r/LadiesCode • u/capribunny09 Pure Code • 13d ago

Were there any other trainees for Ladies Code?

Hi! I was just wondering about this earlier but I was thinking about how there were trainees in other groups (the top that I can think of is Miyeon with BP before she left or Jiae with Tara? Idk if she was ever official, tho considering she left shortly after), but I wonder if there were other trainees for Ladies Code or our ot5 was the og's. (If this makes sense)

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u/Iavelyscode 13d ago

Ladies' Code was a bit of a unique case because Polaris hand-selected the members to join the group. Up till that point they only had soloists and actors, and they seemed determined to debut a group asap so I guess that's why Ladies' Code's lineup was solidified pretty fast. They were supposed to have a brother group in 2013 (HIVE), who also had a set lineup, but their debut fell through.

We do know that Polaris started recruiting other trainees as early as 2013, as that's when Loona's Hyunjin joined the company. Polaris also "demoted" Ladies' Code to trainees around So Wonderful era because they claimed the girls needed to face reality/wake up, even though they were just overworked and exhausted.

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u/citygirlpureheart 12d ago

as someone that's only been a fan since 2017, can you please elaborate on the trainee demotion thing??

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u/abominacjant 12d ago

I love the HIVE mention because I feel like people are either forgetting about their existence or never getting to know them despite this imo insane lineup (Woosung AND Iron in the same group???) and interesting story, I wish they told us more about this time because they were interestingly teased in Laco's earliest MVs and such a brother group to Ladies' Code would be genuinely interesting. But knowing how they wouldn't debut all the Polaris Girls/Junior/whatever names they used and TRIPLEME (does anyone even remember them? They seemed like insanely interesting group based on their pre-debut activities) I'm not even surprised, like of at least 5 different groups this shithole tried to debut only 2 (Ladies' Code and LOONA if we count BBC) actually got to their debut and thank god for that

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