what do you think is the worst kpop group name change? what about the best? something that actually was an improvement?

how many groups have actually changed their names

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A lot more than you'd think, I will use the most famous ones I can think of though:

• BEAST to Highlight and then back to BEAST
• B.A.P. to Bang & Jung & Yoo & Moon
• Minx to Dreamcatcher didn't they have a change of members?
• MAS 0094 to ONEWE what onewe was mas 0094???? that's an interesting name
• ToppDogg to Xeno-T
• (g)i-dle to i-dle
• NewJeans to NJZ
• Shinhwa to Shimcom and then back to Shinhwa
• Dalmation to DMTN
• DONGKIZ to DKZ
• TOO to T01

I don't know about changes but I hate names with numbers. GOT7, DAY6, B1A4, etc.

Well... I still need to get used to the fact that KINGDOM is called The Kingdom now

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i'll call gidle idle since i was already doing that back then anyway

Jee-idle for life .... idle sounds just like idol

Quote from crystalblues

A lot more than you'd think, I will use the most famous ones I can think of though:

• BEAST to Highlight and then back to BEAST
• B.A.P. to Bang & Jung & Yoo & Moon
• Minx to Dreamcatcher
• MAS 0094 to ONEWE
• ToppDogg to Xeno-T
• (g)i-dle to i-dle
• NewJeans to NJZ
• Shinhwa to Shimcom and then back to Shinhwa
• Dalmation to DMTN
• DONGKIZ to DKZ
• TOO to T01

Beast, B.A.P, ToppDogg, New jeans, Shinhwa are the better names while Dreamcatcher, Onewe, I-dle, dmtn, fiz and t01 are better than the originals.

When the now disbanded group TFN changed their name

They had ben very close to become very succesfull under the name of T1419, than MLD decided to fuck it by changing it and people either wondered where T1419 went, not realising their changed their names or they simply just forgot about them and MLD also gave them lesser promo, which cause them to get irrelevant. Like their debut MV hit 32 million views in 1 month, but their last MV didn't even hit 800K in a month, which was very sad to see. They disbanded after not even existing for 3 years and with that MLD fucked up their last chance in making it big as a company (since everyone who debuted after them was already set up to fail in this dumb label and well, MLD is almost bankrupt now)

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• TOO to T01

and to top it of, Mnet later on debuted a group called JO1 in their Japanese label and made them cover a TO1 song into Japanese for one of their singles

Can get more confusing if needed:

• JO1's little brother group INI did a collab with TO1 and they made a song together
• TO1's members Daigo and Renta had been participants on the survival show that formed INI
• When TO1 disbanded their member Renta re-debuted in the JPop-group OCTPATH who's members had been all in the survival show that made INI so they all knew eachother before
• JO1 also has a little brother group called DXTEEN who's leader Taichi was on the survival show that formed TO1 when their name was TOO

... yeah um ...