Pink Fantasy

> "*All your fantasy! Hello, we are Pink Fantasy!"
> "All your fantasy! 안녕하세요, 핑크판타지 입니다!*"
> ― Pink Fantasy's Official Introduction
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## Fandom

**Pink Fantasy** (/pɪŋk ˈfæntəsi/ Hangul: 핑크판타지, *Pingkeu Pantaji*, Kana: ピンクファンタジー , *Pinku Fantajī*), alternatively stylised as **PinkFantasy**, a South Korean girl group under MyDoll Entertainment. The group consists of 8 members: Daewang, SeeA, Yechan, Harin, Arang, Momoka, Miku, and Heesun. The group is unique in the sense that they have a hidden member, Daewang, who conceals her identity behind concept-driven masks, an idea thought of by Super Junior's Shindong, who produced their debut single.

The group has went through many lineup changes; they debuted on October 24th, 2018, with their first single album "Iriwa", with the initial lineup consisting of Daewang, Aini, Seea, Yechan, Harin, Arang, Heesun, and the pre-debut member Rai, who would later be replaced by Yubeen. On October 18, 2019, MyDoll Entertainment issued an official note stating Heesun's departure from the group, following with an official note on April 12th stating Aini's departure from the group due to symptoms of Plantar fasciitis and decreased physical strength. Yubeen and SangA, who had joined the group on July 15,would leave soon due to a panic disorder and personal reasons respectively.

In late 2021, the group then introduced Japanese members Momoka, Miku, and Miu, trainees under the company, and former member Heesun to join as guest members for their upcoming release, Lemon Candy. Momoka and Miu would join the group soon after, alongside former member Heesun rejoining, though Miu had left the company.

Pink Fantasy has normally been noted for their diversity in concepts, predominantly in their dark songs, with many considering blood and gore to be a staple for the group, especially after the promotions of Tales of the Unusual, with a clip of Pink Fantasy performing the song on stage garnering over 3.2 million views, and a compilation video of reaction comments surpassing 2.7 million. Netizens took note of the members' dedication to the concept, each giving their all to the contorted dance movements and bone-chilling facial expressions.

## Name

In an interview with Pink Fantasy, Momoka stated that 'Pink' meant love and happiness, and 'fantasy' meant a desired reality. When placed together as one, this means that Pink Fantasy want to be a team that gives a lot of love and happiness to the numerous people who are seeking the same in their hapless realities. They hope that by being with Pink Fantasy, people will get the chance to truly experience such emotions for themselves. That’s what Pink Fantasy aims to achieve via their music.

### Logo

DebutLogo during Alice in Wonderland.

Pink Fantasy's logo consists of two intersected skeleton keys with the letters P and F on each side. Beneath them, a keyhole, which is turned into the shape of a spade in the Alice in Wonderland edition of the logo. That edition of the logo also added their title under the spade. In an interview with the Spanish BA NA NA blog, the group stated that you can get to "Pink Fantasy" with the keys of P and F.

## Concept

> "*Just like the varied genres which shape their versatile discography, all members have distinctly different personalities and auras. But rather than focusing my creative direction for this group solely on the extraneous traits of the members, over everything else, I wanted to create a girl group with a family-like structure by consolidating different heights, ages and charms into a single group – a group who’d spend their days living and working together under the same roof and hence, inevitably develop a family-like bond in tandem.
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> Incase of other labels, companies try to build groups with only young teenagers, but I like to believe that if one is passionate enough about what they do, then paltry, inconsequential barriers like that of age don’t make any difference whatsoever. Hence, I’m positive that in the future as well, I’ll continue to source and recruit more passionate people befitting of our brand spirit.*"
> ― Lee So-Hee, CEO of MyDoll Entertainment
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MyDoll Entertainment’s CEO, Lee Sohee created Pink Fantasy with the purpose of providing representation to idols of different personalities, backgrounds and age groups, by providing them a platform to showcase their talents and shine. The group has one of the largest age gaps in the K-Pop industry, being currently almost 12 years, with it's longest being about 15 years during Pink Fantasy's immediate debut (between Rai, who was born in 1990, and Heesun, who was born in 2005).

