Kakao's new music show to make virtual K-pop group - 코리아타임스

By Lee Gyu-lee

A poster for the caller euphony endurance amusement "GIRL'S RE:VERSE" / Courtesy of Kakao Entertainment

Virtual world nether the bigger conception of the metaverse has been the latest inclination crossed industries, making its mode into amusement arsenic well.

Kakao Entertainment's upcoming euphony endurance amusement "GIRL'S RE:VERSE" is intended to bring unneurotic the conception of immersive, virtual world with K-pop artists.

The caller show, acceptable to premiere connected Nov. 28, volition invitation 30 singers from antithetic K-pop miss groups to vie with each different to marque it to the apical 5 and debut arsenic a radical done virtual reality. The participants volition fell their real-life identities passim the contention and amusement disconnected their show skills and talents done virtual avatars.

Singer Bada, choreographer Aiki and TV personalities Boom and Pengsoo volition big the show.

The amusement is co-produced by Cho Wook-hyung, whose erstwhile enactment includes "Infinite Challenge," and Park Jin-kyung, who led "Dunia: Into a New World" and "My Little Television."

"Virtual avatars person been getting much attraction astir the world, and successful countries similar Japan, determination are already virtual singers that perform," Park said done the show's accumulation company.

"We wanted to bring retired the synergy by integrating the fantabulous vocal and creation talents of K-pop artists with virtual characters."

Park added that due to the fact that the amusement runs connected the still-unfamiliar conception of virtual reality, helium chose the endurance format, which is acquainted for euphony shows.

Cho gave a sneak peek of the show, saying the participants' performances volition astonishment viewers.

"The miss radical singers started retired lighthearted to enjoy. But arsenic clip passes, their tendency to marque it into the virtual radical becomes stronger," helium said. "As they didn't person galore chances to amusement disconnected their idiosyncratic talents oregon personalities due to the fact that of the radical activities, the participants are truly demonstrating a large endowment (through the show)."

The producers shared that the unsocial quality of each subordinate volition beryllium the cardinal origin that volition marque the amusement interesting.

"All 30 participants named their characters and created a backstory for themselves. The characters bespeak portion of their existent identity. But they are besides enjoying the process arsenic if they are successful a role-playing game," Park said. "So it would beryllium absorbing for the viewers to travel on these factors successful the show."

Cho added, "The characters scope from a miss from Busan, different from an iceberg and different coming from different satellite to instrumentality implicit the Earth. All of the girls person their ain communicative and characters which are each interesting."

"GIRL'S RE:VERSE" volition premiere astatine 7 p.m. connected Nov. 28 done KakaoPage and YouTube, and volition merchandise caller episodes each Monday astatine 9 p.m.