ARTICLES Targeting the Asian market! SM girl group aespa to add a new international member? Netizens are discussing the alleged leak from the official SNS page

[Vanilla Cupcake]

Targeting the Asian market! SM girl group aespa to add a new international member? Netizens are discussing the alleged leak from the official SNS page

2020.01.10

Article: WishNote staff
Images: Tiktok (aespa_official), Instagram (mmabelz, litenertainment.th, aespa_official)
Translation: Vanilla Cupcake

Since their year-end debut, SM girl group aespa has captivated the public’s attention! Their debut song “Black Mamba” is the fastest Kpop song to reach 100 million views on YouTube, which is evident of aespa’s infinite appeal!

On the 8th of the month, a netizen discovered “aespa’s official TikTok page followed a girl’s account named mmabelz.” The official page originally had zero following, so netizens are quite curious of this change.

Netizens went into full detective mode and found out the girl behind the mmabelz account is a Thai girl named Mint. She was known for her powerful vocals and dancing skills, together with her beautiful visuals, netizens got more curious.

Mint is an artist under a Thai entertainment company called LIT Entertainment, and she was listed as one of the official 2021 trainees posted as of Jan 1 of this year. Some netizens claimed that LIT Entertainment is a Thai subsidiary under SM Entertainment (Editors were not able to confirm this from official sources; as of now, this is merely a rumor).

After aespa official account followed Mint’s account, netizens are guessing Mint could be aespa’s 5th member, which also supports the rumor that the group will continue to add more members in the future.

Since SM girl group Red Velvet also used similar method to debut members, fans are naturally led to believe aespa will use the same methods to operate. The news of aespa official page following mmabelz has led to a new wave of discussion.

About the TikTok account following mmabelz, was it a matter of SM setting the stage for future developments? Or was it an innocent human error? Let us anticipate for some new developments!

 

[UMJI MOODS]

Not impossible. Yeri was added to Red Velvet after all.​

 

[dnb]

 

[Pandaa]

they are adding jessica to new girl group > ?