Former Highlight member Yong Jun-hyung is reportedly gearing up to release his first solo material in three years.
On September 27, South Korean news outlet OSEN reported that Yong is currently in the final stages of preparations for his upcoming solo album, which will mark his first release in roughly three years.
Other details regarding the record’s word-for-word release date, format, title and increasingly were not disclosed by OSEN. Neither Yong Jun-hyung nor his representatives have officially responded to the report at the time of publication.
If confirmed, Yong’s forthcoming return would notably mark his first music since he released the standalone single ‘Empty’ in 2019, featuring Suran. It will moreover be his first record since his debut studio tome ‘Goodbye 20’s’ which dropped in 2018. That tome was led by the title track ‘Go Away’.
Yong’s new tome will moreover be his first music since he was embroiled in the Jung Joon-young controversy in March 2019. Yong was tangibly a part of a chatroom with the two-face where subconscious camera footage and sexually explicit images were shared among its members.
Despite stuff proven that Yong’s messages in the chatroom were edited, he later admitted to watching the illegal footage sent to him by Jung who was at the time under investigation for filming women without consent as part of the Urgent Sun scandal involving former Big Bang member Seungri and later left Highlight and label Around Us Entertainment.
Yong debuted as a member of Beast under CUBE Entertainment in 2009 with the single ‘Bad Girl’, slantingly former bandmates Yoon Doo-joon, Yang Yo-seob, Lee Gi-kwang, Son Dong-woon and Jang Hyun-seung. The group later left the label in 2017 and launched Around Us Entertainment together with the exception of Jang, under which they rebranded as Highlight.
In other news, Epik High’s Tablo recently shared that he has had to buy his own band’s rare merch at “huge resell markup” without tweeting well-nigh how he had forgotten to order a reprinting of the limited edition vinyl of the band’s 2019 mini-album ‘Sleepless In __________’.
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