{"id":147263,"date":"2025-08-22T13:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=147263"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:55:47","slug":"nominmi-recalls-bts-jungkooks-superstar-k-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/nominmi-recalls-bts-jungkooks-superstar-k-audition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominmi recalls BTS\u2019 Jungkook\u2019s \u201cSuperstar K\u201d audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent shared anecdote by the casting director, <strong>Nominmi<\/strong>, recounted a marvelous moment during the preliminary rounds of<em> \u201cSuperstar K,<\/em>\u201d when<strong> BTS<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Jungkook<\/strong> was pretty young, much before becoming the BTS\u2019 Golden Maknae.<\/p>\n<p>The casting director described Jungkook\u2019s persona as a halo growing around him. <strong>She was immediately taken by his striking presence and handed him her business card on the spot, moving quickly to catch his immense talent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nominmi-handed-right-away-a-contract-for-Jungkook-.jpg\" alt=\"The idol bypassed all the preliminary rounds and had a direct contract with BigHit Music \" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nominmi-handed-right-away-a-contract-for-Jungkook-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nominmi-handed-right-away-a-contract-for-Jungkook--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nominmi-handed-right-away-a-contract-for-Jungkook--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nominmi-handed-right-away-a-contract-for-Jungkook--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nominmi-handed-right-away-a-contract-for-Jungkook--1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nominmi-handed-right-away-a-contract-for-Jungkook--680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Nominmi-handed-right-away-a-contract-for-Jungkook--200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cDuring the Superstar K preliminaries, there was a kid with bright, sparkling eyes who seemed to have a halo glowing around them \u2014 so perfect! I was enchanted and gave them my business card and got their contact info. He&#8217;s famous for receiving a ton of business cards; there were really so many casting directors that day. So, not wanting to miss out, <strong>I offered a contract right away.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>Nominmi bypassed all formalities with the now-idol, a rare exception to the Kpop industry norms. Even more telling was the competition with other music agencies, like Seoul Station, which were waiting to meet Jungkook for five minutes. However,<strong> Jungkook\u2019s father rejected other offers and stated the idol was going to sign with BigHit Music<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent shared anecdote by the casting director, Nominmi, recounted a marvelous moment during the preliminary rounds of \u201cSuperstar K,\u201d when BTS\u2019 Jungkook was pretty young, much before becoming the BTS\u2019 Golden Maknae. The casting director described Jungkook\u2019s persona as a halo growing around him. She was immediately taken by his striking presence and handed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":147264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[49,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-147263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-jungkook"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147263","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}