Superstar K5
| Broadcast from | August 9 – November 15, 2013 |
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| Judges |
Lee Seung-chul Yoon Jong-shin Lee Ha-neul |
| Host(s) | |
| Broadcaster |
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| Finals venue | Jamsil Indoor Stadium |
| Park Jae Jung | |
| Origin | Seoul, Korea |
| Song | "첫 눈에 (At First Sight)" |
| Genre(s) | Jazz |
| Park Shi Hwan | |
Superstar K5 (Hangul: 슈퍼스타 K5) is the fifth current season of the South Korean television talent show series Superstar K, which premiered on 9 August 2013 on M.net and will be aired every Friday night at 11PM KST. On July 11, 2013, it was confirmed that Lee Seung-chul and Yoon Jong-shin would be returning to join the judges member panel, the latter having been missing from the previous season. This season also saw the addition of of as a judge following the departure of Yoon Mi-rae. This season saw over 1,982,661 applicants across the multiple avenues of entry for the show.
Audition hopefuls could audition in any of the several available audition venues. Additionally, new ways were devised for those unable to attend including as via UGC, KakaoTalk, Karaoke rooms or via secret nomination from family or friends.
Preliminary Auditions for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Regionals were held in these cities:
The preliminary auditions, whilst having traditionally featured either one of the three main judges, has also featured special judges for certain regional auditions. Confirmed special judges that will be featured in the preliminaries will include: Jung Jae-hyung, 2AM member Jo Kwon, Joo Hyun-mi, Brown Eyed Girls' Gain, solo singer Ivy, Clazziquai's Alex and Son Dam-bi.
With 100 contestants from the audition rounds; judges were given the task of reducing these numbers to 50 through an individual elimination round. The next round consisting of contestants splitting into groups where they were both judged and then advanced onto the next round.
The newest addition to the Superstar K5 format was the BlackWeek round, where contestants participated in a rival collaboration mission. For this round, contestants were given scores by a small focus audience which added weight to the scoring of the judges, who ultimately made the final decisions on the next fifteen contestants to advance to the next round. The fifteen contestants were flown to Jeju Island, where each contestant was given an envelope to be unopened. Inside this enveloped contained a pre-determined decision by the judges on whether the contestant had already made it to the final ten, however, contestants had to partake in a final elimination round which could either reconfirm the judges decision or force them to change the content of the envelope.
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