[Please answer 2009] The Korean girl group that went to Tokyo Dome at the most popular station in Japan: KARA

• Debut: 2007-03-29
• Members: Queri (captain), Seung Yeon, Hara (died in 2019), Nicole, Ji Young, Young Ji

From the 1990s to the 2000s, male and female idols were able to compete with SM Entertainment at that time. KARA, which was launched in 2007, was most often compared to SM's Girls' Generation and JYP's Wonder Girls. The three girl groups They all debuted in 2007, and they are all very popular in Asia!

Every member of KARA is very beautiful. As for whether the group's facade is the goddess Queri or "Little Amuro Namie" Hara, everyone has different answers in their hearts.

KARA, who has a sweet singing voice and a lively and dynamic style, came back in 2008 with "Prettt Girl". The agency asked fans to vote for the title song of the follow-up song on the Internet. In the end, "Honey" won the song. This song also made KARA's debut since its debut. First place in a music program. (In 2010, this song was also covered by Taiwanese artist Guo Shuyao in the Chinese version of "Honey")

The next year, KARA came back with "Wanna". I didn't expect the brainwashing melody and hip swinging choreography of the CP song "Mr.". This non-title song full of memories has become KARA's most classic masterpiece. The status of a top kpop girl group.

KARA's activities in Japan are also very successful. The first Japanese album released at the end of 2010 sold more than 100,000 copies in the first week. At that time, even Japanese domestic girl groups rarely had such achievements. At that time, the sales of Japanese girl groups exceeded 10. Wan, it was 6 years ago, it was very difficult for KARA from overseas to achieve this achievement!

In 2011, KARA also became the first overseas girl group whose albums topped Japan's Oricon chart. At the end of the same year, KARA was also invited to participate in Japan's largest music year-end program "Red and White Songs". (Girls Generation also participated together, and both Korean girl groups are debuting in red and white)

In 2013, KARA also became the second overseas girl group to sing on the Tokyo Dome in Japan, and it was also the first Korean female singer to hold a concert in the East Egg!

After KARA's solo career did not disband, Zhiying Maunei focused her career on Japan. She has participated in many Japanese dramas, and she has also hosted a Japanese radio station alone, which is very powerful~

Although KARA has not many members, it has undergone several member changes.

 Original 4 members at the time of debut:
Quiri, Seung Yeon, Sung Hee, Nicole (debuted in 2007)

Soon after his debut, he quit the group due to academic and health reasons:
Sung Hee (exited in 2008)

After Sung Hee quit, he added 2 members:
Hara, Zhiying (joined in 2008)

The five well-known members consist of:
Quillie, Seungyeon, Hara, Nicole, Jiyoung (2008-2014)

The group will officially go solo and leave the contract before disbanding:
Nicole, Zhiying (Leaving after the contract expired in 2014)

Nicole and Zhiying will add 1 member after their contract expires:
Ling Zhi (joined in 2014 with the "Baby KARA" program, and participated in KARD's debut album as a hidden member in 2016)

In fact, "Baby KARA" was a very inexplicable plan back then. The top girl group, which has been out for 7 years, suddenly added new members, causing fans to rebound, and the pressure of new members would be great... Captain Queli also did this. Public apology on behalf of the company.

However, the backlash from fans could not stop DSP's persistence. In the end, Yu Lingzhi got the chance to debut and became KARA's new maiden. As for the others who were not selected, some later debuted as members of April and KARD of the same company, and some participated in "Produce 101" but did not enter the debut group.

In fact, it is not the first time that Baby KARA has been killed by DSP!

In 2011, when KARA was still at its peak, the members other than the captain proposed to terminate the contract collectively (later Hara said before the end of the dispute that he would not terminate the contract), because he was dissatisfied with the company's long-term overload schedule (as if seeing the senior crystal boy, SS501) , only because the senior did not terminate the contract early), after many talks and arbitrations, the company and the artist reached an agreement, allowing KARA to continue to function with 5 people.

However, since 2014, some members have left the company with full contracts. Until the beginning of 2016, except for Ling Zhi, who joined later, all members have left DSP after full contracts. KARA finally went solo like the predecessors of DSP and did not dissolve.

However, the members still have a good relationship, and they got together last year to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the group's debut.

It's a pity to see the goddesses in the same frame, and the beautiful Hara will always be missing. Hara, who died by suicide at the end of 2019, has actually been rescued more than once before her death. Hara was domestically abused by her ex-boyfriend, but the other party accused her of hurting her, and even threatened her with a secretly filmed intimate video.

South Korean society has long lacked gender awareness, and secretly filmed intimate videos are rampant. Even celebrities are treated in this way. Therefore, South Koreans launched the "My life is not your pornography" petition, hoping to severely punish sex offenders. However, the legal decision did not completely stand on Hara's side, and the Internet public opinion was still very unfriendly, causing her to suffer many physical and mental injuries.

After it was reported that she was rescued by suicide and was violently treated by her ex-boyfriend, Hara still worked very hard to cheer up and restarted her acting career in Japan. When her friend f(x) Shirley passed away, Hara even publicly shouted, "Sister will work hard for your sake."

Hara has really worked very hard, maybe the world is still too bad for her... She really left everyone at the end of 2019.

After Sulli and Hara, two female idols who were attacked by bad comments during their lifetime, passed away, Korean netizens began to face up to the seriousness of bad comments on the Internet, especially because of Hara's relationship, everyone also paid more attention to the issue of sexual crimes.

The third impact of Hara's departure on society is the promotion of a law known as the "Goo Hara Law", which stipulates that parents who have not fulfilled their child-rearing responsibilities shall not distribute their children's estates.

Goo Hara, whose parents divorced since childhood, was ignored by her mother who left home. She wrote many times in her diary that she hoped to feel the mother's love, which was distressing. And Hara's mother asked to share the inheritance after her death, which made her brother who loved Hara most angry. Even KARA member Zhiying's father appeared as a witness in court to hold injustice for Hara. "Her mother is not eligible to share. heritage".

Hara's brother also petitioned the South Korean National Assembly for this purpose. Parents who have abandoned their children are not eligible to own their children's inheritance. Last year, the "Goo Hara Law" was finally passed in South Korea. Hara's hard work finally paid off.

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please answer 2009

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• The years of debut and release of the singers reviewed are about 2003-2012, mainly the second-generation groups, there may be solos, and the so-called 2.5th generation to the beginning of the 3rd generation may appear blurred.
• 2️Most of the works after 2009, I also entered the kpop pit in 2009, and the Korean wave began to spread to the whole Asia and the world around 2009, so I chose "Please answer 2009 Reply 2009" as the project name.
• A plan that is quite selfish, just like Cheng Shiyuan in 1997 has selfishness towards HOT. I will post a lot of groups I like, and some groups may not be posted at all. Don't take it seriously.