KARD have renewed their contract with dsp media in advance and have thus broken the seven year curse and have joined the elite line-up of only ten groups in history to have renewed their contracts with the complete line-up. their contract runs until december 2026.
jeon jiwoo was born on october 4th, 1996 in seoul. she became interested in music at a very early age and started practicing singing. she also studied the clarinet. she attended chungdam high school with twice's jihyo and was scouted.
she had previously trained for five years under fnc entertainment, as well as yg entertainment. she trained under dsp for only two months before debuting with KARD, and decided to debute because of how much she loved oh nana.
before making their official debut with hola hola on july 19th, 2017, they released three pre-debut tracks to amazing success: oh nana, don't recall and rumor.
billboard selected KARD as one of the top 5 k-pop artists to watch in 2017. the group held their first sold-out world tour in 2017 before even officially debuting as a group.
so far in their career, KARD have places three of their albums on the billboard charts: 1st mini album hola hola, 2nd mini album you & me and their 3rd mini album ride on the wind.
they also entered a total of fifteen songs on the billboard world digital songs sales chart throughout their career, with rumor being the most successful at 12 weeks on the chart. they peaked at
#3
with rumor, bomb bomb and dumb litty.
they're the first co-ed and 3rd gen k-pop group to enter and top billboard's next big sound chart as well as the first k-pop artist to top the chart for two consecutive weeks and the ONLY artist to have spent 28 weeks on the chart.
their self-produced and self-written b-side cake has become their most successful b-side to date and marks a turning point for the group into cementing a mature sound and concept.
although a relatively small group by sales numbers, KARD are deeply respected and admired by their peers in the industry with many showing their love and support throughout the years.
they went through different hardships, being part of a small company, the only active co-ed idol group, going through financial difficulties. still they remained hardworking and continued giving it their all.
stan kard, the group that never gave up.