I-Land

I-Land (Korean: 아이랜드; RR: Airaendeu; stylised in all caps) is a South Korean survival reality show organised by Belift Lab (BE:LIFT), which is a joint venture between the entertainment companies CJ E&M and Big Hit Entertainment.[1]

I-LAND
Official Poster
Genre	Survival show
Directed by	Kim Shin-yeong, Jung Min-seok
Presented by	Namkoong Min
Opening theme	Into The I-LAND
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producer	Bang Si-hyuk
Production locations	Paju, Gyeonggi Province
Running time	90 minutes Finale 200 minutes
Production companies	Mnet
Distributor	CJ ENM
Budget	~$23,000,000
Release
Original network
Original release	June 26 – September 18, 2020
External links
Website

I-Land
Hangul	아이랜드
Revised Romanization	Airaendeu
McCune–Reischauer	Airaendŭ

In the show's finale on September 18, 2020, which was broadcast live, the show announced the final 7 members who would debut as Enhypen.

Winning contestants include Yang Jung-won, Lee Hee-seung, Ni-ki, Jake, Jay, Park Sung-hoon, and Kim Sun-oo. The six members were decided by global ranking and the last member by the producer's choice.

Promotion and broadcast

On May 14, 2020, Mnet released the first teaser video for the show and also introduced the producers and mentors of the show.[2]

On June 1, 2020, the first batch of contestants were revealed.[3]

On June 26, 2020, the show premiered on following cable channels: Mnet; tvN Korea; Mnet Japan; tvN Asia (Asia-Pacific); as well as online via Mnet Smart; AbemaTV (Japan); Joox (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand); on the Mnet K-POP & Big Hit Labels YouTube channels and Rakuten Viki (worldwide except certain regions).

The first part of the show ended on July 31, 2020. The second part of the show started on August 14 until September 18, 2020.

A special episode titled, "I-LAND Special: The New Beginning" aired on August 7, 2020 featuring Hwang Kwanghee, Apink's Kim Nam-joo, Momoland's JooE, vocal coach Kim Sung-eun and DOOBU as hosts. It is a summary episode of the 1st part of the show. The hosts spoiled details about the 2nd part of the show including increased participation of global viewers, more performances, and a special appearance of BTS.[4]

BTS and TXT appeared as guests on the last episode broadcast live with an earlier time slot, at 8PM KST.[5]

Concept

22[lower-alpha 1] participants are transported to a complex (called by the same name as the show title, the I-Land) located in the middle of nowhere surrounded by a luscious green forest, for a total of 113 days.[6] The participants will live in a 3-floor complex with modern living spaces, gym, dance studios, item room (for storage), and individual practice rooms; however, only 12 contestants can stay there. The remaining others will be on the “Ground”, which is a simple building with a dance studio and dining area, and the trainees assigned to the Ground have to commute to and from the building every day at set times. The two sections are connected through a gate and a stage, where their skills will be tested. A key part of the concept is that, the participants’ and producers' votes play a heavy role in the show, as they decide through voting who will stay in I-Land and who will go down to the Ground. A fixed number of 12 trainees will be in the I-Land, but they may be dropped and demoted to the Ground (and promptly be replaced by trainees from the Ground).

While the show primarily focuses on the trainees and producers votes,[7] the audience would be able to vote on who remains in the I-Land in the last part of part 1 of the show, and based on this, the show will eliminate all trainees in the Ground. From there, the I-Landers will compete among themselves in the second part of the series to determine who will debut in the final debut team of 7 members. The producers and audience are the only ones who can vote.[8] Thus, the show was originally supposed to focus on trainee and producer votes without much audience influence, but in part 2 of the show, the trainees did not vote at all, and global votes were introduced.

The I-LAND logo (retouched)

Namkoong Min serves as the official host, as well as the commentator/narrator of the program. The contestants are evaluated and judged by three producers: main producer Bang Si-hyuk, CEO of Big Hit Entertainment, South Korean singer Rain and rapper Zico, who are prominent figures in K-pop and K-hip hop of the early 21st century respectively. Rain and Zico will also act as mentors and train the participants.

A first in Korean survival programs, a Big Brother-style live cams titled, I-LAND Cam, features 1-hour video on demand multi-camera footage inside the I-Land and Ground. New videos are released every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday on the Weverse app and on its website.[9] On the last week of I-LAND, I-LAND Cams are live streamed real-time every day for an hour starting at 6PM KST, while on the final day of I-LAND, same day as the final episode, I-LAND Cams are live streamed real-time at 5AM KST.

