A promotional poster for JYP Entertainment's new boy group KickFlip / Courtesy of JYP Entertainment By Lee Gyu-lee JYP Entertainment, SM Entertainment, BigHit Music, and other K-pop agencies are preparing to launch new groups in 2025, promising another successful year for the K-pop music scene. JYP is the first on the list, finally announcing the start of pre-debut promotions for its new seven-member boy group, KickFlip. During the 2024 MAMA Awards, held in Los Angeles last November, the agency’s head Park Jin-young unveiled the group, saying he is “finalizing preparations for the debut of KickFlip set to launch next year.
” The group’s name refers to a skateboarding technique, in which a rider rotates the board 360 degrees with the toes. “The seven-member group KickFlip, which has become JYP’s new face, will make a spectacular start to 2025 with the ambition to forge new ways without being bound by existing conventions, just like rotating a board forward,” the agency said in the release. Among seven members, four of them are the finalists from the 2021 music survival show “LOUD,” which Park joined hands with PSY to scout members to make their debut.
The top five finalists for JYP Entertainments were Lee Gye-hun, Amaru, Keiju, Lee Dong-hyeon, and Yoon Min. But Yoon left the agency last year to debut as a solo under another label, Howtouse. The group was scheduled to begin its debut project on Wednesday and drop promotional content.
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