{"id":136098,"date":"2025-01-15T21:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T05:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=136098"},"modified":"2025-01-15T21:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T05:27:49","slug":"we-never-disbanded-gfriend-spills-the-tea-on-their-long-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/we-never-disbanded-gfriend-spills-the-tea-on-their-long-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe never disbanded!\u201d: GFRIEND spills the tea on their long hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GFRIEND<\/strong>\u2019s sudden bye-bye in 2021 shook the K-pop world, but the truth is finally out: they never disbanded! The girl group clarified the misunderstanding during their reunion on<strong> The Seasons<\/strong> with Lee Young Ji, revealing that it was simply a contract expiration with Source Music, not the end of their journey forever.<\/p>\n<p>On January 10, GFRIEND reunited on the KBS music program, leaving fans emotional and excited. They clarified that they didn&#8217;t actually disband, despite different articles affirming the girl group had come to an end that year. After their final release, <strong>MAGO<\/strong>, in 2021, the group quietly stepped back\u2014but not forever.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yujugcfs\/status\/1877709247196098582\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">gfriend saying they NEVER disband for the nth time so stop using that word <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dMIHTEDg5G\">pic.twitter.com\/dMIHTEDg5G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u064b (@yujugcfs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yujugcfs\/status\/1877709247196098582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cMany articles used the word &#8216;disbandment,&#8217; so many people think we disbanded, but we didn&#8217;t disband. It was a contract expiration,\u201d they explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>But now? GFRIEND is back with their 10th-anniversary celebrations in full swing, including the release of their special album \u201c<strong>Seasons of Memories<\/strong>\u201d on January 13. They are also set to perform at Seoul\u2019s Olympic Hall, showing that they&#8217;re still that team! GFRIEND is back, and they got more magic to deliver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GFRIEND\u2019s sudden bye-bye in 2021 shook the K-pop world, but the truth is finally out: they never disbanded! The girl group clarified the misunderstanding during their reunion on The Seasons with Lee Young Ji, revealing that it was simply a contract expiration with Source Music, not the end of their journey forever. On January 10, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":136101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136098"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=136098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}