Cast

Storyteller: Namkoong Min

Producers:

• Bang Si-hyuk
• Rain (Part 1 only)
• Zico (Part 1 only)

Directors:

• Pdogg
• Son Sung-deuk
• Wonderkid
• DOOBU

Guests:

• Hwang Kwanghee (Special Episode Host)
• Apink's Kim Nam-joo (Special Episode Host)
• Momoland's JooE (Special Episode Host)
• Kim Sung-eun (Special Episode Host & Episode 9)
• BTS (Episode 7 & 12)
• Bae Yoon-jung (Episode 7)
• Seventeen's The8, Jun, Hoshi, Dino (Episode 10)
• Shin A-young (Final Episode co-host)
• TXT (Episode 12)
• Seventeen (Episode 12 (indirectly), through AbemaTV Japan's I-Land KPop Special)
• 13 eliminated contestants (Episode 12)

Contestants

Originally, there were 23 contestants participating in I-LAND, however as the show progressed, one contestant (Kim Yoon-won), amidst the fifth episode in part 1, had voluntarily dropped out, possibly due to health problems.

Name	Hangul	Date of Birth / Age	Korean Age	Training period	Notes
K	케이	October 21, 1997	24	2 years & 8 months	Japanese contestant, marathon athlete
Hanbin	한빈	19 January 1998	23	11 months	Vietnamese contestant, founder & leader of dance crew C.A.C
Choi Se-on	최세온	14 December 1999	22	4 years & 10 months	Former Yue Hua Entertainment trainee & Produce 101 Season 2 contestant under the name Choi Seung-hyuk
Lee Geon-u	이건우	2 February 2001	20	1 year & 4 months	Former contestant on Dancing High
Choi Jae-ho	최재호	10 April 2001	20	1 year & 5 months	Former n.CH Entertainment trainee & World Klass contestant
Jung Jae-beom	정재범	17 May 2001	20	6 months
Chu Ji-min	추지민	11 October 2001	20	11 months	Currently in a band
Lee Hee-seung	이희승	15 October 2001	20	3 years & 1 month	Former Big Hit Entertainment trainee since early 2017.
Lee Young-bin	이영빈	23 November 2001	20	4 months	Basketball player for 7 years
Jay	제이	20 April 2002	19	2 years & 11 months	Former Big Hit Entertainment trainee since 2017. Korean-American contestant
Nicholas	니콜라스	9 July 2002	19	8 months	Taiwanese contestant, B-boy[10]
EJ (Byun Eui-joo)	변의주	7 September 2002	19	1 year & 6 months	Former Big Hit Entertainment trainee Competitive fencer in middle school
Jake	제이크	15 November 2002	19	9 months	Korean-Australian contestant. Picked from the Belift global auditions with the odds of 500:1
Park Sung-hoon	박성훈	8 December 2002	19	2 years & 1 month	A youth figure skater, won gold medal at the 2015–16 season of the The Asian Trophy & the Lombardia Trophy. Former Big Hit Entertainment trainee
Kim Sun-oo	김선우	24 June 2003	18	10 months
Noh Sung-chul	노성철	11 December 2003	18	8 months	Soccer player
Yang Jung-won	양정원	9 February 2004	17	1 year & 4 months	Former Big Hit Entertainment trainee. Competitive taekwondo player for 4 years
Kim Tae-yong	김태용	20 August 2004	17	1 year & 2 months	Child actor for 8 years
Cho Kyung-min	조경민	28 October 2004	17	1 year & 11 months	Contemporary dancer
Kim Yoon-won[lower-alpha 2]	김윤원	16 April 2005	16	1 year & 1 month	Member of K-Pop dance crew Matchpoint Crew, part of The J Production
Ta-ki	타키	4 May 2005	16	10 months	Japanese contestant
Ni-ki	니키	9 December 2005	16	8 months	Japanese contestant, former backup dancer; notably for SHINee
Daniel	다니엘	26 March 2006	15	1 year	Korean-American contestant, former YG Entertainment trainee under the name Kim Dong-kyu

System

Part 1

Introduced in Episode 2, there is a system in place based on a scoring system out of 100. Each of the I-Landers are evaluated individually and given a score from 0–100. These scores are then displayed anonymously so that any particular individual's score is unknown, and then averaged to get the team score. Based on the team score, a certain number of I-Landers will have to be moved to the Ground and be replaced.

In episode 3, a separate "teamwork" score was also given and factored into the overall average score.

Team Score System
Average Team Score	Number of I-Landers dropped
96-100	0
91-95	1
86-90	2
81-85	3
76-80	4
71-75	5
70 and below	6

Global Voting

A global voting system was held and the first part of it started on July 24, 2020 at 00:00 (KST) and ended on August 1, 2020 at 00:00 (KST). Viewers can vote for 6 contestants, out of 23, that they wish to see them progress to the 2nd part of I-Land. Viewers can vote once per day.

The second part of voting started on August 1, 2020 at 00:00 (KST) and ended on August 2, 2020 at 12:00 (KST). Viewers can vote for 6 contestants, out of the 16 Grounders, that they wish to see them progress to the 2nd part of I-Land. Every vote is equal to 3 votes.

