AURAURORA

AURAURORA is a 12-member girl group under YB Entertainment consisting of JiU, Lia, Deng Qing, Kasumi, Eunkyung, Haewon, Ziying, Hyunji, Akira, Shika, Chaerin and Darcie. They are to fully debut all the three main units and the full group by the end of 2024.

## History

### my shining Aura (2022-2023)

From December 2022 to February 2023, the show *my shining Aura* aired. The survival show was to select members for the group. In the final episode on February 28, 2023, the 12 final members, who ranked the top 12 in the finals, were announced.

### Pre-debut

On March 3, 2023, AURAURORA released the group concept teaser, titled *AURAURORA: prologue*. It revealed that the group would have their own storyline, and it would be continued in every episode, music video, or teaser. It was followed by the launch of the first episode of *our Aurora* on March 8th, a series of twelve short clips featuring each of the members. The videos were posted in the order of their final ranking, from A1 to A12. The first episode featured A1, Eunkyung. The second episode, featuring JiU, premiered on March 12th.

On March 19th, Mir/reflections, also known as Mirror Reflections, were revealed, pairing up members into six pairs, bringing the parallel form concept into the group. The Mir/reflections are: JiU and Lia, Deng Qing and Ziying, Kasumi and Darcie, Eunkyung and Haewon, HyunJi and Shika, Akira and Chaerin.

On March 23, the group released the first episode of *AURA:behind*, showing us parts of members' lives inside and outside the group.

On April 2nd, the long awaited first episode of *AURUNIVERSE* premiered. It started off the storyline of the AURAURORA universe, commonly known as the aurUNIVERSE.

On April 11th, the first episode of *Mir/reflection: Get To Know Us* featuring Kasumi and Darcie was released, followed by a second episode featuring HyunJi and Shika on the 13th.

On April 18th, the third episode of *our Aurora* featuring Akira premiered. On the same day, YB Ent. revealed the first sub-unit and its name, which consists of the Earth girls in the storyline. The sub-unit's name was revealed to be STARRY, referencing the girls stargazing in Episode 1. On April 29th, the fourth episode of *our Aurora* featuring Deng Qing premiered, followed closely by the fifth episode featuring Kasumi on May 2nd.

On May 18th, the two other sub-unit names were revealed. They are YOU:TOPIA and holographic respectively. The next day, on the 19th, episode two of AURUNIVERSE premiered. On May 28th, the third episode of *Mir/reflection: Get To Know Us* featuring Eunkyung and Haewon was released.

On May 30th, a teaser poster for STARRY's debut was released. It was revealed that the mini album, "*Arise"*, would be released on July 27th. It was also announced that the full group debut will happen before the other two units, but no reason was stated as of now.

### Debut of STARRY, full group debut in Sep 2023

On July 27th, STARRY finally made their debut with Arise. Two days after, on the 29th, YB announced AURAURORA's debut date to be September 17th.

## Trivia

* Eunkyung was a former Star Ent. and Wish Ent. trainee.
* Kasumi and Chaerin study at Wings Academy.
* Eunkyung and Haewon are former contestants in *Be My Fr!end*.
* Eunkyung, Haewon, Akira and Shika are former contestants in *Project Fantasy.*
	+ They participated under their birth names, Choi Eunkyung, Jang Haewon, Nakanishi Akira and Hirose Shika.
* JiU was once a child model.
* The group will be the second YB group to debut in the month of September once they debut on September 17th, following SPARK!tival, which debuted on the 30th September, 2022.
* They are currently the only YB group to have more than 10 members.
* AURAURORA is also the largest produce group in YB.