IZONE COME BACK POSSIBILITY?

As people already know that IZONE as temporary group that is created by mnet has been disbanded officially on last March 2021. The fact that their fans, wizone is still fighting for the group and make a union fans project and able to raise a huge fund for that is a thing. There are two options to fund, via bank deposit or WADIZ; the bank deposit method opened two days ago with around 540 million donation, meanwhile WADIZ opened yesterday with 2,157,090,056; a total of 2.7 billion. On June 19, Korean news outlet Sports Kyunghyang reported that IZ*ONE is currently in talks to reunite, with the majority of the members’ agencies leaning towards the project group getting back together. CJ ENM also formally addressed IZ*ONE fans’ recent crowdfunding efforts to raise funds for a potential reunion. While the company expressed gratitude for the fans’ support, they made clear that even if IZ*ONE did get back together, CJ ENM would not be using the funds raised by fans to finance any future releases by the group.

Meanwhile, MNET or CJ ENM already in the beginning to create yet another idols group from  'Girls Planet 999' survival tv show. It will be first broadcast in August 2021. Sunmi and Tiffany's from SNSD are the trainer.  Sunmi revealed that she wants to push trainees harder, to make them train well, and Tiffany added that she wants to be a harsh, and strict mentor. Then they both promised to not cry in front of trainees from Korea, China, and Japan.

Back to Izone,  a total of 11,193 Korean fans participated on the first day of fandom-led funding event to reboot IZ*ONE, requesting the attention of the members’ individual agencies. While many fans seems has given up for IZONE's fate, especially international fans, but their core fandom in South Korea seems still hanging on for another last straw. 

All this effort, little by little make CJ ENM to change their state. Back on November 10, one media outlet reported that CJ ENM secretively reached out to the agencies of the current IZ*ONE members some time last month, to begin discussions for a renewal of the group's contract. But this rumor get thrown away since this plan are initially failed to happen. 

 IZ*ONE, which is the girl group that sold more than 450,000 copies of their album 'BLOOM I*Z' is a money maker for CJ ENM. A spokesperson for the company stated, “Regarding IZ*ONE’s getting back together, while we are currently in discussions with the members’ agencies and leaving open a wide variety of possibilities, nothing has been decided.”

Till now, after 3 months, there is no news regarding any izone members new group from their respective agency, most of their activities are individual. Thus there is still a chance for IZONE to redebut again together, although it might be hard for all of them to join this project.

But for all of the members to redebut as one again, it's almost impossible. The best option is some of the members will re debut into new group, but will it happen?

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