Conclusively, in the view of Lee Sohee, age does not matter in a group so long as the group has a tight-knitted bond with each other. The members themselves also consider Morning Musume one of their role model due to the diverse age cast of the group, and the family-like bond between each member.

### Themes

Since debut, the inspiration for Pink Fantasy's songs were fairy tales, such as Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland, the main exemplar of the fairy tale concept with three albums being based after it. The fairy tale tropes go deeper than just the plot of fairy tales, as songs like Playing House describe the Seven Dwarves in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves imagining a life with Snow White through child's play.

Alice in Wonderland, the last album in the Alice in Wonderland trilogy.The Alice in Wonderland trilogy, consisting of the songs Iriwa, Fantasy, Poison, tells a story; which displays the temptation of the clock rabbit, and Alice falling victim to it, with Poison finally showing off Alice's life suffused to regret along with the clock rabbit, and the subsequent changes occurring within Alice as a consequence of experiencing all of those clashing emotions.

What this essentially signifies is that it is easy for people to give in to temptation often, especially bad temptations that run rampant across the world; temptations that easily manipulate people. As a consequence of these sinful desires, at the end of their respective journeys, people’s lives are suffused with regret. This was heavily displayed in the music video for Poison, being noted as fiercely intense and enigmatic, incorporating a lot of biblical references, satanic imagery and exquisite cinematography.

### Music

> "*Ever since our debut, we, as a group, wanted to experiment with all kinds of sounds and concepts that are currently known in the K-pop space, so we’re going to continue to work hard and bring you new and different categories of music all the time.*"
> ― Harin
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Pink Fantasy has an especially diverse discography, which makes it easier for them to be noticed and stand out in the K-Pop industry with their vocal abilities and performance skills. From their debut, Iriwa was considered an electropop dance anthem, while the group took inspiration from rock and heavy metal for Poison, though Pink Fantasy's strong suit is generally considered to be their darker concepts.

When asked what concepts the group would like to explore in their music in the future, Daewang wanted the group to challenge various rock-centric genres such as heavy metal, death metal, and black metal, as it fit their group's worldview very well. With the releases of Poison, Fantasy, and Tales of the Unusual being very rock-inspired, Daewang stated that rock was a wonderful genre and a great medium of expression as well. In her own words, "rock allows you to express your emotions, voice social criticism and narrate entire stories. I also think that the performances of Pink Fantasy and the skills of our vocalists shine the most through this genre, hence the shift to rock." Pink Fantasy's main rock inspirations are TraxX and X Japan.

## History

### 2006-2017: Pre-debut

#### Auditions

Before the debut of Pink Fantasy, many of the group's members were already involved in the entertainment industry. Aini and Lee Sohee, the CEO of MyDoll Entertainment, were members of the group Kirots and then UNIZ, in which Aini would change her stage name from Heejung, her birth name, to her current one. Lee Sohee, whose stage name in Kirots was Yumi, would also change her stage name to Chie before establishing MyDoll Entertainment. Park Yuna, also known as Hari in UNIZ and Rai in Pink Fantasy, was also part of the pre-debut lineup before leaving. She still appears in the music video as there was no time to reshoot it. Rai was also formerly a member of the Japanese-Taiwanese girl group Weather Girls under the stage name "Sindy" (Mandarin: 紅雪, *Hóngxŭe*, Kana: ホンソル, *Honsoru*) for a short time in 2017 before the group's disbandment on November 1st, 2017.

SeeA was a member of the second lineup of Piggy Dolls under her real name, **Kang Eunyoung**, where she only had one comeback before the group silently disbanded. Shortly before the debut of Pink Fantasy, SeeA had also participated in Season 5 of I can See Your Voice, namely in the seventh episode that premiered on March 16, 2018. Lee Sohee, who saw her singing on the show, was monitoring her from the green room backstage before approaching her after her performances.

