Palace48

Palace48 (궁전48) is the sub-label for the 48G groups under APM Entertainment, It also included the group members that have debuted as soloists

## Groups

### PALACE48 GROUP

#### AKB48 Series

* AKB48 Team SL (Formerly known as SOL48; Seoul, South Korea)
	+ **DaSeung from AKB48 Team SL**
	+ **AhYu from AKB48 Team SL**

#### PALACE48 KOREA

* BSN48 (Busan, South Korea)
* SOL48 (Seoul, South Korea)
	+ Selection 10
	+ Love Potion
	+ Memory Fabricators
	+ Summer Wish
	+ 1AM

* SOL48 Reborn

#### PALACE48 RUSSIA

* SOL48 Team YS (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia)
* MOW48 (Moscow, Russia)
* MOW48 Team KL (Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Rusia)
* MOW48 Team SP (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
* AMT48 Team NV (Novosibirsk, Russia)

#### PALACE48 JAPAN

##### SOL48 KANTO

* SOL48 Team TK (Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan.)

##### SOL48 KANSAI-CHUBU

* SOL48 Team IT (Ikuno-ku, Osaka, Japan)
* NKG48 (Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan)

##### PALACE48 KYUSHU

* CHU48 (Chuo Ward, Fukuoka, Japan)
* TBT48 (Tobata Ward, Kitakyushu, Japan)

#### PALACE48 CHINA

* YNJ48 (Yanji, Yanbian, China)
* AMT48 Team UQ (Urumqi, Xinjiang, China)

#### PALACE48 TURKERSTAN

* AMT48 (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
* TKN48 (Taskent, Uzbekistan)
* AGB48 (Ashgabat, Turkestan)
* BSK48 (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)

##### PALACE48 CALIFORNIA

* CAL48 (Hollywood, California, USA)
* CAL48 Team SJ (San Jose, California, USA)
* CAL48 Team MX (Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico)

### Soloists

* Miyawaki Sakura (Featured also on Team IZ)
* Choi Yena (Featured also on Team IZ)
* Kwon Eunbi (Featured also on Team IZ)
* Lee Chaeyeon (Featured also on Team IZ)
* Jo Yuri (Featured also on Team IZ)
* Lee Ga-eun (Graduate from SOL48's SEED's)
* Kim Do Ah (김도아) (Featured also on Team O)
* Park Seo Young (박서영) (Featured also on Team 4S)
* Alex Christine (Features also on Team O)

### IDOL SCHOOL 48

#### Season 1 GRADUATES

* Takahashi Juri (高橋朱里) (Originally from AKB48, Team GX Member)
* Wang Yi Ren (王怡人) (From SOL48's SEED)
* Jeon So-mi (From BSN48 1st Gen)
* Jung Eun-woo (정은우) (From BSN48 2nd Gen)
* Jung Chae-yeon (From SOL48's YSN 1st Generation)

## History

### PALACE48 (2016-2018)

In 2016 APM Entertainment who was trying to expand the AKB48 group into South Korea, and Akimoto Yasushi, creator of the 48Group, negotiated to create SOL48 in Seoul, South Korea. The group has their own theater located on Mesa Hall, near Shinsegae's duty-free shop in Myeongdong, Seoul. The 1st generation members were announced in October 2016 and debuted on December 8, 2016.

It was announced all of SOL48's activities would be managed by APM Entertainment's PALACE48 Korea.

#### 1st Sister Group

On September 16, 2017, SOL48 would announce that the members of SOL48 2nd Gen would be transfering to the 1st local sister group BSN48, that would be made after APM's Palace48 had received offers from local authorities as the group had been invited almost weekly to perform in venues in the city. The members however would be on a concurrency for the time being as Yasushi Akimoto and APM Entertainment's Palace48 held an audition for a new theater-based idol girl group supposed to be BSN48.

BSN48 released their 1st Album Koi Suru Fortune Cookie/GIVE ME FIVE! on December 12, 2017. BSN48's songs are sung on Gyeongsang dialect instead of Standard Korean.

#### SOL48 The Second

In November 29, 2017, It was announced that from the 7000 people that auditioned, 98 had passed. 57 of them were South Korean and 12 from other countries. All were presented as part of the new SOL48's YGS (연구생) team: SOL48 SEED. It was announced the same date that there would be transfers from the Japanese AKB48 brand. The 39 transfers consisted of current members of AKB48, SKE48, HKT48, NMB48 and NGT48. The 39 girls along with the 32 SOL48 members featured on MAMA 2017 announcing the reformation of SOL48 and the formation of BSN48 in Busan City, South Korea.

On April 11, 2018, The 39 Japanese members and Lee-Gaeun debuted as Team GX in the AKB48 Theater in Japan with HKT48's Sakura Miyawaki and 1st SEED Gen Lee Ka-eun featuring as centers. During this period the newer members were reffered to as SOL48 The Second.

On May, 2018 it would be announced that APM Entertainment would be unveiling their own survival show modelled after MNET's IDOL SCHOOL

On November 11, 2018 it was announced that Team O's Lee Chaejeong (이채정) would be transfering into a new sister group named SOL48 Team TK in Tokyo, Japan. formed in the same city as AKB48 but functioning more as a chain branch for SOL48 to promote in the country. It was announced that this was an APM only venture and that it could eventually also include members from BSN48, AKB48, Sakamichi 46 or the SNH48GROUP.

On December 15, 2018, It was announced that SOL48 would go through a rebranding, becoming AKB48 Team SL on that day.

### PALACE48 GROUP ERA (2018 - 2020)

In 2018, After CJENM bought stocks on APM Entertainment, the group was renamed as AKB48 Team SL, afterwards getting their own theather.

***Idol School 48*** (Korean: 아이돌 학교 48) premiered on July 14, 2018, with the final episode airing on September 28, 2018. The new group name was revealed to be **Royals from Palace48**. While sharing similarities to it's mother survival program, *Idol School*, the two shows differed in many ways including its number of participants, voting system, and number of winners that will form the final group.

### 1st Official Subunits

On May 2019, Sentimental Train - 2nd Station, would be released. This release would introduce the 1st 2 Sub Units from **PALACE 48**: DaSeung from AKB48 Team SL & AhYu from AKB48 Team SL

### International Expansion

In October 2019, During their last concert from the 16 Stops Tour, APM Entertainment would announce the creation of 2 new Sister Groups for AKB48 Team SL, One in Almaty, Kazakhstan and One in Yanji, Yanbian, China. AMT48 and YNJ48 were revealed to be the names. YNJ48's management would be under a joint venture between STAR48 and APM Entertainment named Yanji's APM Culture and Contents China (연길 APM 문화와콘텐츠차이나).

AMT48 and YNJ48 would be the 3rd and 4th sister group respectively. Both being the 1st Sister Group in their respective country.

On April 11, 2020, During the AKB48 Team SL theatre show, AKB48 Team SL announced a 2 additional sister groups would be debuting on between 2020 & 2021. The names were revealed to be SOL48 Team YS, located in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia and SOL48 Team IT in Ikuno-ku, Osaka, Japan, the latter being the 2nd PALACE 48 sister group in Japan, After SOL48 Team TK.

On December 29, 2020, APM Entertainment posted a picture of SOL48 logo and the caption "Incoming" on AKB48 Team SL's Social Media.

### 2021

On January 1, 2021. APM Entertainment unveiled SOL48 Reborn, AKB48 Team SL "Adult Version". During SOL48 Reborn's Showcase it would be announced APM has plans for the creation on 16 Sister groups in the following years.