K-pop Star 6: The Last Chance
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, that premiered in SBS on November 20, 2016, until April 9, 2017. It aired every 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.
Process
- Audition applications + Preliminary auditions
Judges
- Yang Hyun-suk – Producer, singer
- Park Jin-young – Executive producer, producer, singer, songwriter
- You Hee-yeol – Singer, pianist
Casting Audition
List of Contestants
JYP
- Kim Yoon-hee
- Seok Ji-soo
- Sung Yoo-jin
- Han Byeol
- Boyfriend, signed with YG Entertainment but Park Hyun-jin left YG and join Starship Entertainment
- * Park Hyun-jin, signed with Starship Entertainment
- * Kim Jong-seob, signed with YG Entertainment
- Trainee contestants
- * Kim So-hee
- * Jeon Min-joo
- * Lee Soo-min
YG
- Shannon
- Woo Nyeong-in
- Ma Eun-jin
- Yoo Ji-ni
- Lee Seo-jin
- Trainee contestants
- * Go A-ra
- * Kriesha Chu
- * Kim Hye-rim
Antenna
- Lee Sung-eun
- Kim Joo-eun
- Ji Woo-jin
- Lee Ga-young
- Baek Seon-nyeo
Battle Audition
Contestants represent the company they were cast 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.| Group | 1st Place | 2nd | 3rd |
| A | Boyfriend | Shannon | Lee Ga-young |
| B | Lee Seo-jin | Baek Seon-nyeo, Han Byeol | None |
| C | Seok Ji-soo | Lee Sung-eun | Woo Nyeong-in |
| D | Kim Yoon-hee | Ma Eun-jin | Kim Joo-eun |
| E | None | Yoo Ji-ni, Sung Yoo-jin | Ji Woo-jin |
| Trainees | YG Girls | JYP Once | None |
Stage Auditions
- 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 three top contestants will proceed to the next round.
- Trainee contestants is reform into two girl groups.
- For the Top 6, Top 4 and Finals, the judges and viewers' scores were weighted 60:40, and were combined to eliminate the contestant with the lowest score.