K-Pop Latin American Boy Band Competition Series In The Works At HBO Max

[My Everything]

K-pop is fast becoming a global musical force with the success of BTS and Blackpink.

HBO Max is looking to take advantage of this with a new series designed to find a new K-pop phenomenon. The twist? The streamer is looking for the band to come out of Latin America.

The WarnerMedia-backed streamer is developing the untitled competition series with Korean media firm CJ ENM, the company behind Fox’s I Can See Your Voice, and Endemol Shine Boomdog, the Spanish-language arm of Endemol Shine North America, which produces series including MasterChef Mexico and Univision’s Mira Quien Baila.

It’s a truly global format for the streamer, which has been increasingly growing its slate of internationally-focused projects and recently unveiled plans to launch in 39 territories across Lat Am and the Caribbean in late June.

The show will follow a group of young men from Latin America audition for an opportunity of a lifetime to fly to Korea to train under the K-pop secretive star-making system to launch the first K-pop coached Latin American super group.

Throughout the music competition show, contestants are tested with challenges designed to not only evaluate their individual abilities, but to help them come together as a diverse, yet unified boy band, ready to debut on the world’s stage.

K-pop’s influence across Latin America has been growing for a number of years and recently Colombia’s Sebastian Yatra teamed up with Monsta X for Magnetic, while BTS member J-Hope worked with Mexican-American singer Becky G on a remake of Chicken Noodle Soup. Puerto Rico’s Guaynaa also recently worked with Chung Ha on Demente.

It will be exec produced by Richard Jun, CJ ENM’s Harry HK Shin, Young Ju Ok and Jake Hong and Alejandro Rincon and Alvaro Godoy for Endemol Shine Boomdog.

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Edited May 6, 2021 by My Everything

[Aphrodisiac]

Sounds like a BAD idea

[Guest]

yeah they just want to make a cnco 2.0 lol

[sooa_t]

the mess

[Drama Drama Drama]

CNCO impact

Good luck trying to get the next Ricky Martin

[penyair]

wtf, kpop just keep on getting weirder

[lighterxx]

How will it be KPOP in Latin America o.o

[Unnie's sex slave]

I can already imagine the mess 

[Minji Bot]

Awful idea

[hlynb93]

I can see it working, there's plenty of east Asian potential idols in South America and plenty of white kpop fangirls to sustain them.

[WhateverBitch]

I'm looking forward to korean/latino Jon Snow's debut! 

[SmolBeanAsh]

23 hours ago, My Everything said:

K-pop is fast becoming a global musical force with the success of BTS and Blackpink.

HBO Max is looking to take advantage of this with a new series designed to find a new K-pop phenomenon. The twist? The streamer is looking for the band to come out of Latin America.

The WarnerMedia-backed streamer is developing the untitled competition series with Korean media firm CJ ENM, the company behind Fox’s I Can See Your Voice, and Endemol Shine Boomdog, the Spanish-language arm of Endemol Shine North America, which produces series including MasterChef Mexico and Univision’s Mira Quien Baila.

It’s a truly global format for the streamer, which has been increasingly growing its slate of internationally-focused projects and recently unveiled plans to launch in 39 territories across Lat Am and the Caribbean in late June.

The show will follow a group of young men from Latin America audition for an opportunity of a lifetime to fly to Korea to train under the K-pop secretive star-making system to launch the first K-pop coached Latin American super group.

Throughout the music competition show, contestants are tested with challenges designed to not only evaluate their individual abilities, but to help them come together as a diverse, yet unified boy band, ready to debut on the world’s stage.

K-pop’s influence across Latin America has been growing for a number of years and recently Colombia’s Sebastian Yatra teamed up with Monsta X for Magnetic, while BTS member J-Hope worked with Mexican-American singer Becky G on a remake of Chicken Noodle Soup. Puerto Rico’s Guaynaa also recently worked with Chung Ha on Demente.

It will be exec produced by Richard Jun, CJ ENM’s Harry HK Shin, Young Ju Ok and Jake Hong and Alejandro Rincon and Alvaro Godoy for Endemol Shine Boomdog.

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I don't think this is a very bad idea at all, but it could either go well or go horribly wrong

[AstroBaby]

We already have a Latino kpop group though?

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[Oli London]

Can western countries stop trying to send their boys to Korea to make kpop? Whoever made Nsync and the Backstreet Boys needs to come back and create a new western boy group. The western girl groups and boy groups of the 2010's were lacking in many aspects.