Trainee life

1. It depends on the entertainment. Some let you go individually, by yourself, but others make you go in groups of 10 or less. You stand on a line and do your audition. If you are good, or they like you, they do a camera test which you turn in certain angles so they can examine your face (even if they say 'looks don't count', honestly, looks do.). Don't wear anything too flashy. Don't wear clothes from your favourite kpop group (ie. SNSD shirts, Big Bang hoodiesm etc.). But that being said, don't dress in sweats (unless its necessary because you're going to dance or do aerobics so you need stretchy pants). Wear Jeans and a comfortable T-Shirt.

2. Again, that also depends on the entertainment. Usually there are 2, but I know some entertainments have 3. There is a first audition, then a second one with the ones who got a callback, and then you become a trainee. But being a trainee is a part of your third audition, because they can drop you if you are not doing well, or you can drop out because it's tiring. In the end, there are about 20 trainees, and only 3-6 get chosen, unless it's a big group that have 9-12 people.

3. If you are from overseas, they let you live in dorms for "free" - they deduct money of days you've spent from your paycheck after you debut (that's what happened to DBSK, I did some research on Korean websites and apparently that's one of the reasons they've left SM). You can stay with your parents if they also live in Korea. The dorms are located elsewhere, depending on the entertainment..

4. If they lived in Korea and attended school and then became a trainee, they can continue going to the same school. You mean people who don't know Korean? People who are new to the Korean language go to an International school.

5. There is competition, but at the same time, you guys are friends and you're all working together to get better and improve with each other. They can help each others complexions and even if they are all against each other to become the "last winning survivor", they are all like family (especially if you live in the same dorm with them and live everyday with each other).

6. JYP and Cube. YG is the most family-ish entertainment but they go through harsh trainings. SM is good, but you don't get much allowances as other Entertainments, sort of like a slave-contract (lol sm fans will probably hate me for saying that, but blame my cousin, he said it so himself, and he has sm trainee friends).

7. The will to learn. The potential to improve. Loving what you do. Trying your best at all times. And appearances.

8. Upsides: you get experience and make many nice friends who have the same interest as you, and you have a possibility to become famous. Downsides: tiring training, competitions all the time, and if you do bad, they can drop you from their entertainment so all the hard work goes to waste (If short, 2~4 years. If long, they train you for 6~8 years).