what happened to somi you remember a
contestant on 16 a winner of produced
101 a former jyp trainee and now what is
she up to hello everyone and welcome to
the what happened Series where I talk
about a K-Pop group or Idol and in this
video we're talking about Chun so me so
as I always like to do before we look
forward I always like to look back
the K-pop world was first introduced to
somi when she was a contestant on 16.
The jyp Survival show that produced the
new girl group twice Jung Sumi was one
of the youngest contestants in 16 but
she almost made it into the final lineup
ultimately being eliminated at the final
episode and so there we see so me almost
debuting in the group that would become
twice and of course we know twice
nowadays as being one of the top girl
groups so there was one opportunity for
somi to debut but as we know that wasn't
it for so me we got to see somi again in
the show called produce 101 in the debut
season that would produce ioi
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produce 101 season one was the flagship
to the creation of Iowa 101 and now
aizawan the first season was a Smash Hit
of course the premise is having 101
trainees from different K-pop companies
compete to debut in a group of 11 at the
end of the show having producers aka the
fans vote for their favorite to make the
final lineup there we see somi
continually rank high every single week
at the end of every episode until the
final episode where somi ranked number
one and finished in first place of
produce 101 season one and debuted with
the group ioi
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was met with a huge huge fans at a time
when twice was still new and still
growing ioi and twice competed around
the same time on music shows and
actually ioi was giving twice a run for
their money ioi was a very interesting
group at a time having different
personalities different different
members that are good at different
things you had so many
and of course
shout out to my girl so hey she was so
cute she started from the F class move
all the way up man it makes me smile
every time I think about soy anyways ioi
was on contract to promote for only a
year after debut and after that year was
up all the members returned to their
respective companies where they debuted
in their own groups Chung ha of course
debuting solo sohei pursuing acting
sejong with gugudan Mina with gugodan
kyokyong with pristine nyong with
pristin yujung with wikimiki do Yong
also with wikimiki and yongchang with
Cosmic girls the only one that didn't
debut with their own girl group or solo
was so me think about that somi being
number one and ranked the highest in
produce 101 and the most known didn't
debut afterwards she returned back to
jyp where she was still a trainee going
on various shows and being more of a
personality than an idol now this isn't
the end-all be-all yes somi didn't debut
with her own group but she was pretty
young not specifically sure when but she
was maybe like 16 17 at this time and so
when I was thinking about it I was like
okay jyp thinking she still has some
time to grow but it is at this time when
ioi was at its hugest somi was the most
well known in the Korean public eye the
face of the group the youngest of the
group she had so many sponsorship deals
and opportunities everyone know who somi
was so that was the peak of our
popularity that is when I would think
that jyp would debut her you know strike
when the iron is hot this is when we see
so mean not so much ioi is done it's
been close to a year since and she's
only been on a couple TV shows you know
on East slam dunk where she debuted with
another group you know to promote for
that show this is when I also think that
itsy was being formed and getting ready
to debut could somi have been in itsy or
was she even considered to be a part of
Itsy I think somi could have easily
slipped into itsy either something
happened that somi didn't want to join
or that she saw another opportunity
elsewhere that is where we see soulmate
cancel her exclusive contract with jyp
entertainment and leave to join the
black label now some of you may not know
what the Black Label is well the Black
Label is kind of a sub label of YG
Entertainment and is led by the producer
Teddy Teddy is the lead producer nyj
entertainment that produces a lot of YG
artists big hits blackpink Big Bang icon
winner you know so yeah somi did sign
with the black label but then people
were thinking the black clay was still
new they don't have many trainees if any
yet so me joined and also think of this
the Black Label only has a few artists
under their roof Zion T the R B singer
occasion the rapper and now Chung so me
which seems like a ragtag bunch of
artists in this label but that just only
means one thing
we're gonna see so many debut solo now I
know what you're thinking so me solo is
that a good match I thought about that
too and I thought about that when I
heard that Chung Hao was debuting solo I
was a bit iffy about it it was like Ken
Chung Han really be a solo act and boy
was I wrong
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is now one of the top solo artists in
Korea up there with sunmi taeyeon like
seriously chongha is hot right now
anyways back to somi so with somi
planning to debut solo what is it gonna
be like when you think of the Black
Label it has r b and rap inspiration of
course being under YG Entertainment it
seems a bit more grungy but look at that
is somi really made for that these so me
from produce 101 they saw me from ioi
these saw me from jyp so that is a
question that I really have what is
Soma's debut gonna be like I have no
idea but we are gonna find out really
soon because sometime in February that
is where somi signed with the black
label and now we have a debut date the
Black Label announced somi is set to
make her debut as a solo artist on May
1st 2019 with a lead single produced by
Teddy May 1st less than a month away if
it doesn't get pushed back soon we're
gonna have all our answers to all our
questions and including the questions I
have in this video and Sony has a really
interesting story and she is still so
young she's been through so many
programs shows possibly debuting
multiple times twice itsy but now she's
solo I'm really excited to see what somi
does because her story is just beginning
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yo that is it for me I hope you guys
enjoyed this one I always wanted to talk
about so many for the longest time
because she has such an interesting
story and she's still so young I believe
she's only like 18. but she's been
through so much and I like that she's
kind of Taking Chances with debuting
with a black label and I'm excited to
see what she comes up with what do you
think is somebody making a good decision
by debuting with a black label do you
feel like there's any other option for
her let me know what you think and
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