The debut and everything before it.

To become a k-pop idol you have to go through many things like a predebut, an education and a debut....

Trainees: Trainees are the people/children who are training to become a k-pop idol.

Even before debut, some trainees would already have their own fans. This leads to the "kinship" starting out early, and building that up is very important for the idol as an artist and the fan as a supporter. Once debuted, fans grow alongside their idols and idol-fan relationships become deeper.

Pre- debut: It Means That Before They Can Make Their First Career They Are Having A Time To Train Harder To Finish Their Training Like The K-pop Idols.

Debut: It's often used in K-pop to refer to a trainee who has transitioned to an idol by releasing their first official single (either as a soloist or in a group) or performing in public for the first time.

Training: This statistic displays the average training period of entertainment trainees before their debuts in South Korea in 2018, by category. According to the survey, it took an average of 29.9 months for trainees to debut as an actor and 28.2 months as a singer.

Above: photo of a documentary about blackpink's education and career. To be seen on netflix. Title: Blackpink light up the sky.