The EBS space

The EBS space (Korean: EBS 스페이스 공감) is a South Korean music program broadcast by EBS. The first broadcast began in 2004, and it is broadcasting for 50 minutes every Friday from midnight in KST.^[2][3] It is a music program that holds a music concert at the EBS headquarters for four days every Monday to Thursday and processes the live performance, coverage, and interviews.^[4] It is a program in which performers are selected based on musicality and live capabilities and a performance without an MC.^[5] In recognition of its contribution to Korean popular music, it won a Committee Choice Special Award at the Korean Music Awards in 2007,^[6] and won the Cultural Diversity Award at the Sejong Culture Awards hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.^[7]

The EBS space
Genre	Music
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
Production
Running time	50 minutes
Original release
Network	EBS
Release	April 3, 2004 (2004-04-03)[1] – present
Related
EBS Hello Rookie Contest

Broadcast

The EBS space premiered on April 3, 2004. with its first broadcast of soprano Shin Young-ok's live performance, and the hall had converted the auditorium on the first floor of the EBS office building into a small concert hall.^[3][8] It features a cramped concert hall with a distance of only 3m between the stage and the audience, and it is broadcast in a way that relies solely on the artist's live for everything without any stage equipment.^[9][10] Five critics and three producers monitor various albums every week and then decide the cast together.^[3]

EBS Hello Rookie Contest

Main article: EBS Hello Rookie Contest

EBS Hello Rookie Contest is an annual competition held by The EBS space, starting with a rookie discovery project that began in 2007.^{[11][unreliable source?]} It has been co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency since 2008.^[12] The Hello Rookie Contest is regarded as the most representative competition that is the medium in making Korean rookie indie bands famous, and bands such as Guckkasten, Kiha & The Faces, Daybreak and Jambinai first became famous through the competition.^[13][14]