which idols took the longest to debut? (5 years or longer) (1 Viewer)

StrayMixx · 26 August 2026

I'm picking up athenaaaaaaa's slack lol but for example, it took Bang Chan seven years to debut - he strained from 2011 until he founded Stray Kids in 2018.

TrinityJade · 26 August 2026

G-dragon trained for 11 years
On the other hand, Kya from KiiiKiii trained for 2 weeks

StrayMixx · 26 August 2026

TrinityJade said:
G-dragon trained for 11 years
On the other hand, Kya from KiiiKiii trained for 2 weeks

lol the last one sounds so unrealistic!

owo · 26 August 2026

johnny was a trainee for like 30 years or somethin

livelocked · 26 August 2026

i believe jihyo trained for some ten years?

Digital_Prodigy · 26 August 2026

ChiaraStar169 said:
I'm picking up athenaaaaaaa's slack lol but for example, it took Bang Chan seven years to debut - he strained from 2011 until he founded Stray Kids in 2018.

Wow, I didn't know it was that long 😮😮

StrayMixx · 26 August 2026

Digital_Prodigy said:
Wow, I didn't know it was that long 😮😮

yup from April 2011 to I believe August 2018. I've made up a theory that he got so tired of waiting for that opportunity to come that he was like "well, I'll just make my own group, then!"

Digital_Prodigy · 26 August 2026

ChiaraStar169 said:
yup from April 2011 to I believe August 2018. I've made up a theory that he got so tired of waiting for that opportunity to come that he was like "well, I'll just make my own group, then!"

A very Chan thing to do 🙂‍↕🙂‍↕

StrayMixx · 26 August 2026

xiao said:
johnny was a trainee for like 30 years or somethin

way to pull the wool over my eyes, I just had to look up his birthday lol

Selfmate · 26 August 2026

Seulgi trained for like 7 years and Irene for 5 from RV

Jennie trained for 6 years Lisa and Jisoo for a bit over 5 from BP

Jihyo took over 10 years, Jeongyeon almost 6 and Nayeon 5 from Twice