{"id":22167,"date":"2022-02-17T19:37:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T03:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=22167"},"modified":"2023-01-16T00:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:34:41","slug":"gi-dle-announces-comeback-as-quintet-after-soojins-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/gi-dle-announces-comeback-as-quintet-after-soojins-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"(G)I-DLE announces comeback as quintet after Soojin&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, February 17th, <strong>Cube Entertainment<\/strong> confirmed <strong>(G)I-DLE<\/strong>&#8216;s first comeback as a five-piece. The girl group consisted of six members until <strong>Soojin<\/strong>&#8216;s departure in August 2021. According to the agency, the new project is scheduled for March this year.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Cube Entertainment stated in contact with South Korean news portal News1, \u201c<em><strong>(G)I-DLE is gearing up for a comeback in March<\/strong><\/em>\u201d. It is worth mentioning that the five members had been focusing on their solo careers.<br \/>C<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Soyeon<\/strong>, for example, is working on an album while mentoring the show \u201c<strong>My Teenage Girl<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1494226413381029888\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CUBE Entertainment confirms (G)I-DLE is gearing up for a comeback in March<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sRqQd0qLeU\">https:\/\/t.co\/sRqQd0qLeU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y2ZvYrVJRZ\">pic.twitter.com\/y2ZvYrVJRZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Seoul Story (@theseoulstory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1494226413381029888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 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><strong>Miyeon<\/strong> has been dedicating herself to acting, while Yuqi , Shuhua and Minnie are participating in scheduled activities in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>In other related news, Soojin has been away from (G)I-DLE since March after receiving accusations that she was <strong>bullied<\/strong> at school. She and Cube have denied the <strong>allegations<\/strong>, stating that they would go to court to fight the false rumors.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>Whether this was actually done, we don&#8217;t know, but out of the blue, the artist&#8217;s departure from the K-Pop group was announced. At the time, fans detonated the agency and there were people who recalled the <strong>disbanding<\/strong> of <strong>4minute<\/strong> and <strong>CLC<\/strong>, apart from the controversial expulsion of <strong>Hyuna<\/strong> and <strong>Dawn<\/strong> in 2018 after their relationship came to light.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>petition<\/strong> with more than 160,000 signatures demanding the artist&#8217;s return to the group was even opened. Unfortunately, the attempt didn&#8217;t work and since then (G)I-DLE has continued as a <strong>quintet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, February 17th, Cube Entertainment confirmed (G)I-DLE&#8216;s first comeback as a five-piece. The girl group consisted of six members until Soojin&#8216;s departure in August 2021. According to the agency, the new project is scheduled for March this year. Cube Entertainment stated in contact with South Korean news portal News1, \u201c(G)I-DLE is gearing up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":22176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167","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=22167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}