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**Happiness** (Korean: 해피네스; RR: '**Haepineseu**') was a South Korean girl group formed by **SA Entertainment** in 2019. The group consisted of five members: Minjung, Sonia, EunB, Eunji and Ellie. Their debut sigital single *Cherry Pop* was released on May 23, 2019.

Happiness received only two awards during their career, including best Hip Hop and best Ballad song at the 2020 Summer Splash Awards.

The group disbanded on September 3, 2020 after a mutual agreement between the members and the company to part ways. All members terminated their contracts, while Sonia re-signed with the company with a temporary contract, allowing her to leave at her own discretion.

## **History**

### **Pre-debut**

Not too much is known about the group during their trainee days, but rumors state that they all joined the company as trainees around the same time that **Eclipse 6** debuted. They debuted only a few months after joining the company.

### **Mid-2019: Debut and chain of digital singles**

**Happiness** debuted on May 23, 2019 with the digital single "Cherry Pop" which was a refreshing, summer-vibe pop song with a fun choreography. The debut was catchy, but did not garner much public attention, as SA Entertainment was a brand new company at the time and did not spend much money on pre-debut promotions in order to have the group start making money immediately.

Throughout the rest of 2019, Happiness would release three more digital singles, only the third would be the one to launch the girls to stardom. To this day, "Cherry Pop" has 149,750 sales, whereas their breakthrough (and most iconic song), "Happy Hips" has 962,220 sales. This was just after the debut of **Night Girls**, so fans speculate that perhaps they had helped bring attention to the company's other groups as well.

### **2020: First mini album, repercussions of financial struggles and disbandment**

On January 10, 2020 Happiness came back with their first mini album "KINGDOM" which was a collaboration between six different groups from six different companies, one of which being Happiness. Their song on the album was track #2 which was a cover of **EXID**'s *I Love You*. Fans were disappointed in the company for giving the group a cover from another group's song, but they were willing to forgive them as the company was brand new to the industry.

After the release of the album, fans realized that SA Entertainment had most likely fallen on hard times in terms of finance, as the company went dormant for a little while as the group's track on the collaboration mini album had been a cover of another group's song.

Following the release of little-sister group Night Girls' first EP titled *Fierce*, it was clear that SA Entertainment was beginning to lose interest in Happiness as a group. The album had sold almost nine times more copies than Happiness's next mini album *Hush* which would only come to sell 333,480 copies in the first week compared to the 2.61M that Night Girls would sell.

Knowing this and wanting to take different paths in life, SA Entertainment and the members of Happiness mutually terminated their contracts, and parted ways on friendly terms. The only member that re-signed was Sonia, who signed a special contract allowing her to terminate at any time she desires.

## **Members**

* Minjung (민중) - visual, main dancer
* Sonia (소니아) - main rapper
* EunB (은비) - main vocalist, lead dancer
* Eunji (은지) - leader, lead rapper
* Ellie (엘리) - center, lead vocalist

## **Careers**

Fans think the story of **Happiness** is quite ironic, as it is in fact a sad story of hardships and failures. Here are what the members are doing today.

### **Minjung Kim (김민중)**

Minjung has since signed under a new entertainment company and now regularly performs as a comedian and acts mostly in comedy movies.

### **Sonia Jang (장 소니아)**

Sonia has re-signed under SA Entertainment as a member of **SA Trainees**. She now produces and writes music for other SA artists and hopes to some day re-debut as a soloist.

### **Eunbyul Park (박은별)**

EunB has left the company and has finally found her soulmate, which she said was the original reason why she became an idol. Her only request from the CEO was to be able to meet him again someday, and her dream has come true. She now has her own clothing line, **Star Clothing** derived from **Byul (별)** in her name, literally meaning "star".

### **Eunji Jang (장은지)**

She has signed under a new entertainment company and often models for clothing companies and acts in k-drama movies and shows.

### **Ellin Seo (서엘린)**

She now works as a vocal coach for trainees at a new entertainment company. She hopes to one day open her own agency, perhaps when she is a little older and wiser.

## **Discography**

**Click here** for a full list of Happiness' discography.

## **Awards and Nominations**

**Year presented, name of the ceremony, category, nominee of the award, and result of the nomination**
 Best song (Ballad)

## **Trivia**

* **Sonia** and other members have confirmed multiple times through SNS accounts that they all remain in contact after their disbandment, and regularly meet up to catch up and spend time together.