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Chapter 341 These two little girls are here?

Zhang Junfeng looked around with some curiosity at the young people who had signed up for the trainee selection competition, and found that these boys and girls were generally several years younger than last year's contestants.

If he was not mistaken, there were even a few teenagers who were only 11 or 12 years old. He didn't know if it was because the company lowered the age limit for the trainee selection competition this year that led to such a special scene.

Of course, Zhang Junfeng himself is not against this. After all, young people in their student period have stronger learning and acceptance abilities. Let them receive a few years of professional training, and when they debut, they will definitely be the ones with the best comprehensive abilities on the stage!

If he remembered correctly, Jessica Jung, who later became a member of Girls' Generation, was a trainee at SM Entertainment for 7.5 years and suffered a lot.

But it is undeniable that when it comes to singing and dancing on stage, Jessica Jung, who has been a trainee for a longer time, is definitely the best in the group. However, at that time, in order to ensure the success rate of trainees' debut, the top management of SM Entertainment Company had completely leaned towards group debuts and rarely launched solo singers!
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"...Wait, if I remember correctly, Girls' Generation should have officially debuted in 2007. Does that mean that Jessica Jung should have joined SM Entertainment within the next two years? Could this girl have participated in this audition?"

Zhang Junfeng thought about it and quickly figured out the key point. In the current Korean entertainment industry, SM Entertainment is naturally the largest platform for cultivating singers and artists. Those young people who dream of becoming stars want to find a platform to debut, and the first place they will consider is SM Entertainment.

After all, the salary offered by SM Entertainment is indeed generous, far beyond the reach of other entertainment companies.

Feeling more and more that his guess was very likely to be true, Zhang Junfeng then whispered to Li Xiuman beside him, "President Li, bring the registration materials for the trainee selection competition over later. I'll take a look first."

"... President, do you want to see those materials? But there are thousands of people who have registered here. Even if a quarter of the people will be eliminated in the first round of preliminary selection, there will still be hundreds of registration forms. Will you..."

Li Xiu was stunned when he heard Zhang Junfeng's instructions. In his opinion, with so much information, even if all the staff members worked together, it would take more than 20 minutes to review it. And Zhang Junfeng was alone, how could he finish reading it all? !
"...Yes, there is so much information that we don't have enough time to read it all... Ask someone to bring the list of registered candidates for the trials so I can take a look first." Zhang Junfeng suddenly had an idea.

According to the previous process of promoting the trainee selection competition in advance and allowing contestants who are willing to participate to register in advance, SM Entertainment must have a list of all the participating candidates.

He only needed to take a quick look, circle those people whose names overlapped with those of the stars who became popular after their debut in his previous life, and then collect their information to confirm. Seeing that Zhang Junfeng insisted on doing this, Li Xiuman nodded, stood up and walked towards the area where the company staff were.

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However, as the contestants began to perform one by one, the judges and guests had different expressions on their faces. After all, there were many outstanding performances, and these boys and girls who had not received any special training looked quite immature in both dancing and singing. Occasionally, there were one or two who performed well, but the judges did not give them high scores.

This made many teenagers who had not yet performed on stage feel pressured. They came here because they naturally did not want to be buried among the contestants and have no chance to stand out. However, these teenagers did not have many talents. Although some of them could sing and do street dance, most of them were not specialized. After all, compared with the debut singers who had just performed on stage, their performance was not even a little bit worse.

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In the guest area, the representatives from Avex Music Company were inspired. Although most of the contestants who came on stage had average performance ability, the number of participants was really large, and among the dozens of people, there were always one or two people who performed relatively well.

According to the information they had received before, SM Entertainment only recruited 8 trainees this year! In other words, the proportion of trainees selected to become trainees of SM Entertainment has reached an extremely terrifying 0.8%, less than 1%!
The contestants who are successfully selected as trainees have better innate conditions than those who are eliminated. Coupled with professional training, they can imagine how terrifying the trainees who debut from SM Entertainment will be!
Even singers signed and trained by Avex Music may not be able to compete with such opponents! I really envy this arrogant SM Entertainment company that can cast a wide net and catch the best seedlings directly!
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"Hey, there are really familiar people here!" Zhang Junfeng quickly flipped through the 5-6 page list. After spending several minutes, he finally found two familiar names among the huge number of names - Jessica Jung and Kwon Bo-ah!
Many people may not be familiar with Kwon BoA, but she was given the stage name "BoA" when she debuted. It can be said that she had super high popularity and influence from 2000 to 2016. She can also be said to be the most successful solo female singer launched by SM Entertainment in its previous life!
But this girl should be less than 13 years old now, right? In her previous life, her parents did not support her to become a trainee in an entertainment company and a singer in the future. It was only under the "instigation" and deception of her brother that she followed along to SM Entertainment to sign up for the trainee selection.

"So...was this girl also tricked by her brother to come here today?" Zhang Junfeng couldn't help but think of a bit of nurturing evil when he thought of this. These two little girls, one is 12 years old, and the other is only 9 years old, they are definitely the perfect age to be pampered!

As long as he lets them receive professional knowledge and skills training as trainees, takes care of their emotions, gives them certain amounts of care and snacks, he will be the most caring Oppa!
Moreover, Jessica Jung has a lot of little thoughts when she grows up. No one knows what she was thinking when she decided to quit Girls' Generation at the peak of their career to pursue her own career. In the end, she was deceived by a little-known entertainment industry scammer Quan Ningyi. In the end, she was left with nothing and remained silent for many years before she had a second spring in her career in Dragon Country.

(End of this chapter)