[Nouciel]

Find all information regarding the audition @ http://wiki.jpopstop.com/wiki/Hello!_P...Korea_Auditions

Official name for the audition is 「対東京少女」, "Meet Tokyo Girl", DaeDong Kyung Youths in Korean

The audition shows are weekly.

The Winner:
Jang Dayun (Audition, YouTube)
Official audition site profile: http://mnet.mnet.com/NProgram/tokyo/introWho.asp?girlNum=6

The girl in the blue shorts:

http://ameblo.jp/tsunku-blog/theme-10004706440.html


(she was crying before they took those photos)

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So, it sounds like the same deal as the Taiwan auditions in the sense that they will probably make their own group within H!P and start their own branch in Korea. That's okay and all, but it's not really the same as Japanese auditions where they are getting members for already existing groups. Either way, it's good news on the whole Asia expansion deal. I'm most excited about seeing Maimi in Korea, so it's all good.

[T3hLouiseChan]

ahhh Korean HP? I approve

anyways i hope if they do make a group they dont name it after dessert. *cough*

[Nayok-Kihara]

Quite excited for this. I hope the auditions turn out to be just as entertaining as the Taiwan Auditions were. I wonder when we'll get the qualifications? Like age range and everything for the contestants. I wonder if it'll be the same as the Taiwan auditions, which had a pretty wide age range.

Also extremely excited for Saki to be going to help represent H!P. I'm still wondering if the two of them will get to perform at all, or if they'll get to help with judging or something. (Which would be really awesome, but is sort of doubtful. )

[phishn37]

Ooh, this is cool.
Always good to get H!P into some other country.

[Tricia]

hmmm i wonder which country is next.

[Mr.Yi]

I knew it was coming, it was just a matter of time.

Girl groups are doing so well in Korea after all =P

[T3hLouiseChan]

@Tricia USAAAAAAA PLZ. . . *ready to sign up*

[Tricia]

^oh i know right! Let's sign up together!! lol

[Konisia]

I'm very interest with this audition. I wonder since South Korea are into American styles and music, do you think UFA might have the girls sing both Japanese, Korean, and English? I know I'm thinking ahead, but we will never.

[xhikarux]

Good for hp to have their own korean members because avex and sony have them, also maybe help with their expansion, but doesnt appeal me. theres too many wonder girls , the grace, kara and SNSD out there, plus theres TONNES of K groups/stars that have flooded into the jpop music industry singing japanese or korean. it just doesnt seem anything special or unique anymore like when Boa just entered...

also the lucky korean girls who will enter hp will have a lot of female korean antis... you know what they are like if you have read about korean fans...and junjun's blog, there was a constant mental blogger who kept on copying and pasting offensive comments every fews minutes or so, was done by a korean person named sang joong or something, his/her email was from naver.

i do wish them luck in finding some good girls. im more excited if it was a mm 9th generation audition with no graduations, but this would never help with hp sales. o well.

[Aim_Aim]

This news is exciting since they are expanding even more. But I agree xhikarux. Kpop is great and all but I'd much rather see some new Morning Musume members.

[ginaRAWR]

I agree with xhikarux and Aim_Aim, I would've preferred 9th gen auditions to this but I'm still happy either way.
I have to say though... I wonder what H!P are planning. I hope they're not trying to compete with Avex, but I can't see them trying to recruit outside of Asia for a long time yet. Then again who knows?

[☆(*^o^)ame-chan(^-^*)☆]

Wow. Korea, ne?
Why can't they come to the UK!

[Nayok-Kihara]

If the age range is as wide as it was for the Taiwan auditions, I'm pretty sure we can forget about H!P releasing After School and Wonder Girls-type music. I mean, Aiko and Francis, the finalists from NEW STAR, are what.. 6 years old? - Plus, this is H!P after all. I doubt they would release that style of music anyway, at least not constantly.

I wouldn't mind if we got MM auditions along with the Korea auditions. But I don't want Niigaki to graduate just yet.

[☆(*^o^)ame-chan(^-^*)☆]

^ No I don't want to her to graduate either TT_TT

[ginaRAWR]

I personally don't think they'd do MM auditions at the same time as the Korea auditions, wasn't Tsunku a judge at the Taiwan auditions? If he was I'm pretty sure he'd be a judge at the Korean auditions, too. Also, he'd need to be in Japan if there were MM auditions on since it's him who picks the girls.
Maybe later on this year we'll get 9th gen. Musumes *fingers crossed*

[Nayok-Kihara]

^ From my understanding after watching most of the audition episodes, he reviewed tapes (DVDs?) of performances from the auditions. I guess this came in handy when he chose to bring back the girls that had gotten kicked off the show, and when he decided that two of them (Anchii and ReiRei) would be in the final group, after they went to the "last camp" thing.

But he wasn't physically there in at the Auditions until the final episode, when he chose from the still remaining girls, who would be in the group. Then he brought out Anchii and ReiRei after choosing the first 4.

So he wasn't really a judge, he was never there for the episodes to score in on who he wanted to stay, who he wanted to leave, etc. - they had different Taiwan/Chinese celebrities that did that job during each week. But Tsunku had "ultimate" ( ) power above the judges choices, as shown with our Anchii and ReiRei.

[ginaRAWR]

^ Ahh, thanks. I don't bother to watch any auditions besides the MM ones so I'm glad that could be cleared up

[Hikazumi]

Good news! I hope that this and the Taiwan group will help H!P to expand all over Asia~! x3

Also M-net is such a popular channel in Korea, so I expect an enjoyable auditions~! *^3^*

Yiaa... Saki&Maimi will be in Korea.. *u* I hope that in other chaps we can see a perf. of Berryz, C-ute or MM :3~~