[ STORY ] Ex-trainee at AND for 3 years.
 I have been a trainee at AND for 3 years. I joined when I was 17. I auditioned and made towards the final rounds being able to train under the entertainment company. You are given a 2 year contract at AND and at the end of it, you renew it with them if they see you fit or you just end up leaving. The contract is the basics of disclaimer and not spreading out personal information within the company. Trainees get to train in the main building since AND only has one building but I heard they were going to build another building for the trainees soon to separate the artists from the trainees. When arriving you go through a very hectic schedule, schooling is usually last on the list. 3 hrs of vocals, language, dancing and everything else. You have dance practice and monthly evaluations. A lot of the artists at AND were always at the monthly evaluations so it was a chance for us to meet them. Most of them did come once in a while and give us a word of encouragement. There are a lot of popular trainees where the fanbase of AND knows them and are close to artists. I didn’t get too close with anyone but did always exchange greetings. There were a few trainees that were simply arrogant. I guess cause competition was tight and they were eager to debut like the rest of us. There is an elite sense around the trainees. Most of them left by the time I left as well.Â
AND surely does pick up a lot of trainees and workers. They’re a growing entertainment company but I always find it impractical for them to do that. I guess cause I wanted to debut so badly but the chances of debuting became slim when AND had an audition overseas and picked up a lot of trainees. It became almost packed but competition became even tighter. There were always rumors about a new group debuting so everyone worked really hard to be a potential line up. School became unimportant during these times. I think AND debuted with a girl group and so a lot of the girl trainees dropped out because next would be a boy group debut. It was always how the process worked.Â
There were some trainees that were really rude to one another. There wasn’t a lot of bullying there, if there was the teachers would dismiss it and their contact would be terminated from AND. It was a really strict environment. Once in a while an artist or several celebrities in aND would come and teach us for the day. It was a good way to get close to the artists if we would debut soon. I think most of the celebrities in AND are nice but they don’t seem as close as people make them out to be.Â











