{"id":637111,"date":"2026-10-21T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637111\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:04:10","slug":"twices-jihyo-leaves-jyp-after-21-years-to-launch-own-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/637111\/","title":{"rendered":"TWICE&#8217;s Jihyo leaves JYP after 21 years to launch own agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cddf9ed7-9e1c-4951-a009-5fb658775813.png\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1270 \/ 952; width: 100%\" alt=\"Jihyo from K-pop girl group TWICE \/ Courtesy of JYP\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jihyo from K-pop girl group TWICE \/ Courtesy of JYP<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Jihyo, a member of K-pop girl group TWICE, said Wednesday she has left JYP Entertainment to establish her own agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In a handwritten letter posted on social media, Jihyo said she had ended her contract with JYP, where she had been for 21 years since childhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;I have established Emithaus,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Through this new home, I hope to freely explore even the possibilities within myself that I have yet to discover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The 29-year-old singer added, &#8220;I will approach every future choice and activity with greater care and a stronger sense of responsibility, as I step out of a familiar environment and continue my work in a new way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Jihyo plans to pursue her solo music career under the new agency while continuing activities with TWICE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">JYP Entertainment, one of Korea&#8217;s major K-pop agencies, had managed Jihyo since she joined the company as a trainee before TWICE&#8217;s 2015 debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jihyo from K-pop girl group TWICE \/ Courtesy of JYP Jihyo, a member of K-pop girl group TWICE,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-637111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637111","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=637111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}