{"id":398309,"date":"2026-01-09T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398309\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:41:08","slug":"singer-taeyeon-renews-her-contract-with-sm-entertainment-to-continue-19-year-journey-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/398309\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Taeyeon renews her contract with SM Entertainment to continue 19-year journey together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Published: 09 Jan. 2026, 10:53<\/p>\n<p>                                    Updated: 09 Jan. 2026, 12:04\n                            <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Singer Taeyeon of girl group Girls' Generation [SM ENTERTAINMENT]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/65123f5a-db32-4dfb-8796-a698748f37d5.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Singer Taeyeon of girl group Girls&#8217; Generation [SM ENTERTAINMENT]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   Singer Taeyeon of Girls&#8217; Generation renewed her contract with SM Entertainment, continuing her journey with the K-pop agency for the 19th year.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   &#8220;We are happy to continue with our cherished artist Taeyeon, based on the deep sense of trust we have built over the years,&#8221; SM Entertainment said in a press release on Friday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   &#8220;We will keep on supporting Taeyeon so that she may shine ever more as a global artist.&#8221;  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Taeyeon made her debut as the leader of the girl group Girls&#8217; Generation in August 2007 and started her solo career with the EP &#8220;I&#8221; in October 2015.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   She has since been recognized as one of the best vocalists in K-pop with R&amp;B hits such as &#8220;I&#8221; (2015), &#8220;11:11&#8221; (2016), &#8220;Fine&#8221; (2017) and more.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Taeyeon recently released her compilation album &#8220;Panorama: The Best of Taeyeon&#8221; (2025) to celebrate her 10th anniversary of debuting solo.  <\/p>\n<p>BY YOON SO-YEON [<a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"750c1a1a1b5b061a0c101a1b351f1a1a1b12141b125b161a5b1e07\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 09 Jan. 2026, 10:53 Updated: 09 Jan. 2026, 12:04 Singer Taeyeon of girl group Girls&#8217; Generation [SM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-398309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}