Girls Planet 999
| Girls Planet 999 | |
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| Also known as |
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| Hangul | 걸스플래닛999 |
| Genre | Reality competition |
| Presented by | Yeo Jin-goo |
| Opening theme | "O.O.O (Over&Over&Over)" |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original languages |
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| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Production location | South Korea |
| Running time | 85–150 minutes |
| Production companies | |
| Distributor | CJ ENM |
| Release | |
| Original network | Mnet |
| Original release | August 6 – October 22, 2021 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
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| Chinese name | |||
| Traditional Chinese | 少女星球999：少女們的盛典 | ||
| Simplified Chinese | 少女星球999：少女们的盛典 | ||
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| Korean name | |||
| Hangul | 걸스플래닛999: 소녀대전 | ||
| Hanja | Girls Planet 999：少女大典 | ||
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| Japanese name | |||
| Kanji | Girls Planet 999：少女祭典 | ||
| Kana | ガールズプラネット999：しょうじょさいてん | ||
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Girls Planet 999: The Girls Saga[b] (simply referred to as Girls Planet 999) is a 2021 South Korean reality competition show that premiered on Mnet on August 6, 2021 and is being aired every Friday at 8:20 PM KST for 12 weekly episodes until its finale on October 22. A production by Mnet's parent company CJ E&M and its subsidiary Studio Take One, as well as in collaboration with game developer and publisher NCSoft, the aim of the competition is to debut a new 9-member K-pop girl group consisting of trainees and idols from China,[c] Japan, and South Korea. Auditions for the competition were held from January to February 2021.
Out of 13,000 applicants, 99 final contestants were selected.[1] These 99 contestants are split equally into three groups; the K-Group, C-Group and the J-Group.
Concept and format[]
The "planet" theme of the show is derived from a new collaboration between Mnet and NCSoft's new platform called UNIVERSE which is centered around K-pop.[2] It will allow votes from other countries outside of the participating three,[d] and also hosts other promotional content for the show.
The show groups the girls into groups of 3 which are called "cells". An entire cell of girls could be eliminated all at once, hence increasing the risk of elimination. To counteract this, the "Planet Top 9" is introduced. Contestants who are selected or voted to be the Planet Top 9 (designated P1-P9) can reorganize cells to try and lower the chances of elimination. At the end of the competition, the top 9 most-voted contestants will debut regardless of nationality.
Promotion and broadcast[]
The show, as well as its auditions, was first announced on January 11, 2021 through Mnet. Yeo Jin-goo was announced as the show's presenter on June 8, followed by the reveal of the mentors and the name of the show's opening theme later that same month.[3] More promotional clips from the show were broadcast that month on Mnet.
The show's premiere date of August 6, 2021 was confirmed through a teaser video released on July 6, 2021.[4] Another teaser video showcasing the faces of the 99 contestants was released on July 8, along with a promotional poster.
The theme song, “O.O.O (Over&Over&Over)”, was released on July 12, 2021, accompanied by a performance by the Korean group with Jellyfish's Kim Dayeon as Center. Another version of the performance featuring the Chinese group was released on July 14 with Top Class's Shen Xiaoting as Center. The Japanese group's version was released on July 16 with Avex Artist Academy's Hikaru Ezaki as Center. The full version containing all three groups was released on July 29 during M Countdown, preceded by the contestants' profiles which were released from July 17 to 19 at 10 AM KST for each group.[5] More teasers were released in July and August 2021 leading up to the show's premiere.
The show is available through Mnet in South Korea, iQIYI in China, AbemaTV and Mnet Japan in Japan, tvN Asia and iQIYI in Southeast Asia, and YouTube in the rest of the world through Mnet's YouTube channel, Mnet K-POP.[citation needed]
Cast[]
The series is presented by Yeo Jin-goo,[3] dubbed as the "Planet Master". The rest of the mentors, also dubbed as "masters", are:[6]
- K-Pop Masters:
- Dance Masters:
- Baek Koo-young
- Jang Juhee
- Vocal Masters:
- Lim Han-byul
- Jo Ayoung
- Rap Master (Episodes 6–7 only):
Contestants[]
There is a total of 99 contestants participating in the competition. 33 are Korean, 33 are Japanese, and the last 33 consists of Chinese, Taiwanese and Hongkongers.
