Tuesday, September 3, 2013

YG Entertainment’s ‘WHO IS NEXT: WIN’ Episode 1 - A Review by giditopi

YG Entertainment’s ‘WHO IS NEXT: WIN’, a program to determine the formation of its newest group,first aired on August 23, 2013, 10 PM on Mnet and 11.20 PM on TVN. This is labeled as the real survival battle, which divides YG’s 11 long-term trainees into Teams A and B for a fierce battle to debut. 

Team A consists of Superstar K2 Kang Seung Yoon, SBS Kpop Star Lee Seung Hoon, Former member of BoM Song Minho, YG longest trainee Kim Jinwoo and maknae Nam Taehyun. Team B consists of B.I (child rapper in MC Mong's Indian Boy), Kim Jiwon (Bobby), Kim Jinhwan, Goo Junhoe, Kim Donghyuk and Song Yoonhyeoung. Team A's average age is 20, while team B's average age is 17. 


From Left to Right, Seungyoon, Jinwoo, Taehyun, Seunghoo, Minho (Team A), B.I, Donghyuk, Yoonhyeong, Jinhwan, Bobby, Junhwae (Team B)

In the first episode, we can see the journey of 2NE1 and BIGBANG before debut, struggle and uncertain future are their everyday life. Now, is the chance for both team to be the Winner. WIN is also stand for Who Is Next, and the winner of this program will be name WINNER, yes, that's the name of the group..... 


This episode start with both team in May evaluation, 31st of  May 2013, the first announcement of the program to all the boys. Of course, they are shock and confused at first. Also, team B said that they're lack of confidence baecause Team A have Kang Seung Yoon and Lee Seung Hoon, who's already familiar by the viewer. Team A perform Trey Songz's 'Heart Attack', and Team B perform Rihanna's 'Hard' in front of YG and staff. After the performance, YG said that Team B did better than Team A. YG also choose Song Minho as the leader of Team A, while Team B is already have a leader, B.I.  Team B also perform Drake, The Motto, but then after the episode is out, a choreographer said that they're using his dance without permission. 

This episode showing story of the member of the team A, Lee Seunghoon, Kang Seung Yoon, Kim Jinwoo and Team B's B.I. Lee Seunghoon, the genius dancer who already dream being in YG since he is stil a child, B.I the genius leader and rapper which started to rap since child, Kang Seung Yoon said that he is the Survival competition representative and also sad story of the longest and the hardworker Kim Jinwoo who separated with his family for more than 3 years. There's also story when Kang Seung Yoon's debut as solo artist with his single Wild and Young, the member cheered him on the 1st day of the broadcast, while Kim Jinwoo feel a bit envy of him. Kang Seung Yoon himself, said that his activity as solo artist have impact in Team A's performance, because he often skip team practice, he also feel sorry about that. 


In the preview of the next episode, YG suddenly came to their practice room and give advice also critics to the member, it seems that Nam Tae Hyun also crying. You can watch the first episode in Mnet official Youtube page. 


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