“Guys, we‘re like celebrities.”

Even though it’s been 4 months since their official debut, they still say this. They only realize the difference in themselves when they‘re not awake, “doing their schedules” or “with makeup on”. For the super rookie ‘IZNA’, whose ‘highly perfected stage’ is not typical of rookies has become their trademark, and it seems undeniable that today is the ‘sum of their days awake’.

Some of the high school members say that the “autograph barrage from their classmates”when they go to school is still new and awkward at the same time.

In interviews with the press that can be counted on one hand, they showed their determination to pour out all the predictable(?) stories that they had been preparing for the past few days whenever they had the chance, but they also talked about how they were feeling fresh and genuine just four months after their debut, even though they were just saying, ‘This is the real situation’. If the so-called ‘strong girl’ is Izuna’s team color, then the Izuna behind the stage could be defined as ‘pure’.

A girl group created by the TV audition empire Mnet last year. Izuna, who made a surprise year-end debut amidst much buzz, has released her second song, ‘Sign’, after going through the same name as the group, ‘Izuna’, next year.

The new song ‘Sign’, which was released on the last day of March, is a work completed by producer Teddy, the ‘father of girl groups’, who has been deeply involved in their formation, and his team. Even before their official debut, this is a love song of determination that is different from the ‘Final Love Song’, the competition song for the audition program ‘Island 2’, which became their success song. With Teddy‘s signature addictive chorus, it is armed ‘as expected’ and has the ‘certain specs’ that it will become Izuna’s new hit number.


It‘s only been 4 months since their debut, so this is their first ‘comeback’. Izuna was embarrassed but confident in this “excited and nervous situation”, and even gave us a ‘taste of the choreography’, saying that it would be a popular SNS challenge these days, even though she wasn’t asked to see it. Watching this spectacle from just a distance from her school desk, she felt like she had to at least pretend to follow along, it was like a so-called ‘idol fan signing’ (fan signing event) where she was meeting her ‘favorite idol’ right in front of her.

There will be frequent comebacks in the future, but for Izuna, the first comeback that was as meaningful as her debut was on the 31st. Through the song ‘Sign’, they also expressed their bold ambition to make their presence felt in this fierce K-pop scene.


Reporter Heo Min-nyeong mignon@donga.com

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