Ok-pop woman group IZ*ONE will disband after their contract with CJ ENM expires subsequent month.

In early January, the group’s administration companies Off The File and Swing Leisure mentioned they’d been discussing a possible extension of the group’s contracts. IZ*ONE include members from a wide range of labels and had been shaped by means of the fact competitors Produce 48, below a two-and-a-half-year contract.

“We’re gathering the opinions of the artists and their companies concerning IZ*ONE’s future actions,” their administration mentioned on the time to The Korea Herald.

Nevertheless, it looks like the discussions have fallen by means of as Off The File and Swing Leisure confirmed on March 10 that IZ*ONE will disband in April as deliberate, after the expiration of their contracts.

“IZ*ONE’s official fan cafe, content material and social media will function till the tip of the venture, and future plans [for these platforms] will be introduced by way of a separate assertion afterward,” they mentioned, as translated by Soompi. The businesses additionally expressed their gratitude in the direction of the 12-member group’s fan membership, the WIZ*ONE, for his or her continued help.

IZ*ONE are set to wrap up their two-and-a-half-year profession with the two-day on-line live performance ‘ONE, THE STORY’, which takes place on on March 13 and 14. “The IZ*ONE members are presently working their hardest to satisfy followers on the live performance,” the companies added.

Over the course of their two-and-a-half-year profession, IZ*ONE launched 4 mini-album and one full-length studio album in Korean, in addition to a number of Japanese-language tasks. Their newest launch was the only ‘Zero:Perspective’, a collaboration with SISTAR‘s Soyou and rapper pH-1.