So I was reading about Cortis’s members Keonho and Seonghyeon (two members arguably most popular in Korea and China) casting stories with BigHit, and it was shocking to see BigHit casts them so young and without even knowing their talents first. For Keonho, he was in third grade of elementary school (~ 9 years old) when BigHit staffs saw him at a bus stop after he had finished swimming practice. They asked him if he knew BTS and gave him their contact card. Since he was at that time focused on becoming an athlete, he didn’t know if he wanted to join, but both his mother and sister were very excited, and for the next three years, BigHit continued contacting and persuading him, his mother and sister taking him to dance/music lessons too to help him prepare, and finally he joined Bighit at the start of middle school. For Seonghyeon, when he was 10 years old, he went to Lotte World and a BigHit staff saw him and asked him to join the company; 2 years later, he and his family moved to Seoul for trainee life. I find it hard to understand why companies need to cast idols so young? They wouldn’t debut until 17/18 years old so why don’t they just wait until the idols are in high school to cast them? And it seems the parents are very willing to let their kids train early too.
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