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Native name | ์จ์ดํฌ์ |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Music |
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| Founded | February 18, 2014 (2014-02-18) (as MMO Entertainment) |
| Headquarters | , South Korea |
Number of locations | 153 Tojeong-ro, Seogang-dong, Mapo-gu |
Key people | Nam Soyoung [ja] (CEO) |
Number of employees | 43 (2022) ๐ Edit this on Wikidata |
| Parent | CJ ENM Entertainment Division |
| Website | wake-one.com |
WakeOne Co., Ltd. (Korean: ์จ์ดํฌ์, stylised in all caps) is a South Korean entertainment company under CJ ENM's entertainment division. Their current artists include Kim Feel, Ha Hyun-sang, Jo Yu-ri, Kep1er, Zerobaseone, Izna, and Alpha Drive One.
History
[edit]2014โ2018: Founding and beginnings
[edit]The company was founded in 2014 by Son Dong-hoon under the name MMO Entertainment (MMO standing for Music Makes One, the slogan of CJ ENM's flagship music channel Mnet).[1]
In September 2018, MMO and CJ ENM founded Off the Record Entertainment (Korean: ์คํ๋๋ ์ฝ๋ ์ํฐํ ์ธ๋จผํธ) to manage Iz*One (now disbanded) and Fromis 9. Pledis Entertainment was involved in the creative direction and music production of both while they were in Off the Record until Pledis CEO withdrew from being involved with Iz*One after April 2020[2] (Fromis 9 continued to be in the label until they fully transferred to Pledis in August 2021). Iz*One and Fromis 9 are debut groups of Mnet's girl group survival shows Produce 48 and Idol School, respectively.[3]
2020โ2021: Integration of CJ ENM management labels
[edit]In March 2020, the company name was changed to Onefect Entertainment.[citation needed]
In May 2021, CJ ENM launched 'WakeOne'. In August, CJ ENM officially launched the label while integrating their in-house production and management labels Stone Music Entertainment, One Effect Entertainment, Studio Blu, and Off the Record.[4][5] In the same months, Fromis 9 were transferred to Pledis Entertainment.[6] Following their terminated management contract with n.CH Entertainment by CJ ENM in early 2021, TO1 were transferred to WakeOne in May 2021 (after the company reorganization in the same month).[7]
On October 25, it was announced that WakeOne would co-manage the winner of the Girls Planet 999 group, Kep1er, with sister company Swing Entertainment.[8] In December 2021, former RBW composer and producer Park Woo-sang transferred to the label.[9]
2022โpresent: Merging with Swing Entertainment
[edit]In October 2022, 2AM's Lim Seul-ong signed a contract with WakeOne for his solo activities.[10]
In January 2023, Dance crew Mbtious signed with the company.[11]
In April 2023, nine members were selected through reality show Boys Planet to debut as the group Zerobaseone and would be managed by WakeOne.[12]
On April 3, 2024, WakeOne announced that it would merge with Swing Entertainment with this going into effect on June 1. WakeOne is the surviving entity after the merger.[13]
On July 4, 2024, seven members were selected through the reality show I-Land 2: N/a to debut as Izna would be managed by WakeOne and will be produced by The Black Label and become their first non-temporary girl group with a standard contract.[14][15]
In June 2025, Soloist Kim Feel re-signed a contract with WakeOne, five years after parting ways with CJ ENM through its sub-label MMO Entertainment.[16]
On September 25, 2025, eight members were selected through the reality show Boys II Planet to debut as the group Alpha Drive One and would be managed by WakeOne.[17]
Artists
[edit]Groups
[edit]Soloists
[edit]- Kim Feel
- Ha Hyun-sang[18]
- Jo Yu-ri
- Kim Jae-hwan[19] (inactive due to military service)
- Lim Seul-ong[20]
Producers
[edit]- Park Woo-sang
Former artists
[edit]- Song Soo-woo[b] (2021โ2022)
- TO1 (2020โ2023)
- Choi Chi-hoon (2020โ2022)
- Kim Min-su (2020โ2022)
- Cha Woong-gi (2020โ2022)
- Oh Seong-min (2020โ2023)
- Renta (2022โ2023)
- Mbitious (2023โ2024)[c][21]
- Davichi (2014โ2024)
- Kep1er
- Mashiro (2021โ2024)
- Kang Ye-seo (2021โ2024)
- Seo Young-eun (2021โ2026)
- Roy Kim (2013โ2025)[d]
- Izna
- Yoon Ji-yoon (2024โ2025)[22]
- Zerobaseone
MMO Entertainment
[edit]- Hong Dae-kwang (2014โ2017)
- Wable (2016โ2017)
- IN2IT (2017โ2020)[e]
- Jinsub (2017โ2018)[24]
- Sunghyun (2017โ2019)
- Park Bo-ram (2014โ2018)[25]
- Son Ho-young (2017โ2019)[f]
- Kim Feel (2016โ2020)
- Hoons[g][26][unreliable source?]
