SM Town Youth Star Audition 2012

SM is famous for producing many of Korea’s top K-Pop stars, such as BoA, TVXQ, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, and f(x). A few of those stars were discovered through the SM Global Auditions, such as Super Junior-M‘s Henry, a finalist of the 2006 Global Auditions, and f(x)‘sAmber, who participated in the 2007 U.S. auditions, and more.
For this year, SM will be holding a new audition catered towards the youth of the world in their ‘Youth Star Audition‘ for those ranging from 8 to 20 years old. The auditions will take place in seven countries including South Korea, Japan, China, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, and is open to all nationalities and genders.
Check out more details at the official ‘Youth Star Audition’ site here, and check below for the list of the North American dates and locations!

July 29th – Los Angeles, CA, USA
August 4th – New Jersey, USA
August 28th/29th – Toronto, Canada
September 1st – Vancouver, Canada
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The agency has also unveiled a few promotional videos for the upcoming auditions, so check them out below if you didn’t catch them before!

BoA and SISTAR Join Summer Comebacks

 


We just caught SISTAR a couple months ago, and it feels like forever since we last heard from the reigning Queen of K-pop, BoA, but both are in preparations for their respective summer 2012 comebacks. Time to add two more to the long list of releases and live performances happening over the next couple months, including Big Bang, the Wonder Girls, T-ARA, 2NE1, Dal Shabet and others.

According to reps from Starship Entertainment, SISTAR’s comeback single will bring back their bright energy from earlier singles, and leave the broody image back in Las Vegas. “After making a retro transformations with “Alone,” the girls will be going back to show their characteristic charms this summer. It’s a song that maximizes their uniqueness.” (via Star News)
This is a relatively quick turnaround for a comeback (we’d much rather call it a followup), as SISTAR is still enjoying the view from the top of the music charts with their latest EP, Alone, which was released about two months ago. 
In contrast, it’s been nearly two years since “Hurricane Venus” and “Copy and Paste” from BoA’s last album Hurricane Venus, during which she was busy filming for her upcoming movie COBU 3D and judging reality music show K-Pop Star on behalf of SM Entertainment.  She was originally slated for an early June comeback, but opted to push the date back in favor of making the new album the best it could be.