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]
@hitomi.
thanks :) hope you get a call back!
to Susyy:): i’m going on friday too!! maybe i’ll see you there :D i heard it’s going to rain tho…><
so if you dont make it, you won’t get anything? btw, you know how you get free posters if you audition, what poster did sm hand out this year?
felice: when u register u grab a SM Global Audition flyer and a booklet, the booklet has all their singers in it and a little info on them, (dont know if its ‘all’ dont know much about SM artist but the big ones like BoA), they also had posters on every wall of the building, one of them fell in the waiting room and a girl ran to pick it up, there was also a couple of posters behind the registration desk, but I don’t know were they giving them away, maybe if u ask u can get one
hitomi: cuz my friend said last year when she went they handed out posters. but is it okay if like i go dignity-less and rip the posters off of the wall? XD
I’m auditioning New York on Friday!!! :D just for fun though because I found out too late and i didn’t get a chance to prepare anything ;_; so excited ><
If you don’t pass the audition, do you still get an email?
@Julie
no, dont think so. they just leave u in the dark to suffer lol.
snoopy: lol. so you’re planning to go to LA right? for the weekly? in december i think, if i remember right.
man, what happened to belle, jaydy and cammy.
junior: if you ever visit this page again before your vancouver audit, best of luck to you!! if not, well, good luck anyway!
Felice: Ohh my other msg didn’t get through O__O but yeah I’m 14 too! No I didn’t register online because I was too late and ppl said that it takes about 10-12 to get the confirmation right? So I’ll just go there and sign up~ Did apply online and get confirmed? I’m just going to go early and try to get a spot somewhere~ JYP uhmm it depends if I don’t have too much homework load that day, I might go~ WHOOT AUDITIONS TOMORROW~!! >.^
felice: yup. care to join me?!?! i dont wanna be the only one there. when are u going?!? or are u putting a video up?
belle has lotsa school jaydy no idea, cammy also no idea. lol
Oh my goodness I woke up to my car getting broken into frick and the audition place is a city away just my luck
Sorry to hear that junior. Hope that you can still make the trip.
hey i am kinda new,just wanna ask a question,when you send your sm auditions through e-mail how long do they reply you?and you send to usaaudition@smtown.com right?thanks so much(:
to may: some say a few days to months. sm isn’t looking at email auditions right now because they’re busy with global auditions. everyone i’ve talked to/read threads/asked recently said no one got an automatic reply. you should try again in a few months. [:
OMG!!! i have a question….. if i go there, do i have to sing in Korean or in any language? because I’m Spanish but i would like to in KOrea…. can anybody answer me? please…
@Lita
You don’t have to sing Korean, you can just sing English. But I heard if you sing Korean, with the right pronunciation, you have an advantage. But I’m not sure whether that’s true or not because I’ve never auditioned.
to spring water:oh okay thanks for the info:D
I’m gonna miss you guys
Take care good luck in the future
Love
I just finished my Vancouver auditions!!
lol they played “Low” by Flo Rida feat T-Pain instead of Disturbia for us.
But i think they change it around because my friend, who was in the earlier group danced to Disturbia instead.