TWICE's Jeongyeon Signs New Agency for Acting, Stays in Group
After 11 years at JYP, the TWICE member signed with a new agency to act, but says the group stays her first priority.
ONCE do NOT spiral — Jeongyeon is fine, TWICE is fine, everybody put your phones down. yes, she is leaving JYP Entertainment after 11 years. no, she is NOT leaving TWICE. the girls are fully intact.
here's the actual tea: Jeongyeon signed with Varo Entertainment — the same agency that reps her older sister, actor Gong Seung-yeon — to seriously pursue acting while staying fully in TWICE. it's a two-jobs-one-icon situation and we support a multi-hyphenate queen.
she got sentimental about it too, admitting she was scared to leave somewhere so familiar but found the courage thanks to her members and Once. "standing before Once as a member of TWICE will always be my first priority," she said. no because who's cutting onions.
so this is not the disbandment fever dream your FYP tried to sell you — it's a glow-up. mother is expanding the empire into acting while keeping the group in the same breath. Jeongyeon the actress era, loading. we are seated and supportive.
Reported by Yonhap News Agency. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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TWICE, Stray Kids Invited as Grammy Voting Members
the Recording Academy invited TWICE, Stray Kids, and JYP’s Park Jin Young to join as voting members. the girlies and the boys officially have a say now.
the Recording Academy sent out its invitations and JYP walked away with eighteen of them. eighteen. artists and executives, one label, one round. it's the group project everyone actually wanted to get picked for.
the names that matter: all nine of TWICE, all eight of Stray Kids, and Park Jin Young himself, all invited as VOTING members — meaning an actual ballot in who takes home a grammy. the label's CEO Jeong Wook and CSO Shin Hyun Kook came in as professional members, which is the category for the executive side of the house.
for scale, the academy extended more than 4,000 invitations in this round, so nobody's pretending this was a personal coronation. what it IS: a bloc of K-pop's biggest working acts now sitting inside the body that decides the outcome. that's structural, bestie. that hits different than a nomination.
to be extremely clear before the timeline spirals — this is a vote, not a trophy. nobody won anything today. they were handed a say in who does.
the culture spent a decade knocking politely on the door of an institution that's been running since 1957. this year it got keys. slow-burn takeover, fully in progress, no notes.
Reported by Soompi. This article is Aegyo Arena's own write-up of that reporting.
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after the Tzuyu reports, Jihyo, Chaeyoung, and Jeongyeon are now reportedly weighing their options at JYP too. nothing’s confirmed — but the speculation is spiraling.
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