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JANUARY:

1- To start the year, the contract dispute between the Loona members and their agency, Blockberry Creative (BBC) began to take off! Nine members of Loona officially filed lawsuits against BBC where they requested a termination of their exclusive contracts. Of these nine members, only four Loona members — Choerry, Heejin, Jinsol & Kim Lip — were able to successfully win their lawsuits. Then, the following month The two remaining Loona members who had not filed lawsuits, Vivi & Hyunjin officially filed an injunction seeking the termination of their contracts. In addition to these lawsuits, Blockberry Creative submitted a petition to Corea Entertainment Management Association (CEMA) & Korea Entertainment Producers' Association (KEPA) in an attempt to ban Chuu's entertainment activities within the Korean entertainment industry. Thankfully, they both denied their petition and Chuu has continued to be active within the entertainment industry. It wasn't until June that all of the LOONA members would officially leave Blockberry Creative.

2- January also saw various new relationship announcements. Song Joongki took to his fancafe to reveal that he had married his girlfriend, Katy Louise Saunders. The actor also announced that the pair were also expecting their first child together. Their son was born in Rome on the 14th of June. Then in Japan, singer-songwriter Aimer took to Twitter (now known as x.com) that she had gotten married to music producer Tobinai Masahiro. Hyuna & Dawn were also rumoured to have gotten back together in January. However, as of now, nothing has been confirmed or denied regarding their relationship status.