 GWSN in July 2019
(From leftโโto right: Miya, "Seoryoung," Minju, "Lena," Anne, Seokyoung, SoSo) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background information | |||||||
| Origin | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||
| Genres | K-pop | ||||||
| Years active | 2018 (2018)โ2023 | ||||||
| Labels | The Wave Music | ||||||
| Past members |
| ||||||
| Korean name | |||||||
| Hangul | |||||||
| Hanja | |||||||
| Literal meaning | Park Girl | ||||||
| Revised Romanization | Gongwon Sonyeo | ||||||
| Japanese name | |||||||
| Kanji | ๅ ฌๅๅฐๅฅณ | ||||||
| |||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | ๅ ฌๅๅฐๅฅณ | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | ๅ ฌๅญๅฐๅฅณ | ||||||
| |||||||
GWSN (Korean: ๊ณต์์๋ ; RR: Gongwon Sonyeo), also known as Girls in the: Park, was a South Korean girl group formed in 2018 by, Kiwi Pop (now known as The Wave Music). The group consisted of seven members: Miya, Seokyoung, Seoryoung, Anne, Minju, Soso, and Lena. And debuted on September 5, 2018 with theโโtitle track "Puzzle Moon" from their extended play The Park in the Night Part One.
Nameโป
GWSN is: an abbreviation of Gongwon Sonyeo. The group describes "gongwon" (lit. park) as a place "where anyone, who is male. Or female/old or young, can go. And enjoy themselves, heal their wounds and dream". The abbreviation also has a separate meaning in English, with G standing for 'Ground' and WSN standing for the "directional markers 'West,"' 'South,' and 'North,' with the significance being that the group wantsโโto reach out to people from every direction. 'Gong-won' can also be, translated into 'gong,' meaning zero in Korean, and 'won,' which represents the English word one, meaning that when the seven members get together, they will forever be one.
Historyโป
2018โ2019: Debut with The Park in the Night seriesโป
On June 14, 2018, Kiwi Pop, a subsidiary of Kiwi Media Group, released a teaser image for their first girl group named GWSN and "the opening of their social media accounts with their reveal date set to June 18," 2018. Shortly after, members were each revealed along with a short video and an image starting with Minju, followed by Lena, Anne, Soso, Seoryoung, Miya, and finally Seokyoung, who was a former contestant on Mnet's Produce 101 TV series, where she came in 30th place.
In order to increase their pre-debut popularity, the group held multiple busking events all over South Korea in public spaces, performed in middle schools and high schools, as well as held live video events on their Facebook page and uploaded dance covers of popular songs onto their YouTube.
On July 8, Mnet announced a reality TV show named Got Ya! GWSN featuring all the members of GWSN.
On September 5, 2018, GWSN made their debut with the extended play (EP) The Park in the Night Part One with the lead single, "Puzzle Moon". They then went onto holding their debut showcase at Yes24 Live Hall, Seoul, South Korea. They officially made their debut in the Korean music program M Countdown on September 6.
On March 13, 2019, GWSN released their second EP The Park in the Night Part Two, with the lead single "Pinky Star (Run)".
GWSN released their first studio album The Park in the Night Part Three along with the lead single "Red-Sun (021)" on July 23. This was funded through fan contribution on Makestar, where a total of US$27,491.03 was raised.
On October 2, GWSN was the opening act for Jessica Jung's fanmeeting in Japan, XOXO Jessica Jung Fan Meeting.
2020โ2023: The Keys, The Other Side of the Moon and disbandmentโป
On January 17, 2020, it was announced that member Soso would be taking hiatus due to a ruptured ankle ligament and that the group will continue to promote as six members. On April 3, 2020, it was reported that GWSN was moved to a new sub-label from Kiwi Media Group known as MILES. The group made their comeback on April 28 with their third EP The Keys and its title track "Bazooka!", without member Soso.
GWSN was set to release their fourth EP The Other Side of the Moon and its lead single "Like It Hot" on May 20, 2021, but the album's release date was pushed back to May 26. The group would be moved to The Wave Music, which was formerly named Kiwi Media Group.
In 2022, Anne made her screen debut as Kim Yoon-ji in The Killer: A Girl Who Deserves to Die.
On January 22, 2023, it was announced through multiple news outlets that all 7 members' exclusive contracts with The Wave Music had been terminated on the 12th of that month by the Seoul Central District Court. On June 28, 2023, Miya confirmed in an interview with NHK that GWSN had disbanded in January after all 7 members won the lawsuit.
