Girl group Kep1er releases concept photos ahead of EP release

Girl group Kep1er [WAKEONE ENTERTAINMENT]

Rookie girl group Kep1er released concept photos ahead of its new EP release later this month.

Under the theme called "Lemon Blast," the members are featured under a white and yellow backdrop sporting brightly-colored summer dresses.

The group is scheduled to release more photos under the second theme "Blue Blast" on June 14 and 15.

"Doublast," scheduled to drop on June 20, is the group's second EP. It follows the group's debut EP “First Impact,” which was released in 2021. It had sold nearly 400,000 copies in Korea, according to Goan Music Chart.

On June 2, K-pop girl act competition program "Queendom 2," in which Kep1er had competed, aired the final episode. The group came in fifth place of the six acts that participated. Girl group WJSN, otherwise known as Cosmic Girls, came in first place.

Kep1er, pronounced Kepler, debuted in January after being formed in 2021 through Mnet’s multinational idol audition show “Girls Planet 999” (2021). The group consists of nine members: Yujin, Chaehyun, Dayeon, Youngeun and Yeseo who are Korean; Xiaoting who is Chinese; Mashiro and Hikaru who are Japanese; and Huening Bahiyyih who is Korean-American.

BY LEE JIAN [lee.jian@joongang.co.kr]