Kep1er contract is 2.5 years long

I think I don't see success in girls at least not at the top or average level. maybe intermediate level

Xioting is possible but he will have a career in China, Hikaru has a star factor but not enough. hiyyih and yujin individual fandoms are big but their hobby is just protesting lol

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I won't be surprised if the whole 'let's renew' is just a media-play to make sure that fans will go and buy one more album in first half of 2024

we need to remember that WAKEONE will manage I-LAND 2 group and this survival show starts in april

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[Rumor] I-LAND 2 premieres 19th April, 55 trainees, Yena & Sihyeon as mentors, multiple music producers, well known coaches

Wrap up of rumors about I-LAND 2

Premiere date: 19th April 2024
Broadcast time: 8:30 PM KST
Number of episodes: 12
Episode length: About 2 hours
Number of trainees: 55
Number of final group members: TBD (selected via fan voting 8 out of 12) - here not sure if it's 12 members, or if there will be 8 fan voting rounds in 12 eps
Debut group name: Trademarks are registered for 5 names, and the winning name will be selected via fan voting
Master Producer: Teddy
Producers: Kush, Zion T
MC: Jinyoung
Vocal mentors…

bartkun

Jan 2nd 2024

altough there is a chance that actually WAKEONE wants to expand and focus on managing more groups this way, without the whole process of of having big group of trainees under their roof that they would need to train, feed, and house for years

this is simpler way especially if we consider that wakeone is CJ ENM subsidiary and after all CJ owns MNet

so they are paying and creating that survival show to later gain money

this is why Wakeone will probably have their own very small limited number of trainees in I-LAND 2, maybe 3-4 of them hoping for another Chaehyun

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kep1er has no hope

whether they are or not iland2 will still run

with the name teddy? Of course that will make GP curious. and even rumors of Somi as MC

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Somi as MC would be worst thing happening to this

as much as she is good Idol her MCing MAMA was flat boring, and cringe

also MNet girl group survivals always have male MC

B1A4 Jinyoung fits trend of person which has experience in both Idol and acting worlds

If it's a male idol I hope for a bigger name or a bigger actor because really if the idols fail it would be embarrassing. because run2you has failed, kep1er didn't succeed well let alone survive SBS lol. SBS survival is even lower than failure. so I hope this works. if not just close the women's survival show

Fan made, but it would be nice if it was real