During the press conference for mini-album 'Mirror' on June 9, the MBLAQ trio talked about their former members, Lee Joon and Thunder.  

When asked about member recruitment, leader Seung Ho replied, "We felt like there would be nobody who could replace those friends.  We felt that we could fill up [the empty spaces] with the remaining members, so we decided on being a trio."

G.O said, "We thought about substitute members for about two seconds.  We felt we could target a niche market because a male trio is uncommon.  We thought we'd be able to give off the feel of a new stage."

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Unsurprisingly, the boys were asked a lot about their former members, including whether they still exchanged words with them.  G.O responded with, "We give and receive our comments like 'Are you doing well?' 'We will support you,' and, 'A new album is coming out' using telepathy."  Which actually just sounds like they haven't talked much at all.

He continued, "We probably each had a lot of thoughts for a long time.  At first, I greatly denied the reality that there had been no choice but to do that, and there could have been a bit of hatred, but we are all now having only good thoughts.  Because we were [doing that], we got to release an album."