Bob Girls Disbands as Member Jina Is Diagnosed with Encephalitis

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Chrome Entertainment‘s four-member girl group Bob Girls will be disbanding, only eight months after their debut, due to truly unfortunate circumstances.

It was revealed that one of the group’s members, Jina, was recently diagnosed with encephalitis. Although she did not detect any symptoms at the time of the debut, near the end of 2014, her condition started to deteriorate. After a close examination at the hospital, she was diagnosed with encephalitis and now must undergo treatment.

A representative from Chrome Entertainment told the media, “We were also extremely sad to hear about this at the end of the year. As Jina stopped activities, we decided to terminate our contracts with the other members Yoojung, Dahye, and Danbi.”

They further explained, “As we terminated our contract with Jina, we did the same for the other members. We wanted to give them an opportunity to go to different companies and start anew,” adding, “Bob Girls is only complete with four members, including Jina. It’s meaningless to lose members or have a member change.”

Bob Girls debuted in June of 2014 with single “No Way.” They were widely publicized as Crayon Pop‘s sister group.

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Comments

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

While I really liked their debut single and was looking forward to more from them, health is obviously more important -best wishes to Jina on getting better and much luck to the other members too!

[dio-elaclaire.livejournal.com]

such sad news :( i hope jina gets better soon :(

[baekpedaling.livejournal.com]

I hope she recovers quickly. Poor Jina.
But also sad about one of the few girl groups I liked disbanding. I wish all the girls luck and hope they continue on happil in their chosen paths~

[girltragedy.livejournal.com]

I really liked No Way! ;__; I hope things get better for Jina and that the other girls find new homes for their talent.

[dot-rose.livejournal.com]

Wow really?
I guess this can be looked at in 2 different ways.
One: It's nice to see companies dissolve contracts so easily and seemingly without consequences for the members. (because I assume that most groups that do not make a big hit either break even or make a deficit with their debut).

Second: It could be perceived as harsh and unfair towards the other members who were finally able to debut, and then return to being a trainee. Thus having to do the whole "competing with other trainees to debut" process again.

[super-naranja.livejournal.com]

aww, i was looking forward to seeing more of them. :( hope she gets better!