The English names of K-Group and C-Group contestants are presented in Eastern order in accordance with the official website while J-Group contestants' names are presented in Western order.
Color key:
| Debut lineup members | |
| Eliminated in the final episode | |
| Eliminated in the third elimination round | |
| Eliminated in the second elimination round | |
| Eliminated in the first elimination round |
| 99 contestants | ||||
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| K-Group (  South Korea)
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| An Jeongmin (안정민) | Choi Yeyoung (최예영) | Choi Yujin (최유진) | Guinn Myah (귄마야)[e] | Huening Bahiyyih (휴닝바히에) |
| Huh Jiwon (허지원) | Jeong Jiyoon (정지윤) | Kang Yeseo (강예서) | Kim Bora (김보라) | Kim Chaehyun (김채현) |
| Kim Dayeon (김다연) | Kim Doah (김도아) | Kim Hyerim (김혜림) | Kim Suyeon (김수연) | Lee Chaeyun (이채윤) |
| Lee Hyewon (이혜원) | Seo Youngeun (서영은) | Yoon Jia (윤지아) | You Dayeon (유다연) | Kim Sein (김세인) |
| Sim Seungeun (심승은) | Lee Yeongyung (이연경) | Lee Rayeon (이나연) | Lee Sunwoo (이선우) | Kim Yeeun (김예은) |
| Lee Yunji (이윤지) | Choi Hyerin (최혜린) | Ryu Sion (류시온) | Suh Jimin (서지민) | Joung Min (정민) |
| Kim Yubin (김유빈) | Cho Haeun (조하은) | Han Dana (한다나) | ||
| C-Group (  China,  Taiwan,  Hong Kong)
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| Cai Bing (蔡冰) | Chen Hsinwei (陳昕葳) | Fu Yaning (符雅凝) | Hsu Nientzu (許念慈) | Huang Xingqiao (黄星侨) |
| Leung Cheukying (梁卓瀅) | Chiayi (家儀)[f] | Li Yiman (李伊蔓) | Liang Jiao (梁娇) | Shen Xiaoting (沈小婷) |
| Su Ruiqi (苏芮琪) | Wang Yale (王雅乐) | Wen Zhe (文哲) | Wu Tammy (吴甜蜜) | Xu Ziyin (徐紫茵) |
| Yang Zige (杨梓格) | Zhang Luofei (张洛菲) | Zhou Xinyu (周心语) | Xia Yan (夏研) | Liang Qiao (梁乔) |
| Xu Ruowei (徐若惟) | Gu Yizhou (顾逸舟) | Chang Ching (張競) | Ma Yuling (马玉灵) | Lin Chenhan (林辰涵) |
| Cui Wenmeixiu (崔文美秀) | Chien Tzuling (簡紫翎) | Ho Szeching (何思澄) | Poon Wingchi (潘穎芝) | Lin Shuyun (林書蘊) |
| Liu Shiqi (刘诗琦) | Wang Qiuru (王秋茹) | Liu Yuhan (刘钰涵) | ||
| J-Group (  Japan)
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| Risako Arai (新井理沙子) | Hikaru Ezaki (江崎ひかる) | Ayaka Fujimoto (藤本彩花) | Hana Hayase (早瀬華) | Ruan Ikema (池間琉杏) |
| Kotone Kamimoto (嘉味元琴音) | Yurina Kawaguchi (川口ゆりな) | Ririka Kishida (岸田莉里花) | Reina Kubo (久保玲奈) | Ayana Kuwahara (桑原彩菜) |
| May (メイ)[g] | Minami Nagai (永井愛実) | Shana Nonaka (野仲紗奈) | Mashiro Sakamoto (坂本舞白) | Shihona Sakamoto (坂本志穂菜) |
| Miu Sakurai (櫻井美羽) | Moka Shima (島望叶) | Moana Yamauchi (山内若杏名) | Miyu Ito (伊藤美優) | Fuko Hayashi (林楓子) |
| Nagomi Hiyajo (比屋定和) | Rinka Ando (安藤梨花) | Rinka Aratake (荒武凛香) | Momoko Okazaki (岡崎百々子) | Vivienne Inaba (稲葉ヴィヴィアン) |
| Yume Murakami (村上結愛) | Rei Kamikura (神藏令) | Hina Terasaki (寺崎日菜) | Sumomo Okuma (大熊李) | Fuka Oki (沖楓花) |
| Miyu Kanno (菅野美優) | Yuna Kitajima (北島由菜) | Kyara Nakamura (中村伽羅) | ||
Ranking[]
Planet Top 9[]
The Planet Top 9 is either selected by the mentors (Episode 2) or voted by viewers of the show; those selected to be the Planet Top 9 in Episode 2 were given the ability to reshuffle and organize cells.
Color key:
| New Top 9 |
| # | Ep. 2 | Ep. 5 | Ep. 8 | Ep. 11 | Ep. 12 | ||||
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| Contestant | Contestant | Points | Contestant | Points | Contestant | Points | Contestant | Points | |
| P1 | Hikaru Ezaki
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Yurina Kawaguchi
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4,446,387 | TBA | TBA | TBA | |||
| P2 | Kang Yeseo
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Shen Xiaoting (↑1)
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3,919,277 | ||||||
| P3 | Shen Xiaoting
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Hikaru Ezaki (↓2)
