The sixth and final season of the South Korean reality television competition show K-pop Star, also branded as K-pop Star 6: The Last Chance, will premiere on SBS in November 2016, airing Sunday evenings as part of the Good Sunday lineup. Yang Hyun-suk, Park Jin-young, and You Hee-yeol will return as judges.
Changes to the format have been made to the final season, with restrictions lifted for potential contestants to encourage anyone to participate in "the last chance" to become a K-pop Star. Existing trainees of companies as well as singers who have already debuted are allowed to participate. The winner of the final season will not choose which company to debut with, but instead will be jointly debuted and promoted by all three companies (YG, JYP, Antenna).
Audition applications + Preliminary auditions (June 2016 -)
Yang Hyun-suk: YG Entertainment Producer, singer
Park Jin-young: JYP Entertainment Executive producer, producer, singer, songwriter
You Hee-yeol: Antenna Music Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist
Kim Yoon-hui (born in 2002)
Seok Ji-soo (born in 1999)
Sung Yoo-jin (born in 1992) (formerly part of The SeeYa)
Han Byeol (born in 2006)
Boyfriend
Park Hyun-jin (born in 2005)
Kim Jong-seob (born in 2005)
Trainee contestants (JYP Once)
Kim So-hee (born in 1999) (Hunus Entertainment)
Jeon Min-joo (born in 1994) (formerly part of The Ark, K-pop Star 2 contestant)
Lee Soo-min (born in 1999) (Produce 101 participant)
Shannon (born in 1998) (MBK Entertainment)
Woo Nyeong-in (born in 1997)
Ma Eun-jin (born in 1997) (Produce 101 participant,Coridel ent)
Yoo Ji-ni (born in 2003)
Lee Seo-jin (born in 1996)
Trainee contestants (YG Girls)
Koh Ah-ra (born in 2001) (Astory Entertainment)
Kriesha Tiu (born in 1998) (Urban Works Entertainment)
Kim Hye-rim (born in 1999) (D.Maker Entertainment)
Lee Sung-eun (born in 2002)
Kim Joo-eun (born in 1995)
Ji Woo-jin (born in 1990)
Lee Ga-young (born in 1999)
Baek Seon-nyeo (born in 1994)
Contestants represent the company they were casted to in a 1 to 1 to 1 battle. First place automatically gets to be in the Top 10, while 3rd place is eliminated. Contestants who finish in 2nd place battle the other contestants who finished 2nd place. Anyone who does not get in the Top 10 teams/contestants is eliminated. For trainees, the winner team advances to Top 10 and lose team joined other contestants in 2nd place for rematch individually.
For the Top 8 Finals, the Top 10 competed in two groups on stage with the results determined by the judges. The top three contestants from each group were chosen to proceed to the next round.
The Top 8, who proceeded to the live stage, were determined by the three judges as well as a 100-member Audience Judging Panel. The last two contestants from each group became Elimination Candidates, with the Audience Judging Panel voting for their preferred act. The two acts with the most votes from the four Elimination Candidates proceeded to the Top 8, with the other two contestants eliminated.
The Top 8 competes 1:1 on the live stage with the results determined by the judges. One contestant from each group is chosen to proceed to the next round.
The contestants not chosen will go through voting by 100 citizen judges, where the two top contestants will proceed to the next round.