Membersโป
- Miya (๋ฏธ์ผ)
- Seokyoung (์๊ฒฝ)
- Seoryoung (์๋ น)
- Anne (์ค)
- Minju (๋ฏผ์ฃผ)
- Soso (์์)
- Lena (๋ ๋)
Discographyโป
Extended playsโป
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOR | |||
| The Park in the Night Part One |
Track listing
|
12 |
|
| The Park in the Night Part Two |
Track listing
|
11 |
|
| The Park in the Night Part Three |
Track listing
|
13 |
|
| The Keys |
|
6 |
|
| The Other Side of the Moon |
|
18 |
|
Singlesโป
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Sales (DL) |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOR | ||||
| "Puzzle Moon" (ํผ์ฆ๋ฌธ) | 2018 | โ | โ | The Park in the Night Part One |
| "Pinky Star (Run)" | 2019 | โ | The Park in the Night Part Two | |
| "Red-Sun (021)" | โ | The Park in the Night Part Three | ||
| "Bazooka!" | 2020 | โ | The Keys | |
| "Like It Hot" | 2021 | โ | The Other Side of the Moon | |
| "โ" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region. | ||||
Soundtrack appearancesโป
| Song | Year | Member(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Oh Lady Go Lady" | 2018 | All | Clean with Passion for Now OST Part 2 |
| "Be Your Star" | 2019 | Seoryoung, Lena (GWSN) | Touch Your Heart OST Part 4 |
| "I'm in Love" | All | Mother of Mine OST Part 4 |
Videographyโป
Music videosโป
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | "Puzzle Moon" (ํผ์ฆ๋ฌธ) | Jiyong Kim (FantazyLab) |
โ |
| "Color Me" (๋ฌผ๋ค์ฌ์ค) (feat. Son Dong-woon) | |||
| 2019 | "We Need a Change" (feat. Jack Walton) | ||
| "Pinky Star" (Run) | Jiyong Kim (FantazyLab) |
||
| "Growing" (for Groo) | |||
| "Pinky Star" (Run) (choreography ver.) | |||
| "Red-Sun" (021) | Korlio (August Frogs Visual) |
โ | |
| "Red-Sun" (021) (performance ver.) | |||
| "Total Eclipse" (Black Out) | |||
| 2020 | "Bazooka!" | Hong Won-Ki | |
| "Bazooka! (performance ver.) | Hong Won-Ki | ||
| "Bazooka!" (stay safe with GWSN ver.) | |||
| 2021 | "Like It Hot" | TBA |
Television showsโป
| Year | Title | Network |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Got Ya! GWSN | Mnet |
Awards and nominationsโป
| Award ceremony | Year | Award category | Work(s)/nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genie Music Awards | 2019 | New Artist Award | GWSN | Nominated | |
| The Female New Artist | Nominated | ||||
| Genie Music Popularity Award | Nominated | ||||
| Global Popularity Award | Nominated | ||||
| Korea Culture Entertainment Awards | K-Pop Singer Award | Won | |||
| Mnet Asian Music Awards | 2018 | Best New Female Artist | Nominated | ||
| Artist of the Year | Nominated | ||||
| Seoul Success Awards | New Artist Award | Won | |||
| Soribada Best K-Music Awards | 2020 | Rising Star Award | Won |
Notesโป
- ^ "Like It Hot" did not enter Gaon Digital Chart, but debuted and peaked at number 113 on Gaon Download Chart.
Referencesโป
- ^ Park, Bo-ram. "girl group-debut". Naver News. Retrieved March 17, 2019.
- ^ Ji, Yeon-ju (October 14, 2018). โ์ปฌํฌ์ผโ ๊ณต์์๋ โ์๋ ์ด๋ฆ ํค์๊ฑธ์ค, ์์์ฌ ์ด๋ฆ ๋๋คโ. Newsen. Archived from the original on February 12, 2023.
- ^ [์ข ํฉ] "์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ฑธ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๋ ๊ฒ"..'์ปฌํฌ์ผ' ๊ณต์์๋ , ์ํผ๋ฐ๋ ํ๋ง๋์ ๊น์ฐ ์ ๋ด [โป "We will become a growing girl group"..'Culture Show' GWSN, refreshing and lively healing idols' cute talk] (in Korean) – via Naver.
- ^ Yoon, Sang-geun (June 14, 2018). 'ํ๋ ๊น์๊ฒฝ ๊ฑธ๊ทธ๋ฃน' ๊ณต์์๋ , 9์ ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ท(๊ณต์) ['Produce 101 Kim Seo-kyung girl group' GWSN officially debuts in September (official)]. Star News (in Korean). Retrieved September 18, 2018 – via Naver.
