Daydream

Minkyung

Sunhyon

Kitiya

Hyori

Daydream is a 6 member girl group under Belladonna Entertainment. Although they were not the first to debut under Belladonna Entertainment, they were the first group planned however multiple different events occured which lead to the debut being pushed back and member changes occuring. They debuted on March 16th, 2019 with a unique hit song titled "What About You" in which the girls were portrayed as dolls of sorts. Their most recent comeback was on January 1st, and was a winter-eqsue dazzling song called "Winter Story" in which the girls dance elegantly through the snowflakes of winter.

 Jung Jiyun
 Hwang Minkyung
 Lee Sunhyon
 Sambhavaphol Kitiya
 Kim Hyori

## Pre-Debut, Original Members

During the pre-debut stages of Daydream, original members Park Nami & Eun Sora competed in KPS2's survival reality show SulSul101, in which the two girls ranked 9th & 11th respectively. They went on to be a part of the final group S.O.S. under K-Sims Entertainment and participated in all of the groups comebacks, minus one in which Sora was injured along with a few other members and could not participate.

During the time of their comebacks, Belladonna Entertainment was planning to debut a new group, which was originally titled Daybreak but quickly changed to Daydream as the girls in the group all agreed that if they had break in their group name they were doomed to break apart.

The original lineup of Daydream included:

Park Nami, Eun Sora, Im Hanbyul, Choi Yunseo, Jung Jiyun, and Hwang Minkyung.

## Sora Departure, Yunseo Pregnancy Scandal, Hanbyul Accused of Bullying.

Around the time S.O.S. was set to disband, Sora announced she would be stepping down from her idol life and would be focusing all her attention on schooling, as she had experienced some situations that altered her perspective on the entertainment industry and being an idol. As per her request her contract with Belladonna Entertainment was terminated and she was then effectively removed from the lineup of Daydream following her departure, also as per her request. This caused the company to look into getting a new member to keep the 6 member lineup of Daydream. Unfortunately they would have to look for more then one member in the following months.

After Sora had left the scene, youngest member Yunseo Choi became the spotlight of attention when netisims spotted her gaining a serious amount of weight and going on what seems to be dates with a mysterious man. In the weeks to follow she was stalked by saesang fans who discovered the teen was pregnant and the mystery man was the father of her child and they had been living together for only a while. The news broke out online causing Yunseo & Belladonna Entertainment to make statements regarding the pregnancy, and the state of daydream. Yunseo wrote a quick instagram post about how she was sorry for disapointing everyone before she then deactivated her account and left the rest up to the company. Suprisingly, the company did not treat Yunseo harshly, they defended her saying she had made a mistake and was ready to own up to it and become a mother despite being so young. The staff members of the company were suprised and proud of her for stepping up to such a hard task at such a young age and wished her the best, however it was decided by Yunseo herself that she would no longer be in the Daydream lineup due to her future motherhood and the reputation of the group. It is unknown if Yunseo's contract with Belladonna Entertainment was terminated or not, however she has appeared in numerous photos with Daydream member Park Nami, who still seems to be close with her.

Following this event, months after Yunseo's pregnancy had come to light and she disapeared for a while, member Im Hanbyul suddenly left the group. Photos were leaked online by someone claiming to be Hanbyul's brother saying that she was a spoiled brat & she had harassed Nami for supporting Yunseo in her teen pregnancy, helping the younger girl out frequently and spending time with her. The snapshots of the messages also indicated that Hanbyul was jealous of Nami being the leader of the group. This lead netisims to conclude that Hanbyul hadn't left the group but had actually been kicked out of the group and company. This rumor was never confirmed by any of the remaining members or the company, as it seems it was something they wanted to keep under wraps. However, when Yunseo returned to the spotlight after reopening her instagram she made a statement saying how people shouldn't always believe what they see online and that she loved all her "daydream unnies" in which she listed: Nami, Sora, Hanbyul, Minkyung and Jiyun. She didn't however, mention any of the new members which lead to further discussion about a possible jealousy Yunseo might have towards the final lineup of Daydream.

## New Members Added & Official Debut

As the three previous members of daydreams predebut lineup left, the company swore to fill the empty spots left by the members to keep daydream as a 6 member group. One by one they kept losing members until only half remained out of the original six. At first they were planning to find singular trainees when Sora & Yunseo left but by the time Hanbyul left as well they decided to do open auditions to fill the final three spots. At the auditions one member who was already a Belladonna Entertainment trainee, Hyori Kim and younger sister to NOVAGIRL's Miyun Kim was picked as one of the three, while two new trainees Sunhyon Lee & Kitiya were accepted as the other two. Later on the day of the audition the three girls were brought into a practice room where they met Nami, Jiyun and Minkyung and got to know eachother.

With the final lineup of Daydream decided, efforts began to debut the group, however quite a few things got in the way. Belladonna Entertainment had gone through two Survival show projects, Fourteen and Finding Infinity in which two more girl groups, 9 & 7 members in each respectively were formed. This lead to Daydream becoming a lesser priority to the staff members & stockholders of the company. Eventually as things started to settle down in January of 2019, Daydream was finally scheduled to debut a week after Sunbeam, the group created from Fourteen, made their debut. This worried the girls as they figured all the spotlight would be on their fellow group and they would once again be the lesser priority due to being overshadowed. However this attitude quickly changed when the girls debuted on March 16th and participated in their first music shows. They soon found out they already had a fanbase name, Reveries, given to them by previous S.O.S fans of Nami's who had become the entire group fans during their predebut stage. They went on to perform at an award show and have been rumored to release an album soon.