NewJeans debuted in July 2022 and in simply over two years, they’ve taken the Okay-Pop world by storm.
After releasing their shock pre-debut monitor “Consideration” in July 2022, the group made their official debut on August 1. The pre-release monitor was revealed with some thriller, because the group waited to share their names till the subsequent day.
After their names have been revealed, the members’ spectacular previous was slowly uncovered by followers. Members Minji and Hanni appeared in BTS‘s “Permission to Dance” music video.
Danielle appeared on a Korean youngsters’s program in 2011 and met Shinhwa‘s Shin Hye Sung.
Maknae Hyein was previously a mannequin, a member of the youngsters’s group U.SSO Lady after being forged whereas modeling, and showcased her life as a Okay-Pop trainee on the YouTube channel Pocket TV.
Auditions started for the group in 2019 by Large Hit Music and continued auditions by HYBE‘s impartial label ADOR in late 2021. The auditions known as for candidates born between 2002-2010.
Throughout this time, netizens started to take a position that youngster actress Ryu Han Bi can be becoming a member of the group.
Ryu Han Bi was born on February 13, 2004, and has held roles in three movies and a number of tv reveals. She gained the “Finest Baby Actress” award on the 2018 MBC Drama Awards for her function within the present Come and Hug Me.
Followers started to take a position Ryu Han Bi was making a transfer from being an actress to a Okay-Pop idol after an Instagram account, belonging to the actress and managed by her mother, adopted ADOR and ADOR’s then-CEO Min Hee Jin.
Ryu Han Bi remained largely inactive as an actress since her look within the 2019 movie, Cheer Up, Mr. Lee, which additional fueled the idea that she was getting ready to make her idol debut.
Her Instagram account has since been deleted, and with the members of NewJeans revealed with out her within the line-up, netizens started to take a position that Hyein was added to the group to fill Ryu Han Bi’s alleged spot.
On a Korean on-line neighborhood, a netizen introduced up the previous speculations that Ryu Han Bi would be part of the group earlier than leaving for an unknown motive. Within the lately created discussion board, the netizen posted,
I heard they began in search of somebody to fill the spot after Ryu Han Bi left. And so they got here throughout Hyein, who was on the tryouts for My Teenage Lady… which explains why Hyein was the final member to be added. The entire story is f*cking fascinating, truthfully. You by no means know the place life goes to take you.
Customers commented that whereas each idols have celeb visuals, Hyein higher suits the group’s vibe. One other consumer acknowledged that an trade insider reported that Ryu Hanbi was additionally thought-about for LE SSERAFIM.
- Ryu Hanbi’s hella fairly and all however I feel Hyein suits the general vibe of the group higher.
- She was part of the trainee group set to debut as NewJeans. After which she switched to LE SSERAFIM briefly earlier than she in the end left the company. An trade insider stated so earlier than LE SSERAFIM debuted.
Different customers believed this defined the youthful age of Hyein, who was born in 2008.
This might additionally clarify why pre-debut images of NewJeans didn’t truly present Hyein within the photos.
If Hyein had change into a remaining contestant on the competitors present My Teenage Lady, she would have debuted in CLASS:y. With how well-balanced NewJeans is by way of abilities and visuals, it’s tough to think about them with out Hyein. Fortunately, the celebrities aligned, and he or she made a particularly profitable debut with the group.
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