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3,138,429 | ||||||
| P4 | Su Ruiqi
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Choi Yujin (↑3)
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3,119,661 | ||||||
| P5 | Jeong Jiyoon
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Mashiro Sakamoto
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2,784,657 | ||||||
| P6 | Seo Youngeun
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Su Ruiqi (↓2)
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2,598,795 | ||||||
| P7 | Choi Yujin
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Cai Bing (↑1)
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2,361,224 | ||||||
| P8 | Cai Bing
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Kang Yeseo (↓6)
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1,744,198 | ||||||
| P9 | Ayana Kuwahara
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Kim Chaehyun
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1,704,528 | ||||||
Cells[]
| Rank | Episode 3[h] | Episode 5 | ||||||
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| Cell Members | Points[i] | Cell Members | Points[j] | |||||
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| 1 | Choi Yujin | Cai Bing | May | 1,328,882 | Choi Yujin | Cai Bing | May | 2,929,629 |
| 2 | Seo Youngeun | Shen Xiaoting | Yurina Kawaguchi | 1,176,035 | Seo Youngeun | Shen Xiaoting | Yurina Kuwaguchi | 2,649,735 |
| 3 | Jeong Jiyoon | Su Ruiqi | Hikaru Ezaki | 1,065,592 | Jeong Jiyoon | Su Ruiqi | Hikaru Ezaki | 2,048,599 |
| 4 | Kang Yeseo | Huang Xingqiao | Mashiro Sakamoto | 843,274 | Kang Yeseo | Huang Xingqiao | Mashiro Sakamoto | 1,912,854 |
| 5 | Huening Bahiyyih | Hsu Nientzu | Shihona Sakamoto | 534,755 | Kim Chaehyun | Li Yiman | Ayana Kuwahara | 1,153,957 |
| 6 | Kim Doah | Xu Ziyin | Risako Arai | 502,682 | Kim Doah | Xu Ziyin | Risako Arai | 1,134,128 |
| 7 | Kim Chaehyun | Li Yiman | Ayana Kuwahara | 351,067 | Huening Bahiyyih | Hsu Nientzu | Shihona Sakamoto | 1,025,869 |
| 8 | Kim Suyeon | Fu Yaning | Shana Nonaka | 286,390 | Kim Suyeon | Fu Yaning | Shana Nonaka | 640,747 |
| 9 | Kim Dayeon | Wu Tammy | Miu Sakurai | 223,105 | Kim Dayeon | Wu Tammy | Miu Sakurai | 589,272 |
Episodes[]
| No. | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Contact (너와 내 꿈들이 연곌될 시간[k])" | August 6, 2021 | |
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The episode opens with all 99 girls being divided into three cells, each consisting of a Korean, Chinese, and Japanese contestant. Groupings are based on a variety of characteristics common to the girls, such as type of career and personal interests. Upon the girls entering the main stage and taking their seats, the host of the competition, Yeo Jin-goo, is introduced to the girls. He is then followed by the rest of the mentors. Yeo then explains the rules of the competition, revealing that a cell of girls can all be eliminated at once; he also explains that if a girl lands a spot in the "Planet Top 9", they will be given the option to rearrange cells. Each girl is evaluated to determine whether they should be considered to become a Planet Top 9 candidate and their initial ranking is revealed prior to each performance based on the theme song evaluation test. The episode ends with K-Group contestant Choi Yujin about to perform. During the credits, it is revealed that the Planet Top 9 evaluations will continue and the first mission will be introduced in the following episode. | |||
| 2 | "Contact (너의 세계가 궁금해[l])" | August 13, 2021 | |
