Zinnia

### Pre-Debut:

The CEO was street-casting and holding auditions online and in-person to pick the members for their upcoming group immediately, The girls only had 2 weeks of training which was a horrible idea as the girls weren't ready at all and felt ashamed about how they weren't improving enough. The CEO would always shame the girls infront of everyone in the company, and did not give the group proper living conditions.

## Background

### Genre(s)

K-Pop, Bubblegum Pop, EDM, Girl Crush Pop

## Members

### Former

Nana (Yoon Naeun)Soo Minsuh Son Hyunjung Sunny (Son Seoyun)Jess (Gim Jessica) Flower (Cho Naeun)Yoona (Cho Yoonsuh)

### Debut:

Zinnia originally debuted as a 4 member girl group consisting of Nana, Minsuh, Hyunjung, and Sunny. They had only 2 weeks to prepare for their debut. The debuted with a single album titled "Sunshine." They only sold 17 copies, and had 16,700 views on the music video in the first week. When they debuted they instantly faced hatred from the general public as there was extremely low budget, making the quality of their debut horrible. Many people felt like they had no talent. Because of this, the CEO immediately started going after the girls.

### Line-up Changes and Exposing the Company:

Soon after the debut, Hyunjung left the group and the company. The company didn't give the fans any information which led hate from the fandom to Hyunjung leaving so sudden. Hyunjung then came out with a video explaining what had happened and her experience with the company. Hyunjung stated the company had strong favoritism towards one of the members. She then later explains how the manager would force unhealthy diets on the girls, and would body shame them in public and during photoshoots. The only promotions they had were performing in clubs with no security. Many things would happen during the promotions, when they were minors. She also explains how they had horrible living conditions, having no electricity and running water for days or even weeks in the dorms and how the food offered to them had bugs in it. Soon after this video was released, it was announced that Sunny had left the group as well, and how the company had replacements for the 2 member who had left. The CEO added Jess, Flower and Yoona into the groups line-up. The company received hatred from the general public on the way they had been treating Zinnia, and begged for disbandment.

### Comebacks and Disbandment:

Zinnia had 2 more comebacks before disbandment. The first comeback was a digital single album, Pink with the songs Pink and Hot Pink. It was more of an EDM song. The fandom was angry on there not being a music video, just a lyric video. People said that they should just disband at this point because the company couldn't fund for a simple music video. The lyric video had gotten 27,300 views in it's first week which showed growth within the fandom. Soon after the group had another digital single album, Haunted, with the songs Ghost and Haunted. There was a huge growth in the fandom as the music video received 2,100,000 views in it's first month of release. Sadly the group had disbanded due to the company no longer able to afford to keep the group.

### Where They Are Now?:

Yoon Naeun (Nana) and Son Hyunjung went on to compete in Top3 Season 3. Yoon Naeun made it to the final round but didn't make it into the group as she ranked #18 with 927,924 votes. Son Hyunjung was eliminated in the first round, ranking #23 with 448,023 votes. Son Seoyun (Sunny) is now the CEO of Ice Cream Studios, a sub-label under Milkshake Media. The other members have left the idol industry to have a regular life.