Top 12 Global Votes
Rank	Contestant	Votes
1	Kim Sun-oo	1,705,287
2	Lee Hee-seung	1,592,834
3	Jay	1,535,928
4	Han-bin	1,415,420
5	Sunghoon	1,298,205
6	K	1,182,411
7	Jake	1,151,132
8	Jungwon	1,083,305
9	Ni-ki	892,664
10	Daniel	824,473

Part 2

The system in part 2 was introduced in Episode 7. Each of the I-Landers are evaluated individually and given a rank from 1-12. The top 7 I-Landers will wear a badge that symbolises the debut group, which is containing of 7 participants, and this ranks can change after each test. Same as Part 1, there are 4 tests and on each test, and one or more contestants will be eliminated according to their ranks. In Test 1 and Test 3, eliminated contestants will be picked by producers only, while in Test 2 and Final Test, the global voting from viewers will be added to determine the eliminated contestants and the final debut lineup.

Global voting

A global voting system was held to select the final debut members. For the first part, each viewer can vote up to 2 contestants per day from August 15, 2020 00:00 (KST) until August 29, 2020 23:59 (KST). Votes of contestants who were eliminated during the voting period will be disregarded.

The second part of voting started on September 5, 2020 and ended before the last episode on September 18, 2020. Viewers can select only one contestant per day. Votes of contestants who were eliminated during the voting period will be disregarded.

Another voting period started during the live broadcast of the last episode. Viewers can select only one contestant and voting are only open for an hour.

Rank	Top 11 Partial Results (August 15–21, 2020)	Top 11 Final Results (August 15–29, 2020)[lower-alpha 3]		Top 9 Final Results (September 4–18, 2020)[lower-alpha 4]
	Contestant	Contestant	Votes	Contestant	Votes
1	Kim Sun-oo	Kim Sun-oo	1,705,287	Yang Jung-won	1,417,620
2	Lee Hee-seung	Lee Hee-seung	1,592,834	Jay	1,192,889
3	Park Sung-hoon	Jay	1,535,928	Jake	1,179,633
4	Ta-ki	Han-bin	1,415,420	Ni-ki	1,140,728
5	Jake	Park Sung-hoon	1,298,204	Lee Hee-seung	1,137,323
6	Yang Jung-won	K	1,182,411	Park Sung-hoon	1,088,413
7	Daniel	Jake[lower-alpha 5]	1,151,132	K	946,046
8	Han-bin	Yang Jung-won	1,083,305	Kim Sun-oo	935,771
9	K	Ni-ki	892,664	Daniel	773,792
10	Ni-ki	Daniel	828,473
11	Jay	Ta-ki	762,679

I-Land Score Results

Color key

•   Highest score that round
•   Lowest score that round

Theme Song Mission			Team Work Mission				Representative Unit Mission	The Final 12 Mission			BTS Test		Chemistry Test	Concept Test		Final Test
Contestant	Individual Scores	Average Score	Contestant	Individual Scores	Teamwork Score	Average Score	Team Score	Contestant	Individual Scores	Team Score	Contestant	Individual Scores	Global Votes	Contestant	Individual Scores	Global Votes + Producer's Pick
Youngbin	47	59	-	68	80	78	(Representatives: Heeseung & Geonu) Vocal: 81 (Representatives: Jungwon, Sunghoon & K) Dance: 73 Total: 154	Youngbin	65	69	Sun-oo	77		Sun-oo	86
Daniel	70		-	69				Kyung-min	64		Daniel	64		Heeseung	83
Jake	40		Ta-ki	75				Jake	75		Heeseung	93		Jay	79
-	67		-	66				Seon	65		Sunghoon	79		Hanbin	72
-	66		Heeseung	83				Heeseung	70		K	78		Sunghoon	81
-	61		K	88				K	61		Jay	74		K	92
Nicholas	46		-	67				Jaebeom	63		Jungwon	81		Jake	78
Jungwon	75		-	65				Jungwon	83		Jake	70		Jungwon	76
-	59		EJ	70				Jay	76		Ni-ki	69		Ni-ki	87
-	58		-	62				Geonu	60		Ta-ki	57		Daniel	77
-	57		Sunghoon	80				Sunghoon	81		Geonu	60
Ni-ki	65		Sun-oo	71				EJ	66		Hanbin	66

Missions

1. Entry test

Trainees that came together or alone must perform in this test. Every other contestant must raise their hands to judge whether they are worth to be on the I-LAND. If a trainee received 12 or more votes, they are allowed to be on the I-Land. If not, they will be on the Ground. There is no limit to the count, but if there are more than 12 contestants after the whole test, the remaining contestants must pick one or more contestants to be moved out to the Ground until there are 12 contestants remaining.

