A Series of Facts About LOONA, an Achieving Girl Group Under a Threatened Agency

Kapanlagi.com - LOONA is a girl group consisting of 12 members under the agency Blockberry Creative. They have been introduced since 2016, but officially debuted in 2018.

Since starting their career, they have continued to achieve success. Unfortunately, recently their agency has been reported to have a lot of debts and is at risk of bankruptcy. Even Orbit, LOONA's fans, are so worried that they have been asking for help everywhere.

They have asked Elon Musk, a wealthy entrepreneur, to "save" and "fund" LOONA. This is because Elon Musk had shown support for LOONA through comments on Twitter in 2018. Now, for those of you who are curious about some facts about LOONA, let's take a look at the following information.

1. LOONA Debut Period

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This girl group, which officially debuted in 2018, actually started introducing its members since 2016. One by one, starting from Hee Jin in September 2016 to Olivia Hye in March 2018, they were introduced to the public.

Even before their official debut, they were also introduced as a group with three sub-units. The sub-unit is called LOONA 1/3, consisting of Hee Jin, Hyun Jin, Ha Seul, and ViVi. Next is ODD EYE CIRCLE, consisting of Kim Lip, Jin Soul, and Choerry with a girl crush concept. Lastly, yyxy is occupied by Yves, Chuu, Go Won, and Olivia Hye with a youthful concept.

LOONA, the name of this 12-member group, has a beautiful meaning, literally "This Month's Girl". Their fandom name is also beautiful, which is "Orbit". On August 20th, LOONA officially debuted with the release of their mini album [+ +] or "Plus Plus".

At that time, the album became the second-best debut album by a girl group and ranked second on the Gaon album Chart.

2. LOONA's Series of Achievements

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LOONA's achievements can be counted since the beginning of their career. During their debut concert, their tickets were sold out within two minutes. The good news continued as LOONA's debut album topped the K-Pop iTunes Album Chart in several countries, such as the United States, Canada, and England.

The debut album also placed LOONA at No. 4 on the Billboard World Albums chart.

Speaking of the benchmark of K-pop group success, it feels incomplete without mentioning their first victory. For LOONA, they achieved their first victory on the music show M!Countdown two years after their debut. They achieved this victory with the song 'So What'. Now, to answer any questions about LOONA's other achievements, let's directly look at the following information.

- 2018

Best Korean Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards

- 2019

Focus Award (Singer) and STARNEWS Popularity Award (Girl group) at the Asia Artist Awards

Female Rookie Idol Award at the Korea First Brand Awards

Commercial Star Rookie at the MTN Ad Festival Awards

Performance Award at the Soribada Best K-Music Awards

- 2020

Popularity Award at the Asia Model Awards

Female Idol Rising Star Award at the Brand Customer Loyalty Awards

Next Generation Award at the Golden Disc Awards

New K-Wave Rising Artist Award at the Soribada Best K-Music Awards

- 2021

On May 10th, LOONA was officially appointed as the 2021 Promotional Ambassador for Korean Culture Overseas. LOONA was appointed by Minister Hwang Hee of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism at a ceremony at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul.

3. Blockberry Creative, LOONA's Threatened Agency Bankruptcy

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According to information from Fimela, Blockberry Creative, which is LOONA's agency, is experiencing difficulties in paying professional staff. Actually, this problem has been going on for months until finally, the agency instructed to stop all work.

The news about this was first exclusively reported in Korea Sports World at the end of September. Furthermore, there are also choreographers who speak up about the financial crisis.

4. LOONA's Choreographers Speak Up About Unpaid Wages

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On September 30th, Kim Hwayoung, LOONA's choreographer, revealed the financial difficulties being experienced by Blockberry Creative through her Instagram. According to Kpopstarz, she first apologized to all the choreographers and younger colleagues who had trusted her. In her post, she also mentioned LOONA as her reason to work hard.

"Our hardworking and beautiful LOONA! They are the reason why I also work hard."

Furthermore, Kim Hwayoung stated that there is a sum of money that has not been paid by Blockberry Creative prior to the promotion of 'PTT' or 'Paint the Town', the single from the album '[&]' or (AND) released in June.

"First, maintain ethics and pay me as much as I have worked. I proceeded with PTT ('Paint The Town') even though I wasn't paid for 2020. Please deposit the money after carefully reviewing the draft I sent you. You promised to make the deposit before September 30th today." wrote Kim Hwa Young.

Not only that, she also commented that if the company doesn't have money, then don't spend it. He also admitted to feeling very embarrassed because he had to chase after a small amount of money. But in the end, it kept growing because there were constant delays.

Kim Hwa Young, besides being a choreographer for LOONA, is also a choreographer who appears on various variety shows.

KLovers, those are some facts about LOONA, a girl group that has achieved various accomplishments even though their agency is currently on the verge of bankruptcy.

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