BLACKPINK → Four-member girl group, boy group...YG Super Strong, Seungri → Will Song Minho escape the bad news?

By Jieun, Baek

May 27, 2025

BLACKPINK → Four-member girl group, boy group...YG Super Strong, Seungri → Will Song Minho escape the bad news?



YG Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as YG) has launched a super strong performance.

YG Executive Producer Yang Hyun-suk announced his critical plan on the 26th.

Yang Hyun-seok released an interview video on his official blog and shared his plans for YG artists.




First, we announced the news of BLACKPINK's new song release. Blackpink's new album is the first in two years and eight months since its second full-length album 'Born Pink' released in September 2022. It is natural to have high expectations on BLACKPINK's new music for the first time in a long time since they sang the song "Boombayah'Whistle'Kill This Love'How You Like That'. BLACKPINK will open its new world tour 'Deadline' at the main stadium of Goyang Stadium on July 5 and 6.

Baby Monster and Treasure also begin their activities. Baby Monster will release a 1980s-style hip-hop song 'Hot Sauce' on July 1, followed by a second single in September and a first mini album on October 1. TREASURE will release a new mini album on September 1 and start its world tour in October.

BLACKPINK → Four-member girl group, boy group...YG Super Strong, Seungri → Will Song Minho escape the bad news?
Most of all, the announcement of the launch of the new group drew attention. Yang Hyun-seok said, `Currently, two men's and two women's teams are preparing to debut. I want to launch a boy group next year." In particular, regarding the girl group, he showed strong confidence, saying, `The team that I want to launch as a four-member team as soon as possible.' From the 28th, YG will release the practice videos of four new girl groups sequentially. Yang Hyun-seok said, `Please evaluate their skills as they seem and as they sound.'




YG is an idol star who has reigned as one of the top three in the music industry along with SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment.

However, it was in 2019 that YG's name value began to falter. A dark cloud was cast over Seungri, a former member of Big Bang, who left the team after being cited as the main culprit of Burning Sun Gate and was sentenced to one and a half years in prison on charges of brokering prostitution. The muddy water fried by Seung-ri was buried in Yang Hyun-seok, who was investigated by the police on charges of sexual favors and away gambling. Most of the charges ended without charge, but he could not avoid going to court on charges of threatening Han Seo-hee, a public interest reporter, to cover up the drug case of B.I., a former icon.

BLACKPINK → Four-member girl group, boy group...YG Super Strong, Seungri → Will Song Minho escape the bad news?
In the process, YG broke up with Big Bang, the identity of the company, and BLACKPINK also released their solo activities. With iKON leaving the company, YG has only Baby Monster Akmu Treasure Winner left. But even WINNER was reeling. Song Min-ho was charged with violating the Military Service Act.




After a lot of bad news, YG decided to clean up its actor management and focus on fostering and supporting singers. It was a decision to cut off the flesh. And this time, he declared a general offensive.

YG has adhered to mystical strategies for generations. The artists and fans were inundated with complaints due to the lack of activities of their artists, and the launch period for rookies was particularly long. It took 7 years for Black Pink to come out after 2NE1, 8 years for Baby Monster to debut after Black Pink, and 8 to 9 years for WINNER and iKON after Big Bang. After iKON, TREASURE also needed five years to debut. As YG delivered the simultaneous launch of Black Pink and Baby Monster and the simultaneous launch of two rookie teams in a year, attention is being paid to whether it will succeed in escaping the crisis.

Reporter Baek Ji-eun silk781220@sportschosun.com



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