Color key

•   I-Land
•   Moved Out[lower-alpha 6]
•   Ground

Entry Test (Episode 1)
Order	Song	Original Artist	Trainee	Votes	Results
1	Lullaby	Got7	Choi Se-on	22/22 (100%)	I-Land
2	The 7th Sense	NCT U	Park Sung-hoon	21/22 (95.5%)	I-Land
			Jay	19/22 (79.2%)	I-Land
3	Jopping	SuperM	Nicholas	12/22 (54.5%)	I-Land
			Ni-ki	20/22 (90.9%)	I-Land
			Hanbin	7/22 (31.8%)	Ground
4	Boss	NCT U	Lee Hee-seung	20/22 (90.9%)	I-Land
5	Danger	Taemin	K	16/22 (72.7%)	I-Land
6	Any Song	Zico	Daniel	17/22 (77.3%)	I-Land
			EJ	12/22 (54.5%)	Moved Out
7	Shoot Out	Monsta X	Noh Sung-chul	17/22 (77.3%)	Moved Out
			Jung Jae-beom	8/22 (36.4%)	Ground
			Chu Ji-min	7/22 (29.1%)	Ground
8	Chained Up	VIXX	Lee Geon-u	19/22 (86.4%)	I-Land
			Cho Kyung-min	11/22 (50.0%)	Ground
			Choi Jae-ho	6/22 (27.3%)	Ground
9	Monster	EXO	Ta-ki[lower-alpha 7]	22/22 (100%)	Moved Out
10	All I Wanna Do (K) (Feat. Hoody & Loco)	Jay Park	Kim Yoon-won[lower-alpha 8]	9/22 (40.9%)	Ground
			Kim Tae-yong	9/22 (40.9%)	Ground
			Yang Jung-won	21/22 (95.5%)	I-Land
11	Crown	TXT	Kim Sun-oo	20/22 (90.9%)	Moved Out
			Lee Young-bin	13/22 (59.1%)	I-Land
			Jake	12/22 (54.5%)	I-Land

2. Theme song

Trainees begin their first official mission with the theme "encounter"; the trainees are just getting to know each other. The contestants on the I-Land and the Ground must perform the show's theme song "Into The I-LAND" (original version by IU). There are 12 parts in this song and each trainee must pick which part they want to perform. The I-Land contestants will be evaluated individually by the producers and directors, and the average score of all of them will correspond to the number of contestants needed to move out from the I-Land.[lower-alpha 9] The Ground contestants will each submit a performance video daily to be reviewed by the producers and directors to determine who will replace the eliminated contestants from the I-Land, but they will not have an actual performance on stage.

Lee Hee-seung was appointed the leader and the part 1 position by the contestants but later gave up both positions to Ni-ki. Rain evaluated their performance two days before their mission. The I-Landers received an average score of 59 (from contestants individual scores) and therefore have to choose 6 contestants to be moved out from the I-Land.

Color key

•   Contestant from the I-Land later moved to the Ground

Theme Song (Episode 2 & 3)
Part	Trainee
1 (Center)	Niki[lower-alpha 10]
2	Lee Geon-u
3	Yang Jung-won
4	K
5	Choi Se-on
6	Daniel
7	Park Sung-hoon
8	Jay
9	Nicholas
10	Lee Hee-seung[lower-alpha 11]
11	Jake[lower-alpha 12]
12	Lee Young-bin

3. Teamwork

Their second mission is designed to test and develop their teamwork. Both the I-Landers and the Grounders will perform a remix of "Fire" by BTS. They are given 6 days to prepare. The same scoring system will be used; however, the highest individual scorer in I-Land will be given a dropout exemption card, which can be used on any of the I-Landers, including himself. If the card is used, the next dropout candidate will automatically be eliminated. If there are no dropouts from I-Land in this round, the Grounders will not be able to perform at all.

Jay and Ni-ki became the leaders of the Grounders, while Hee-seung is the leader for the I-Landers. 2 days before the test, Rain and DOOBU evaluated the Grounders while Zico, Pdogg and Son Sung-deuk evaluated the I-Landers as a midpoint check. The I-Landers received a teamwork score of 80 and had an average of 78 and therefore have to choose 4 contestants to be moved out from the I-Land.

K received the highest score and, thus, the dropout exemption card. He used it to save Yang Jung-won from being dropped out of I-Land. Yang Jung-won being saved makes the next contestant, Ta-ki to move out from I-Land. They both have 5 votes but Ta-ki has a higher individual score than Jung-won so he was originally saved from being dropped out.

•   Contestant from I-Land that received the highest score thus received the dropout exemption card
•   Contestant that eventually stays in I-Land
•   Contestant that later moved from I-Land to Ground
•   Contestant that later moved from Ground to I-Land
•   Contestant that eventually stays in Ground

Teamwork (Episode 3 & 4)
Part	I-LAND	Ground
1 (Center)	Lee Hee-seung	Jay
2	K	Ni-ki
3	Yang Jung-won[lower-alpha 13]	Daniel
4	Lee Geon-u	Hanbin
5	Jung Jae-beom	Jake
6	Kim Sun-oo	Noh Sung-chul
7	Choi Se-on	Choi Jae-ho
8	Kim Tae-yong	Nicholas
9	Park Sung-hoon	Jo Kyung-min
10	Kim Yoon-won	Chu Ji-Min
11	EJ	Lee Young-bin
12	Ta-ki[lower-alpha 14]

4. Representative Unit

Their third mission is picking representatives for vocal and dance battle between I-Land and Ground to test their sacrifice and ability to directly compete. If Ground wins, 6 contestants will be dropped out from I-Land. If I-Land wins, no contestants will be dropped out. They are given 6 days to prepare. Rain and Son Sung-deuk evaluated the I-Landers while Zico, Pdogg, and DOOBU evaluated the Grounders as a midpoint check, 3 days before the test. I-Land won the battle; therefore no I-Landers will be dropped out.