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The Planet Top 9 evaluations continue, and the eventual Planet Top 9 for the episode are announced, with J-group contestant Hikaru Ezaki taking first place, K-group contestant Kang Yeseo taking second place & C-group contestant Shen Xiaoting taking third place. The girls then rearrange or keep their cells, followed by the announcement of voting being open on Universe. Following the announcement, the girls move into the dorms. The next day, the girls' first-morning mission begins where they have to connect their cell with their childhood photos. Whoever gets their cell's childhood photos correctly from first to tenth will form a team and pick a song for the first mission. The actual first mission called the Connect Mission is then revealed where cells will form teams and battle through one song. The girls then form teams and begin to prepare for the performance. If the team chooses one of the four mission songs (Blackpink - How You Like That, Iz*One - Fiesta, Twice - Yes or Yes, Oh My Girl - The Fifth Season (SSFWL)), the winning team's voting count will be doubled 24 hours before closing. However, if the team chooses EBS (Exo - The Eve, BTS - Mic Drop, and Seventeen - Pretty U), the winning team's voting count will be tripled 24 hours before closing. The best out of the five winning performances will get a chance to perform on M Countdown after the mission. | |||
| 3 | "Connect (너도 내 우주에 끌리고 있잖아[m])" | August 20, 2021 | |
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The current cell rankings are displayed at the beginning of the episode. The contestants begin preparing for their first mission by determining their positions in the performance. Several days before the team performances, a dance battle is held to determine the order in which the teams will perform. Following the dance competition, the teams continue to practice, with the mentors offering feedback on how to improve. The group performances then begin. The "Yes or Yes" Team 1 wins, followed by the "How You Like That" Team 1. Towards the end, "The Eve" team is preparing to perform. | |||
| 4 | "Connect (더 확실하게 My Sign[n])" | August 27, 2021 | |
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The group performances continue. The "Fiesta" Team 1 wins, followed by "The Fifth Season" Team 1. The boy group song performances are then shown, with the "Pretty U" team securing the most points out of the three and winning. After the completion of the performances, the winning team that will get to perform on M Countdown is revealed to be "Yes or Yes" Team 1. During the end credits, it is revealed that only 54 contestants will survive in the following episode, meaning that 45 contestants will be eliminated. | |||
| 5 | "It's Me! (바로 나야![o])" | September 3, 2021 | |
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The first ranking announcement begins. The top 16 cells are first announced, with the cell of Choi Yujin, Cai Bing and May securing first place with 2,929,629 points. During occasional breaks in between announcements, other activities that the girls did together leading up to the day of the announcement were shown. In the last surviving cell, it was Yoon Jia, Zhou Xinyu, and Moka Shima versus Kim Sein, Wen Zhe, and Momoko Okazaki. The former cell remains in the competition as the surviving cell. Then, the results of the Planet Pass is announced; the Planet Pass is a vote between the mentors in which one eliminated contestant from each of the 3 racial groups will be saved to remain in the competition. K-Group's Kim Hyerim, C-Group's Wen Zhe and J-Group's Ruan Ikema are announced to be receiving the Planet Pass, allowing them to remain in the competition. Following this, the new Planet Top 9 are then announced, with J-Group contestant Yurina Kawaguchi obtaining first place with 4,446,387 points. Following the ranking announcement, the eliminated girls bid their farewell to the surviving contestants and leave their dormitories. During the preview of the next episode, it is revealed that the next mission dubbed as the "Combination Mission" will begin in the following episode. | |||
