{"id":180912,"date":"2025-06-13T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180912\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:05:16","slug":"nine-i-announces-seowons-departure-from-the-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180912\/","title":{"rendered":"NINE.i Announces Seowon&#8217;s Departure From The Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seowon will officially be leaving NINE.i.<\/p>\n<p>On June 13, NINE.i\u2019s agency FirstOne Entertainment announced Seowon\u2019s departure from the group with the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hello, this is NINE.i.<\/p>\n<p>Seowon, who has been promoting as a member of NINE.i, has left the group due to personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>We sincerely apologize for the concern this sudden news may cause our fans.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, NINE.i will continue activities as a seven-member group.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, we are deeply sorry to cause hurt to fans with this sudden news.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1751998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nine.i-seowon-announcement.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>NINE.i debuted as a 10-member group in 2022. Following the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soompi.com\/article\/1640059wpp\/former-boys-planet-contestant-winnie-to-leave-nine-i-due-to-injury\" rel=\"noopener\">departures<\/a> of Winnie in January 2024 and Joohyoung in March, the group will now continue as a seven-member team after Seowon\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Seowon, who previously participated in Mnet\u2019s\u00a0\u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viki.com\/tv\/39288c?utm_source=soompi&amp;utm_medium=celeb&amp;utm_campaign=nine-i-announces-seowons-departure-from-the-group&amp;utm_content_id=1751997wpp\" rel=\"noopener\">BOYS PLANET<\/a>,\u201d is set to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soompi.com\/article\/1751504wpp\/boys-ii-planet-unveils-profiles-of-all-150-contestants\" rel=\"noopener\">appear<\/a> again in \u201cBOYS II PLANET K,\u201d which will premiere on July 17.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Watch Seowon in the first season of \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viki.com\/tv\/39288c?utm_source=soompi&amp;utm_medium=celeb&amp;utm_campaign=nine-i-announces-seowons-departure-from-the-group&amp;utm_content_id=1751997wpp\" rel=\"noopener\">BOYS PLANET<\/a>\u201d here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">   <a class=\"btn-watch-now\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viki.com\/tv\/39288c?utm_source=soompi&amp;utm_medium=celeb&amp;utm_campaign=nine-i-announces-seowons-departure-from-the-group&amp;utm_content_id=1751997wpp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Now<\/a>\n             <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwww.viki.com\/tv\/41004c?utm_source=soompi&amp;utm_medium=tvfilm&amp;utm_campaign=recommended-watch&amp;utm_content_id=360811wpp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1409760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/soompi-june-second-shot-at-love.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"130\"\/>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seowon will officially be leaving NINE.i. On June 13, NINE.i\u2019s agency FirstOne Entertainment announced Seowon\u2019s departure from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,31766,74480,74481,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-180912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kpop","11":"tag-nine-i","12":"tag-seowon-nine-i","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114675733856723928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}