Netflix is recruiting for its own K-pop audition series. What does We Go High ask of applicants?

Netflix Korea opened casting for We Go High on October 21 and confirmed the project in English a few days later. The series is a girl-group audition set in Korean arts high schools, and the call is still open. Monsterahaus, the production company behind it, has the show down for 2027. Netflix has not locked a premiere date, an episode count, or how many members the final group will have. Recruitment started in late October. A public deadline still has not appeared on the materials we checked.

The pool is smaller than the usual global open call. Eligible applicants are female first- and second-year students at high schools with arts or broadcasting programs, plus students headed into those schools in 2027. Middle-school graduates already applying for arts high school entrance that year can also file. What matters is the department, not whether the campus calls itself an arts high school. The form asks about agency trainee history, debuts, and earlier auditions, but a blank résumé does not disqualify anyone on its own.

Applicants need a singing video and a dance video, each at least a minute long and shot in 2026 or later. Hats and masks are discouraged so faces stay readable, and the form wants the song and artist titles with the files. Up to five photos are allowed, with a front close-up and a full-body shot required. AI-generated images and heavy retouching are out. Guardian name, relationship, and contact details go on the form too. Netflix Korea has been sending people to its official social channels and a linked application. Early November checks still found no closing date there, so anyone applying should look at the live post before assuming the window will stay open.

Beyond the form, Netflix has said less. Students are supposed to compete as rivals and still learn how to work as a group, with the finished girl group aimed at a worldwide audience. Voting rules, cast size, and how the final members get chosen remain unannounced. Park Jin-kyung and Lee Jae-seok of Monsterahaus are directing and producing. The same day casting opened, Netflix signed an MOU with SM C&C so the company can help train, manage, and support the group after debut. That partnership is the clearest piece of the post-show plan Netflix has named so far.

Mnet still runs the main domestic idol survival lane, and Girls Planet 2027 is already casting on a global circuit with Republic Collective. Netflix’s recent turn with this format was closer to documentary work: Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE covered a HYBE and Geffen process that began somewhere else. We Go High starts earlier. Netflix is recruiting the talent, producing the audition, and pairing with an SM Entertainment affiliate for the debut group. Arts high schools have long fed idols into the agency system. Now a streamer is filming that pipeline and planning to release it worldwide. Applicants still have a short list: sing and dance on camera, send clean photos, get a guardian on the form. Netflix wants the next girl group to start there.