Yechan was a member of the "beatpella" group Awe5ome Baby under TN Entertainment with the debut song "Why Should I?" (Hangul: 내가 왜?) on June 15, 2015. Yechan also made her solo debut while in the group with "Someone You Know" (Hangul: 아는 사람) for a webdrama of the same name, on June 11, 2016. Lee Sohee temporarily worked at TN Entertainment at around the same time as well. Yechan's singing was the first time anyone's singing made Lee Sohee cry. The group disbanded on December 4, 2016, with Yechan continuing with working at a bookstore. When hearing that, Lee Sohee decided to go to the bookstore and invite her to join the group.

Yubeen was introduced through Yechan's former groupmate, Lee Chaebin, formerly known as Lee Dahee. Both Yubeen and Lee Chaebin had participated in Idol School, in which Yubeen had been eliminated on the sixth episode, achieving the 29th place. Lee Chaebin had spoken highly of Yubeen, so Lee Sohee and Yubeen decided to meet. Lee Sohee thought that Yubeen was very cute, as well as a great dancer and singer, so she asked her to join them.

The members weren't involved in the entertainment industry before debut were trainees under different companies. Arang, Harin, and Heesun were all former Marbling E&M, then known as Monstergram Inc., trainees. However, Heesun was part of the entertainment industry prior as a member of the kids girl group CutieL alongside former Busters members, Cha Minjung, Kim Chaeyeon, who is currently a member of TripleS, and Kang Yeseo, who is currently a member of Kep1er. Before joining, Arang was thinking about giving up her dreams since things were going sideways at her old agency, while Harin's desire to be an idol came later, though she worked hard and diligently to achieve that goal. Harin's parents were against her goal, but they gave Lee Sohee their blessing after she spoke with them. Lastly, SangA was slated for a girl group debut that was dropped, so she auditioned for MyDoll Entertainment. She was the only member (other than the Japanese members who would join later) to actually audition for the company.

#### Teasers

As the members were gearing up for their debut, the subunit Sugar Powder, consisting of the members Harin, Arang, and Heesun, was created in order to promote the group before their debut actually started. On MyDoll Entertainment's Official YouTube Channel, videos were posted of the members performing in venues and doing dance covers. They had their first live performance on June 27, covering Orange Caramel's Catallena and Shanghai Romance. Before their official debut, the other members also starred in one of comedian Yoo Se-yoon's music videos. Harin and Arang had also performed in a venue alongside him, which was filmed and posted on MyDoll Entertainment's YouTube Channel.

In mid-October, MyDoll Entertainment started out rolling video teasers for Iriwa. The first teaser was released on October 15th, 2018, with the description and title stating that the music video was directed by Shindong's Walala Production, alongside a tentative release date for the 24th of October, 2018. The next teaser was released on the same day as the first, with a set of teaser photos for the individual members and profile information alongside that. The third and last teaser was released on the October 18th, being converted into a YouTube Short later on.

### 2018: Debut and the Beginning of the Alice in Wonderland trilogy

The group made their official debut on October 24, 2018 with the single album "Iriwa", paired with a homonymous title track, accompanied by a music video, thus being the beginning of the Alice in Wonderland trilogy. The music video features predebut member Rai, who left shortly before debut and was replaced by Cho Yubeen. While Yubeen is not featured in the music video, the song was re-recorded to feature her instead of Rai.

On the 25th of December, 2018, the fandom name of the group was announced to be "LUVIT" after having a naming event on Daum Café.

