BECOME A TRAINEE THROUGH KPOP SCHOOL PROGRAM

HINATA

Hinata, who was selected at the 12th Acopia Global Auction in Tokyo on October 5, 2019, has become a US media trainee through a second audition in Seoul. Hinata received a call from two entertainment companies, but she decided to sign a trainee contract with US media with a proven track record and tradition. Hinata's group is the 15-girl group DMZA, the largest multinational group in Korea. It is meeting from November 20, 2019. After several months of practice, Hinata will join the world tour as a member of a group of 15 people. Congratulations! Akopia supports Hinata!

IBUKI

Made in June 2019 The 7th (in Fukuoka) Through Acopia K-POP Global Audition (GA) A new K-POP trainee has been born! Acopia School student “Ibuki” has become a TS Entertainment trainee since August 2019 ! Come to play anytime! Everyone at Acopia really supports Ibuki! Congrats!

YUUKA

Yuuka Hasumi put high school in Japan on hold and flew to South Korea in February to try her chances at becoming a K-pop star, even if that means long hours of vocal and dance training, no privacy, no boyfriend, and even no phone.

Hasumi, 17, joined Acopia School in Seoul, a prep school offering young Japanese a shot at K-pop stardom, teaching them the dance moves, the songs and also the language.

She is one of an estimated one million other K-pop star wannabes, from South Korea and abroad, hoping to get a shot at super competitive auditions by major talent agencies that will take on just a select few as "trainees".

"It is tough," Hasumi said in Japanese, drenched in sweat from a dance lesson she attended with 15-year-old friend Yuho Wakamatsu, also from Japan.

The school also fixes auditions for its candidates with talent management companies that have been the driving force behind the "Korean-wave" pop culture that exploded onto the world stage in the past decade with acts such as global chart topping boy band BTS.

The influx of Japanese talent that is reshaping the K-pop industry comes at a time of increasingly bitter political acrimony between the two countries that has damaged diplomatic ties.