Swing Entertainment: Last News

Kep1er will continue on as a seven-member group, with Mashiro and Yeseo set to leave after the girl group’s “project term” expires.Today (May 30), Kep1er’s labels WAKEONE and Swing Entertainment announced that seven of the girl group’s nine members – namely Yujin, Xiaoting, Chaehyun, Dayeon, Hikaru, Huening Bahiyyih and Youngeun – had agreed to extend their contracts as a group.Kep1er was formed in 2021 through the idol competition series Girls Planet 999, and made their debut with the mini-album ‘First Impact’ in January 2022. The group’s original contract through the series was only for two years and six months, and is due to expire this July.The remaining two members, singers Mashiro and Yeseo from 143 Entertainment, will “conclude their activities” and leave Kep1er following the girl group’s upcoming concert, WAKEONE and Swing Entertainment said, saying that the decision came after “extensive discussion and consensus”.The confirmation that Ke1per will continue as a seven-member group comes about two weeks after 143 Entertainment announced that “no decision [had] been made” regarding the futures of Mashiro and Yeseo as members of the group.Meanwhile, the girl group will release their first studio album ‘Kep1going On’ next week on June 3.

K-pop girl group Kep1er have unveiled a new music video for their latest single ‘Giddy’.Today (April 10), the nine-member act dropped the music video for ‘Giddy’, the lead single off their fourth mini-album ‘Lovestruck!’. The full record will be officially released later today at 6pm KST.In the new music video, the members of Kep1er are mesmerised by the sight of a glowing heart in the sky, which bursts into pieces and enters their bodies.

A.C.E’s YouTube channel has been hacked and deleted.On April 10, the quintet’s YouTube channel was seized by hackers, who went on to delete several of the group’s videos and upload their own videos before it was later deleted. According to fans who watched the takeover unfold, the hackers had uploaded content relating to cryptocurrency and Elon Musk.“Today, the account linked to A.C.E’s official YouTube channel and BEAT’s official YouTube channel was hacked, and all of the log-in tools (secondary email address, recovery phone number, two-step verification backup code, etc.) have been changed,” wrote BEAT Interactive in a statement, as translated by Soompi.“After the hacking, unconfirmed videos were uploaded to the channel, and the account was later deleted,” added the agency.