- Kang Daniel
- Yoon Ji-sung
- Won Seo-yeon
Notes
[edit]- ^ The company name prior to integration in 2021
- ^ Winner of the 2020โ2021 Mnet teenage audition program CAP-TEEN.
- ^ Dance crew that was formed on Mnet's survival program Be Mbitious. The crew then placed 3rd on Mnet's Street Man Fighter.
- ^ He debuted and signed with CJ E&M in 2013 before transfer to sub-label MMO Entertainment (later known as WakeOne).
- ^ In 2020, remaining of the six member left from the company and continue as a group
- ^ In 2019, Son continue his contract with CJ ENM and were transfer to the company label Swing Entertainment.
- ^ Since 2018, the duo was releases music under MMO Entertainment along with Stone Music's FRON+DESK.
References
[edit]- ^ "Jellyfish Entertainment, Music Works, MMO, and 1877 Become Label Companies Under CJ E&M". www.mnetamerica.com. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- ^ "์๋ ํ์ธ์" [Hello]. www.instagram.com. March 9, 2020.
- ^ "์คํ๋๋ ์ฝ๋ "์ค๋๋ถํฐ ์์ด์ฆ์Xํ๋ก๋ฏธ์ค๋์ธ ์์์ฌ, ์ ํญ์ง์" [๊ณต์์ ์ฅ ์ ๋ฌธ]". Archived from the original on May 14, 2021. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
- ^ "CJ ENM "Mnet max ๋ก ์นญยท์จ์ดํฌ์ ์ถ๋ฒ, ์์ ์ฐ์ ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ ๊ฒ"". Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ "Cj Enm "์ฐํ ์ํฐํ ์ธ๋จผํธ ํตํฉํด ์จ์ดํฌ์์ผ๋ก ์ถ๋ฒ"". Archived from the original on July 24, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ "ํ๋ก๋ฏธ์ค๋์ธ, ํ๋ ๋์ค์ํฐ ์ด์ ..."์๋์์ด ์ง์ํ ๊ฒ"". August 16, 2021. Archived from the original on July 24, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ "TO1์ ๋น์ฐฌ ์ ์ถ๋ฐ, ์ ๊ณก 'Son of Beast' MV ํฐ์ ๊ณต๊ฐ". May 18, 2021. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
- ^ Lee, Min-ji (October 25, 2021). "'๊ฑธ์คํ๋๋999' ์ต์ข ๋ฐ๋ท ๊ทธ๋ฃน๋ช Kep1er ํ์ "๋ณธ๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ๋ท ์ค๋น ๋์ "(๊ณต์)". Newsen. Archived from the original on October 25, 2021. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
- ^ "'ํํธ๊ณก ๋ถ์' ๋ฐ์ฐ์ ์๊ณก๊ฐ, RBWโ์จ์ดํฌ์ ์ด์ ". Archived from the original on July 24, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ "Seulong of 2AM signs with Wakeone Entertainment". m.entertain.naver.com.
- ^ "๋์ค ํฌ๋ฃจ '์ ๋น์ ์ค(Mbitious)', ์จ์ดํฌ์(WAKEONE) ์ ์ ๊ณ์ฝ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ". m.entertain.naver.com.
