GFriend (Hangul: 여자친구; RR: Yeoja Chingu) is a six-member South Korean girl groupformed by Source Music in 2015.[2] The group consists of Sowon, Yerin, Eunha, Yuju, SinB and Umji. They made their debut with the EPSeason of Glass on January 16, 2015. GFriend won several 2015 female rookie awards and has garnered momentum since their debut, despite coming from a small company.[3] In 2016, they continued their success with their third EP Snowflake and won first place on many music shows with the title song "Rough". They released their first full-length album LOL in July 2016. In 2017, GFriend made a comeback with a new concept with their fourth EP The Awakening and the pre-orders for the album exceeded 100,000 units.[4] GFriend released their fifth EP Parallelin August 2017 and the extended play was re-released a month later under the titleRainbow. In 2018, GFriend held the first concert since debut called Season of GFriend[5]and later their first Asia Tour with the same name.[6]
Sowon (소원), born Kim So-jung (김소정) on December 7, 1995 (age 21) in , South Korea.Yerin (예린), born Jung Ye-rin (정예린) on August 19, 1996 (age 20) in , South Korea. (은하), born Jung Eun-bi (정은비) on May 30, 1997 (age 19) in Seoul, South Korea. (유주), born Choi Yu-na (최유나) on October 4, 1997 (age 19) in , South Korea.SinB (신비), born Hwang Eun-bi (황은비) on June 3, 1998 (age 18) in , South Korea.Umji (엄지), born Kim Ye-won (김예원) on August 19, 1998 (age 18) in Incheon, South Korea.
Videography
"Glass Bead" (2015)"Me Gustas Tu" (2015)"Rough" (2016)"Wave" (2016)"Navillera" (2016)"Fingertip" (2017)Awards and nominations
They won their first award, "Best New Female Artist", on November 7, 2015 at . Their first music show win was on with "Rough" on February 2, 2016, after which the group would go on to receive a total of 15 music show wins during the song's promotion. During their "Navillera" promotions they got a total of 14 music show wins, making them the girl group with most wins gained within a year with a total of 29 wins.
