Now that Wanna One's gone, who's next on the K-pop path to stardom?
Applicants, aged 13 or over, must enter before January for the chance to appear in the fourth series of Mnet’s Korean reality television competition in April
South Korean television makers are on the lookout for young men with dreams of being a K-pop boy band member.
Produce X 101 – Mnet’s audition reality television show to select the finalists who will compete for a place in the boy band – will begin early next year.
The fourth series of the hit reality show Produce 101 – which led to the creation of the 11-member boy band Wanna One at the end of its second series – is then likely to begin in April.
The programme’s producers have already been recruiting male applicants aged over 13, regardless of nationalities.
Applicants do not have to be professionals; they can be total beginners, idol trainees or aspiring singers without agencies.
All applications to appear on the audition show need to be submitted by January, Mnet said.
“We will be recruiting more trainees with no agencies,” a spokesperson for the programme said.
“We have come up with a separate ‘slot’ only for them.”