SGO48
VIetnamese girl group
SGO48 (short for Saigon 48, read S.G.O. Forty-Eight) was a Vietnamese idol girl group based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the seventh international sister group of AKB48 (after Indonesia's JKT48, China's SNH48 (former), Thailand's BNK48, the Philippines' MNL48, China's TSH48, and Taiwan's TPE48). The group debuted on December 22, 2018 and disbanded on their third anniversary, December 22, 2021.
Originally consisting of 29 first-generation members, SGO48 had 20 as of April 2021, thus becoming the Vietnamese girl group with the most members.
History
2018–2019: formation, recruitment and debut
On June 21, 2018, AKS Co. announced the formation of SGO48 through a joint venture between CTCP Tập đoàn Yeah1 (Yeah1 Group) (YEG) and Geo Brain Corporation, and formed the YAG Entertainment company. After the recruitment announcement on August 3 by both the AKB48 and YAG Entertainment team, audition process for the group's first generation on August 10, 2018, consisted of three separate rounds: online registration, interview, and lastly, final round. A concept for a SGO48 theater was brought up to conversation during the first livestream meeting with Japanese investors. Within the first round, candidates had to apply online on the company's website by filling out personal information, with more than 8,000 applications sent and of whom 350 candidates were selected to advance to the interview round. The candidates then performed and answered questions from the judges on the interview round, where 120 candidates were chosen to proceed to the final round. They then had their own talent performance for the training and selection round, where the judges would proceed to select the final members to officially join the group.
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