YJ

YJ
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### Subsidiaries

Zone Music China, Sonic Music Japan,Ptai Music Thailand, X- Media, YJ Music Plus, YJ Music labels

### Distributor(s)

YJ Music Plus

YJ Entertainment (영재 엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean entertainment agency and record label. Originally known as YJ founded by Park Youngjae in 2002.

The company currently home to Soloists Such As Zoa, Kang, Cider, Chungha.

And idol groups such as Noemu Jjang, Oneway, Shinny Girls, Evergarden, Hexatone, Pink Kiss And X Vision . YJ is known to be one of the Top 3 agencies In Kpop Story.

YJ Entertainment has multiple subsidiaries under their wing known as YJ Music Labels and YJ Music Plus which are managed by YJ Music Corporation. It also has their own branch in Japan with Sonic Music, Zone In China, Ptai In Thailand.

## **Artists**

### **Boy Groups**

* **Neomu Jjang**
* **Oneway**

* **Hexatone**
* **X Vision**

### **Girl Groups**

* **Shinny Girls**
* **Evergarden**
* **Pink Kiss**

### **Soloist**

* **Zoa**
* **Cider**
* **Kang**
* **Chungha**

## **History**

### **2002-2011: Founding and Second generation artists**

YJ was founded by a legendary music producer and choreographer known as "Park Youngjae" he decided to create his own entertainment agency. After a few months, YJ debuted their 1st boy group Noemu Jjang. The group struggled in making it big in the industry and YJ didn't had any more funds to give them regular comebacks, However their dancing abilities as well as their Visuals attracted a wide range of audience and the company became popular for their dancers Member Hyunjae Park, was an outstanding in terms of vocal and Dancing capabilities. The CEO decided to debut him as a soloist with the stage name Cider proving to be really successful as he made enough money to keep the company afloat and give his group enough means to make their comebacks.

YJ was able to acquire their first subsidiary Sonic Music after performing in Japan and. This helped the company to stabilize their revenues and having a decent revenue growth.

YJ later Debuted Shinny Girls the following year which were as successful as NJ were, they were also popular for their dancing and Visuals once again mostly which made the fans and company stans to label every trainee and idol in the company as a capable dancer and a visualist, however the non fans and stans criticized both groups for lacking the vocal and rap abilities

on 2005 things were diffrenet after the girl group Evergarden debuted, they were the first group that didn't lack in any skill, it YJ most popular group as they made it big into the industry at that time, the group won many awards and became popular in Asian market, Member Chungha of Evergarden Debuted in 2009 after the group went into Hiatus.

### **2012-2018: Company Growth, Acquisitions and Third generation artists**

After Gaining a lot of fundings and fame, YJ decided to cast various of trainees all over Korea,Japan,China,Taiwan,Hong Kong and Thailand were they picked various trainees in which they were put into a show to showcase their talents, however, many of them were very talented and YJ couldn't kick a lot of them so he formed one of the biggest boy groups, Oneway which consisted of 21 Members, and 3 Sub units, 7- koreans, 7- Chinese, 7-Japanese, Oneway whom trained for over 4 years was a complete success and as they managed to win a lot of awards and music shows. the group had a system of promoting in diffrenet Sub units but still having an OT21 comeback every 6-8 Months, Later 1 of the Thai members who was a part in the korean Unit Debuted as a soloist with the stage name Kang due to how successful and popular he was

At the end of 2013, YJ who gave a speech after Oneway won Album of the year and Top Artist award, he teased that there will be a lot more to come and a possible "Projected Group" which nobody understood what it meant at the time untill the new young boy group Hexatone debuted in 2016, the concept of the group was very fresh and diffrenet from the normal standers which made the fans reliase what he meant, which soon became YJ most popular Group and became the Global kpop icon group in the world