{"id":840502,"date":"2026-08-01T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840502\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:13:12","slug":"girls-generation-member-yuri-to-leave-sm-entertainment-after-19-years-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840502\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls&#8217; Generation member Yuri to leave SM Entertainment after 19 years, Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuri from Girls&#8217; Generation is set to leave SM Entertainment after 19 years.<\/p>\n<p>She is the fifth member of the eight-person girl group to leave the agency. Only Taeyeon, Yoona, and Hyoyeon remain at SM.<\/p>\n<p>Tiffany, Sooyoung, and Seohyun ended their exclusive contracts with SM in 2017 and Sunny in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday (July 30), SM Entertainment wrote: &#8220;Following in-depth discussions with Kwon Yuri, we have reached a mutual agreement to conclude our 19 years together on Aug 31.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They added that it had been a &#8220;precious time&#8221; to accompany Yuri from her debut with the Girls&#8217; Generation in 2007, to &#8220;leading the K-pop wave across the world, growing into a group that defined an era, to shining as an actress&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although her exclusive contract with SM Entertainment is coming to an end, the agency said that she will continue her activities with the girl group &#8220;as before&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>20th anniversary plans<\/p>\n<p>Despite a majority of the members not being in the same agency anymore, plans for Girls Generation&#8217;s 20th anniversary celebrations appear to be going strong.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on variety show The Manager, broadcast on June 27, Tiffany shared that plans were underway, but did not reveal any details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We made big comebacks for our 10th and 15th anniversaries. As we gained those experiences, there will be a big project for our 20th anniversary,&#8221; she said, adding that it will happen in summer 2027.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Breaking: Girls&amp;apos; Generation Is Officially Coming Back! | The Manager EP404 | KOCOWA+\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8uCUoVaj2ZI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:739885]]<\/p>\n<p>drimac@asiaone.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yuri from Girls&#8217; Generation is set to leave SM Entertainment after 19 years. She is the fifth member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,175132,10069,341,21778,292736],"class_list":["post-840502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-girls-generation","tag-k-pop","tag-music","tag-sm-entertainment","tag-yuri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840502","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=840502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}