What happens to school when you become a kpop trainee?

The trainee process lasts for an indefinite period of time, ranging from months to years, and usually involves vocal, dance, and language classes taken while living together with other trainees, who sometimes attend school at the same time, although some trainees drop out of school to focus on their careers.

Do SM trainees go to school?

Do you pay to be a trainee, or do you get paid? Most SM Entertainment trainees attend one of two private schools: School of Performing Arts Seoul (pictured) or Hanlim Multi Art School. “X” had already graduated high school before becoming a trainee, but the company paid for her Korean language classes.

Can a Kpop trainees go to university?

Most trainees don’t. The only situation the trainee would go to university is if they were already a university student in Seoul when they were accepted into the company. Most trainees usually graduate up to high school because most of them were accepted into the company before they graduated.

Where do K-Pop trainees stay?

Actually you are on your own and most commute from home. After all, most of K-Pop trainees are age 10 or less when they sign up and begin training, and 10 year olds do not stay in “dorms”. Only when you are 6 months away from your debut then you move into a dorm for a finish up intensive training.

Does SM pay their trainees?

The notable exception to this are groups from the “Big 3” companies – SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment. Trainees under these three companies get paid as soon as they debut and generally do not face trainee debt at all, unless they leave before completion of their contracts.

How does SM train their trainees?

Once school is over for the trainees who go to school, we come back to train around 2~3pm depending on when your school lets out. From then, you train in all areas. Everyone takes dance, some form of vocal training (singing or rapping), and then other classes like etiquette and language classes.

Do SM trainees live in dorms?

Normal trainees (as in non-survival show/elimination show trainees) don’t receive dorms at any company that I know of. Trainees are to provide themselves housing. Even when you need to travel to Korea, they don’t pay for your plane ticket for your second audition.

How many trainees does SM have?

SM has about 60 trainees because they like to take on bigger projects, like debuting SuperM or NCT. And that, costs a LOT of money. Each company has their own amount of trainees. Usually because of the number of members for group projects or how big/small The agency is.

Why work for SM Entertainment?

SM Entertainment makes an effort to return and distribute profits to members that have displayed high performance and achievement levels. SM Entertainment pursues a horizontal, open-minded, and open organizational culture.

Does it matter if you don’t know how to train in SM?

No, it doesn’t matter if you know or not. 13. If you get accepted and you fly to Korea to become a trainee but during training you’re just not improving in anything, will they kick you out the company? You might get cut from SM but they might introduce you to a different company.

Are there any Indian trainees in SM Entertainment?

As far as I know, there haven’t been any Indian trainees in SM, or any Korean agency, for that matter.

Do trainees have to hide their identity in SM?

They don’t, but if you do, you will have to hide it very very well. 23. How many trainees are there in SM? There are about 60+ trainees in SM. 24. Do trainees still go school?

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