YS Trainee??

Hey everyone!

I've gotten some questions after the post listing the 8th generation girls, mainly two:
What's a YS trainee?
Isn't the ace of the generation usually determined with the release of the names, and why haven't they debuted on stage yet?

I will address both of them, focusing mainly on the first one as I'll explain the second in a separate post. What's a YS trainee? First, of all, the name of our company is YS Entertainment. We're not just a large group of girls who randomly met with the same goal of becoming an idol and decided to create our own group called SERA00, and then create a complex system of stages, teams, auditions, elections, etc. All of this was envisioned and then brought to life by YS Entertainment. The company has a couple branches, with the first one established in Taiwan. YS Taiwan houses artists such as Huang Yu Yan, Tem:po, DRE4M, and ECTI. Then we have YS Canada, better known as the beginning of the Infinity Project, under which SERA00 and CASUT00 were born. CASUT00's sisters in CASU-J are managed under YS Japan, which also manages Dolce.

You might have remembered, around October last year I told you guys that YS was creating a new group in Korea? If you're wondering why you haven't heard of them it's because they don't exactly exist yet - YS Entertainment decided to hold off the establishment of YS Korea to focus on other stuff. As of now, there have been talks but nothing has been established.

Okay, so it's pretty obvious how to audition for SERA00 - as a rotational group, we hold auditions every year. However, the other idol groups are not rotational, so if you end up being in one of those, you'd be debuting not in an existing, but new group. How? You can audition directly for the company through any of the auditions held by all the branches. If you pass these auditions you become a general YS trainee, which means that if you debut, you won't necessarily debut under the branch you auditioned for.

Which is exactly Sayoung's case. She's from Korea, but auditioned for YS Taiwan, got accepted and trained as a YS trainee and is set to debut in SERA00 under YS Canada.

Hope that helps explain the situation a bit! Please support SERA00!