•   Win
•   Lose

Representative Unit (Episode 4 & 5)
Vocal	I-Land (Song: Butterfly by BTS)		Ground (Song: Save Me by BTS)
	Lee Geon-u	Score: 81	Kim Sun-oo	Score: 74
	Lee Hee-seung		Daniel[lower-alpha 15]
Dance	I-Land (Songs: Rainism by Rain, 3 Dope Boyz by Dynamic Duo & One of a Kind by G-Dragon)		Ground (Songs: Warrior's Descendant by H.O.T., Reversal by X-Teen & One of a Kind by G-Dragon)
	Park Sung-hoon[lower-alpha 16]	Score: 73	Ni-ki	Score: 65
	Yang Jung-won		Nicholas
	K		Choi Jae-ho[lower-alpha 17]
I-Land Total Score		154	Ground Total Score	139

5. The Final 12

The fourth and last mission of the first part of the show will decide the final 12 contestants. They will be performing a new original song titled, "I&credible" with the theme, "Awakening". Like the theme song, there are 12 parts in this song and each trainee must pick which part they want to perform. They are given 7 days to prepare. Rain and Son Sung-deuk evaluated the Grounders while Zico, Pdogg, and DOOBU evaluated the I-Landers as a midpoint check. Jay and Jake help the I-Landers with the details of the choreography, and Ni-ki helps the Grounders.

From the I-Land, 3 contestants will be voted out by the I-Landers themselves and another 3 from the producers. 6 members from the Ground (including the dropped out I-Landers) who will fill up the 6 spots in I-Land will be picked by the global fans through voting. The 6 remaining I-Landers will automatically continue to the second part of the show.

After the eliminated I-Landers arrive in the Ground, they must perform again with the Grounders, they are given 3 days to redistribute parts and to prepare.

K, Lee Hee-seung, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Jung-won, Jake, and Jay are saved from being dropped out, thus, they will continue on to the second part of I-Land.

  Contestants that later moved from I-Land to Ground

The Final 12 (Episode 5 & 6)
Part	I-LAND	Ground
1 (Center)	K	Lee Geon-u
2	Yang Jung-won[lower-alpha 18]	Choi Jae-ho
3	Park Sung-hoon	Chu Ji-min
4	Lee Geon-u	Noh Sung-chul
5	Lee Hee-seung[lower-alpha 19]	Ni-ki
6	Jay	Hanbin
7	Choi Se-on	Choi Se-on
8	Jake	Jung Jae-beom
9	EJ	Ta-ki
10	Jung Jae-beom	Jo Kyung-min
11	Lee Young-bin	Lee Young-bin
12	Jo Kyung-min	Kim Tae-yong
13		Nicholas
14		EJ
15		Daniel
16		Kim Sun-oo

• Kim Yoon-won has withdrawn from I-LAND due to unforeseen circumstances.

6. BTS Test

The first test of the 2nd part of I-LAND and the final 12 contestants is performing songs of BTS. The 12 contestants are divided into 3 units with each one performing a song by BTS. The group gave the mission themselves, recorded in the living room of I-Land while the contestants watched from the lobby. The producers will pick the contestant who will be eliminated based on individual scoring. The unit with the highest score will be exempted from elimination, if the contestant with the lowest score is in the first rank unit, the next member with the lowest score will be eliminated from I-LAND. They are given 7 days to prepare. Son Sung-deuk and DOOBU evaluated the I-Landers as a midpoint check.

Choreographer Bae Yoon Jung and Son Sung-deuk appeared to give a mini-mission which is a freestyle dance battle, the ranks 1-3 will be the leader of the group and will choose if they want to pick their members in the unit or choose a song.

The Fake Love unit ranked first. Ta-ki, who's part of the unit, received the lowest individual score but was saved from being eliminated. Lee Geon-u, who placed 11th, was eliminated instead.[11] The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rank will be spending a day of freedom outside I-Land doing different activities.

