Trainees who dream of becoming a star spend
day and night singing and dancing—their biggest goal is to make a ‘
debut’. However, even after a successful debut, in the
South Korean music market where tens of new groups are born
every year, winning the hearts of the public as a true artist is practically
impossible. No one can predict who will be successful, and there is no set formula for it either. Even
YG Entertainment, the entertainment agency which produced
BIGBANG and
2NE1, groups which each respectively brought about a
paradigm shift in the music world in 2006 with its borderless popularity and changed the entire perception of girl groups, has
not debuted a new group for the
last 4 years. And the exact agency, YG, has returned finally in 2013 with the
first boy group in
8 years since
BIGBANG’s debut, named ‘
WINNER’. But the
members of the boy group has
not been confirmed yet, as YG’s next boy group formation will be determined on a
real survival battle program called ‘
WHO IS NEXT : WIN’ where only the real surviving team can seize the name ‘
WINNER’ to make a debut. This is a real
test to see who can remain alive in the dog-eat-dog pop music market. The most important aspect of this program is that the fait of ‘WINNER’ is
dependent on the viewers. Even the
founder of YG,
YANG HYUN SUK, will only be giving brief advice to the contestants. He boldly chose to let the viewers decide completely to see who the true ‘WINNER’ is. ‘WIN’, which
allows the public to participate even before a new group is formed properly, will create a battlefield for the
11 members who have been training at YG for a
long time. The boys will be divided into
Teams A and
B for a fierce fight.
Team A, which consists of
KANG SEUNG YOON, the recently debuted
ex-contestant of Mnet’s
Superstar K2 and
LEE SEUNG HOON, the
ex-contestant of
K-Pop Star, have
5 members in total with the
average age of
20.
Team B has
6 members with the
average age of
17, with the then boy rapper
B.I. who featured in
MC Mong’s ‘
Indian Boy’ and
Koo Jun Hoe, another
ex-contestant of
K-Pop Star.
The
final winning team will seize the name ‘
WINNER’ to make a debut immediately after the program finishes, while the losing team’s debut will be
postponed indefinitely. ‘WIN’, a program that is to show the harsh and cold reality of the professional world, will depend completely on the viewers’ decision to choose the winning team. The battle program will keep everyone on their toes, as even YG will not find out the winner until the very end.
How the Program is Run
‘
WIN’ is
not an auditioning program with judges, but is a
100% real survival battle program where the viewers decide the
final winner. From episodes 1 to 10, there will be
3 battles in total, and along with YG’s founder YANG HYUN SUK, other YG artists, producers and special guests will be participating in the process of the competition.
Online and
mobile advance voting will be available from episodes that the battle begins, and the final battle, which is aired live, will allow viewers to use live
text message voting system. The final winner is determined based on the
tally from online/mobile advance voting and live text message voting combined. Further details on the voting method and dates will be announced later.
WIN Airing Information
In South Korea, the program will be aired every
Friday on a relay on two different channels, at
10 p.m. on
Mnet and
11:20 p.m. on
tvN. The
first episode will be aired at
10 p.m. on
August 23 (Friday). The program consists of 10 episodes. The show will be broadcasted simultaneously on portal sites like Daum’s mobile webpage, also showing happenings of behind-the-scenes.
The program will be aired
overseas beginning from
September 17, through
channel V (part of the cable channels of START TV) and
channel M (part of the cable channels of FOX) in
10 countries including
Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Maldives, and Macau. In China, the largest video-sharing website
Youku will exclusively air the program.
YG is negotiating with
Arirang TV to air the show beyond Asia in
188 countries from mid September. Arirang TV will provide
subtitle services including
English, Spanish, Chinese, and Indonesian. The entertainment agency is also in the midst of negotiation with various national television in the Asian region and their cable channels. As seen from the effort, YG is preparing in earnest to show ‘
WIN’ to a wider audience around the world.
