TV / Radio Produce 48 (2018/06/15 - 2018/08/31)

i think she spent a lot of time learning korean. even back in december/january she posted a lot of korean related stuff on her social media account so i had a sneaking suspicion she would join the show

 

Saho’s Korean pronounciation is also very good. Both Saho and Mako (and everyone else too) can’t pronounce the ㅇ (ng) sound tho. It’s common amongst Japanese idols in Korea tho I guess since none of TWICE’s J-line can pronounce it properly either.

I was never really interested in her until the PR vid so it surprised me lol I thought maybe she was a secret k-pop fan or something. I don’t know about fluency (although her PR vid was very good) but at this point her pronounciation is better than Myao’s

 

not only mako, but also myao, her Korean is really good

 

looks like 48g members are back in korea again. fancams of sakura at the gimpo airport

 

Do these fans have no work or studies to focus on?

 

Mina's Korean pronunciation is quite decent too.

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Fansites are fulltime jobs. They'll sell merchandises from those photos later on.

 

True, Kojimako had me shook with her almost perfect pronounciation, she almost sounds like a native. I know Myao has been studying Korean for the past couple of years but I could still hear an accent.

Fansites earn actually, they make PBs, collectables and other merchandices with the pictures they’ve taken. Kpop doesn’t really have official PBs like in Jpop, that’s the closest we can get to getting one.

 

If I may add, while she doesn't have a perfect pronunciation, I would like to mention Takeuchi Miyu for her commendable effort too. Even during her wink video, when she was saying "one more time" and "it's hard" she said it all in Korean without hesitation or thinking twice. She must have been studying a lot too.

Link here for those who haven't seen it:


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Sorry to bring up the discussion again but are the new Wink videos a reveal of ranks too?

Like for example, Erii is wearing a Orange shirt, which im assuming is A class for this season. And some members can be seen in grey, yellow, green and pink shirts. All of which are linked to the relevent classes. The shirts are also different to what some of the members wore in the their photoshoots. Like for example, Jurina wore a blue shirt in the photos, but in the wink video, she can be seen wearing grey.

Just wanted to put it forward to generate discussion

 

1) there's no reason they'd "reveal" the rank on their officially released videos
2) even if they did there's no way to know for sure until it airs which is coincidentally the same time you'd have found out even if you didn't have any """hints"""
3) even if we somehow managed to find out the ranks beforehand the information still does not have any value whatsoever on its own
3a) knowing that Sakura is the center lead to nowhere but "wow, we have to watch the show to find out why is that!"

 

this was posted on that other board but i thought it would be cool to share it here. this was kaeun (the korean center) from a while back on a japanese show (which has umeda ayaka as a guest, coincidentally). apparently she can speak japanese so i'm pretty sure she's had some conversations with the 48g members during the p48 meet ups. her eye smile is ridiculously cute


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A lot of these fansites are rich themselves & or make good money out of this. You'd be surprised how some of the fansites only doing this bc of the money & rather feeling whatever to the idols they follow. Also some of the fansites are run by more than one people & often buy data (pictures & videos) from other fansites & or people that went to the said event. It's a nice business all in all.

 

Sadly, its the truth. Master-nim (fansite owner) collects money from selling fangoods to fans (which is kinda illegal because it breaks piracy law -but SK's piracy law is less strict compared to Japan's), then uses it to buy expensive gift, produce fangoods, or maintain her activity. Thats why when her former group begin unpopular, the master-nim moves to younger, popular group to gain more money from impulsive fans. But I think female idol's master-nim is less "crazier" than male idol's.

Also, not all of master-nim are Koreans. There's Chinese master-nim who moved to SK just for chasing their favorite, and they rely of money they collected from fan (yeah, basically they're unemployed).

 

i think someone already post it here, and somehow @/OH_mes
posted it, that account is a reliable source of kpop related news. i feel somehow this is legit.

Spoiler

Rumored Produce 48 Cover Mission Songs + Team Distribution
GFRIEND - Rough vs. T-ara - Roly Poly
Lovelyz - Candy Jelly Love vs. KARA - Pretty Girl
After School - Diva vs. SISTAR - So Cool
Britney Spears - Toxic vs. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

 

If true, there is an anomaly.
Amane is supposed to have quit before they recorded the Nekkoya performance, but she is listed.
So I won't take this list as what really happened.

 

Only 1/3 of the members on the rumored list are Japanese, seems kinda unfair to me.
But, oh well, I am biased anways, so what do I know?

 

Anyone else noticed how most teams competing against each other have reverse nationalities for center and leader? For example, team 1 has Japanese center and Korean leader, and team 2 has Korean center and Japanese leader. I wonder if this could affect people's votes somehow.

 

^^^ I don't think young people who will vote will care about the nationality of the members, if I remember well it's the crowd who came to the performance that gets to vote during the battles.

Toxic is one of my favourite songs so I'm so happy, Produce 48 is truly a gay only event

Kpop agencies are like vocaloid compagnies, they don't really care about fans selling stuffs as long as it's not on a big scale probably because they understand that it can help promoting the group & satisfy the fans. Also it's better to not anger fansite masters...