{"id":142839,"date":"2025-05-27T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=142839"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:31:43","slug":"youngseo-the-k-pop-trainee-who-allegedly-moved-from-illit-to-yg-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/youngseo-the-k-pop-trainee-who-allegedly-moved-from-illit-to-yg-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngseo: the K-pop trainee who allegedly moved from ILLIT to YG Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0ILLIT<\/strong> is one of the newest K-pop groups, enchanting fans with bops like \u201c<strong>Magnetic<\/strong>.\u201d But this time, it\u2019s not their music making fans talk; it\u2019s one of their alleged original members! With<strong> YG Entertainment<\/strong>\u2019s brand-new four-member girl group set to begin rolling out members starting this May 27th, fans are convinced a familiar name\u2014<strong>Youngseo<\/strong> might be in the line-up.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YGNGGPICS2\/status\/1927203571239407981\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Youngseo  <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Born in November 13th, 2005. <br \/>\u2014 Korean <br \/>\u2014 Former pre-debut member of ILLIT. <br \/>\u2014 Rumored to have joined The Black Label <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RgS6tReZ1g\">pic.twitter.com\/RgS6tReZ1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NEXT MONSTER PICS (@NEXTMONSTERPICS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NEXTMONSTERPICS\/status\/1927203571239407981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s rewind for a second. Youngseo was close to debuting with ILLIT after placing second in \u201c<strong>R U Next?<\/strong>,\u201d the survival show that built the group. She was a fan favorite, praised for her talent and stage presence. But out of nowhere, she ghosted the debut lineup\u2014no detailed explanation, just a Weverse post confirming a leave that left pre-debut fans confused.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now, and <strong>fans are spotting Youngseo hanging around YG Entertainment\u2019s building<\/strong> more than once. Coincidence? Maybe not! She\u2019s also allegedly been seen with other female YG trainees and even popped up in the background of a dance video filmed outside the company. Add that to whispers she might\u2019ve joined YG\u2019s sub-label, The Black Label (though she didn\u2019t debut with MEOVV), and the puzzle pieces are starting to form a new girl group picture.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coolchloo\/status\/1926716227931549958\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Youngseo was spotted on YG building last year \ud83c\udf52<br \/>crtto<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EC%9D%B4%EC%98%81%EC%84%9C?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\uc774\uc601\uc11c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ygnewgirlgroup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ygnewgirlgroup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YGNGG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#YGNGG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vl1Rz6dhUy\">pic.twitter.com\/vl1Rz6dhUy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Han (@coolchloo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coolchloo\/status\/1926716227931549958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With YG now pushing their \u201c<strong>NEXT MONSTER<\/strong>\u201d project, the idea that Youngseo could be one of the four debut members has fans absolutely spiraling. Social media is dropping throwback clips from R U Next?, and hoping for her to finally debut. Stay tuned, because if Youngseo really did jump from ILLIT to YG, this debut might just give us the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0ILLIT is one of the newest K-pop groups, enchanting fans with bops like \u201cMagnetic.\u201d But this time, it\u2019s not their music making fans talk; it\u2019s one of their alleged original members! With YG Entertainment\u2019s brand-new four-member girl group set to begin rolling out members starting this May 27th, fans are convinced a familiar name\u2014Youngseo might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":142840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[3160],"class_list":["post-142839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-kpop","tag-illit"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142839","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=142839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}