Season 1 • Episode 17
LatestOn Mix Nine, YG Entertainment’s Yang Hyun Suk will visit management agencies across Korea to look for idol wannabes with potential and help them become a star. 400 trainees will be on the show, and for the final stage of the competition, nine male and nine female trainees will get to compete. They will be competing against each other as a boy group and a girl group, and the winning team will win the name of “Mix Nine”. Unlike most idol survival programs which makes the contestants compete from the very first episode, Mix Nine will start with the stage in which the staff picks the contestants. The first half of the show will be “Enter Tour Step” and the second half “Competition Step”.
Production
YG's auditions across 70 agencies uncovered genuine hidden talent.
Direction
Han Dong-Chul's editing maximized emotional manipulation and drama.
Creator
Han Dong-Chul
Yang Hyun-suk
Self - Judge
Kim min seok
Self - Contestant
Shin Jun-seop
Self - Contestant
Lee Soo-jin
Self - Contestant
Ryujin
Self - Contestant
HeeJin
Self - Contestant
HyunJin
Self - Contestant
Hongjoong
Self - Contestant
Mingi
Self - Contestant
Wooyoung
Self - Contestant
Jongho
Contestant
Lee Byoung-gon
Self - Contestant
Kim Min-ji
Self - Contestant
Kim Yoo-hyeon
Self - Contestant
Lee Si-yeon
Self - Contestant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show exposed the 'trainee glut' crisis—thousands of idols-in-waiting for vanishingly few slots.
LOONA's HeeJin and ITZY's Ryujin both competed; the latter's elimination directly led to her JYP audition.
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