffs and puffs could be heard as several teens-young adults panted. Everyone had just finished running through a dance routine taught to them earlier that day - the current session had lasted a solid three hours up to the occurring point. Almost everyone's limbs felt sore, and it was quite obvious, so the Instructor, who had just been shouting out counts, dismissed them all to get water.
This was none other than one of the often dance practices of SM Entertainment, one of the largest and most successful pop culture music companies in all of Korea. Some of the biggest names in K-Pop, successful winners, and world renowned idols belonged to SM Ent. Groups and artists like Red Velvet, EXO, Taeyeon, NCT, Super Junior, SHINee and many more belong to the label and continued to grow and dominate the industry to date. Naturally, several fans and young talent wanted to get in on the opportunity to become a hit success as well, so people from all over the world attended several auditions for companies for a chance to be picked up and signed as a Trainee, a novice performer with the potential to eventually become an official artist and make it big. Companies like SM, as well as other big name productions such as YG, JYP, Cube, Pledis, and much more held auditions frequently; always being on the lookout for new talent ranging from singers, dancers, musicians, film acting, managers, etc.
SM Ent. had just commenced their largest ever Global Auditions two months ago in late 2017, judges and agents being spread literally world wide in hopes to find stars in more branched out countries. All together in the spam of 8 weeks, literally thousands of people had auditioned. Several upon several had been rejected, some were quickly welcomed, and some had barely made the cut. This was where dreams would begin to come true for the young talents, and the experience and journey of a lifetime.
Among the decently sized number of performers who had passed the auditions was Park Jihyun, a 17 year old born in Incheon, Korea. He would make frequent visits to Seoul while growing up, due both to his schooling being located there, and his love for the hustle-and-bustle of the city. It was very similar to Incheon, but something about the air there gave it an extra factor that he simply enjoyed being surrounded by. He had grown up singing and acting as a hobby, performing often in school plays and musicals, however around the age of 12 he had picked up dancing - and he realized his true passion for it. Musically, he had fallen in love with korean pop music and tuned in often to endless amounts of music shows and kept up with any idol soloist or group he found interesting. His favorites tended to be the five membered girl group, Red Velvet, and people like Chanyeol, etc. He was secretly a dork on the inside, crushing on all of them. So naturally, when SM Ent. had promoted their new auditions, had to jump at the chance.
In the past couple of years he had actually attended quite the amount of auditions, but always fell short when it came to other companies. A bit resilient and air-headed, though, Jihyun never let those failures stop him. Auditioning for SM was probably one of the most stressful, and anxious-filled things he had ever done - but when results came back and he made the further rounds, he slowly became more confident and hopeful...as well as extremely excited. From the moment when he ended up reading the email informing him of passing the auditions, to the moment he was signing the contract, he held a very hyped composure. The contract was long and actually quite complicated, but he and his parents themselves were so thrilled that they didn't have a second thought before scribbling down their signatures.
That all came to modern day, Jihyun and the others living as Trainees for around a month now. The dyed-blonde sounded a murmer of relief as he hastily absorbed the ice cool water from his bottle. The dance routine at hand had been credibly much harder than the ones the Trainees had learned earlier. Even though it had only been four weeks so far, it seemed that the longer that time went on and the more they improved, practice sessions got longer and more difficult. Shin had expected this, though.
Celebrities didn't reach the top just doing nothing, he guessed.
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