2nd generation · PLEDIS Entertainment
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After School ran an admission and graduation system borrowed from school life, so the line-up changed by design rather than by accident.
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Bang! uses a marching drum line, Shampoo turns lyrical, and First Love brings pole dancing onto the stage, which is further than most groups ever took the staging.
Start here if stagecraft interests you; very little else from those years was built this theatrically.
カヒ가희 · KahiView in Japanese
ジョンア정아 · JungahView in Japanese
ソヨン소영 · SoyoungView in Japanese
ジュヨン주연 · JooyeonView in Japanese
ベカ베카 · BekahView in Japanese
ユイ유이 · UeeView in Japanese
レイナ레이나 · RainaView in Japanese
ナナ나나 · NanaView in Japanese
リジ리지 · LizzyView in Japanese
イヨン이영 · E-YoungView in Japanese
カウン가은 · KaeunView in Japanese| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| カヒ | 1980-12-25 | 45 | 168cm | O | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ジョンア | 1983-08-02 | 43 | 167cm | O | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ソヨン | 1986-03-29 | 40 | 165cm | AB | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ジュヨン | 1987-03-19 | 39 | 168cm | AB | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ベカ | 1989-08-11 | 37 | 168cm | AB | Not disclosed | United States |
| ユイ | 1988-04-09 | 38 | 173cm | O | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| レイナ | 1989-05-07 | 37 | 166cm | B | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ナナ | 1991-09-14 | 35 | 171cm | A | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| リジ | 1992-07-31 | 34 | 168cm | A | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| イヨン | 1992-08-16 | 34 | 167cm | AB | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| カウン | 1994-08-20 | 32 | 168cm | AB | Not disclosed | South Korea |
Ages are as of 2026-09-17.
Follow a few songs from the starting point to the group's current sound.
Bang! MVBang! is the signature, and the drum line plus the formations carry the whole thing.
Shampoo MVShampoo is the lyrical counterweight and shows the group away from spectacle.
First Love MVFirst Love is the late single with the pole choreography, and it still looks unusual.Verified English information is not yet available for this section.
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What holds After School together is a line-up that changes by graduation and admission, paired with performance built to hit hard. The girl group debuted out of PLEDIS Entertainment in 2009 and took on a school-themed system of joining and leaving, working around Kahi with a different set of members in each period.
Bang!, Shampoo and First Love make the way in. Bang! carries the force of the marching drums, Shampoo turns to a lyrical melody, and First Love shows the stagecraft that comes with pole dance, so three sides of the group land one after another.
AH!, Diva, Because of You and Flashback, along with the Japanese releases, lay out how the work spread across Korea and Japan and how wide a performance-led girl group can be. There are comparison routes to Orange Caramel and to later PLEDIS acts as well. Bang!, then Shampoo, then First Love carries the force, the lyricism and the stagecraft in turn.
Editors' take Bang! / Shampoo / First Love — a PLEDIS girl group whose line-up turned over by graduation and admission, with performance strong enough that three songs carry it.
No. 61 of 210 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 29%)
The denominator is the 210 groups, out of 525 covered by KPOP DISCOVER, whose raw score reaches at least one point. The score adds 10 points per Japanese-market release, 3 per Japan-related track, 12 per member from Japan, and 8 per official Japanese account. Japanese-market releases carry the most weight because they are the most direct evidence of activity; related tracks add track-level detail; members from Japan stand for Japanese-language communication and continuity; official accounts stand for a permanent point of contact. The weights are an editorial judgement, not a statistical optimisation, and the ranking tracks release volume in Japan closely. Source: releases, tracks, members, and official links recorded by KPOP DISCOVER (updated 2026-09-17).
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