Requirements

Age Limit

Singers - You must be born on 1988 or younger.
Actors/Actresses - You must be born on 1980 or younger.
Producer (composer) – No age limit.

The reason to have an age limit is because once you become a YG trainee you will be possibly training for 3-5 years until your debut and by that time you’ll be older, lol. That and I guess he just wants to create a new group idol for the young audiences.

Needs

Singers - personal profile, photos, dancing/singing/skills video
Actors/Actresses - personal profile, skills, acting video (profile picture required)
Producer - personal profile, MP3 (wmv) file attachment of composed songs (File formats that can be played on PC)

Judges

1st - YG A&R Team
2nd - Jinu / Teddy
Third - Yang Hyun Suk (CEO)

There’s a possibility for changes/additions to the 2nd judges because older yg artists (Song Baek Kyoung, Gummy), choreographers (Yoong Joo?, Jay) and managers were seen on the judge list.

Online Audition Details

Auditions only happens 3-4 times per year. You CAN register and audition as a foreigner. You can only audition as a singer, actor/actress or producer.

For singers and actors/actresses, you will go through the following procedures:

Online Audition
Audition online and include your personal profile and picture. They will go through the three judges and successful applicants will be announced weekly on the website.

Offline Audition
Once you confirmed you’re eligble for the next step, you will go through two seperate stage auditions offline (in person) and your results will be announced there.

YG Trainee
After passing both online and offline auditions, you will become a YG trainee and go through different training that is necessary for you.

For producers (private), it’s a lot easier. Although, I think it’s offline auditions.

You will need to send your personal profile and a completed song you produced/composed. After you have been accessed, you will be contacted.

*More to come…

How to Upload and Application Forms to mail in your audition under the cut!

How to Upload

1. Go to http://www.yg-audition.com and login. Register if you haven’t. Or if you’re already a YG Family member, you don’t need to register again and just use the same id login.

2. Click [A] to go to the Upload page.

3. Choose your category (sing or act) in [B] then select your field (Vocal, dance, etc) in [C].

4. Choose file [D]. A popup will appear. [E] are the options (Choose file, select image preview, upload video).

5. Choose a desired frame for the video preview image [F]

6. You can cut the video by choosing the start position and end position [G]

7. Once the video upload is completed, fill in the description boxes and send. Go to My page > My Ucc to see if your video is uploaded and completed.

Video formats allowed: AVI, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MOV, ASF. 50MB limit.

Application Form for Mailing Audition

Preview:

Download

For an english guide, click here (provided by http://bigbangkorean.wordpress.com). Do NOT use this form! It’s only to help you fill in your application if you don’t know Korean.

Once you complete the application, mail to this address.

Mail Address
Front Office Personnel
YG Entertainment Audition
397-5 Hapjung-Dong, Mapo-Gu
Seoul
South Korea

Any questions? Ask away!