What was the “motive” for fraud? PRODUCE101 series operation case, investigation result stated by the Korean prosecutor in a letter of prosecution.

● The production team systematically operated from Season 3.

● The idol groups (IOI and WannaOne) that debuted in season 1 and season 2 were very successful.

●However, the sales of the idol group that debuted in season 3 (IZONE) was far less than the idol group that debuted in season 1 and season 2.

● As a result, they had a feeling of burden on the idol group (X1) that debuted in Season 4.

● Before the program ended with such a feeling of pressure, the trainees to debut were decided in advance.

● The production team decides the vote rate for each trainee according to the ranking, and when the total number of votes is given in the (final) live broadcast, this number is multiplied by the pre-determined vote rate for each trainee. The operation was performed by back-calculating the number of votes obtained by rank.