The British boy band hoping to kickstart their K-pop career for the new BBC series, Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience, has been named.
The series will follow ‘Dear Alice’, a band made up of five performers, all aged 19 to 23 and from diverse backgrounds, while BBC Radio 1 DJ Vick Hope will narrate their path to the global stage.
“I’m really looking forward to being a part of the show,” says Hope, “it’s a fresh way to bring along a brand-new boyband, and I’m excited to see their journey.”
Blaise Noon, a former BRIT School student from London, is the youngest member of the band at 19 years old. A fellow Londoner in Dexter Greenwood (22 years old) is joining him, having just completed a three-year performing arts diploma in Musical Theatre.
23-year-old TikToker James Sharp (one half of the Sharp Twins, who boast 5.5 million followers) is heading to South Korea from Huddersfield. While Olly Quinn (20 years old), a childhood chorister and recent graduate in musical theatre, hails from Sunderland.
Rounding off the band is Reese Carter, aged 20 from Wiltshire, who has left behind his job as a cruise ship performer in pursuit of his dreams.
Together they’ll be flown out to South Korea and put through their paces at K-pop talent factory SM Entertainment, led by some of the world’s greatest choreographers, best songwriters and most revered tutors.
The events of the 100 day boot camp will be spread across a six part series. Each week, the band’s progress will be critiqued by K-pop sage Hee Jun Yoon, who has fostered some of the biggest K-pop bands of the last 20 years.
Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience will air later this month on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.
