The audition video of NewJeans Hyein when she was 11 years old is drawing attention ahead of her official debut. Want to know why? Then keep on reading!

Audition Clip of NewJeans Hyein Becomes Hot Topic

On an online community, Hyein, the maknae of NewJeans, who is 14 years old this year, became the center of attention after her audition video went viral on YouTube.

In particular, the audition clip was posted three years ago in September 2019 through the YouTube channel Pocket TV. The audition is part of the channel's segment called "NOL-A-JWO (Play with Me) Club."

The show's members did a "K-pop star challenge," where they got a chance to join an audition to become idol trainees. However, they will only be given 20 minutes to prepare everything, including their singing and dancing pieces.

Lee Hyein, a fifth grader and 11 years old at the time, prepared Chung Ha's "Snapping" and Jeon Somi's "BIRTHDAY" for her dance audition piece.

As soon as she started dancing, the judges/music officials' eyes sparked, and they were amazed by Hyein's facial expression and scary dance skills, unlike her age.

Director Lee Sorim, who saw this, was truly surprised and asked:

"Is Hyein a fifth grader?"

"The entertainment company (SM, JYP, Big Hit) will like you very much."

The young Hyein was highly praised for her expressiveness and dance. Still, she was evaluated as having to make a little more effort in singing after having no expression while singing Ariana Grande's "One Last Time."

Despite this, fans reacted explosively to Hyein's tremendous idol potential since she was younger. The audition videos, Part 1 and Part 2, now surpassed 3.6M and 1.4M, respectively.

In the comment section, netizens and K-pop enthusiasts left comments such as:

• "I like Hyein. I will wait for her debut as an idol."
• "Hyein is almost my age. Meanwhile, she's dancing like a queen."
• "I love Hyein. I like her facial expression!"
• "Omg, the girl in white (Hyein) is such a good dancer, she has the potential, and we all can see that she has a bright future."

'Play With Me' Club Member Hyein to Finally Debut as NewJeans Under HYBE

Interestingly, the comments from about three years ago came true as in 2022, Hyein proudly joined as the youngest member of NewJeans, a group under ADOR, a sub-label of one of the most influential entertainment companies HYBE (Big Hit before).

Hyein, born in 2008, is 14 years old this year.

Meanwhile, NewJeans is a new girl group belonging to HYBE's new label ADOR, made its initial entry into the K-pop scene on July 22 with a surprise release of the music video for the first title song, "Attention."

At 6 p.m. on August 1, the music video of the debut album "NewJeans" and the third title song, "Cookie," will be released. The album will be officially released on August 8.

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Written by Eunice Dawson