HYBE and Source Music's collaborative and highly anticipated girl group is set to debut this year, and so far, they have not revealed any trainees... except one.
UPDATE: It's now been confirmed after Big Hit's brand renewal and restructure into HYBE Labels, that Le Sserafim is the collaborative group between HYBE and Source Music, while another new girl group will launch at ADOR, a newly created label headed by CEO Min Heejin.
This trainee has been revealed to be Minji, a former source music trainee.
PLUS global auditions were held in 2019 in 16 cities worldwide. It is speculated that the while some trainees from this audition debuted as NewJeans, others are still trainees of various labels and will debut soon.
They also launched a website and a hidden GIF archive where they made a collage of all the videos and teasers they had released on their Twitter account and HYBE's youtube channel. But they included something new—two new pictures of a mysterious girl.
So far, these are the only official pictures released on a hidden page, and no other information, including name, has been provided. Oddly, they included these pictures as they are original and not reposted GIFS like the other images.
Hopefully, we will hear about other trainees who made it and were chosen to debut very soon!
UPDATE: The girl in the pictures has been revealed to be Minji from NewJeans who is a former source music trainee. Newjeans debuted on July 22, 2022 through ADOR, a new independent label under HYBE Labels, while Le sserafim debuted shortly before them under Source Music, being a collaborative girl group with HYBE.
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