BTS Test Mini-Mission: Freestyle Dance Battle
Rank	Contestant
1	Ta-ki
2	K
3	Yang Jung-won

•   Unit with the highest score and is exempted from elimination
•   Unit with the lowest score
•   Contestant that was eliminated
•   Contestant that was originally eliminated but was saved by the winning unit's exemption card

BTS Test (Episode 7 & 8)
Song	Contestants	Individual Score	Team Score	Rank
Fake Love	Ta-ki	57	306	1st
	Park Sung-hoon	79
	Lee Hee-seung	93
	Kim Sun-oo	77
DNA	K	78	287	2nd
	Hanbin	66
	Jay	74
	Niki	69
I Need U	Yang Jung-won	81	275	3rd
	Lee Geon-u	60
	Jake	70
	Daniel	64

7. Chemistry Test

The second test of the 2nd part of the show is about the chemistry between the contestants and the global fans. The contestants will be divided into two groups and will be performing new singles, "Flicker" and "Dive Into You". The eliminations for this round will be determined by the global votes. The contestant who places first, picked by the producers, will receive twice the number of votes for 24 hours before the global voting ends. Lee Hee-seung, the 1st rank contestant will pick his chosen song and members. They are given 6 days to prepare. Son Sung-deuk and DOOBU evaluated the performance while vocal coach Kim Sung-eun evaluated the vocals of the I-Landers as a midpoint check.

Jake, who was picked by the producers, ranked first, thus, the votes he will receive in the last 24 hours of voting is equal to two votes.

•   First place contestant picked by the producers
•   Contestant that was eliminated

Chemistry Test (Episode 9 & 10)
Part	Flicker	Dive Into You
1	Lee Hee-seung	Jay
2	K	Kim Sun-oo
3	Yang Jung-won	Hanbin
4	Jake	Ni-ki
5	Park Sung-hoon	Ta-ki
6		Daniel

8. Concept Test

The third test of the 2nd part of the show is about concept performance, and will feature a mini-mission to form a team. They will be covering two songs of Seventeen which are Pretty U and HIT. They are given a day to practice. The8, Jun, Dino and Hoshi of Seventeen came to I-Land to administer the mini-mission themselves. Team "Pretty U" won the mini-mission. Kim Sun-oo won first place and will pick his chosen song and members.

The contestants then will be divided into two groups and will be performing new singles, "Chamber 5 (Dream of Dreams)" as a refreshing concept and "Flame On" as explosion concept. The producers will pick the contestant who will be eliminated based on individual scoring. The 11th place contestant will participate in the mini-mission and practice for the concept test but will not be performing it in front of the producers.

Park Sung-hoon and Kim Sun-oo were appointed leaders of the teams. Ta-ki placed 11th place in the global votes for the Chemistry Test, thus, he was eliminated. Kim Sun-oo replaced Ta-ki with Park Sung-hoon in his group. K replaced Park Sung-hoon as being the leader of "Flame On". They are given 5 days to practice. Son Sung-deuk evaluated both teams as a midpoint check.

•   First place team (chosen by Seventeen)
•   First place contestant

Seventeen Cover Song Mini Mission
Pretty U	HIT
Park Sung-hoon	Jay
Kim Sun-oo	K
Yang Jung-won	Hanbin
Jake	Ni-ki
Ta-ki[lower-alpha 20]	Lee Hee-seung
Daniel

•   First place contestant
•   Contestant that was eliminated

Concept Test (Episode 11)
Part	Chamber 5 (Dream of Dreams)	Flame On
1	Lee Hee-seung	K
2	Kim Sun-oo	Hanbin
3	Yang Jung-won	Daniel
4	Jake	Ni-ki
5	Park Sung-hoon	Jay

9. Final Test

The last test of the show, which comes before debut, will determine the debut group which contains 7 members. The top 6 trainees will be selected from global votes while one trainee will be chosen by the producers. They will be performing a new single titled, "Calling (Run Into You)" during the live broadcast. Son Sung-deuk and DOOBU evaluated the I-Landers as a midpoint check.

The I-Landers will also get to film their own PR video. The duration of their video will be based on their ranking. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rank will get 60, 50, and 40 seconds, respectively, while the rest will have 30 seconds.

The 13 eliminated trainees came to I-LAND and they reunited with the current contestants to practice their first song, "Into The I-LAND" together and perform it during the live broadcast for the first time.

The debut group name is "Enhypen", from the symbol Hyphen (-) it creates new meanings including Connection, Discovery, & Growth. The final line-up are Yang Jung-won, Jay, Jake, Niki, Lee Hee-seung, Park Sung-hoon, with Kim Sun-oo as the producer's pick.

•   Debuting contestants
•   Contestant that was picked by the producers to be in the debut lineup
•   Contestants that was eliminated

Final Test (Episode 12)
Part	Contestant
1	Lee Hee-seung
2	K
3	Yang Jung-won
4	Kim Sun-oo
5	Park Sung-hoon
6	Ni-ki
7	Jay
8	Jake
9	Daniel

Results

	Contestants moved to "I-Land"
	Contestants moved to "Ground"
	Eliminated from the show
	Ranking for a temporary debut lineup