| 6 | "Combination (더 확실하게 My Sign[n])" | September 10, 2021 | |
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The episode begins with the 54 girls entering a room. Host Yeo Jin-goo then enters the room, explaining that the next mission would be the Combination Mission. Yeo also reveals that cells will be disbanded and cell votes will be phased out, meaning that rankings are all now individual. He then moves on to explain the Combination Mission, stating that the 54 girls will be split into either 3-member, 6-member or 9-member teams for the mission. There are a total of 6 songs for 3-member teams, 3 songs for 6-member teams and 2 songs for 9-member teams. To determine their teams, the girls enter doors labeled "3", "6" and "9" which will lead to respective 3-member, 6-member and 9-member team songs where they will have to pick which song they want to perform. After forming their teams, the girls then proceed to prepare for their group performances. The girls are first evaluated by the mentors through an interim check before the actual performance. The performances begin, with the team of Kim Bora, Manami Nagai and Wen Zhe performing rap song "We Are" by Woo Won-jae first. The episode ends with the team of Kang Yeseo, May, Shen Xiaoting, Su Ruiqi, Moana Yamauchi and Choi Yujin about to perform "Fate" by Lee Sun-hee. The four songs created for the next mission, dubbed as the "Creation Mission" is also revealed. Viewers were told to vote who they wanted to perform which song through Universe. | |||
| 7 | "같은 꿈을 꾸는 너와 나[p]" | September 17, 2021 | |
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The Combination Mission group performances continue. After all of the performances finish performing, the winners of the Combination Mission are announced. For the 3-person teams, the team of Huh Jiwon, Fu Yaning and Mashiro Sakamoto wins, securing 90,000 points each. For the 6-person teams, the team of Kang Yeseo, May, Shen Xiaoting, Su Ruiqi, Moana Yamauchi and Choi Yujin wins, securing 45,000 points each. For the 9-person teams, the team of Cai Bing, Zhang Luofei, Chiayi, Yoon Jia, Kim Hyerim, Risako Arai, Kim Doah, Hana Hayase and Moka Shima wins, securing 30,000 points each. During the previews for the next episode, the girls are introduced to the Creation Mission songs which were previously shown to the audience in the previous episode. 27 girls will be eliminated next episode. The planet pass will still be implemented next elimination. | |||
| 8 | "Episode 8" | September 24, 2021 | |
| TBA | |||
| 9 | "Episode 9" | October 1, 2021 | |
| TBA | |||
| 10 | "Episode 10" | October 8, 2021 | |
| TBA | |||
| 11 | "Episode 11" | October 15, 2021 | |
| TBA | |||
| 12 | "Episode 12" | October 22, 2021 | |
| TBA | |||
Discography[]
Singles[]
| Title | Year | Peak positions | Album | ||||||||||||
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| KOR | KOR Hot 100 |
JPN Hot 100 | |||||||||||||
| "O.O.O. (Over&Over&Over)" | 2021 | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||
Ratings[]
In the table below, turquoise numbers represent the lowest ratings and magenta numbers represent the highest ratings.
