Who ILLIT are
ILLIT (아일릿) is a five-member South Korean girl group from BELIFT LAB, the HYBE label that also manages ENHYPEN. Yunah, Minju, Moka, Wonhee and Iroha debuted on March 25, 2024 with the EP Super Real Me and the single “Magnetic”, which topped Korea’s Circle Digital Chart and entered the Billboard Hot 100.
The name joins “I’ll” and “it”: the idea is that a verb can be placed between the two words, so the name can become whatever the members decide to make of it. The official fandom is GLLIT (글릿), announced by BELIFT LAB on September 1, 2024 and taken from the word “glitter”.
How the group was formed
ILLIT were assembled on JTBC’s survival show R U Next?, broadcast from June 30 to September 1, 2023. The final episode announced six debut members: Wonhee, Youngseo, Minju, Iroha, Moka and Yunah. Youngseo left on January 5, 2024 by mutual agreement before the debut, and the group has been a five-piece since. ILLIT are BELIFT LAB’s first girl group and the third girl group to debut under HYBE, after LE SSERAFIM and NewJeans.
Members
The line-up is Yunah, Minju, Moka, Wonhee and Iroha. Three members are South Korean and two, Moka and Iroha, are Japanese. Moka suspended activities for health reasons on April 20, 2026, returned briefly in late May and stepped back again on June 19, 2026, so the group has promoted as four since then.
BELIFT LAB publishes stage names and birthdays on its official profile but no official positions, so no main vocalist, main dancer or leader assignment is recorded on K-Cult.
Releases
Super Real Me (March 25, 2024) carried “Magnetic”, “My World”, “Midnight Fiction” and “Lucky Girl Syndrome”. The second EP, I’ll Like You, followed on October 21, 2024 with “Cherish (My Love)” and “Tick-Tack”, and the third, Bomb, arrived on June 16, 2025 with “Do the Dance” and “Jellyous”.
Japan became a second base: “Almond Chocolate” (February 14, 2025) was the group’s first original Japanese song, the Japanese debut single Toki Yo Tomare (時よ止まれ) came out on September 1, 2025, and Sunday Morning (January 13, 2026) served as the opening theme of the second season of the anime ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess.
In 2026 the group released the EP Mamihlapinatapai (April 30) with the single “It’s Me”, the joint single “Iconic by Mistake” with label mates LE SSERAFIM and KATSEYE (June 12), and the fifth EP Break Even (October 26), led by “You’re Under Arrest”.
Milestones
“Magnetic” made ILLIT the fastest K-pop act to reach the Billboard Hot 100 and the first K-pop act to chart there with a debut single, at number 91 on April 16, 2024. The song also took them onto the UK Official Singles Chart, a first for a K-pop group with a debut single, and Super Real Me reached number 93 on the Billboard 200. In June 2024 Billboard named them its first K-pop Rookie of the Month.
Their first-year haul includes Best New Artist at the 2024 MAMA Awards and the 2024 Melon Music Awards, the New Artist Award at the 66th Japan Record Awards, and Rookie Artist of the Year plus a digital Bonsang at the 39th Golden Disc Awards. In 2025 they won Best New Artist (K-pop) at the iHeartRadio Music Awards and three Japan Gold Disc Awards for “Magnetic”. Live work grew from the first fan concerts, GLITTER DAY, in Seoul and Japan in 2025 to the first live tour, ILLIT LIVE ‘PRESS START’, which opened in Seoul on March 14, 2026.
Follow ILLIT
Official channels listed by the agency: Instagram, YouTube, X (group account), X (member account), TikTok, Facebook and Weverse.