TEAM A
Song Min Ho
TEAM A’s leader SONG MIN HO, experienced & talented rapper
- March 30, 1993 (21 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rooster, Aries
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Writing & Composing songs, Drawing, Basketball
- Specialty: Beat box, Caricature
Kim Jin Woo
YG’s longest trainee, oldest of Team A, KIM JIN WOO the epitome of diligence
- September 26, 1991 (23 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Sheep, Libra
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Swimming
- Specialty: Acting
Lee Seung Hoon
Team A’s mainstay for performance, artist LEE SEUNG HOON
- January 11, 1992 (22 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Sheep
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Writing songs
- Specialty: Dancing
Nam Tae Hyun
Team A’s youngest NAM TAE HYUN, possessor of a mesmerizing voice
- May 10, 1994 (20 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Dog, Taurus
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Writing & Composing songs
- Specialty: Martial Arts
Kang Seung Yoon
Team A’s all-rounder KANG SEUNG YOON, gone from an audition program star to YG’s trainee
- January 21, 1994 (20 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rooster, Aquarius
- Blood Type: B
- Hobby: Writing & Composing songs, Drawing
- Specialty: Billiard
TEAM B
Kim Jin Hwan
Team B’s oldest with powerful dancing skills & sentimental voice KIM JIN HWAN
- February 07, 1994 (20 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rooster, Aquarius
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Looking at the night view, playing guitar
- Specialty: Foreign language, swimming, playing trumpet
Bobby
Team B’s clown KIM JI WON, the swagger guy who returned home to realize his dreams
- December 21, 1995 (19 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Pig, Sagittarius,
- Blood Type: O
- Hobby: Basketball
- Specialty: Swimming, Free-style Jamming
B.I
Indian Boy’s boy rapper B.I. now an adult! Team B’s charismatic leader, KIM HAN BIN
- October 22, 1996 (18 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat, Libra
- Blood Type: O
- Hobby: Taking a walk
- Specialty: Writing & Composing songs, Beat Boxing
Song Yun Hyeong
The all-rounder with a sweet & charming voice, SONG YUN HYEONG
- February 08, 1995 (19 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Pig, Aquarius
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Cycling
- Specialty: Exercising
Koo Jun Hoe
Persistence to realize his dreams! An individualistic & manly KOO JUN HOE
- March 31, 1997 (17 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Ox, Aries
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Collecting albums
- Specialty: Nunchuks
Kim Dong Hyuk
Valedictorian & brainy KIM DONG HYUK! Team B’s zealous vocalist
- January 03, 1997 (17 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat, Capricorn
- Blood Type: O
- Hobby: Playing piano, drum, guitar
- Specialty: Basketball
Trainees who dream of becoming a star spend
day and night singing and dancing—their biggest goal is to make a ‘
debut’. However, even after a successful debut, in the
South Korean music market where tens of new groups are born
every year, winning the hearts of the public as a true artist is practically
impossible. No one can predict who will be successful, and there is no set formula for it either. Even
YG Entertainment, the entertainment agency which produced
BIGBANG and
2NE1, groups which each respectively brought about a
paradigm shift in the music world in 2006 with its borderless popularity and changed the entire perception of girl groups, has
not debuted a new group for the
last 4 years. And the exact agency, YG, has returned finally in 2013 with the
first boy group in
8 years since
BIGBANG’s debut, named ‘
WINNER’. But the
members of the boy group has
not been confirmed yet, as YG’s next boy group formation will be determined on a
real survival battle program called ‘
WHO IS NEXT : WIN’ where only the real surviving team can seize the name ‘
WINNER’ to make a debut. This is a real
test to see who can remain alive in the dog-eat-dog pop music market. The most important aspect of this program is that the fait of ‘WINNER’ is
dependent on the viewers. Even the
founder of YG,
YANG HYUN SUK, will only be giving brief advice to the contestants. He boldly chose to let the viewers decide completely to see who the true ‘WINNER’ is. ‘WIN’, which
allows the public to participate even before a new group is formed properly, will create a battlefield for the
11 members who have been training at YG for a
long time. The boys will be divided into
Teams A and
B for a fierce fight.
Team A, which consists of
KANG SEUNG YOON, the recently debuted
ex-contestant of Mnet’s
Superstar K2 and
LEE SEUNG HOON, the
ex-contestant of
K-Pop Star, have
5 members in total with the
average age of
20.
Team B has
6 members with the
average age of
17, with the then boy rapper
B.I. who featured in
MC Mong’s ‘
Indian Boy’ and
Koo Jun Hoe, another
ex-contestant of
K-Pop Star.
The
final winning team will seize the name ‘
WINNER’ to make a debut immediately after the program finishes, while the losing team’s debut will be
postponed indefinitely. ‘WIN’, a program that is to show the harsh and cold reality of the professional world, will depend completely on the viewers’ decision to choose the winning team. The battle program will keep everyone on their toes, as even YG will not find out the winner until the very end.