Part 1

Episode 1 (June 26, 2020)		Episode 2 (July 3, 2020)		Episode 3 (July 10, 2020)		Episode 4 (July 17, 2020)		Episode 5 (July 24, 2020)		Episode 6 (July 31, 2020)		Episode 7 (August 14, 2020)
I-Land	Ground	I-Land	Ground	I-Land	Ground	I-Land	Ground	I-Land	Ground	I-Land	Ground	Final 12	Eliminated
K	Hanbin	K	Hanbin	K	Hanbin	K	Hanbin	K	Hanbin	K	Hanbin	K	Jo Kyung-min
Choi Se-on	Jung Jae-beom	Choi Se-on	Jung Jae-beom	Choi Se-on	Chu Ji-min	Choi Se-on	Chu Ji-min	Choi Se-on	Chu Ji-min	Lee Hee-seung	Chu Ji-min	Lee Hee-seung	Jung Jae-beom
Lee Geon-u	Chu Ji-min	Lee Geon-u	Chu Ji-min	Lee Geon-u	Jo Kyung-min	Lee Geon-u	Ni-ki	Lee Geon-u	Ni-ki	Park Sung-hoon	Ni-ki	Park Sung-hoon	Chu Ji-min
Lee Hee-seung	Jo Kyung-min	Lee Hee-seung	Jo Kyung-min	Lee Hee-seung	Choi Jae-ho	Lee Hee-seung	Choi Jae-ho	Lee Hee-seung	Choi Jae-ho	Yang Jung-won	Choi Jae-ho	Yang Jung-won	Noh Sung-chul
Lee Young-bin	Choi Jae-ho	Lee Young-bin	Choi Jae-ho	Park Sung-hoon	Noh Sung-chul	Park Sung-hoon	Noh Sung-chul	Park Sung-hoon	Noh Sung-chul	Jake	Noh Sung-chul	Jake	Choi Jae-ho
Jay	Kim Yoon-won	Jay	Kim Yoon-won	Yang Jung-won	Lee Young-bin	Jung Jae-beom	Daniel	Jung Jae-beom	Daniel	Jay	Daniel	Jay	Kim Tae-yong
Nicholas	Kim Tae-yong	Nicholas	Kim Tae-yong	Kim Tae-yong	Daniel	EJ	Nicholas	EJ	Nicholas		Nicholas	Kim Sun-oo[lower-alpha 21]	EJ
EJ		Daniel	Ta-ki	Jung Jae-beom	Jake	Yang Jung-won	Kim Yoon-won	Yang Jung-Won	Kim Yoon-won		Kim Tae-yong	Daniel[lower-alpha 22]	Nicholas
Jake		Jake	Kim Sun-oo	EJ	Jay	Jo Kyung-min	Kim Tae-yong	Jo Kyung-min	Kim Tae-yong		Kim Sun-oo	Ni-ki[lower-alpha 23]	Lee Young-bin
Park Sung-hoon		Park Sung-hoon	Noh Sung-chul	Kim Yoon-won	Nicholas	Lee Young-bin	Kim Sun-oo	Lee Young-bin	Kim Sun-oo		Ta-ki	Lee Geon-u[lower-alpha 24]	Choi Se-on
Kim Sun-oo		Yang Jung-won	EJ	Kim Sun-oo	Ni-ki	Jake	Ta-ki	Jake	Ta-ki		Lee Young-bin	Ta-ki[lower-alpha 25]
Noh Sung-chul		Ni-ki		Ta-ki		Jay		Jay			Jo Kyung-min	Hanbin[lower-alpha 26]
Yang Jung-won											Jung Jae-beom
Ta-ki											EJ
Ni-ki											Choi Se-on
Daniel											Lee Geon-u

Part 2

Rank	Episode 7 (August 14, 2020)	Episode 8 (August 21, 2020)	Episode 10 (September 4, 2020)	Episode 11 (September 11, 2020)	Episode 12 (September 18, 2020)
	Final 12	Final 11	Final 10	Final 9	Enhypen
1	Kim Sun-oo	Lee Hee-seung	Kim Sun-oo	K	Yang Jung-won
2	Daniel	Yang Jung-won	Lee Hee-seung	Ni-ki	Jay
3	Lee Hee-seung	Park Sung-hoon	Jay	Kim Sun-oo	Jake
4	Park Sung-hoon	K	Hanbin	Lee Hee-seung	Ni-ki
5	K	Kim Sun-oo	Park Sung-hoon	Park Sung-hoon	Lee Hee-seung
6	Jay	Jay	K	Jay	Park Sung-hoon
7	Yang Jung-won	Jake	Jake	Jake	Kim Sun-oo[lower-alpha 27]
8	Jake	Ni-ki	Yang Jung-won	Daniel	K[lower-alpha 28]
9	Ni-ki	Hanbin	Ni-ki	Yang Jung-won	Daniel
10	Ta-ki	Daniel	Daniel	Hanbin
11	Lee Geon-u	Lee Geon-u[lower-alpha 29]	Ta-ki
12	Hanbin	Ta-ki[lower-alpha 30]

Album

• June 19, 2020 - Into the I-LAND 〈I-LAND Part 1 Signal Song〉 (IU)
• June 26, 2020 - Into the I-LAND 〈I-LAND Part 1 Signal Song (applicants ver.)〉 (I-LAND)
• August 1, 2020 - I&credible 〈I-LAND Part 1 Final Song〉 (I-LAND)
• September 19, 2020 - Calling (Run To You) 〈I-LAND Part 2 Final Song〉 (I-LAND)

