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Idol Rebooting Project: The Unit (Korean: 아이돌 리부팅 프로젝트 더 유닛) is a South Korean survival reality show on KBS2. The concept of the show is to form male and female unit groups of nine members each, among idols who had already debuted. The show is aiming to give them a fair chance to demonstrate their talents that they may not have been able to showcase before.

Overview

KBS announced in July 2017 that they had started production of a reality show under the working title The Final 99 Match. On August 2, the show's first teaser was released under the new title The Unit, stylized as The Uni+, which stands for "You and I Plus". The show also launched its official website on the same day along with application forms available for any idols interested in joining to fill in and submit, as well as a bulletin board wherein idol recommendations from anyone can be submitted.

Booting Evaluations

During the Booting Evaluations, members of the audience vote while the contestants perform. The contestants will receive 1 Boot when 15% of the audience votes for them. When 90% of the audience vote for the contestants, which is known as "Super Boot", the whole group will be able to join the show immediately. If the contestants do not receive a "Super Boot", the Mentors will determine whether to pass each performer or not. Contestants who receive at least 1 boot from any of the mentors will be able to join the show. The Booting Evaluations were held at the Kintex Hall 9 in Ilsan between September 29 and October 1, 2017.

Theme Song

It has been reported that 126 contestants who passed the Booting Evaluations have started filming a music video from October 7 to October 9 as part of a mission. The center group will consist of nine males and nine females, and the most stand-out contestant will be the “center of the center". On October 13, 'The Unit' has dropped the music video for the competitors' first challenge "My Turn", which also aired on that day on KBS's Music Bank, featuring Sonamoo's Euijin and IM's Kijoong as the girls' and boys' center respectively.

Voting

“The Unit” opened up voting at 10 p.m. KST on November 11, and servers crashed approximately 15 minutes later as people rushed to place their votes. Voting for the show will be exclusively done through TMON’s website, with only one vote for each TMON ID. Anyone who supports the 126 contestants can participate. Each person will choose nine male contestants to form their own “Uni+ B” and nine female contestants to form “Uni+ G”. Within their top nine choices, the voters will pick their favorite contestant, who will be awarded two votes while the remaining eight will receive one vote. This will mean that each voter will be able to help out a total of 18 contestants, to achieve their dreams.

As from Episode 11 onwards, the voting system underwent a major change. It was announced that the voting will be exclusively done through “The Unit” official mobile app. Each person will pick only 3 contestants from “Uni+ B” and “Uni+ G” and is allowed to vote only once per day. The voting period started from 12 p.m KST on 7 January and will be closed at 11.59 p.m KST on 25 January 2018.

Post The Unit

On February 24's broadcast of The Unit's Special Show, it was announced that UNI+ B's band name will be UNB and UNI+ G's band name will be UNI.T.

Mentors

• Rain (MC)
• Lee Tae-min (Performance)
• Hyuna (Performance)
• Jo Hyun-ah (Vocals)
• Hwang Chi-yeul (Vocals)
• San E (Rap)

Booting Evaluations

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Note: Mentor votes for some artists weren't indicated. The number of boots are shown instead. For some artists, the number of boots were retrieved from the show's official site.

Episode 1 (October 28)

Episode 2 (November 4)

Episode 3 (November 11)

Unaired Performances

Contestants

Top 9

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First voting period

Second voting period

Third voting period

Final Top 9

Elimination chart

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Male Contestant

First Mission: The Music Video

After the Booting Evaluations, the contestants were tasked to form groups of 9 for the first mission. The winning team for each gender will become the center team in the music video of the show's theme song "My Turn".

Uni+ B Evaluations

Uni+ G Evaluations

Second Mission: Restart Mission

Contestants will choose 1 of the given songs of different concepts that they are confident in; new teams of 9 are formed. Voting of each contestant is conducted during the performances. The winning team for each gender with the most total amount of votes will win a benefit of immunity from elimination after the 1st voting period, regardless of overall vote rankings of the show, plus the chance to perform in Rain's comeback stage.

UNI+ G (Episode 5)

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•   Highest Score Overall

UNI+ B (Episode 6)

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•   Leader
•   Highest Score Overall

Third Mission: Self-producing

Contestants will be grouped by the mentors based on the following categories: Vocal, Rap-Vocal and Performance. All performances are self-arranged by the contestants themselves, with live band accompaniments for the Vocal and Rap-Vocal categories. The mission will be based off a rival match basis. Voting of each contestant is conducted during the performances. The top 3 members of the winning category team for each gender will win a benefit of immunity from elimination after the 2nd voting round, regardless of overall vote rankings of the show.

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•   Leader
•   Winning Team

Overall Ranking

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•   Winning Team (Top 3 members in the team get immunity from elimination in the 2nd elimination round)

Fourth Mission: Digital Singles Release

The remaining contestants after the 2nd Voting Announcement will form 5 groups for each gender, formed by the top 5 contestants from the Self-producing Mission. These formed groups will perform newly produced songs produced by reputable music producers, and these songs will be released as digital singles. Voting of each contestant is conducted during the performances. The winning team for each gender in this mission will have their songs labelled as title tracks in the single albums categorised by gender and the 2 songs' music videos will be directed by well-known directors Hong Won-ki and Lee Gi-taek. Plus, every contestant in the winning team will receive a benefit of additional online votes (1st placed contestant gets 10,000 additional votes, 2nd placed contestant gets 7,000 additional votes, and every other contestant in the team gets 5,000 additional votes), which can help in their rankings by the end of the 3rd voting round.

UNI+ B (Episode 11)

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•   Winning Team

UNI+ G (Episode 12)

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•   Leader
•   Winning Team

Final Mission: Final Stage Battle

The remaining contestants after the 3rd Voting Announcement will form 2 teams of 9 for each gender, through random picking of 1 of the 2 newly produced songs for each gender.

Uni+ G (Episode 14)

Uni+ B (Episode 14)

Discography

THE UNI+ 마이턴 (My turn)

THE UNI+ 빛 (Last One)

THE UNI+ Shine

The UNI+ B Step 1

The UNI+ G Step 1

The UNI+ Final

Ratings

In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in red, and the lowest rating for the show will be in blue each year.

Notes

1. ^ Kim Hwa-young represented San E in some of the performances.
2. ^ The episode only revealed the rankings of #10, #19, #28 and #37.
3. ^ The episode only revealed the rankings of #10 and #19.
4. ^ In order of presentation in Episode 6.

1. ^ In order to circumvent Korean laws that prevent commercial breaks in the middle of an episode, what would previously have been aired as single 120 minute episodes are now being repackaged as two 60 minute episodes, with two episodes being shown each night with a commercial break between the two.

References

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External links

• Official website
• The Unit: Idol Rebooting Project on KBS World
• Template:MyDramaList title

• South Korean reality television series
• 2017 South Korean television series debuts
• Korean-language television programs
• 2010s South Korean television series
• South Korean variety television programmes
• Korean Broadcasting System television programmes
• Music competitions in South Korea
• 2018 South Korean television series endings