TWICE’s Chaeyoung Announces JYP Exit To Start New Venture

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - APRIL 12: Chaeyoung of woman group TWICE is seen astatine the H&M x rokh collaboration 'rokh H&M' postulation motorboat photocall astatine DDP connected April 12, 2024 successful Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Han Myung-Gu/WireImage)

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Three days aft Jeongyeon became the first TWICE personnel to time off JYP Entertainment successful the group’s eleven-year history, Chaeyoung has announced her ain departure. In a post to her individual Instagram, Chaeyoung confirmed she has parted ways pinch JYP aft 14 years astatine the agency, bringing the number of TWICE’s JYP exits to 2 successful 1 month.

Chaeyoung of TWICE And Chaeyoung of LIL FANTASY

Chaeyoung, 27, is TWICE’s main rapper and sub-vocalist. She joined JYP Entertainment arsenic a trainee astatine 13 and debuted pinch TWICE successful 2015 done the EP The Story Begins. She trained for astir 3 years earlier earning her spot successful the nine-member group done JYP’s endurance programme Sixteen.

Within TWICE, Chaeyoung has been creatively autonomous from an early stage. She was the first TWICE personnel to person a songwriting in installments — penning the rap verse for the group’s 2016 way "Precious Love" — and later designed the limited-edition screen for TWICE’s Page Two album. Her creator activity extends into ocular illustration and fashion, pinch her tattoos and styling choices making her a distinctively individual beingness successful the group's lineup.

Her wellness has been a recurring interest successful caller years. In November 2025, JYP announced she had been diagnosed pinch vasovagal syncope and would participate only successful selected activities done the extremity of the twelvemonth to prioritise rest. She besides knowledgeable little backmost discomfort earlier this year, which delayed immoderate of her scheduled activities,

Unlike Jeongyeon, who signed pinch an existing agency successful VARO Entertainment, Chaeyoung appears to beryllium moving toward an independent imaginative building nether her ain LIL FANTASY banner — the aforesaid sanction arsenic her September 2025 debut solo medium LIL FANTASY vol.1. The medium drew connected R&B, neo soul, travel hop, dream pop, and chamber pop, pinch Chaeyoung credited arsenic a shaper alongside collaborators including Gliiico, Slom, and Sumin. Her departure from JYP suggests the adjacent section of the LIL FANTASY task will beryllium self-directed alternatively than label-managed.

The Wider Picture For TWICE

TWICE has 9 members — leader Jihyo, Nayeon, Momo, Mina, Sana, Chaeyoung, Jeongyeon, Dahyun and Tzuyu. They are 1 of the industry’s longest-running woman groups pinch an unbroken lineup, which is no mini feat pinch these galore members and presumably non-homogenous aspirations.

As antecedently mentioned during Jeongyeon’s exit, Chaeyoung’s departure had been anticipated since July, erstwhile Korean media reported she had been gathering pinch different intermezo companies. JYP Entertainment responded astatine the clip by confirming only that "TWICE is presently successful the process of negotiating their statement renewals." TWICE leader Jihyo and personnel Tzuyu person besides been reported to beryllium exploring departures. Neither has confirmed thing officially, but it looks for illustration much announcements tin beryllium expected successful the coming days.

Two explanation departures successful 3 days, some accompanied by definitive reassurances that TWICE group activities will proceed unchanged, propose the modulation is proceeding arsenic planned alternatively than arsenic a rupture. Whether this exemplary is apt to activity has been discussed here aft Jeongyeon’s exit from JYP.

TWICE Chaeyoung’s Full Statement