- ^ "์ฅํ์คx์ฑํ๋นโ๊น์ง์ xํ์ ์ง..์ญ๋๊ธ ๋น์ฃผ์ผ ์ ๋ฒ ์ ํ์(๋ณด์ด์ฆ ํ๋๋)[์ข ํฉ]". m.entertain.naver.com.
- ^ ๊น, ์งํ (April 3, 2024). "CJ ENM ์ํ์ฌ ์จ์ดํฌ์, ์ค์์ํฐํ ์ธ๋จผํธ ํก์ ํฉ๋ณ". ๋๋ฒ์ค (in Korean). Retrieved April 19, 2024.
- ^ "Seven winners of Mnet's 'I-LAND' named, will debut as girl group izna". Korea JoongAng Daily. July 5, 2024.
- ^ "Mnet's audition program 'I-LAND2: N/a' under fire ahead of first episode". Korea JoongAng Daily. March 11, 2024. Archived from the original on March 18, 2024. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
- ^ ์ด์์ง (June 4, 2025). "๊นํ, ๋ค์ ์จ์ดํฌ์ ํ์ผ๋ก...1์ธ ๊ธฐํ์ฌ ์ ๊ณ ์ฌ๋์ฝ". Sports Donga (in Korean). Retrieved August 28, 2025 โ via Naver.
- ^ Park, Jun-hee (September 26, 2025). "'Boys Planet' Season 2 ends with 8 winners who will debut as ALPHA DRIVE ONE". The Korea Herald. Retrieved September 26, 2025 โ via Naver.
- ^ "'์ํผ๋ฐด๋' ํธํผํด๋ผ ํํ์, ์คํค๋ฎค์ง๊ณผ ์ ์๊ณ์ฝ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ.."์ ํญ ์ง์ํ ๊ฒ"[๊ณต์]". m.entertain.naver.com.
- ^ Jeong, Ji-won (September 21, 2023). ์จ์ดํฌ์, ๊น์ฌํ ํ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ ๋ด "10์ ไบ๊ณต์ฐยท12์ ์ปด๋ฐฑ"(๊ณต์) [Wake One, in charge of all Kim Jae-hwan's activities, "Performance in October, Comeback in December" (Official)]. Joy News 24 (in Korean). Retrieved September 21, 2023.
- ^ "2AM ์์ฌ์น, CJ ENM ๋ ์ด๋ธ ์จ์ดํฌ์๊ณผ ์ ์๊ณ์ฝ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ [๊ณต์]". Naver. October 26, 2022. Archived from the original on November 27, 2022. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
- ^ "์ ๋น์ ์ค ์ ์๊ณ์ฝ ์ข ๋ฃ ์๋ด" [Notice on termination of Ambitious exclusive contract]. www.instagram.com (in Korean). January 31, 2024.
- ^ Jang, Jin-ri (August 19, 2025). [๋จ๋ ]์ด์ฆ๋ ์ค์ง์ค, ํ๋ ์ค๋จ 6๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํ ํํด. SPOTV News (in Korean). Archived from the original on August 23, 2025. Retrieved August 19, 2025 โ via Naver.
- ^ a b c d Hwang, You-mee (January 12, 2026). "4 Zerobaseone members confirm they are leaving". The Korea Herald. Retrieved March 31, 2026.
- ^ "์ธํฌ์ ์ธก "๊น์ง์ญ, ๋ฉ๋์๋ฅด ๋ณ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ ์ค๋จ"(๊ณต์์ ์ฅ)". ZenithNews. Archived from the original on June 19, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
- ^ "๋ฐ๋ณด๋, Mmo์ํฐ ๊ณ์ฝ๋ง๋ฃ "์ ์์์ฌ ๋ฌผ์ ์ค"". Archived from the original on October 3, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
- ^ "ํ์ค : ๋ค์ด๋ฒ ํตํฉ๊ฒ์". Archived from the original on May 14, 2021. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
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