K-pop Star season 1

This article is about K-pop Star Season 1. For other seasons, see K-pop Star.
K-pop Star
Season 1
Hosted byYoon Do-hyun
Boom
JudgesBoA
Park Jin-young
Yang Hyun-suk
WinnerPark Ji-min
Runner-upLee Ha Yi
Release
Original networkSBS
Original releaseDecember 18, 2011 (2011-12-18) –
April 29, 2012 (2012-04-29)
Season chronology
Next →
K-pop Star 2

The first season of Survival Audition K-pop Star (Korean: 서바이벌 오디션 K팝 스타) premiered on December 4, 2011, airing every Sunday evening at 6:30 pm under the Good Sunday programming block on SBS, until April 29, 2012. The first winner was Park Ji-min, who chose to sign with JYP Entertainment.[1]

The three judges for this season were Yang Hyun-suk, founder of YG Entertainment and former member of the popular South Korean act Seo Taiji & Boys, Park Jin-young, singer/songwriter and founder of JYP Entertainment, and Korean pop icon BoA, from SM Entertainment.[2]

Singer, Yoon Do-hyun, and entertainer, Boom, hosted the live competition from March 4, 2012 to April 29, 2012 when the winner is crowned.[3] Yoon Do-hyun has also been narrating through the entire process.

Contestants from the Top 10 of Season 1 returned for a special Dream Stage - Best of the Best episode on April 14, 2013, competing with contestants of Season 2 for the title of Overall Champion.[4]

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  4. ^ "이하이·이천원, 박지민·악뮤 누르고 'K팝' 왕중왕전 1위" (in Korean). My Daily. 15 April 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.