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[NEWS] Wonho Takes Next K-Pop Career Step By Signing With Highline Entertainment

After fans celebrated the legal victory for Wonho regarding past allegations last month, they can now cheer for the former Monsta X member as he moves forward with his K-pop career.

On Thursday, April 9, Wonho and Korean record label Highline Entertainment announced that they had signed an exclusive contract for the 27-year-old as a solo artist. The singer-songwriter-producer will move forward as his label promises “full support.”

In a statement shared via Highline Entertainment, Wonho said “I deeply regret the foolish and rash behavior of the past…I really appreciate the fans for giving me this opportunity, and I will do my best to repay your support.”

Highline added that they “will give full support to Wonho to be a solo artist in the future.”

Highline Entertainment is a subsidiary label of Starship Entertainment—the home to K-pop groups including Monsta X, WJSN and Cravity—and houses viral EDM star DJ Soda (who boasts nearly four million Instagram follower) and producer/singer-songwriter dress (who has worked with top K-pop acts like Baekhyun and Zico).

While fans have waited for months for news about Wonho, they can now rest easy for the return of a star whose career was sidetracked by unproven rumors. While negative allegations of any sorts tend to spell the demise of any K-pop career in the notoriously harsh industry, Wonho signing with a subsidiary of his label marks a major step towards not discarding artists whose character take a slight turn but instead seeing out the commitment towards one another til the end.

Most recently, fans had shown their support for the artist by sending the 2017 song “From Zero,” a special track co-written and producer by Wonho, to No. 1 on Billboard’s World Digital Song Sales chart to help prove his continuing viability and commercial appeal as an artist, songwriter and producer. No doubt these acts—along with online and street protests, and other projects for Wonho—helped the star get back on track and very possibly change the course of his future. As well, being back in his label home allows Wonho to have similar staff who know his preferences and goals instead of restarting completely anew with a new company.

As noted by Wonho himself, the star knows that his unwavering supporters made this opportunity possible saying, “I really appreciate the fans for giving me this opportunity.”

Source: forbes.com

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Monsta X and Wonho’s Solo Career

So it’s officially been announced that Wonho is starting a solo career, which means he won’t be reinstated with Monsta X. 

Let’s just address the elephant in the room first:

Do I wish that he rejoined Monsta X? YES. VERY BADLY.

I remember saying months ago that if Wonho truly was gone that Monsta X would always look incomplete. That those awful hags that started this trouble would to some extent have a win. As of right now, that’s still true. To have to look at Monsta X now and see 6 members and knowing Wonho is supposed to be standing in that spot, and if the world wasn’t so thoughtlessly wicked for absolutely no reason, he would be. Monsta X is seven, and it was perfect. To see that those witches even got a sliver of an effect on our boys that couldn’t be undone will always and forever vex my soul.

But you don’t always get what you want. You have to appreciate what you have when you have it, not after. And when it’s over, you have to move on.

My support for the remaining Monsta X members will continue. Point blank. Period.

They have a comeback soon. Their anniversary is coming up again. They’re musical style is a completely unique color in the industry. They’re all pros at performing. They’ve been through so much. It would be crazy to walk away from them just because I don’t get what I want.

The goal of the attack months ago was to destroy the whole group. But there’s still a Monsta X. The group still exists. SO WE WIN.

As for my opinion on Wonho going solo, it saddens me that he won’t get to promote with his brothers, a little too deep, honestly. Thinking of how he always wanted to keep solo work to himself, and just work as part of Monsta X. And now all their previous content with him will feel so… emotionally nostalgic. The situation is less than perfect. I’ll need time to get used to it all. I’ve cried in waves over the confusing conflicting emotions.

But he chose to come back to us as close as possible. He’s still working in kpop, he’s with a label that is under Starship. He can still promote under the same time as Monsta X, and be on the same stage during Inkigayo and interact with them, and maybe we can get one of those awesome end of the year special stages with all 7 off them them, and talk about them as his friends in interviews, and we can all lap it up like [insert simile for desperation here]. If we missed perfect, we got impossibly close to it! And I think that’s what he had in mind when he made this decision. To get back to us as close as he could without damaging the group (but about that: I saw people saying that if he rejoined the group there’d be so much hate, knetizens would tear them apart etc, and I want to scream to the universe who cares about them and anyone who hates on them, like they matter, can’t we like, eat them or something? But Wonho didn’t want to subject his brothers to that because his heart is too big for his own good hrrrg!!! OK back to being poised and logical)

Most importantly I’m just extremely grateful that we get to see him again. I’ve expressed how much Wonho means to me on this blog (to an embarrassing degree) and how loved I’ve felt by him-as I know many of you also do. The fact that we get to continue to see him, doing what he loves no less, is a crazy crazy beautiful blessing that I think all our efforts made more of a possibility. I’ve never see a more beautiful and consistent display of love and I really want to see that love continue for all 7 of the boys, regardless of ideologies.

It was a tough battle. We had hopes too high and hearts too heavy to always agree or keep fighting. we had arguments and disagreements. We have scars, but we’re all still here, and that is what matters most. That we’re still here for them, and they’re still here for us.

Stand Monsta X. Stan Wonho.

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Short Clip of Former MONSTA X Member Wonho Took over TikTok, Reached Hundred Thousand of Likes in Less Than 3 Days

Short Clip of Former MONSTA X Member Wonho Took over TikTok, Reached Hundred Thousand of Likes in Less Than 3 Days