SM Entertainment, one of Korea’s largest talent management agencies, is kicking off its 09′ global audition on February 14th in its home ground, with plans to extend the audition to China, Japan, South East Asia, Canada and USA etc.
SM is looking for various talents in singing, acting, dancing, modelling etc. It’s said that all Asians are welcome regardless of nationality and age… but I doubt they would want a 40-year-old veteran lol.
[update] USA & Canada audition announced; no news on other places.
Nov 15 – Wilshire Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles
Nov 22 – Toronto Korean Center, Toronto
Nov 22 – Executive Plaza Hotel, Vancouver
Nov 27/28 – Korea Village, New York
Refer to SM Entertainment’s official website for more details. Also check out JYPE audition and Avex audition which are running in Oct/Nov in US and Canada.
1. Singer – prepare 1 or 2 songs which you can sing without accompaniment. Please make sure that you are confident in your song selection and that the song fits best to your voice.
2. Dancer – Free Style Dancing, CD to be submitted to the reception desk on the audition date by the applicant. (If you do not bring any CD for dance, random music will be played.)
3. Actor – Impromptu Acting, memorized monologue to be prepared by applicant.
4. Model – Free posing. (5 or more)
5. Producer/Composer (Writer) – Producer/Composer (Writer) Demo CD or written music to be brought by the applicant.
[hat tip to junior]
to hitomi: aww i’m sure you did well nonetheless! :D ahh i’m nervous..i’m not really sure how to get to my audition place :/
Spring Water: They played the Rihanna song from the beginning.
The judges were pretty nice for the groups I saw. Before the freestyle dancing, they gave advice about dancing in front of the camera, but I already forgot what thye said -_-.
OMG!!!! THIS MAKE ME SO NERVOUS FOR MY AUDITION OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD ITS SO SCARY!!!! i really wish i could see some people audition tapes so i know what im up against. omg so scared!!!! -_-. hope u get in yet at the same time hope u dont lol. nah jks best of luck in getting in.
I sent an audition resume a week ago, everyday i would check my mails but until now i still have no reply so i was wondering if they rejected me or mayb i sent it to the wrong email?
@kim
I haven’t sent in my audition yet. When you compress the video, doesn’t the size of the file stay the same?
Also, with the email question, people told me to send it to usaaudition@smtown.com because the 2009sm@smtown.com is just an email to apply for the audition.
The judges were f***** RACIST! That’s all I have to say about that.
lol first of all are you white?? second of all how are they racist??
to pixel: oic..thanks [: were the judges korean?
to SnoopyXD: No. I am not white, I am not Korean either. I am ASIAN and I auditioned for modeling. My batch was like the last 5 to go in the audition room. While we were waiting inside the audition room for our turn, we were seated at the side of the room. There was this one korean girl (very pretty btw) she auditioned for modeling as well, since I didn’t come prepared I paid very close attention to what the judges asked her to do. So first they asked her to do 5 poses in front of the camera, mind you the camera person even stood up and when in front of her. After that, they asked her to walked back and forth and they turned the music on for her and she did like 10 poses AGAIN. And then they asked her to introduce herself to the camera w/c they didn’t do to any of the auditioners in her group. So, while watching I was already thinking of what to say to the camera since I thought I will be going through the same process. She was the only one who did modeling in her group the rest did singing. When it was our turn, 2 people were before me and they sang. My friend was standing on my right side and she auditioned for modeling as well. She’s non Korean as well but an ASIAN. She’s been practicing “walking” so I thought to myself there won’t be a problem but when she got to the front of the judges they were like do 5 poses and we’ll count for you. Like literally everyone in our group looked at each other and were confused. It’s not like we witnesses them treating the other girl in the previous group “specially”. So I was next they asked me to do the same thing, 3 people did modeling in our group but none of us were asked to introduce ourselves nor walk. I just wished they treated everybody equally, it’s like saying you’re not good enough so let’s not waste time.
to Anonymous:are you filipino?
no I’m Thai, why d’you asked? Did you go to the audition as well?
It’s an audition anon… off course they’ll spend more time on people that they think would have a chance, and on contrary less time to those they don’t think would make it. Don’t try to make a simple fact into racist issue.
to Anonymous:no but i wanted to go next summer because i`m from swiss and we go in summer holiday to canada
i`m from asien too but sri-lanka but i`m not dark many peoples mistakes me for thai
sry i wrote too much to your Questions
Do you guys remember the last person in your group, the 10th person, did they make them do their stuff in the center of the room, or do it from where they are standing?
hitomi: It depends what they’re auditioning for. Like in my group the last person to go rapped so she just where she was but the group before us, the last person modeled so she was asked to go to the center and did her stuff.
Did anybody auditioned for modeling? If so, what did they asked you to do?
what should i wear to the audition? :o
Anonymous: what number were you? And i also did modeling and they asked for 5 poses, and are u freaking serous they asked a girl to do extra stuff? They ASKED her to do it or did she do it alone?
to julie..
the sound quality is the same.. but the imagine is a bit lousy then the original..but still yah.. it’s ok.. oh yah! i send to the smtown@smtown.com too.. -.- okay! thank i better resend then . where are u planning to compress then .?? i dun no where to tho..
@ julie.
sorry.. wrong email.. i got the right email usaaudition@smtown.com**.. what are u audition for??
hitomi: I was in the 300’s and YESSSS, the judges asked her to do 10 poses and she walked around the room they even asked the other people in her group to make room for her like literally you know how people were standing against the wall they asked them to move to the corner so she’ll have a solid background.