On Tuesday evening Hello Venus‘ Yooyoung uploaded a number of photos to her personal Instagram showing several members of the idol group in what appears to be the Fantagio training room. This comes following another photo earlier this week, posted to Lime’s instagram which featured her sitting alone in the same room, with all current Hello Venus members tagged in the shot.

More telling was a comment made by Yooyoung’s ( equally beautiful ) sister, Lee Ahyoung, “…work hard”, a traditional Korean phrase that’s most closely comparable to the Western use of wishing someone “good luck!”.

This has been the first indication that a group project could be in the works since it was revealed by Nara last August that Hello Venus had two comebacks in the works. One planned for release before the end of 2017 and plans for their first full album in 2018.

2017 ended with no comeback and no further information. However a solo music video by the group leader (featuring a rap section by Yooyoung) released almost immediately at the start of 2018; the first release in Fantagio’s “FM201.8” project. The single failed to perform, likely in no small part due to limited promotion prior to release, as well as the highly questionable decision to release under the artist’s real name “송주희” (Song Joohee), rather than her more well-known stage name, “Alice”.

More recently Hello Venus‘ newest members Seoyoung and Yeoreum dropped another digital single “Run To You”, also a part of Fantagio’s FM201.8 monthly release schedule. Despite sporadic signs of activity information has been limited, Hello Venus‘ has not had a true comeback since “Mysterious” in January 2017 and fans have been growing increasing concerned.

Despite falling out of the spotlight in recent years, Hello Venus were at one point among the most iconic sex symbols in Korea following a string of hits from 2014 through 2015. A successful return to stardom is still very possible, but will require likely require a determined return to the root concepts of their most successful years.

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