Weeekly is still a relatively young girl group that debuted in June 2020 with their debut album “We Are”. Most people probably know them mainly for their song "After School" from the third album "We Play", which went viral and drew many new fans to the group.
Unfortunately, today's news is not quite so cheerful:
The singer took a break for the first time in August 2021 due to recurring anxiety. In December, fans were happy about her return, but in February of this year Jiyoon withdrew again. Although her mental health had improved during therapy and recovery in 2021, the anxiety had unfortunately returned. Today, on June 1, Weeekly’s agency IST Entertainment (formerly known as Play M Entertainment) announced that Jiyoon will officially end her activities as a member of the girl group.
During her breaks, Weeekly already promoted the last two albums - Play Game: Holiday (August 2021) and Play Game: Awake (March 2022) as six.
Fans had hoped for the day when they would see all seven members on stage together again, but unfortunately they have to say goodbye to that hope.
In today's statement, IST Entertainment asked fans to keep supporting Weeekly and to cheer them on even more, in order to fill the empty spot of “Wednesday”. The name “Weeekly” embodies the girl group's motto that “every day brings a new and special week”. Fittingly, each member of the group embodied one of the seven days of the week, and Shin Jiyoon was “Wednesday”.
So Weeekly's week will be a little bit shorter. That doesn't make it any less special, though! We are sure that the girl group will thrill us as six too, and we sincerely hope that Jiyoon feels better soon.
