New SM Entertainment Girl Group AESPA Confirmed to Debut in November, Fans Speculate

Kapanlagi.com - SM Entertainment released a mysterious teaser and the AESPA logo at 1 AM local time. In the morning, SM Entertainment officially confirmed that AESPA is the name of the new girl group under their agency and revealed that the group will debut in November.

The agency also explained that the name AESPA comes from the words 'avatar', 'experience', and 'aspect', meaning 'being able to experience a new world through an avatar other than yourself'. The word 'aspect' also signifies that the group has many different sides.

AESPA will be SM Entertainment's first new girl group since Red Velvet's debut in 2014. They will also be the agency's first new group overall since NCT's debut in 2016.

1. Something Big

Although not officially debuted, AESPA has successfully captured the attention of K-Pop fans and gathered fans. With the release of AESPA's teaser and logo, fans started collecting various information and making various speculations about this new girl group on social media. One of them is the use of virtual reality/augmented reality concept.

SM confirmed that AESPA's concept revolves around 'Avatar' x 'Experience' - a fantasy concept like the movie. The logo reveal video also showed bits of purple and green. In July, NAVER invested in SM, due to the interest in VR/AR concerts ... SM is cooking up something REALLY BIG pic.twitter.com/wa6HXdQji3

— Y??J????AESPA QUEENS ARE DEBUTING (@yoojimx) October 26, 2020

"SM confirmed that AESPA's concept revolves around 'avatar' and 'experience', a fantasy concept like the movie. The logo in the teaser video also showed purple and green colors. In July, NAVER invested in SM, due to the interest in VR/AR concerts... SM is preparing something big," wrote @yoojimx.

2. Suspected Member

Fans also suspect that trainee Yoo Jimin will join AESPA. This is because recently SM Entertainment took firm action regarding rumors about Yoo Jimin who is still a trainee.

Will SM trainee Yoo Jimin join together with ???(aespa)? https://t.co/TgvE0DXf8k

As SM officially announce to debut new girl group to the fact that SM recently announced a strong response to malicious rumors about Yoo Jimin, netizens' interest was definitely focused on her.

— ??? (@im_jammed) October 26, 2020

"Will SM trainee Yoo Jimin join AESPA? Because SM officially announced the debut of a new girl group after recently announcing a strong response to malicious rumors about Yoo Jimin, netizens' attention is focused on her," wrote the account @im_jammed

3. Habits

As known, SM and YG Entertainment have debuted groups in the same year several times. This will also be experienced by AESPA, who will debut in the same year as TREASURE.

2ne1 and f(x) debuted at the same year and also blackpink and nct and now Treasure and Aespa. It's a yg and sm thing lol pic.twitter.com/Nwh0rlpb7q

— nicole ???? (@ygewhy) October 26, 2020

"2ne1 and f(x) debuted in the same year, and also BLACKPINK and NCT, now TREASURE and AESPA. It's a YG and SM thing lol," wrote account @ygewhy.

Who among KLovers is excited for AESPA's debut?

(kpl/rsp)