The 10th Member [Stray Kids]

Stray Kids

Monthly evaluation was near and picked trainees who formed teams were going to have a chance to debut. Their Pd-nim, Park Jinyoung, had said that he's going to pick which group to debut next, he was going to pick between a girl group, Female 2TEAM and a boy group, still unnamed.

During the rehearsals the female group went first, which made the  male project group nervous.

"The feeling when we saw Female 2TEAM was like, they had really good teamwork, and they sing well too..."

"More than our team, they showed something. They seem to show more of individual parts." 

They had shown popular members such as Chaeryoung, who joined Sixteen along with the members of twice and some other trainees, Ryujin, who was shown in BTS' Highlight Reel along with Yeonhee, and Yeji, who was popular for being talented in dancing.

It was now time for the Male Project Team's Rehearsal. While the others were nervous, the two youngest members goofed off in order to lose some tension before performing on stage. "Next, the Male Project Team" a staff called out for them to step on stage. Not a planned training team, but got together by themselves, 9 male and 1 female trainee- it was odd, a female joining an all male group?

"Hello, we are Boys Project Team." they introduced, not really synchronized with each other. The staff had asked what was the order of them training in JYP which was in the order of Chan, being a trainee for 7 years who is also the leader of the Project Team.

"When I made the team, I had 3RACHA as the basis, me, Jisung, and Changbin, the three of us started it." Chan explained. 3RACHA was a three membered group who was active first and had released a variety of self-composed mixtape and has already received acknowledgement online.

Jisung introduced himself and explained his type of rap while also showing his special skills of impersonating Doraemon. After him was the last member of 3RACHA, Changbin, also explaining his rap style which is dark and gloomy type of rap that he says fits him best."

After that, they had introduced the dance position members. Their introduction started with Minho, the oldest member in the dance team, he had explained his experience in dancing and had become a backup dancer for BTS' world tour. The next member introduced was Felix, a member from Australia and explained how he couldn't really speak Korean at first and that even though its hard, he likes it a lot. And lastly, Hyunjin, the dance team's visual boss, he's a popular trainee because of his visuals. 

They had introduced the vocal positions last. They started the introductions with Woojin, the main vocalist of the team, he had talked about how he was an SM trainee before coming to JYP. He said that his friends that he trained with mostly debuted as NCT. The next member was Jeongin, the male maknae of the group, he talked about his specialty, which is trot. The third one is Seungmin, who placed 2nd in JYP's 13th recruitment audition

After that it went back to Chan being interviewed again about the Team's last member. "Why did you dd a female in your group?" the staff asked him. "I believe that she's someone that fits in well in our team, and I really wanted her to join us. We all talked about her joining and we all agreed that we really want to debut with her." Chan explained. 

"Hello, I'm a 2-year trainee, the only female, and maknae of the group, my name is Kang Yeonhee. I'm in charge mostly in singing, but I also help in dancing and rapping.

"So you're okay with being in a boy group?"

"Yes, I'm fairly close to them, and I'm comfortable with them"

"You also had activities in acting?"

"Yes, I was on BTS' Love Yourself along with Ryujin unnie"