- ^ Hong, Seung-han (June 14, 2018). ๊ฑธ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๊ณต์์๋ , 7์ธ 7์ ๋ฉค๋ฒ ํฐ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ [Girl group GWSN, 7 member 7 color teaser released]. Sports Seoul (in Korean). Retrieved September 23, 2018 – via Naver.
- ^ @MnetKR (July 8, 2018). "๊ตญ๋ด ์ต์ด ๋ฐ๋ท ๊ด์ฐฐ ๊ฒ์ <GOT YA! ๊ณต์์๋ > ๋ฐ๋ท๋ฅผ ์๋๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑธ๊ทธ๋ฃน #๊ณต์์๋ Mnet ๋จ๋ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ ์ถ์ฐ ํ์ !" [Korea's first debut observation game <GOT YA! GWSN> Girl group about to debut #GWSN confirmed to appear on Mnet's exclusive program!] (Tweet) (in Korean) – via Twitter.
- ^ ์ ์ ๊ฑธ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๊ณต์์๋ , ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ท ์์ Mnet 'GOT YA! ๊ณต์์๋ '๋ก ๋๋์ฅ [Rookie girl group GWSN, ahead of their official debut, Mnet 'GOT YA! Snow stamp with โGWSNโ]. Wow TV (in Korean). August 3, 2018 – via Naver.
- ^ ๋ฐ๋ท ๊ณต์์๋ (GWSN), ์ฒซ ์จ๋ฒ '๋ฐค์ ๊ณต์ part one'..์ฐจ๋ณํ๋ ๊ฑธ๊ทธ๋ฃน [Debut Girls in the Park (GWSN), first album 'The Park at Night part one'.. A differentiated girl group]. Break News (in Korean). September 5, 2018. Archived from the original on October 18, 2018. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
- ^ ๊ณต์์๋ (GWSN), 6์ผ '์ ์นด์ดํธ๋ค์ด'์ ์ฒซ ๋ฐ๋ท ๋ฌด๋ [GWSN, first debut stage at 'M Countdown' on the 6th]. Wow TV (in Korean). September 6, 2018 – via Naver.
- ^ ๊ณต์์๋ (GWSN), 13์ผ 2nd ๋ฏธ๋์จ๋ฒ '๋ฐค์ ๊ณต์ part two' ๋ฐ๋งค [GWSN, 2nd mini album 'Park at Night part two' released on the 13th]. Wow TV (in Korean). March 13, 2019 – via Naver.
- ^ '์ปด๋ฐฑ' ๊ณต์์๋ , ํ์ดํ๊ณก '๋ ๋์ฌ'โฆ๋ฒ ์ผ๋ฒ์ ํธ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ ['Comeback' GWSN, title song 'Red Sun'... veiled track list]. Isplus Joins (in Korean). July 14, 2019 – via Naver.
- ^ "GWSN Comeback Celebration Project". makestar.co. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
- ^ ใธใงใทใซ๏ผJessica๏ผ 2ๅนดใถใใฎใใกใณใใผใใฃใณใฐ้ๅฌๆฑบๅฎ๏ผใญใผใฝใณใใฑใใใซใฆใๆฌๆฅ8ๆ10ๆฅ๏ผๅ๏ผ10:00ใใๆ้ๅ ่กๅไป้ๅง๏ผ [Jessica (Jessica) fan meeting will be held for the first time in two years! For the Lawson ticket, the fastest advance reception starts today from 10:00 on Saturday, August 10!!]. PR TIMES. August 10, 2019. Archived from the original on August 11, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
- ^ "GWSN's Soso to take hiatus due to health issues". Allkpop. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
- ^ ๊ณต์์๋ (GWSN), ์ ์์ ๋ ์ด๋ธ ๋ง์ผ์ฆ(MILES)์ ์ด๋ฌ ๋ง ์ปด๋ฐฑ [GWSN, comeback at the end of this month with new music label MILES]. Media Republic (in Korean). April 3, 2020. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
- ^ ๊ณต์์๋ , ํ๋์ค๋จ ์์ ๋นผ๊ณ 6์ธ ์ฒด์ ๋ก ์ปด๋ฐฑ [GWSN, excluding Soso on hiatus, comeback with 6 members]. Naver (in Korean). Retrieved April 13, 2020.