| Ep. | Original Airdate | Nielsen Korea Ratings |
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| Nationwide[7] | ||
| 1 | August 6, 2021 | 0.461% |
| 2 | August 13, 2021 | 0.760% |
| 3 | August 20, 2021 | 0.708% |
| 4 | August 27, 2021 | 0.711% |
| 5 | September 3, 2021 | 0.858% |
| 6 | September 10, 2021 | 0.787% |
| 7 | September 17, 2021 | 0.838% |
| 8 | September 24, 2021 | TBA |
| 9 | October 1, 2021 | |
| 10 | October 8, 2021 | |
| 11 | October 15, 2021 | |
| 12 | October 22, 2021 |
Notes[]
- ^ A subsidiary of CJ ENM
- ^ Korean: 걸스플래닛999: 소녀대전
Chinese: 少女星球999：少女們的盛典
Japanese: ガールズプラネット999：少女祭典 - ^ Contestants from Hong Kong and Taiwan are categorized under China.
- ^ 50% of votes will come from South Korea while the remaining 50% will be the total amount of international votes which includes China and Japan.
- ^ Full name: Son Maya (손마야)
- ^ Full name: Li Chiayi (李家儀)
- ^ Full name: Mao Hirokawa (廣川茉音
- ^ Cell points are as of August 20, 2021 at 10AM KST.
- ^ Cell Points are calculated through: [Number of Korean Votes × (Total Cell Votes ÷ Total Korean Cell Votes)] + [Number of International Votes × (Total Cell Votes ÷ Total International Cell Votes)].
- ^ The Cell Points shown in Episode 5 are inclusive of those shown in Episode 3.
- ^ Romanized: Neowa Nae Kkumdeuri Yeongeldoel Shigan; English: Time For You and My Dreams To Connect
- ^ Romanized: Neoui Segyega Gunggeumhae; English: I'm Curious About Your World
- ^ Romanized: Neodo Nae Ujue Kkeulligo Issjanha; English: You Too Are Attracted to My Universe
- ^ Jump up to: a b Romanized: Deo Hwagsilhage My Sign; English: More Definitely My Sign
- ^ Romanized: Baro Naya!
- ^ Romanized: Gateun Kkumeul Kkuneun Neowa Na; English: You And I Dream The Same Dream
References[]
- ^ Kim, Hyo-jin (June 8, 2021). "'걸스플래닛999', 8월 첫 방송 확정→여진구 MC 발탁". Top Star News (in Korean). Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- ^ Shin, Yoon-jae (February 4, 2021). "자숙의 의미를 모르는 Mnet의 오디션 프로 재개 - 머니투데이". Money Today (in Korean). Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Kim, Jae-won (June 8, 2021). "여진구로 정했다…'걸스플래닛999', 진행 맡아". Sports World (in Korean). Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- ^ Park, Se-yeon (July 6, 2021). "Mnet `걸스플래닛999` 8월 6일 첫방 확정". Star Today (in Korean). Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- ^ Kang, Da-yoon (July 16, 2021). "'걸스플래닛999', 오늘(16일) 日 참가자 J그룹 무대 공개". Naver (in Korean). Retrieved July 16, 2021.
- ^ "GIRLS PLANET 999". Retrieved July 6, 2021.
- ^ "Nielsen Korea". Daum (in Korean). Retrieved August 9, 2021.
External links[]
- Official website
- Girls Planet 999 on TVING
- Girls Planet 999 on iQIYI
- Girls Planet 999
- Music competitions in South Korea
- K-pop television series
- Reality music competition television series
- Mnet (TV channel) original programming
- Korean-language television shows
- South Korean music television shows
- 2021 South Korean television series debuts