The presentation of the participants served as their first display on mass public whose votes will be significant for their rankings on the show. The challenge for these male contestants in this second season of Produce 101 is to make it to top spots by granting the viewers a more entertaining performance so that they will be guaranteed to be at the top spots.
Produce 101's will be featuring over 100 novices from different Korean entertainment corporations excluding JYP entertainment, SM entertainment, and YG entertainment. K-pop sensations like JJCC and Nu'Est which was produced by Jackie Chan along with other K-pop groups are also featured in second season of Produce 101 bringing with them countless exciting K-pop performances.
The history of Produce 101 began on 2016 when Mnet decided to air an interactive show in which the supporters and viewers could vote for their favored girl group. The votes can greatly affect the final result of the last girl group lineup and this gives a big impact for the band's name, style, coordination and some facets. The resulting eleven girl group as well as its individual members became extremely famous to the viewers throughout their journey on the show, and they were still entertaining people during their exposure on the entertainment industry until they were disbanded in January as cited on Allkpop,.
The new boy group that shall result from the second season of Produce 101 would likely last longer until 2018 according to a repor on the Korean media. With all its popularity of the show from the previous season and even the expected second season of Produce 101, the Korea times heavily critiqued the statement of Hang Dong Chul of the show to be a kind of "healthy pornography".
On April 7, the Produce 101's most awaited second season would begin airing in Korea on Mnet.
