Girl group Apink to release 10th EP 'Self' next month

Girl group Apink [IST ENTERTAINMENT]

Girl group Apink will release its 10th EP “Self” on April 5, according to its agency IST Entertainment on Monday night.

This will be the group’s first physical album since “Horn,” released in February 2022, which was also the last album for the girl group as a six-member group.

The poster released Monday showed a vibrant colored painting in the background with a contrasting monotone wall and typography.

“Just like its definition of self — true self, ego and myself — Apink will show its real self, not how others want the group to be, in the new EP,” said the press release.

Apink debuted as a seven-member girl group in 2011 but is better known as a six-member group after Hong Yoo-kyung left the group in 2013. Currently, the band consists of the five members Park Cho-rong, Yoon Bo-mi, Jeong Eun-ji, Kim Nam-joo and Oh Ha-young, after the departure of Son Na-eun in 2022. It is best known for hits “NoNoNo” (2013), “Mr. Chu” (2014), “LUV" (2014) and “Dumhdurum” (2020).

The girl group will hold the Korean leg of its Asian mini-concert tour “Pink Drive” on April 15 and 16 at Olympic Hall in Songpa District, southern Seoul, after performances in Japan on March 17 and 19, in Hong Kong on March 26 and in Taiwan on April 1.