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Karina, left, and Winter \/ Captured from JTBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Aespa member Winter has revealed that she failed auditions for SM Entertainment three times before finally making it into one of Korea’s biggest K-pop agencies.<\/p>\n
Winter shared the story during Sunday’s episode of JTBC’s cooking variety show \u201cPlease Take Care of My Refrigerator,\u201d where she appeared alongside fellow aespa member Karina.<\/p>\n
Host Kim Sung-joo said both idols are often described by fans as having the “classic SM look” \u2014 a term referring to an image commonly associated with artists from the agency.<\/p>\n
Karina said she believed Winter best fit that image.<\/p>\n
“I think Winter is the perfect example of the SM style,” Karina said. “She has the fair complexion of seniors like Seo Hyun-jin and Taeyeon.”<\/p>\n
Winter, however, disagreed.<\/p>\n
“I actually think it’s Karina,” she said. “I failed the SM audition three times. I kept auditioning until I finally got accepted, while SM sent Karina a direct message first.”<\/p>\n
She jokingly contrasted their different paths into the company.<\/p>\n
“SM chose Karina, but I chose SM,” Winter said.<\/p>\n
Kim then asked whether entertainment agencies now recruit aspiring idols through direct messages on social media.<\/p>\n
“It seems they do,” Karina said.<\/p>\n
SM Entertainment is known for discovering talent through both traditional auditions and street casting. In recent years, agencies have increasingly used social media platforms to contact potential trainees directly.<\/p>\n
This article from Xportsnews is adapted by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.koreatimes.co.kr \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Karina, left, and Winter \/ Captured from JTBC Aespa member Winter has revealed that she failed auditions for SM Entertainment three times before finally making it into one of Korea’s biggest K-pop agencies. Winter shared the story during Sunday’s episode of JTBC’s cooking variety show \u201cPlease Take Care of My Refrigerator,\u201d where she appeared alongside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2489888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Rejected-3-times-aespas-Winter-reveals-how-she-finally-joined.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489889,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489887\/revisions\/2489889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2489888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}