Ex-TREASURE member Bang Yedam on why he left YG Leisure

Okay-pop singer and former TREASURE member Bang Yedam has opened up about why he left former company YG Leisure.

Final month, the previous boyband member launched his first mini-album ‘Solely One’, marking his first music launch since leaving long-time company YG Leisure a yr prior. In August, he revealed he had joined the company GF Leisure.

Whereas chatting with the media about his document, Bang defined why he left YG. “I left YG Leisure as a result of I had a change of coronary heart,” he stated, per SBS Star. “From my time as a trainee there, I thought-about learning producing and pursuing solo actions, however simply aligned my targets with the corporate’s imaginative and prescient.”

“It was merely a lot later once I lastly bought to find the trail I wished to take,” Bang continued. “I felt like it could be arduous for me to do all of the issues I wished as a soloist whereas being a member of a group, because it ought to actually all the time be the group first, when you get what I imply.”

Nevertheless, Bang emphasised that he didn’t dislike being beneath the company, and that he had “realized a lot” throughout his time with YG Leisure. “We simply had a special image in our heads. So, I believed the longer I stayed the place I used to be, the extra I might really feel sorry to followers and YG Leisure.”

He added: “By leaving at the moment, I feel I used to be in a position to begin anew, neither too late nor too early.”

Bang first entered the general public eye in 2012, after showing in SBS’ actuality TV competitors Okay-pop Star Season 2 that yr. The singer positioned second after sibling duo AKMU, and later signed with YG Leisure.

He later joined the company’s actuality survival programme YG Treasure Field in 2018. TREASURE’s line-up was determined by the present, and the group later debuted in 2020.