generasia:Featured article for 2022 week 43
ALICE
ALICE (앨리스) is a Korean pop girl group under IOK COMPANY. The group originally debuted in 2017 as ELRIS (엘리스) under HUNUS Entertainment, with each of the members representing embodiments of natural elements—Bella as heart, Hyeseong as wind, Yukyung as water, Sohee as sky, and Karin as forest. On February 11, 2020 HUNUS Entertainment announced two new members, EJ as star and Chaejeong as moon. They made their debut with the mini-album WE, first on June 1, 2017.
ELRIS released four mini-albums and one digital single before, on December 1, 2021, it was announced that they would be transferred to IOK Company. On April 10, 2022, it was announced that the group would rebrand as ALICE, with members Bella and Hyeseong changing their stage names to Do-A and Yeonje, respectively. They came back with the digital single "Nae Anui Uju" in May 2022.
Their first single, "Dance On", is released this week on October 27th.
