SPILL THE TEA · PURPLE KISS · RECEIPTS ATTACHED
PURPLE KISS Announced the End During a Comeback and Made PLORY Promote Through the Grief
The group had a new release in fans’ hands. Then RBW put an expiration date on the group and asked everybody to keep supporting the schedule.
Last meaningful update: November 16, 2025
Status: Confirmed conclusion of group activities; final activities completed
Who: PURPLE KISS · PLORY · RBW
What happened
On August 4, 2025, RBW announced that PURPLE KISS would end group activities in November. The statement came less than three weeks after the July 16 release of I Miss My… and “DOREMI.” Six members—Goeun, Dosie, Ireh, Yuki, Chaein and Swan—would complete planned promotions before the group closed.
The notice thanked the members and PLORY, described long discussions about the future, and turned the active comeback into a countdown. The wording was polite. The emotional logistics were not.
The timeline
- July 16, 2025: PURPLE KISS release “DOREMI.”
- August 4: RBW announces the group will end activities in November.
- August–November: scheduled international and farewell activities continue.
- November 16: official group activities conclude.
Receipts before screaming
What the official language says—and what it carefully avoids
Company notices are written to close doors without starting a fire in the hallway. Phrases such as “after long discussions” and “future paths” tell us that a decision was negotiated. They do not tell us which member wanted what, whether budgets were withdrawn first, or how early the final decision became unavoidable. Unless a member or the company documents those details, confident fandom explanations remain theories.
What is confirmed is enough to organize the file: RBW announced an end date, the members completed the scheduled final period, and official group activities concluded. That is different from an unconfirmed hiatus. It is also different from claiming every member retired or that every individual contract ended on the same day.
The people do not disappear with the group name
Goeun, Dosie, Ireh, Yuki, Chaein, and Swan carried different performance, writing, dance, and solo files into the ending. Jieun remains part of the original history. Future work belongs on those individual profiles as it becomes official; rumor should not be promoted into biography because fans are impatient for a next chapter.
Why this belongs in Tea
This is not a one-day headline. It is a career-status file that changed how fans understood the releases around it. The point of keeping the receipts together is so nobody has to reconstruct the ending from screenshots, half-translated posts, and a cousin’s memory of a deleted tweet.
Tea is allowed to have a point of view. The receipts are what keep that perspective from becoming fan fiction wearing a press badge.
RaeRae take
Announcing an ending during a comeback made PLORY do two incompatible jobs at once: promote the music and grieve the group. The members deserved a final season full of love. Fans also deserved enough honesty to understand what they were being asked to carry.