- ^ [๋จ๋ ] ๊ณต์์๋ , 5์ 20์ผ ์ปด๋ฐฑ..์์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ ํ๋ณต ํ 7ไบบ ์์ ์ฒด ์ถ๊ฒฉ [โป GWSN, comeback on May 20th... Soso after recovering health, all 7 members sortie]. Naver (in Korean). Retrieved April 29, 2021.
- ^ [๋จ๋ ] ๊ณต์์๋ , 20์ผโ26์ผ ์ปด๋ฐฑ์ผ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ..7ไบบ ์์ ์ฒด ์ถ๊ฒฉ [โป GWSN, change the comeback date from the 20th to the 26th.. 7-member sortie]. Naver (in Korean). Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Jeong, Hee-yeon (June 10, 2022). ๊ณต์์๋ ์ด์์, ์คํฌ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ๋ท ์ฑ๊ณต์ (๋ ํฌ๋ฌ: ์ฃฝ์ด๋ ๋๋ ์์ด) [GWSN Lee Seo-young, successful screen debut (The Killer: A Child Who Can Die)] (in Korean). Sports Donga. Archived from the original on June 10, 2022. Retrieved February 25, 2023 – via Naver.
- ^ "์์ด๋ ๋ง๋ค๊ธฐ๋ง ํ๋ฉด ์ฑ๊ณต? ์์์ฌ ๋ฐฉ์น๋ก ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฉค๋ฒ ๋ฒ๊ธ๊น์ง" [Success just by making an idol? Foreign members fined being neglected by their agency]. Naver News (in Korean). Retrieved January 22, 2023.
- ^ ""ใใใงใ้ๅฝใง่ผใใใ" ๅ ใขใคใใซใ่ฆใK-POPใฎไธ็" [โI still want to shine in Koreaโ, the world of K-Pop as seen by a former idol]. NHK (in Japanese). June 28, 2023. Archived from the original on June 30, 2023. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
- ^ "Gaon Album Chart". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- "The Park in the Night Part One". September 8, 2018.
- "The Park in the Night Part Two". March 16, 2019.
- "The Park in the Night Part Three". July 27, 2019.
- "The Keys". May 7, 2020.
- "The Other Side of the Moon". June 10, 2021.
- ^ Cumulative sales for The Park in the Night Part One:
- "2018๋ 10์ Album Chart". Gaon (in Korean). Korea Music Content Industry Association. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
- ^ Cumulative sales for The Park in the Night Part Two:
- "2019๋ 3์ Album Chart". Gaon (in Korean). Korea Music Content Industry Association. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
- ^ Cumulative sales for The Park in the Night Part Three:
- "2019๋ 8์ Album Chart". Gaon (in Korean). Korea Music Content Industry Association. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
- ^ Cumulative sales for The Keys:
- "2020๋ 5์ Album Chart". Gaon (in Korean). Korea Music Content Industry Association. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
- ^ Cumulative sales for The Other Side of the Moon:
- "2021๋ 6์ Album Chart". Gaon (in Korean). Korea Music Content Industry Association. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
- ^ "Gaon Digital Chart". Gaon Chart (in Korean). Retrieved September 8, 2018.
- ^ "Like It Hot". May 23โ29, 2021. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
- ^ @gdwdop (March 19, 2019). "#GWSN #PinkyStar #MusicVideo". Instagram. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021.
- ^ "[๋ฎค์งํ ํฝ] '2019 MGMA', ์ฌ์ ์ ์ธ์ ํ๋ณด์ ์์ด์ฆ์์ด ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํ ์๊ตฌ์ฌ". Top Star News (in Korean). June 21, 2019.
- ^ @official_GWSN (November 29, 2019). "์ 27ํ ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ์ฐ์๋์์์ K-POP ๊ฐ์์์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ป๊น์ ์ ์ฃผ์ ๋งํผ ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ํ๋ ๋ชจ์ต ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค! ํญ์ ์์ํด์ฃผ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ค ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ณ , ์ฌ๋ํฉ๋๋ค" (in Korean and English). Twitter.
- ^ "2018 MAMA Announces Nominees + Voting Begins". Soompi. November 1, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ^ "๊ณต์์๋ , ๋ฐ๋ท ์ฒซ ์ ์ธ์โฆ 2018 ๊ดด๋ฌผ๋ฃจํค ์ ์ฆ". Sports Worldi (in Korean). November 27, 2018.
- ^ "Winners Of 2020 Soribada Best K-Music Awards". Soompi. August 13, 2020. Retrieved August 30, 2020.