PurettyGirls

Thanks for everyone who have been following this blog since I made it in April 2012. There are rough periods when I almost gave this up but my faith in Puretty kept me going. Well now, they have come to an end so it's just fitting that this blog will too. I'm late in knowing about KARA Project and that Hyein and Jaeeun both left DSP already. So when I knew about it, it struck me so hard I was confused for a long moment. 

I was stubborn in regards to Puretty disbanding but truthfully I did believe they already broke up long ago. And now I'm channeling my annoyance to DSP which may or may not be responsible for the chaos I'm feeling in my head. Anyways, all I really want to say is thank you to everyone who gave Puretty their love. The blog will stay but it won't be updated anymore after this post. May this be the last update, that leader Yoo Hyein is now a rookie actress under Starhaus Ent, the three '96ers are all in KARA Project and that Jaeeun left DSP to focus on her studies.

140527 [NEWS] KARA Project has started... 7 girls 7 colors, BabyKara's charms?

The 7 girls of BabyKara with dreams of being stars like current KARA members Goo Hara, Han Seungyeon and Park Gyuri are getting a lot of interested audience.

KARA’s agency, DSP Media has reached their hands to MBC Music for an audition program called ‘KARA Project’ in which the 3 members of KARA will be screening BabyKara for 2 new members to join the group. Since May 14th, DSP has unveiled the members of BabyKara one by one.

First candidate is Sojin who has been training with DSP the longest among the girls of BabyKara. She shows strength in singing and dancing. She has a youthful and healthy appearance but can turn her appeal 180 degrees to being sexy and mature.

Second candidate unveiled is Siyoon who was part of Puretty – a group project debuted in Japan with the release of ‘Cheki☆Love’. She has big attractive eyes and has landed CF deals before debut. She is youthful and has an innocent-like appearance.

Third to be revealed is Young Ji who has a childlike appearance but certainly charismatic. The agency rep says “She has superb singing and dancing skills and the balanced appreance-wise member.

Fourth candidate is Chaekyung who has an urban and stylish appearance. She and Siyoon scored a game CF deal before debut.

The fifth candidate is Somin who showed both innonence and maturity in her teaser particularly her superb showcase of KARA’s Damaged Lady concept. 

Sixth candidate is Chaewon who has a cute and refreshing image with a good twist of superb singing skills.

The last candidate is Yooji who was a contestant in SBS Kpopstar in 2012. She was noted as a dancing prodigy and became a member of the girl group YouU during the contest proper and finished as Top8 for the whole season.

These 7 girls who have been training with DSP Media have joined KARA Project where they’ll be trained and given variety of missions by KARA members themselves.

KARA Project is open for public voting. SNS channels 커넥미 is 40% (poll-voting and broadcast votes) and Line is 30% (Global voting), and 30% of scores by experts in which KARA will be giving.

Meanwhile, 'KARA Project – The Beginning' will be broadcasted later at 6pm at MBC Music and will be followed by a weekly broadcast every Tuesday 6pm until July 1 which sums 6 episodes.

[NEWS] Kara to recruit new members through 'KARA Project' 

Kara will add 2 new members through a new program. 

On May 12th, DSP Entertainment released an official announcement that the agency has teamed up with MBC Music to present a new reality show called "KARA Project" and 2 new members will be chosen through this program. 

It was revealed that all the female trainees who are a part of the project team "Baby KARA" will be participating and doing various missions in order to become a member of Kara. The winners will be chosen by fans through SNS votings, moreover Seungyeon, Gyuri and Hara will also become judges and join in the judgement process. 

"KARA Project" will run for a total of 6 episodes. The photos of the trainees will be unveiled on May 14th while the first episode will be broadcast on May 27th. 

Thanks! I found the exact link from wiki. It directed me to a post on dcinside and then credited unionpress as source. Here’s the article that news is from - source dated Jan 16, 2014. It’s basically talking about KARA members leaving the group and then continuing with 3 members. The mention of puretty (pretty in the article) was this

“하지만 명실공히 DSP의 대표 간판 걸그룹인 만큼 쉽게 카라의 해체를 논하기도 어렵다. 제2의 카라를 노리며 일본에서 먼저 데뷔했던 걸그룹 프리티는 사실상 팀이 해체됐으며 후배 그룹 레인보우와 에이젝스도 아직 가요계 완벽히 자리 잡지 못한 만큼 카라를 대체할 만한 대안이 없기 때문이다.”

I understood it as “if KARA really does disband, none of their junior groups are ready to be a representative team yet”. (Or did I get that extremely wrong?) None directly mentioned Puretty disbanded already. Also one more thing I found about this was a post from Pretty Rhythm Dear My Future naver blog member saying Somin & Hyein were taken out of the group and will be replaced but that’s all there is. He didn’t site any source and to this day I haven’t seen any reliable source that can prove it. 

What keeps my faith on Puretty still together is their japan fc is still active and occasionally updated with birthday notices and downtime due to maintenance schedules. But of course, it may just because they’re keeping it active until Puretty’s contract with UMJ expires.

Anyway, thank you for informing us about it. I usually don’t rely in wiki esp when I haven’t read any korean article about it. Though DSP let us down a lot of times, I still trust they’d be courteous enough to inform us fans in a formal manner like posting about it on puretty’s jp site/fc. Purettygirls will still be active until that day but it’s on-hiatus now for lack of updates.