How the Program is Run
‘
WIN’ is
not an auditioning program with judges, but is a
100% real survival battle program where the viewers decide the
final winner. From episodes 1 to 10, there will be
3 battles in total, and along with YG’s founder YANG HYUN SUK, other YG artists, producers and special guests will be participating in the process of the competition.
Online and
mobile advance voting will be available from episodes that the battle begins, and the final battle, which is aired live, will allow viewers to use live
text message voting system. The final winner is determined based on the
tally from online/mobile advance voting and live text message voting combined. Further details on the voting method and dates will be announced later.
WIN Airing Information
In South Korea, the program will be aired every
Friday on a relay on two different channels, at
10 p.m. on
Mnet and
11:20 p.m. on
tvN. The
first episode will be aired at
10 p.m. on
August 23 (Friday). The program consists of 10 episodes. The show will be broadcasted simultaneously on portal sites like Daum’s mobile webpage, also showing happenings of behind-the-scenes.
The program will be aired
overseas beginning from
September 17, through
channel V (part of the cable channels of START TV) and
channel M (part of the cable channels of FOX) in
10 countries including
Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, the Maldives, and Macau. In China, the largest video-sharing website
Youku will exclusively air the program.
YG is negotiating with
Arirang TV to air the show beyond Asia in
188 countries from mid September. Arirang TV will provide
subtitle services including
English, Spanish, Chinese, and Indonesian. The entertainment agency is also in the midst of negotiation with various national television in the Asian region and their cable channels. As seen from the effort, YG is preparing in earnest to show ‘
WIN’ to a wider audience around the world.
TEAM A
Song Min Ho
TEAM A’s leader SONG MIN HO, experienced & talented rapper
- March 30, 1993 (21 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rooster, Aries
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Writing & Composing songs, Drawing, Basketball
- Specialty: Beat box, Caricature
Kim Jin Woo
YG’s longest trainee, oldest of Team A, KIM JIN WOO the epitome of diligence
- September 26, 1991 (23 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Sheep, Libra
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Swimming
- Specialty: Acting
Lee Seung Hoon
Team A’s mainstay for performance, artist LEE SEUNG HOON
- January 11, 1992 (22 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Sheep
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Writing songs
- Specialty: Dancing
Nam Tae Hyun
Team A’s youngest NAM TAE HYUN, possessor of a mesmerizing voice
- May 10, 1994 (20 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Dog, Taurus
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Writing & Composing songs
- Specialty: Martial Arts
Kang Seung Yoon
Team A’s all-rounder KANG SEUNG YOON, gone from an audition program star to YG’s trainee
- January 21, 1994 (20 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rooster, Aquarius
- Blood Type: B
- Hobby: Writing & Composing songs, Drawing
- Specialty: Billiard
TEAM B
Kim Jin Hwan
Team B’s oldest with powerful dancing skills & sentimental voice KIM JIN HWAN
- February 07, 1994 (20 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rooster, Aquarius
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Looking at the night view, playing guitar
- Specialty: Foreign language, swimming, playing trumpet
Bobby
Team B’s clown KIM JI WON, the swagger guy who returned home to realize his dreams
- December 21, 1995 (19 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Pig, Sagittarius,
- Blood Type: O
- Hobby: Basketball
- Specialty: Swimming, Free-style Jamming
B.I
Indian Boy’s boy rapper B.I. now an adult! Team B’s charismatic leader, KIM HAN BIN
- October 22, 1996 (18 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat, Libra
- Blood Type: O
- Hobby: Taking a walk
- Specialty: Writing & Composing songs, Beat Boxing
Song Yun Hyeong
The all-rounder with a sweet & charming voice, SONG YUN HYEONG
- February 08, 1995 (19 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Pig, Aquarius
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Cycling
- Specialty: Exercising
Koo Jun Hoe
Persistence to realize his dreams! An individualistic & manly KOO JUN HOE
- March 31, 1997 (17 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Ox, Aries
- Blood Type: A
- Hobby: Collecting albums
- Specialty: Nunchuks
Kim Dong Hyuk
Valedictorian & brainy KIM DONG HYUK! Team B’s zealous vocalist
- January 03, 1997 (17 years old)
- Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat, Capricorn
- Blood Type: O
- Hobby: Playing piano, drum, guitar
- Specialty: Basketball
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