{"id":325438,"date":"2026-03-12T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/325438\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:00:11","slug":"seventeens-vernon-the8-to-launch-new-unit-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/325438\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen&#8217;s Vernon, The8 to launch new unit this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0c03c80b-b8b9-4201-9ac1-f4e619bbdde3.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 740 \/ 500; width: 100%\" alt=\"Seventeenr's Vernon, left, and The8 \/ Korea Times file\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seventeenr&#8217;s Vernon, left, and The8 \/ Korea Times file<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Vernon and The8 of K-pop boy group Seventeen will form a new unit and are preparing to release an album in June, a music industry source said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Vernon and The8 are working on a unit album with the goal of releasing it in June,&#8221; the source told Yonhap News Agency. &#8220;Both members are actively participating in production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The new duo marks Seventeen&#8217;s sixth unit project, following BSS composed of DK, Hoshi and Seungkwan; Jeonghan and Wonwoo; Hoshi and Woozi; S.Coups and Mingyu; and DK and Seungkwan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Vernon, a rapper in Seventeen, has been writing and composing songs since the group&#8217;s debut. He joined the Recording Academy, which organizes the Grammy Awards, as a voting member last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The8, a Chinese member, is known for his strong dance skills and has released several solo records in China, including the EP &#8220;Stardust.&#8221; Vernon collaborated with The8 on the album&#8217;s lead track &#8220;Orbit,&#8221; contributing to both lyrics and composition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Seventeen is currently on its &#8220;New_&#8221; world tour and will hold encore concerts of the tour on April 4\u20135 at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, about 30 kilometers west of Seoul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeenr&#8217;s Vernon, left, and The8 \/ Korea Times file Vernon and The8 of K-pop boy group Seventeen will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-325438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}