Girl group Apink will release its new EP in April, announced the girl group’s agency IST Entertainment on Wednesday.

This will be the group’s first physical album after “Horn,” released in February 2022, which was also the last album for the girl group as a six-member group.

The group recently announced its Asian mini-concert tour “Pink Drive,” with stops in Tokyo, Osaka, Hong Kong, Taipei and Seoul.

Apink debuted as a seven-member girl group in 2011 but is better known as a six-member group after Hong Yoo-kyung left the group in 2013. Currently, the band consists of five members, Park Cho-rong, Yoon Bo-mi, Jeong Eun-ji, Kim Nam-joo and Oh Ha-young, after the departure of Son Na-eun in 2022. It is best known for hits “NoNoNo” (2013), “Mr. Chu” (2014), “LUV" (2014) and “Dumhdurum” (2020).

BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]