date: 5/7/09 just wanted to share with you all...
Hi,
So first of all I'd like to begin with a big hug for all of us
who wish to enter the entertainment industry, wherever we are around the world!
I am quite shy in soompi so you probably won't have seen me around, at least not in the auditions section!
therefore...i shall introduce myself:
Name: Hyunji
Age: 16
Height: 5"4.5
Living in: London (but currently visiting relatives in Korea)
Ethnicity: Korean 100%
Languages: fluent in korean english french and spanish (like actually)
Auditioned for: SM ent. (singer) and will be going to JYP and YG when i'm free.
I think that should be enough...
Anyway, I'm putting my experience up as I know from experience how frustrating it can be to
find out information about auditions particularly as we all live abroad!
Plus I wanted to clear any rumours about the audition process for SM ent.
so here goes and hope this helps!
So I had been interested in auditioning since I was around 14 or so, quite late considering how many primary
school kids in korea flock to the auditions every saturday. But even 14 was too early for me, and though I went to
Seoul to visit my relatives with my family that year, I refused to audition. Looking back, it was a shame, as I found
out from my mother this year when i told her about auditioning, that even at the tender(?) age of 16, I am rather late
in going into training and debuting as many trainees have been training for many years already.
This doesn't mean that I am TOO late, as 16 is not old (if we said that 16 was old to someone in hollywood they'd
probably snort and laugh at us...). It's just that as many of you know, the korean music industry somehow has
developed this fetish for idols and jailbait...
Still...my parents would know, (my dad is a close friend of a famous PD in korea...) and if they said that my age was
okay,
I thought I would go for it this year (16years old).
I soon found out about Sm through the internet, and decided that I didn't want to wait in line for 3-4 hours on a
saturday afternoon outside in Apgujung...so I chose to send an email in instead. (yes this is the email audition option)
I did what it told me to do on the website, I filled out my details and then I attached 3pictures, (facex2 and 1 body)
and since I didn't have a recording I just sent the email straight away to Sm ent. Oh, just for reference I used my
Daum mail account.
After 2days, I got a reply asking me to come to the 'secret' or 비공개 or non-public auditions held on Sunday.
However the date was the 28th June and this was the day that I was coming to korea so obviously I couldn't make it.
I sent another email asking to change the date to 5th July and soon after they sent another reply that told me that
that was fine.
The email also consisted of what to do in preparation for the audition which was to practice 2 songs (korean)
and that was it. (there was more info if you werent singing but I'll leave that out)
so I was happy cuz id passed the first round of auditioning!
On the 5th July (audition day)
I woke up did everything as normal, dressed and then my dad at around 1ish took me to 'Everysing' which is where
SM holds auditions, I went in and they told me to wait at the back with the rest of the auditionees.
There were 21 of us including me.
After a while at around 2pm, a lady took us down in to one of the rooms in the basement (Everysing is a karaoke
place btw) and we all waited and the lady gave us a form to fill out and told us the rules of auditioning, and then gave
us number labels.
**She told us that pop songs were not allowed. But then I asked her, as I'm much more comfortable singing in
English as I've lived abroad all my life, if I was allowed to sing a pop song and she replied yes, if that is more
comfortable for me.**
As I said there were 21 of us, and I happened to get the last one!
so she took the ppl in groups of 10 and then 5 stood outside and sung or w/e they do.
I thought the auditions were held in another room but actually its just outside in the hallway where there's a really low
stage.
Anyway you can hear what everyone is singing/judges are saying.
Most ppl just got cut off - i heard some awful off key singing....
A small girl cried cuz she was scared i think...
Anyway so when the lady came back and the ppl 1-10 left, she said
"okay so ppl from 11-20"
And i was like WTF.
because I was no.21, and so that meant that I was going to be auditioning - alone.
so basically i was freaking about that, and when they all went out, i was like hyperventilating,
just going crazy, so then i drank some water (WATER IS A MUST!!!)
and calmed down.
after they all went, she came to get me and I stood on the stage. There were two women and the lady who led me
there. One was sitting and writing notes and the other was at the camera with the lady just standing and watching.
The notes lady told me to rake my hair back and behind my ears and stand in the middle of the stage.
She told me to sing, so I sang Umbrella by Rihanna.
"You had my heart and we'll never be worlds apart...ectectect"
The notes lady (sorry;;) said, "Can you sing another song?"
So I sang Navi's "A broken heart" (마음이 다쳐서)
My voice is really loud, and it sort of got amplified by 100 because I was nervous so they all kind of looked shocked
at me...
i was like OTL...
anyway, so after wards she asked me a couple of questions like,
1. How long have you lived abroad?
2. So you live in London?...are you here because school's finished?
3. How long is the Summer holiday? When does it end?
So I answered them, and then she just nodded and wrote stuff down,
and then she told me she was going to start the Rhythm test.
The song was Rihanna (haha)- Disturbia
So i did my thing, shook about and pranced around on stage,
and then after my dance was over, she said "Thank you, that will be all"
"You may return back home now."
and so I left.
When i was leaving I'm sure i heard something like, "So A is definitely a yes right?"
but i don't know who she was referring to...WHO IS 'A'????
I hope that was me...but that's pretty unlikely...MEH
So I hope this was helpful,
and btw Sm does reply to email auditions, trust me.
AUDITIONS ARE FUN!!!
kekeke
ill be going to JYP next, and YG has sent me an email back so I shall be visiting there soon too!
Hopefully, I'll get in to Sm or JYP or YG!
That would be awesome!
Questions are welcome~
XOXO