{"id":1676,"date":"2016-02-04T22:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/04\/searching-for-the-next-k-pop-superstar-at-jjccs-sydney-auditions\/"},"modified":"2016-02-04T22:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:33:47","slug":"searching-for-the-next-k-pop-superstar-at-jjccs-sydney-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/04\/searching-for-the-next-k-pop-superstar-at-jjccs-sydney-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for the next K-pop superstar at JJCC's Sydney auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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K-pop, the music genre originating in South Korea, has been growing rapidly in popularity around the world. K-pop bands are increasingly selling out shows in countries outside Asia \u2014 and K-pop idols JJCC arrived in Sydney Thursday to play their first two shows in the country on Friday and Saturday nights.<\/p>\n

JJCC, a band created by Chinese actor Jackie Chan and his company, Jackie Chan Group Korea, also had a special treat for their Australian fans: the chance to audition to become a K-pop star.<\/p>\n

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See also: ‘One meal a day’: JJCC on what it takes to reach K-pop stardom<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

JJCC were present at the closed auditions at a dance studio in downtown Sydney ThursdayMashable Australia<\/em> went along and spoke with band member Prince Mak about the process, as well as some of the hopefuls searching for K-pop super stardom Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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K-pop, the music genre originating in South Korea, has been growing rapidly in popularity around the world. K-pop bands are increasingly selling out shows in countries outside Asia \u2014 and K-pop idols JJCC arrived in Sydney Thursday to play their … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1298,728,739,1119,800],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-asia","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-korea","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}