Pre-debut


After the success of SM Entertainment's boy band, Super Junior, the company planned to debut a new girl group, which would ultimately turn into Girls' Generation, featuring a start-up roster of 11 members. For nearly two years, Korean websites speculated about which of the female SM Entertainment trainees would be placed into the group. The candidate members were professionally trained primarily in Singing and dancing, while some were also selected to be trained in Berlakon and modeling. Many of the candidate members had already made names for themselves in the Korean entertainment...