Korean pop star BoA and her agency SM Entertainment held the Best of Asia, Bring on America press conference at Seoul Imperial Palace Hotel on September 10 to officially announce her US debut.
BoA will first release her music video for “Eat You Up” (teaser below) on October 7 before releasing it as a digital single a week later. She will then release her single album on November 11 and is scheduled for a full album in early 2009.
SM Entertainment, the Korean talent agency that boost the likes of BoA, Kangta, TVXQ, Super Junior, SNSD, Ara and Lee Yeon-hee etc. will be holding the “08 SM Entertainment Global Audition” in Sept/Oct 2008.
The auditions will be held from September 19 to October 25 in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Orange County (CA), New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver. Nationality doesn’t matters, but it seems like they are looking for Asian faces only.
It’s funny that SM is calling it a ‘global’ audition when in fact the locations are limited to US and Canada. Regardless, it’s a chance for young Asian talents to try their luck if they are interested with the entertainment business.
Set aside the publicity purpose, SM do mean business with the auditions. If not mistaken Tiffany from SNSD and Henry from Suju-M were discovered from previous auditions… there might be a few more that I’m not aware of.
Make sure you register by email before going to the audition, check SM’s website for details and updates. Good luck if there is any taker here.