## Members

*For members and sub-units, see Pink Fantasy/Members*

### Active

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## Trivia

* Predebut member Rai appears in "Iriwa" MV, but she left the group before the official debut and was replaced with Yubeen.
* Regarding their fandom name:
	+ It's literally 'luv it' (love it).
	+ The Korean pronunciation of the name resembles "rabbit". (Which would be pronounced "래비트")

## Official Links

* Daum Cafe
* Twitter
* Instagram
* Facebook
* YouTube

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 News Article: Blood and gore are staples for girl group Pink Fantasy
2. ↑ News Article: 神童為新人女團 PINK FANTASY 出道曲《IRIWA》作詞作曲、執導 MV
3. ↑ Pink Fantasy Official Twitter Account [@pinkfantasy\_kr] 희선이 탈퇴 관련 공지
4. ↑ News Article: Pink Fantasy's Leader Aini Withdraws From The Group Due to Health Concerns + Arang to Replace Her
5. ↑ Pink Fantasy Official Twitter Account [@pinkfantasy\_kr] 마이돌에서 안내 드립니다.
6. ↑ MyDoll Entertainment on Daum Café: 마이돌엔터테인먼트에서 알려드립니다.
7. ↑ K-Pop Source: Pink Fantasy's Yubeen has left the group (Original Source Unknown)
8. ↑ MyDoll Entertainment on Daum Café: 마이돌엔터테인먼트에서 알려드립니다. (Archived on December 1st, 2022.)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Interview: Pink Fantasy and the Rise of Korean Femme Rock
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Interview: [ENTREVISTA | INTERVIEW] Pink Fantasy 핑크판타지
11. ↑ YouTube: [Simply K-Pop] Simply's Spotlight Pink Fantasy(핑크판타지) \_ Fantasy + Playing House(소꿉장난) \_ Ep.391 - ARIRANG K-POP
12. ↑ Wikiwand: I Can See Your Voice (Season 5)
13. ↑ Wikipedia: I Can See Your Voice (Season 5)
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 YouTube: [promiSINGER] Pink Fantasy(핑크판타지)! Are you ready to join the PINK FANTASY fandom? - ARIRANG K-POP
15. ↑ YouTube: Someone You Know - Yechan (Awesome Baby): Description - *Release Date: 2015-06-11*
16. ↑ *Idol School*: Episodes 1-6
17. ↑ Videos displaying Arang, Harin, and Heesun as Monstergram Inc trainees; Harin, Arang (under her birth name, Yerim), Heesun.
18. ↑ Korean Wikipedia: CutieL
19. ↑ YouTube: [핑크판타지(슈가파우더)] 180606 \_ 미스모델 오브 더 월드코리아 축하공연 (까탈레나+상하이로맨스) - MyDoll Entertainment
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 News Article: New Girl Group Pink Fantasy Releases Adorable Photos + Profile Information
21. ↑ MyDoll Entertainment on Daum Café: FandomName: LUVIT
22. ↑ Interview: Pink Fantasy talks about behind the scene of 'Iriwa' MV, fandom name, and answers fans' questions in an interview with Girl Group Zone

### Notes

1. ↑ There are some conflicting sources regarding Aini's birth date, with Namuwiki stating that she was born on June 13, 1989 for UNIZ's and Pink Fantasy's profile, and others stating that she was born on June 13, 1991. Based on her profile in UNIZ, Aini was born in 1989. The reason behind the age-changing is likely due to the fact that Aini's age was considered unideal for an idol, so her age was adjusted to being in her late twenties at the time of debut. Given Aini being born in 1989, the age gap in the group in their immediate debut was 16 years.
2. ↑ In the video, Lee Sohee only mentions that she approached SeeA after seeing her on a television programme, and not specifically I Can See Your Voice. However, given that this was SeeA's only recorded appearance before Pink Fantasy on a television programme, and that the episode occurred a few months before Pink Fantasy's debut, the assumption is made that the television programme is I Can See Your Voice.
3. ↑ The term "beatpella" refers to a combination of beatboxing and a cappella singing. Source: Namuwiki: Lee Chaebin (Lee Dahee) Reference Note 2 (Translated)