IST Entertainment said on February 8th, "IST Entertainment's new rookie boy group will officially debut in the first half of this year and will start a massive debut promotion."

The team, which has been rumored to be in and out of the K-pop market even before its debut, introduces the process of being reborn as a debut group through a fierce survival program around the world before its official start.

IST Entertainment said, "We plan to introduce a survival program in February that deals with the process of selecting official members through MBN, Kakao TV, and global representative K-pop media, 1theK.”

The program is expected to catch the attention of domestic and foreign viewers through a wide audience range of MBN and Kakao TV. Furthermore, it will be introduced through the 1theK channel, which has about 31 million K-pop fans all over the world as subscribers and will stimulate the interest of global fans.