Remembering SM Entertainment’s Forgotten Girl Group

Since the 1990s, SM Entertainment has debuted dozens of girl groups, but not all of them have withstood the test of time.

M.I.L.K. (Made In Lovely Kin) was a 4-member girl group under SM Entertainment’s now-defunct subsidiary BM Entertainment. Their promising career began in 2001, with the release of their first (and only) album, With Freshness, and a nomination for “Best New Group” at the Mnet Asian Music Awards in 2002. Unfortunately, M.I.L.K. disbanded in 2003 after rapper Bae Yoo Mi left the group.

What happened to the members? Bae Yoo Mi, also known as Jessica Bae, went solo before turning to acting. She appeared in Winter Child (2005), Secret Campus (2006), and Eight Broken Fingers (2007) before quietly retiring from the entertainment industry.

The group’s leader, Park Hee Von, has been acting in films and TV series since 2005. K-Drama viewers might have spotted the former idol in Sisyphus: The Myth (2021), Happiness (2021), or the 2024 film Project Silence.

Kim Bo Mi went from being a vocalist to acting in Dangerous Love (2006), Unforgettable Love (2006), and the 2014 erotic film A Pharisee. Since then, she has been inactive in the Korean entertainment industry.

Main dancer and maknae Seo Hyun Jin is a familiar face in K-Dramas. She has starred in Another Miss Oh (2016), Dr. Romantic (2016–2017),  The Beauty Inside (2018), Why Her (2022), and more.

For a brief time in 2022, SM Entertainment brought M.I.L.K. back from obscurity with the “MV Remastering Project.” The project’s purpose was to introduce new K-Pop fans to first-generation groups. Listen to M.I.L.K.’s remastered “Come To Me” here: