A forthcoming docufollow this summer will pull back the curtain on the rigorous process of making a global music sensation. Netflix will follow along as K-pop entertainment leader Hybe — known for making a number of successful groups, including, ahem, a little known group called BTS — and major US record label Geffen Records come together in their first ever major artist collaboration: a US-based girl group created and modeled after the K-pop training and development system. The forthcoming docuseries will be called Pop Star Academy: Katseye.

Katseye is the name of Geffen and Hybe’s global girl group. After receiving over 120,000 submissions from talented young people from around the world, Geffen Records and Hybe revealed the 20 contestants from around the world who would be competing for a spot in the band through the TV program The Debut: Dream Academy. That group was then then whittled down to 10;...