The competition features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, rappers, beat-boxers and other performers age 12 and up competing for a cash prize and the opportunity to appear on stage at a festival and venues around Korea.
In the winter of 2012, Seconds2Impact Media announced that it would be launching South Korea's first all-English talent search competition with auditions taking place in June 2013.
[9] In the weeks that followed the announcement of Ashby as host, Top Talent began to reveal the names of the personalities that would form the four-person judging panel.
A midst heavy anticipation, Top Talent producers announced the fourth judge to be Sam Hammington - the first foreigner to have done comedian in the Korean language in Korea.
Despite having done a large scale marketing campaign featuring the likenesses of all four judges, Hammington was forced to leave the panel as a result of a conflict with his filming schedule.
Producers responded quickly by filling the vacant judge seat with Seoul based British drum and bass performer MC Lucid.
The winner of season 1 of Top Talent received 1 million South Korean won in cash and the opportunity to perform on a main sub-stage at the 13th annual Boryeong Mud Festival.