Pre-debut
After the success of S.M. 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.[12] 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 唱歌 and dancing, while some were also selected to be trained in 表演 and modeling. Many of the candidate members had already made names for themselves in the Korean entertainment...
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