Rating

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. Some of the ratings found have already been rounded off to 1 decimal place, as they are usually of lower rankings in terms of the day's ratings. Despite low domestic TV ratings, the international simulcast on online video platforms generates an accumulated 13.6 million views on each episode.[12]

Episode	Air date	AGB Ratings
		Mnet	tvN	Sum
1	June 26, 2020	0.4%	1.3%	1.7%
2	July 3, 2020	0.3%	0.6%	0.9%
3	July 10, 2020	0.3%	0.7%	1.0%
4	July 17, 2020	0.3%	0.4%	0.7%
5	July 24, 2020	0.4%	0.4%	0.8%
6	July 31, 2020	0.4%	0.3%	0.7%
Special[lower-alpha 31]	August 7, 2020	NR	N/A	N/A
7	August 14, 2020	0.6%	0.4%	1.0%
8	August 21, 2020	0.4%	0.4%	0.8%
9	August 28, 2020	0.5%	0.3%	0.8%
10	September 4, 2020	0.5%	0.4%	0.9%
11	September 11, 2020	0.5%	0.3%	0.8%
12[lower-alpha 32]	September 18, 2020	0.8%	N/A	N/A

• This show airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters.
• NR rating means "not reported".

Controversies

• June 2020 : During the shooting, the staff fell on the stage and one of the performers had an arm fracture.[13]
• On August 12, 2020, a staff of the cleaning service company of I-LAND contracted COVID-19. Mnet cancelled all productions and schedules of the show indefinitely while all contestants and staffs got tested for the virus.[14] Filming resumed on August 17, 2020 after the production set was disinfected over the weekend. Most of the staffs including the contestants tested negative for the virus while other staffs are still waiting for their results.[15]

Aftermath

• ENHYPEN released their debut EP Border: Day One on November 30, 2020.[16]
• Belift Lab created 2 spin-offs of the show called, "Summer Training Camp" and "TMI Q&A", featuring all 22 contestants of I-Land. The first spin-off premiered on September 25, 2020 on Big Hit Labels' YouTube channel, while the second was uploaded on the same channel on September 28, 2020.

Other contestants

• Hanbin returned to Belift Lab. After that he held a fan meeting called "!00%". He is set to debut as a soloist soon.[17]
• K, EJ, Taki, Nicholas and Kyungmin joined Big Hit Entertainment Japan and they are set to debut in 2021.[18][19]

Sequel

As revealed at the end of the last episode, an upcoming girl group will be trained and formed in I-Land, the specific date hasn't been announced yet.

Notes

1. Formerly 23 until episode 6.
2. Yoonwon has withdrawn after part 1 of the show due to unforeseen circumstances.
3. Used for Chemistry Test eliminations
4. Used for Final Test eliminations
5. Jake received a first rank benefit which is doubling every vote he'll receive during the last 24 hours of voting.
6. Contestant that joined I-Land but were voted to be moved out into the Ground in later episodes.
7. Including an appeal performance of the "Rocking" dance with "Funkastic James" by Common Ground.
8. Including an appeal performance of him singing "Don't Know You" by Heize.
9. See System
10. Originally Lee Hee-seung has this part, but switched parts with Ni-ki.
11. Originally Ni-ki has this part, but switched parts with Lee Hee-seung.
12. A technical difficulty with the mic caused Jake's part to be silent.
13. Originally Yang Jung-won was eliminated, however K used his dropout exemption card to save him.
14. Originally Ta-ki remained in I-Land, however K used his dropout exemption card to save Yang Jung-won, thus he got eliminated.
15. Originally Noh Sung-chul has this part, but switched parts with Daniel.
16. Originally Jay has this part, but switched parts with Park Sung-hoon.
17. Hanbin got a chance to do this part but eventually Choi Jae-ho got the part
18. Originally Lee Hee-seung has this part, but switched parts with Yang Jung-won.
19. Originally Yang Jung-won has this part, but switched parts with Lee Hee-seung.
20. Taki was eliminated after the announcement of the global votes that took place after the mini mission.
21. 1st place with 2,648,265 votes
22. 2nd place with 2,532,915 votes
23. 3rd place with 2,090,201 votes
24. 4th place with 1,916,736 votes
25. 5th place with 1,703,579 votes
26. 6th place with 1,094,601 votes
27. Producers' Pick 8th Place by Global Voting
28. 7th Place by Global Voting
29. 11th place Lee Geon-u was eliminated instead since 12th place Taki was in the winning group units, thus he is exempted
30. 12th place Taki was in the winning group units, thus he is exempted, while 11th place Lee Geon-u replacing him to be eliminated
31. Aired only on Mnet
32. Live only on Mnet

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External links

• Official website
• Belift
• I-LAND at Rakuten Viki