20-Love

**20-Love** was a 2015 reality girl group survival show created by Young Entertainment and Mnet. It placed all of the agency's twenty female trainees to audition for a general evaluation of their skills: vocal, rap, and dance. Each round dictated each trainees capability in becoming a true idol by showing their additional skills in songwriting and creating choreographies with each round having a different difficulty in participation. The final seven would be the line up for Young Entertainment's new girl group, Lovette.

## Concept

It has been five years since Young Entertainment's first girl group. After auditions pilling, Young Jae-seok decided to use these twenty trainees and have them compete in a reality show for the line up in the new girl group.

Jae-seok wanted to truly see each trainee perform and pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses in potential to aid them through the show from himself and the assistance of his supporting judges and mentors.

Each trainee would be evaluated 55% by the judges, 25% of the live audience, and 20% from public votes. However, the final decision is on Jae-seok himself.

## Special Guests

* Hanae (Episode 2)
* Jaewon, Jai, and Saebom
* Kyunghwa and Yooi
* Libby
* Taeyoung and Yul

## Episodes

### Episode 1 (September 15, 2015)

Contestants walk into the large studio where chairs are placed in two levels with ten on each. Once all seated, Jinsung of Fivxy enters to introduce himself as the MC. He proceeds to ask the girls if they know why they are here, to which Hye-won answers, "for a chance to debut." Jinsung agrees, but gives deeper details to her answer. He then explains the rules of the competition and what is expected from them. He also reveals that seven out of twenty will debut in Young Entertainment's next girl group, which makes the contestants feel more anxious and nervous. The mentors enter and introduce themselves and begin the pre-round: General Audition. Each trainee prepared an audition to show their skills and potential.

### Episode 2: (September 22, 2015)

The general evaluation is revealed by going from 20-8 then 7-1 with the addition of notes from the judges—Park Ae-ri takes first place. The next round is then introduced by Jinsung in the "Gold Room," being the round to kick-start the show. The girls will show their skills by performing songs by their senior group Vixen that are categorized in three concepts. Heartbreaker is a powerful summer concept, Tension is a girl crush concept with a taste of sexiness, and No No Boy is a chic and cute concept. The upside to this round is that trainees can choose the group they want to perform in—however, the decision will be going from the first ranked trainee to the twentieth. Once teams are decided, they start giving parts (center, leader, lead vocal, rapper, sub vocal) and practicing the choreography and song before performing for the first time in front of Young Jae-seok, Nari, and audience.

### Episode 3 (September 29, 2015)

The first evaluation ranks are revealed from 20-8, then 7-1, revealing that Yu Hye-won took first place while Joo Hwa-young and Bae Eun-byul were eliminated. Jinsung introduces the second round as "more difficult as you must show your unique charm for your own team song." The girls will be divided into two teams where they must perform a song that is about love. LooHoo (Love Who?)—a preppy love track of a girl deciding who to love out of her several suitors—and Love Love (Show Me That)—an eccentric yet chic love song about a girl wanting her partner to show her love to prove themselves—are the two songs that will lead this round called Love War.

### Episode 4 (October 8, 2015)

The second rankings are shown and Hye-won is still in first while Ito Yuna and Lee Seo-yeon are eliminated, Jinsung makes claim to the contestants stress and tiredness and give the current line-up a day of leisure where they can do whatever they want with a limited yet large allowance. The remaining trainees may do what they want, but with a limited allowance.

## Ranks

### General Evaluation

The trainees are ranked by a general evaluation that is determined by their personality and pose as a person and is depicted as a reference to the ones that are deemed "idol-worthy" by the mentors' first impression of the trainees' skills.

## Aftermath

* Park Ae-ri (8th) debuted as a soloist as Iri on August 12, 2016.
* Zhang Yue (9th), Lim Ha-yeon (10th), Aikawa Misaki (11th), and Kim Kyung-mi (12th) debuted on December 1, 2017 with five other trainees in Genesis.
* Seo Ha-na (13th) left Young Entertainment in 2019 and decided to quit her dream in becoming an idol. She has a YouTube channel, where she posts weekly vocal and dance covers and vlogs.
* Jang Mi-ran (14th) left Young Entertainment in 2018 and is currently an underground artist on Soundcloud.
* Han Soo-min (15th) debuted in 2017 as an actress in Lost Myself to Find You as Song Ga-yeon.
* Lee Na-eun (16th) is the leader and vocalist in KAOS as Naeul in 2021.
* Ito Yuna (17th) left Young Entertainment in 2016 and returned to Japan.
* Lee Seo-yeon (18th) participated in Idol School and placed 7th, debuting in Fromis.9.
* Bae Eun-byul (19th) participated in Idol School and placed 15th. She left Young Entertainment in 2018.
* Joo Hwa-young (20th) left Young Entertainment in 2016 due to health concerns.