Red Velvet member Yeri has opened up about how she initially refused to join the girl group. During an appearance on the South Korean YouTube talk show Zzanbro, Yeri reveled that she told the company that she wouldn’t make a debut into the girl group. Joy also revealed that the fifth member of the group had “kept changing” during their training period, before the girl group debuted as a quartet in August 2014. Yeri was added to Red Velvet half a year later in February 2015.
Red Velvet released their latest mini-album ‘Cosmic’ last month, which commemorates the girl group’s tenth anniversary. The girl group also announced their upcoming 2024 ‘Happiness: My Dear, ReVe1uv’ Asia tour, featuring shows in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and more.
Yeri was supposed to debut as a centre in a new group with younger trainees more in line with her age. So she received training along with those trainees, not with the members of Red Velvet. The group Yeri was supposed to be in had a different culture and atmosphere from Red Velvet’s. Yeri then opened up about how joining Red Velvet had “felt like betraying my friends” and not because she didn’t like her now-members.
Yeri’s loyalty to the friends she trained with was bigger than her desire to make a debut. She left school to focus on her training and to her, the people she trained with were like her school friends. Yeri’s confidence in telling the company that she wouldn’t make a debut stemmed from her genuine loyalty for her long-time friends
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