Girls Planet 999 voting will be half Korean/half international votes + nationalities of the final group are not fixed

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I mean that was expected. It's a Korean show and they're gonna be promoted as a kpop group so it wouldn't make sense that only 3 members are Koreans.

PD48 also had the rumor of 6 Koreans and 6 Japanese and at the end it ended up being a 9:3 ratio.

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20 hours ago, Simpatico said:

But it wasn't supposed to be "just" a Korean show. It's being shown internationally in Japan and China, so even though its produced by CJ, its still has international sponsors like iQiYi that expect there will be international members. It reminds me how CJ pulled the bait and switch with Produce 48 where it seemed at first at least international votes would be counted since half the contestants were from Japan (and had fanbases) and it was basically a co-production with the AKB48 in alll but name. Then...nope. Only Koreans allowed to vote. And even then they rigged in who they wanted (and conviently had just 3 Japaneses members - the same magic number the #1 Asian GG - Twice - has) 

Now - we're going to have 99 trainees. A full 2/3 of them will be Japanese or Chinese. They are clearly attempting/want a tri-national girl group. That's the whole point of the show. That's how it was advertised. So maybe half Chinese or Japanese votes be 1/3 a piece as well? Nope. Half will be Korean. At least so we're told (who knows what they're really do). And we've already seen the evil editing. And we know CJ/Mnet have CHEATED (to the point of people being put in jail) before to get the outcome/grouping they want. 

As much as I love Yujin and want to see her succeed now that Cube has washed their hands of CLC, this show is just more Mnet farce.

Re: the evil editing. I'm not seeing that much of that yet except the whole Fu Yaning vs Yujin thing (and it wasn't really evil editing because those were her words), but mnet is very clearly showing their preferences. Chinese trainees are barely shown so far except for Fu Yaning (again, due to the "beef" with Yujin), Su Ruiqi, and Cai Bing (even Roada Xu that's pretty popular was completely skipped in today's episode) and for Japanese trainees they're mostly highlighting 2-3 (Yurina, Hikaru, Shana and maybe Mashiro?). So I expect the line up being like 5 koreans, 2 japanese and 2 chinese. Basically the same ratio than Twice: 5 Koreans and 4 non Koreans. No way they're gonna be 3:3:3.

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39 minutes ago, Simpatico said:

Oh, yeah. I don't know the final line-up but I do think the final ratio has already been set in stone (even if Mnet claims this show is not rigged). No way they have an equal or lesser number of Korean members than the Japanese/Chinese. Just like with Produce 48, I thought going in (once the whole "only Korean vote counts" was announced) that there would only be 3 Japanese members (same as Twice) and lo and behold there was. Even as the Japanese trainees started making inroads among the Korean public (to the point where the Japanese trainees dominated the pre-finale episode vote) the end result was just 3. 

Yeah, it's a kpop group after all and they'll be mostly promoting in Korea (and ocassionally in Japan/China) so I doubt they have more than 4 non korean members. Like I said, I bet a 5:2:2 ratio which it's the closest to a 50-50 Korean/Non Korean ratio.