{"id":122733,"date":"2024-08-02T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=122733"},"modified":"2024-08-02T11:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:49:26","slug":"sm-entertainment-and-bbc-unveil-their-first-british-boy-group-dear-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/sm-entertainment-and-bbc-unveil-their-first-british-boy-group-dear-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"SM Entertainment and BBC unveil their first British boy group &#8220;Dear Alice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SM Entertainment has officially launched its first British boy band, Dear Alice, in a groundbreaking collaboration with English label MOON&amp;BACK Media and BBC One.<\/strong> The group made an initial splash this August 2 on the BBC One reality show &#8220;<em><strong>Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; The series will document a group of five young men from Britain training to become idols.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m_i_k_official\/status\/1818990131149193447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1818990131149193447%7Ctwgr%5Ebbfde348481e1d1eeeb99d395268142df0c89b1b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinkvilla.com%2Fentertainment%2Fsm-entertainment-introduces-its-first-british-boy-group-dear-alice-on-made-in-korea-the-k-pop-experience-1334774\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;Made in Korea&#39; starts this August on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCOne?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BBCOne<\/a> \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7 Can James, Reese, Blaise, Dexter and Olly make it through K-pop training and turn their band dream into reality? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/madeinkorea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#madeinkorea<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/jamesharp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#jamesharp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dextergreenwood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#dextergreenwood<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ollyquinn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ollyquinn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blaisenoon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#blaisenoon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/reesecarter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#reesecarter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qrr1ooH4oP\">pic.twitter.com\/Qrr1ooH4oP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; madeinkoreatvshow (@m_i_k_official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m_i_k_official\/status\/1818990131149193447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This five-member group consists of <strong>James Sharp<\/strong> (23), <strong>Dexter Greenwood<\/strong> (22),<strong> Oliver Quinn<\/strong> (20), <strong>Reese Carter<\/strong> (20), and<strong> Blaise Noon<\/strong> (19). These young talents are set to embark on an intense K-pop training journey in South Korea, preparing for their highly anticipated global debut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SM-Entertainment-british-boy-band.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SM-Entertainment-british-boy-band.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SM-Entertainment-british-boy-band-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SM-Entertainment-british-boy-band-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SM-Entertainment-british-boy-band-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>Reportedly, Dear Alice&#8217;s global debut is scheduled for the second half of this year. This marks the first British boy band co-produced by SM Entertainment, known for legendary groups like <strong>Girls&#8217; Generation<\/strong>, <strong>EXO<\/strong>, and <strong>aespa.<\/strong> It also becomes another effort to bring K-pop-influenced music to the West, with other acts such as VCHA, KATSEYE, and XG focusing on a global audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SM Entertainment has officially launched its first British boy band, Dear Alice, in a groundbreaking collaboration with English label MOON&amp;BACK Media and BBC One. The group made an initial splash this August 2 on the BBC One reality show &#8220;Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience.&#8221; The series will document a group of five young men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":122734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-122733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122733"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=122733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}