{"id":20670,"date":"2022-01-28T09:41:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=20670"},"modified":"2023-01-18T04:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:46:13","slug":"april-members-say-goodbye-after-dsp-announces-disbandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/april-members-say-goodbye-after-dsp-announces-disbandment\/","title":{"rendered":"APRIL members say goodbye after DSP announces disbandment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop girl band <strong>APRIL<\/strong> announced their official disband on the morning of January 28th (KST), months after starring in a high-profile <strong>bullying<\/strong> case. After that, former members of the now dissolved group took to Instagram to say goodbye to their fandom.<br \/>C<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Managed by <strong>DSP<\/strong> <strong>Media<\/strong>, APRIL debuted in South Korea on August 24, 2015 with their first mini album <strong>Dreaming<\/strong>. Their original lineup consisted of <strong>Chaewon<\/strong>, <strong>Naeun<\/strong>, <strong>Yena<\/strong>, <strong>Jinsol<\/strong>, <strong>Hyunjoo<\/strong>, and <strong>Somin<\/strong>. These last two left the group two weeks later and, in 2016, <strong>Rachel<\/strong> and <strong>Chaekyung<\/strong> were added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fineapple<\/strong> is the fandom that accompanied the performers of hits like \u201c<strong>Oh! my mistake<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>LALALILALA<\/strong>\u201d. DSP Media reported on January 28 the <strong>disbanding<\/strong> of APRIL. In their statement, it is indicated that there was a mutual separation agreement between idols and firm, but no reasons were specified.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1486872403364188161\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DSP Media announces the disbandment of idol group APRIL after a long discussion with the members<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WglcY8Bgwg\">https:\/\/t.co\/WglcY8Bgwg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TcAqItPGiN\">pic.twitter.com\/TcAqItPGiN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Seoul Story (@theseoulstory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1486872403364188161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the main cause is the alleged harassment denounced by ex-idol Hyunjoo, which was repeatedly denied by those involved. Likewise, fans postulate that the acquisition of the company by <strong>Rainbown<\/strong>, <strong>MAMAMOO<\/strong>&#8216;s agency, would have led to the final decision.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full text of the South Korean label that houses K-pop groups <strong>KARD<\/strong> and <strong>MIRAE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Hello, we are DSP Media.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We inform you that our artist APRIL has dissolved.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>After a long period of discussion and debate, our agency and the members decided to disband the group and go their separate ways.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We ask that you give a lot of support and interest to the six members, who will be going down a new path that is not part of APRIL.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Also, we would like to once again thank the fans who have supported and cheered on APRIL over the past six years.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop girl band APRIL announced their official disband on the morning of January 28th (KST), months after starring in a high-profile bullying case. After that, former members of the now dissolved group took to Instagram to say goodbye to their fandom.C Managed by DSP Media, APRIL debuted in South Korea on August 24, 2015 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":20676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1361],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-social-network"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670","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=20670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}