{"id":345136,"date":"2026-03-24T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345136\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:07:10","slug":"heeseung-speaks-out-for-first-time-since-enhypen-exit-i-feel-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345136\/","title":{"rendered":"Heeseung speaks out for first time since ENHYPEN exit: I feel sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f6acacac-ea12-4988-903d-e78a3a90aebd.png\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 622; width: 100%; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" alt=\"Heeseung \/ Captured from ENHYPEN social media\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heeseung \/ Captured from ENHYPEN social media<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Heeseung, who recently left K-pop boy band ENHYPEN, spoke out for the first time since announcing his departure from the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cI\u2019m sure the news came as a surprise, but I\u2019m fine,\u201d he said during a video call with fans on Sunday. The event, scheduled before he announced his exit from the group on March 10, was his first official engagement with fans since then. It was held under the slightly revised name \u201cHeeseung and ENHYPEN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cI feel sorry for the members,\u201d Heeseung reportedly said. He was also quoted as saying that his album is set for release soon, hinting at a  solo debut soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Fans reacted to the event with mixed feelings, as it was still carried out under ENHYPEN\u2019s name despite Heeseung\u2019s departure. While some accepted that the prescheduled event would inevitably proceed as planned, others faulted the agency for failing to consider the fans by continuing to package him under the group\u2019s name in official schedules and photo card promotions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Previously Heeseung announced through his agency, Belift Lab, that he would leave the group, six years after debuting. While he is set to remain with Belift Lab and launch a solo career, ENHYPEN will reorganize as a six-member group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Heeseung and the agency said the move came after careful consideration stemming from differences in musical direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">This article from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heeseung \/ Captured from ENHYPEN social media Heeseung, who recently left K-pop boy band ENHYPEN, spoke out for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-345136","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\/345136","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=345136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}