MGM Television Teams With Korea’s SM Entertainment for U.S. K-Pop Competition Show - Hollywood Reporter

May 06, 2021

The series will scout young American men to form a new group, NCT-Hollywood.

In the latest business deal to underscore the globalization of K-pop, MGM Worldwide Television Group is partnering with Korea’s SM Entertainment to develop a competition series to scout young American men to form a U.S.-based K-pop group.

Plenty of K-pop artists have hailed from different nationalities and Asian ethnicities (NCT includes members who are Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean American and Korean Canadian), and competition shows to form new groups are a fixture of Korean television

However, a series produced in collaboration with an American company to form a U.S.-based K-pop group would be a first; in February, BTS’ company Big Hit Entertainment (now known as HYBE) announced a strategic partnership with Universal Music Group to do the same thing