How does SM choose which groups has only korean or korean and foreign members?

[130moodtrbl]

Is it based on image (concept) or just a last minute decision? Why did SHINee and TVXQ (5) have all Korean members but EXO (8 korean & 4 chinese), Super Junior (korean & one chinese) and NCT (thai japanese chinese & korean) have a mixture of korean and non korean members? Same with SNSD (all korean), f(x) (chinese taiwanese & korean) and Red Velvet (all korean)? Isn't it weird?

 

 

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[本 Anobae 本]

Why not boi

[Sana Minatozaki]

idk

[literally tilted]

Ask SM

[HARAM]

wasn't exo and sj supposed to promote in china? isn't that why they have chinese members? same goes for nct, they are going to promote overseas so they have foreign members

[Fish Tank]

well it probably depends on the trainees they had at the time

[Secre]

Ask SM

[La vis ta]

Wait lemme call jesus

[skcebl]

EXO-M was made to promote in China.

[Ddeona Oneul Bame]

EXO's literal concept was of EXO having a Korean and Mandarin Unit; you think EXO-M would have gotten any attention in China with no Chinese members?

[ELEOS]

Each group was specially designed based on what SM had planned for them. EXO and Suju were meant to promote in China as well as Korea thus the groups naturally needed to have members who were from those countries. The same for NCT. Also, with how much Kpop is expanding these days, just having foreign members is very useful in general.

[nancy mcflurry]

idk

[Xenoire]

Hmmm, I feel like it's almost a must for every K-Pop group now to have non-Korean members for more appeal. And even if you don't have non-Korean members having English speaking Koreans like Jessica and Tiffany definitely helped SNSD garner support internationally. So I feel like that would be one reason.

 

Perhaps, on the flip side, SM would choose to have only Korean members for less xenophobic hate...? It's kind of a stretch but you know how Korea is with being racist and whatnot.

 

Also, just what trainees they have

[FuturingGirl]

I don't think it's planned out. When it comes to making groups, you can't just throw members in there for the hell of it or because one of them is foreign. It's also based on who is ready to debut. SM typically has a large pool of trainees, no? With that being known, they have to be smart on who goes into which group. For example, Yeri was added to RV because she fit their image and they wanted her to be a part so the group's average age would be brought down, because they had a youthful image but most of the members were in their 20s at debut with the exception of Joy who was 18/19. When you look at Amber and f(x) doesn't it seem to you that she really fits perfectly in that group? I'm sure it wasn't that she was just thrown in there because she happened to be Taiwanese, she actually adds to the group and is within its age range. 

 

With groups like Shinee, TVXQ, SNSD, we have to remember that they're older groups and back during the "beginnings" of k-pop up to 2008, it was pretty much a Koreans Only industry. Even Super Junior got a lot of flak for having ONE Chinese member. Because of that, most groups were 100% Korean because there were pretty much only Korean trainees to be put into groups. Following this period, we saw more foreign trainees, mostly from China/Taiwan/HK, but there were also a few from Thailand, so the likelihood of a group having a foreign member increased, which is why we see EXO and f(x) having a few Chinese/Taiwanese members here and there. SM even realized this by creating promotional units for Suju and EXO to promote in China. And now, with the third gen, we have NCT which has a lot of members, which I suppose raises the probability of them having foreign members, but even then they have more diversity in the nationalities of their members than any other SM act before.

 

And you might be wondering now "well SMRookies has a lot of foreign trainees, so why wasn't one of them added to Red Velvet instead of Yeri?" and my answer to that is that SM already had something planned for them at the time, being SMNGG.

[Only 1 U Need Connoisseur]

who even cares.. 

[leagueofkpop]

No wonder red velvet is flopping. Nowadays, if you debut with no foreign members, you are at an disadvantage.

[eyerene]

No wonder red velvet is flopping. Nowadays, if you debut with no foreign members, you are at an disadvantage.

No wonder red velvet is flopping. Nowadays, if you debut with no foreign members, you are at an disadvantage.

how the fuck are red velvet considered "flops"

[kimchidiablo]

To make it easier to market the group on the country of members' nationalities.

[leagueofkpop]

how the fuck are red velvet considered "flops"

for an sm group, they are. 

[Waifuku]

No wonder red velvet is flopping. Nowadays, if you debut with no foreign members, you are at an disadvantage.

Wendy is all we need.

 

 

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[denizen]

how the fuck are red velvet considered "flops"

 

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