{"id":2294861,"date":"2026-02-23T05:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2294861"},"modified":"2026-02-23T05:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:43:17","slug":"i-o-i-to-hold-debut-10th-anniversary-comeback-in-may-preparing-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/i-o-i-to-hold-debut-10th-anniversary-comeback-in-may-preparing-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"I.O.I to hold debut 10th anniversary comeback in May, preparing new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p>                    <!-- 20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; --><\/p>\n<div class=\"topArea\">\n<p>\n                            <span class=\"article-publish-date\"><br \/>\n                                Published: 23 Feb. 2026, 14:34<\/span>\n                            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                    <!--\/\/20240718 &#44592;&#51088;&#48512;&#48516; &#52628;&#44032; end --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article_body_container\">\n<div class=\"ab_photo photo_center ab_zoom\" style=\"width: 820px;\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n  <br \/>\n  <span class=\"mask\"\/>\n <\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">Project girl group I.O.I [YONHAP]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> K-pop project girl group I.O.I will make a comeback in May this year to mark the 10th anniversary of its debut, the group\u2019s agency Swing Entertainment said Monday.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cI.O.I, including Im Na-young, Chungha, Kim Se-jeong, Jung Chae-yeon, Kim So-hye, Yoo Yeon-jung, Choi Yoo-jung, Kim Do-yeon and Jeon So-mi \u2014 has confirmed a May comeback and is currently preparing a new album,\u201d Swing Entertainment said in a statement.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> <br \/>\n \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> The upcoming promotion marks the group\u2019s first reunion in about nine years since 2017. However, two members, Kang Mi-na and Zhou Jieqiong, will not participate due to prior commitments, and the comeback will proceed with nine members.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> I.O.I was formed through fan votes on Mnet\u2019s \u201cProduce 101\u201d in 2016 and debuted in May the same year. Starting with its debut track \u201cDream Girls\u201d (2016), the group released a string of hits including \u201cWhatta Man, (Good Man)\u201d (2016), \u201cVery Very Very\u201d (2016) and \u201cDownpour\u201d (2017), topping music programs and ranking high on major music charts.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> As a project group, I.O.I disbanded in January 2017 after about 9 months of activity. Its members have since joined other girl groups or have been active through solo work.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0<br \/>\n<br \/> Along with the release of the new album, I.O.I plans to hold a concert in Seoul before embarking on an Asia tour to meet global fans. Exact dates of the concert and tour have not yet been announced.<br \/>\n<br \/> \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><i>This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/>BY JEONG JAE-HONG [<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"44282d296a2e212b2a23332b2a042e2b2b2a23252a236a272b6a2f36\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                    <!-- promoted &#49884;&#51089; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- promoted &#45149;--><\/p>\n<p>                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; 250813 --><br \/>\n                    <!-- world &#49440;&#51201;&#50857; --><br \/>\n                    <!-- &#49888;&#44508; &#48708;&#46356;&#50724; &#44305;&#44256; &#51333;&#47308; -->\n                <\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/ko_KR\/all.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source koreajoongangdaily.joins.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: 23 Feb. 2026, 14:34 Project girl group I.O.I [YONHAP] \u00a0 K-pop project girl group I.O.I will make a comeback in May this year to mark the 10th anniversary of its debut, the group\u2019s agency Swing Entertainment said Monday. \u00a0 \u201cI.O.I, including Im Na-young, Chungha, Kim Se-jeong, Jung Chae-yeon, Kim So-hye, Yoo Yeon-jung, Choi Yoo-jung, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IOI-to-hold-debut-10th-anniversary-comeback-in-May-preparing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294863,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294861\/revisions\/2294863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}