{"id":163198,"date":"2026-04-02T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=163198"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:00:50","slug":"manon-hinted-at-her-departure-from-katseye-through-an-instagram-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/manon-hinted-at-her-departure-from-katseye-through-an-instagram-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Manon hinted at her departure from KATSEYE through an Instagram update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through a recent Instagram update, <strong>Manon<\/strong> hinted at her departure from <strong>KATSEYE<\/strong> after her sad absence in the girls&#8217; new comeback teaser with &#8216;<strong>Pink Up<\/strong>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After the idol&#8217;s <strong>hiatus<\/strong> was announced months ago due to health issues, followed by a racism and mistreatment <strong>controversy<\/strong> against the idol, many fans were speculating about her imminent departure from the girl group.<\/p>\n<p>On April 2nd, KATSEYE officially released a new video teaser for their new project &#8216;Pink Up,&#8217; apparently as a 5-member group. However, this was not all, because when Fan checked out Manon&#8217;s Instagram profile, she had <strong>removed &#8216;Katseye&#8217; from her biography<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-163209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manon-has-reportedly-confirmed-her-departure-from-the-girl-group.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manon-has-reportedly-confirmed-her-departure-from-the-girl-group.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manon-has-reportedly-confirmed-her-departure-from-the-girl-group-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manon-has-reportedly-confirmed-her-departure-from-the-girl-group-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manon-has-reportedly-confirmed-her-departure-from-the-girl-group-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manon-has-reportedly-confirmed-her-departure-from-the-girl-group-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Manon-has-reportedly-confirmed-her-departure-from-the-girl-group-860x484.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This update on her social networks was received by fans as a confirmation of her <strong>departure<\/strong>, even without the release of an official statement from the agency.<\/p>\n<h2>Manon announced her hiatus from the group in a contradictory message<\/h2>\n<p>In February, this year, <strong>HYBE<\/strong> and <strong>Geffen Records<\/strong> made a statement announcing the girl was going on a temporary hiatus to focus on her health, worrying many KATSEYE fans who also sent her good wishes for her well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the idol drew attention with a personal message assuring, <em><strong>&#8220;I\u2019m healthy, I\u2019m okay, and I\u2019m taking care of myself. Thank u for checking in! Sometimes things unfold in ways we don\u2019t fully control&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> which genenrates doubts among fans about whats the real reason of her pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a recent Instagram update, Manon hinted at her departure from KATSEYE after her sad absence in the girls&#8217; new comeback teaser with &#8216;Pink Up.&#8217; After the idol&#8217;s hiatus was announced months ago due to health issues, followed by a racism and mistreatment controversy against the idol, many fans were speculating about her imminent departure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":163208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[3392],"class_list":["post-163198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kpop","category-news","tag-katseye"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163198","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163210,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163198\/revisions\/163210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}