Idols who debuted older than average?

Irene

Kahi

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Solar and Irene both debuted in the same year and they're the same age, from what I know Park Bom debuted at a really "late" age as well

2NE1 Bom and Dara

Sojin of Girl's Day was 23 when she debuted which is on the older side

Sihyun of Spica was 26

Boa of Spica was 25

Narae and Jiwon of Spica was 24

Bohyung, the maknae, was 23

OnlyOneOf's Kyubin was 27 when he debuted. He's already done his military services and he's gonna reach his 30s this year.

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Just looked them up and they were both 25. Wow! I'm especially impressed by how well they did considering they didn't even become trainees until their twenties. So dramatically different from some of the debut ages we see in others

I really wish debuting at an ''older'' age would be normalized.We really out here calling people in their late 20s and early 30s old and it's just ridiculous lol

Also,I believe it's just much better to enter a harsh industry like this as a full-fledged adult.

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oh I was wondering if they were all older but it looks like there's a range, so the group will still have to deal with enlistments.

I've been really liking them recently

Yes. Nine, the maknae, is a 99-liner.

I like OOO a lot!

F(x) Victoria

It depends on how you want to look at it, but Kun was 23 when he made his debut in a permanent group. (Tbf, he first debuted in NCT when he was 20.) It seems like many male idols make their debut between 18-21. There are younger debuts, of course, but that seems like the average age..

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I really wish debuting at an ''older'' age would be normalized.We really out here calling people in their late 20s and early 30s old and it's just ridiculous lol

Also,I believe it's just much better to enter a harsh industry like this as a full-fledged adult.

I think the reason we will never see the debut age increase it's because it's easier to control teenagers than adults

Bomb,Dara,Girls'day Sojin, Barve girls the current line up debuted at relatively older age, Kahi, Victoria from F(x) she was 22 when the group made their debut compared to Kristal who was 14, Wanna one Jisung was 26 when he made he's debut and if I'm not wrong he was never part of a group before.

And many other idols that debuted at an relatively older age, i think entertainment companies should consider debuting older idols and thus for many reasons one of them is that the idols talent would more developed.

The ideal age form me to debut is between 20 and 24 but i think we're far from that ideal

Yoon Jisung - Wanna One (25?), he was really lucky, if he didn't debut in Wanna One I don't think he would debut at all.

Jieun - Purple Kiss (23)

Park Joon Hyung g.o.d (30) - Really successful case, I think he's the oldest idol to debut and the best example with Kahi.

eunbi of izone

and plenty of people have said irene

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What is the average age to debut? My faves seemed to be around 20 (with the youngest being 17 and the oldest 21 - same for both groups)

It seems to be 20 for me also. (I just did donkey math based on birth year without specifically looking at months)

EXO - avg age: 20 (this includes two members under 19)

NCT 127 - avg age: 20 (this includes two members under 19)

WayV - avg. age: 21 (if you subtract the members that previously debuted in NCT, the number is 20)

NCT Dream is of course the outlier.

Pink Fantady Yechan debuted at 23 years old and SeeA from the same group at 25. Aini who left the group debuted at 27.

When you realise that Day6 is younger than GOT7 by 1 year and are both from JYPE, but the entire Day6 is enlisted/enlisting soon and none of GOT7 is enlisting yet

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Damn! I just looked up Kahi and she debuted at 29!

well technically she debuted at 27 with a different group…. but didn’t last long.

even before that she was also a backup dancer for idols for many years.

if we’re counting when they debuted professionally then she was around 20…. cause her first entertainment profession was a dancer. she didn’t really want to become an idol until later on.

but as part of a group? 27 with a flop group and 29 with Aftee School.

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I think the age range of the Korean members of Got7 veers slightly younger than Day6. Jinyoung and Jay B should be going soon though.

Originally I think Young K/Wonpil were meant to debut in GOT7 or maybe debut in a normal idol group because they were trained in dancing as well

But because Sungjin was hopeless in dancing, they decided to make a band for him because they love Sungjin vocals so much, and added Young K + Wonpil + Junhyeok + Jae and were suppose to debut as an acoustic band 5Live. Then they added Dowoon as a drummer tadaaa Day6 was formed. This probably took longer than usual after GOT7 debut

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Damn! I just looked up Kahi and she debuted at 29!

I still got time for debut---- (jkjk these introverted creaky knees ain't gonna cut it on stage lmmaoooo)

Sandara and Park Bom

Winner members debuted at 20, 21, 22 and 23. As a group that's older than average.

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Right? Lol I actually could get behind the idea of an older group who did less intense choreo and focused on amazing vocals

OH WAIT IMAGINE A MALE GROUP DEBUTTING WITH GUYS LIKE RAIN

Songsun of TRI.BE is a good example. She officially debuted in February 2021, right before turning 24yo, and is nine years older than the group's maknae. She waited so long for a chance to debut that she gave up in 2020 and left the agency. After a month of rest at home, she figured there was nothing else she could or wanted to do, so she contacted back the agency and was reinstated.

read her story there:

Road to the Stage

Her sweet and twenty was unwelcome

original.donga.com

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Jyp really wanted some numbers in his group names back then I guess lol

Have young k and wonpil ever put their dance skills to use since? I wonder how they felt to get made into a band instead of the bg that were expecting.

I mean .....

Young K is also the 6th member of ITZY

Then there is this mess