Girl group GFriend has finally stood before fans as a ‘ complete group’ after overcoming disbandment rumors.

The six-member girl group GFriend held a solo concert ‘Season of Memories’ for three days from the 17th to the 19th at the Olympic Hall in Olympic Park in Songpa-gu, Seoul and all six members stood on stage together. It has been a full four years since all six members have gathered together since their exclusive contracts with their former agency Source Music ended in 2021.

The reason they prepared a solo concert is to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut. GFriend, who debuted on January 15, 2015, is known to have been discussing holding a concert to coincide with their 10th anniversary. The fandom ‘Buddy’ also responded, selling out all tickets for the concert that was originally planned as two shows over two days. Due to the overwhelming demand from fans, Source Music, the organizer of the concert, belatedly added one more show on the 17th, making the total number of shows over three days.

As this is their 10th anniversary concert, GFRIEND designed the concert in a ‘Chronicle’ format that allows a look back on the past 10 years at a glance. They divided the concert into two parts, with their trademark ‘Powerful Innocence’ and ‘Passionate Awakening’ as keywords, and arranged their hit songs into two parts.

The first part, which put forth an image of ‘power and innocence’, was filled with songs such as ‘From Today On,’, the first girl group to reach 100 million streams, famous for the human windmill dance, and ‘Fingertip’, which stands out with its addictive melody and powerful group dance. The second part, which had the atmosphere of ‘passionate hazy’ as its core, featured a clock hand performance of ‘Rough’, their first music show #1 song, and ‘’Flower‘, the Korean version of a song from their third Japanese single.

In addition, the title song of their debut album ’Glass Bead’, as well as new songs ‘In Our Tender Season’ ‘Always’ from their special album ‘Season of Memories’, released on the 13th, were also performed on the encore stage.

The members personally walked the aisles of the auditorium to closely communicate with fans for the first time in four years, their “buddies.” They made “hand hearts” with the hands that fans reached out to them, and even threw flower petal-shaped confetti to the fans. They expressed their affection for the fans who have waited for them for four years, saying, “The fans feel like close friends now.”

Although it wasn’t easy, including the complicated coordination of opinions between different agencies, the members expressed their overwhelming emotions, saying, “We’ve finally made our 10th anniversary project a reality.” Towards the end of the concert, they said, “We thought about how to quench the thirst of the buddies who have waited for us for four years and prepared. Thank you for waiting for us in the same place. This isn’t the end. Let’s continue to be happy together in the future.”

After finishing their Seoul concert, they will head to Asia in March. They will show off GFRIEND‘s presence by going to five cities: Osaka, Japan on March 9, Yokohama, Japan on March 11, Hong Kong on March 14, Kaohsiung on March 22, and Taipei on March 29.



Reporter Yoo Ji-hye yjh0304@donga.com
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