The 12 finalists of MBC's boy band audition program "Fantasy Boys" announced Thursday night will debut as "Fantasy Boys."

Trainees Yu Jun-won, Kim Gyu-rae, Hong Sung-min, Oh Hyeon-tae, Lee Han-bin, Ling Qi, Kang Min-seo, Hikari, K-Soul, Kim Woo-seok, Hikaru and Kaedan, from first to 12th place in that order, made it to the final 12 members of the boy band.

The final 12 members were decided with a combination of benefit points, on-site votes, global online votes, special offline votes and live voting scores combined.

Benefit points are special points given to the trainees who won previous competitions in the series.

Yu received 206,124.1 points, followed by Kim's 193,112.6 points and Hong's 193,049.5 points.

Fantasy Boys' official debut date has not been revealed yet.

The boy band will be managed by Pocketdol Studio, an entertainment agency home to trot singer Song Ga-in and boy band BAE173.

The audition program was produced in collaboration with MBC, Phunky Studio, Naver, Pocketdol Studio and more "Fantasy Boys" follows MBC's 2021 girl group audition program "My Teenage Girls," which debuted the seven-member girl group CLASS:y in May 2022.



BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]