YG announces 10 of its artists have fully recovered from Covid-19

Boy band Treasure [YG ENTERTAINMENT]

Ten artists from YG Entertainment have fully recovered from Covid-19, the agency announced Thursday.

“Winner’s Lee Seung-hoon, iKON’s Kim Jin-hwan, Song Yun-heong, Kim Dong-hyuk, Koo Jun-hoe and Jung Chan-woo and Treasure’s Choi Hyun-suk, Junkyu, Yoshi and Mashiho have fully recovered from Covid-19,” YG said. “They were respectively quarantined in their homes and health authorities evaluated that they were in no danger of further spreading the virus. They [the 10 artists] were released from their quarantine as of yesterday [Wednesday].

The agency added that all of the infected artists were in good health and had shown no serious symptoms.

“We are aware that the daily number of new Covid cases is rising rapidly both locally and globally and we are making our best efforts to secure the safety of our artists and staff,” it added.

The agency first reported that three members of the boy band iKON — Kim Jin-hwan, Song Yun-heong and Kim Dong-hyuk — tested positive for Covid-19 on Jan. 23. Over the course of several days, more artists from other boy bands such as Winner and Treasure tested positive for the virus.

BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joongang.co.kr]