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Has Jay Park come full circle with upcoming AOMG Audition Program "Sign Here" on MBN?

By Nefertiti Jenkins


He has shared his story hundreds of times. CEO Jay Park got his start in the music industry after auditioning in Seattle as a teen to join JYP, one of the largest entertainment companies in South Korea.

According to online sources, after being accepted, Park trained in South Korea as part of a kpop group known as One Day. Part of the group's training was broadcast as a reality survival documentary show on MNET called Hot Blood.

After the show, One Day was split into two separate groups-- 2AM and 2PM. Via fan votes, Park became the leader of 2PM. 2PM debuted with the song "10 Out of 10" in 2008. But by 2010, Park was officially out of the group, and back home in Seattle.


Fast forward to today, and Jay Park is signed to Roc Nation and has founded his own entertainment companies; hip-hop labels AOMG and H1GHR MUSIC, and he is now currently launching an AOMG audition program called "Sign Here" on MBN. The show aims to find the next hip-hop artist in South Korea to sign with AOMG. Not exactly full circle for Park, but very close.

He will be featured on the new program, along with current artists from his label... Simon Dominic, Gray and Code Kunst. A video teaser was released for the show on March 22.




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