During an Instagram Live, PENTAGON members reveal that they contacted Yanan and Yuto to participate in PENTAGON's 10th anniversary project, deciding to move forward as 7 members after their talks while cherishing their memories together, and to support Yanan and Yuto in their separate paths

Transcription for those who can't access the bird app: Kino: As for our foreign members, Yanan and Yuto, I think we can't avoid speaking about it for longer, and this morning the articles came out too. What we want to say is that for this 10th anniversary project, we personally contacted them, with Yanan's company and with Yanan-hyung, and with Yuto's company and Yuto. We contacted them and explained we are preparing this kind of project with such and such intention, and confirmed their stance. In conclusion, we will treasure those memories we had together for 7 years. They said they think the time has come for them to go their own ways. So let's support each other's paths in our separate ways. We gave and received very warm messages (from them), so then we decided that now the 7 of us will focus more on this project, so the decision was set. So for Yanan and Yuto, our members will also be supporting them, we'll support the members we were together with, so please anticipate Yanan, Yuto and 7-member group Pentagon going forward too. Honestly, we felt a little uncomfortable about this in a way, avoiding talking about it so we wanted to clear it up at once. Jinho: We did not really hide anything, it just took a long time for everything to be cleared up and that's why it took a long time for us to speak about it. But since the official news was out today, we think it's right for us to speak about it as well. Here's another translation of the clip . Pentagon held an Instagram Live on their official account on July 22nd 12 AM (KST) to talk together about the 10th anniversary with fans. They took the opportunity to personally clarify about Yanan and Yuto's status with the group, as I posted above. Besides that, the members revealed that they had been filming something together all day. The members kept praising Kino and Kino's company Naked for taking the task of managing this 10th anniversary project, also thanking all the members' companies for their collaboration. They also revealed that the members are using Hui's personal car and With Us Entertainment's company car to move around as a group. They also talked about how hard it can be to coordinate schedules, Hui and Yeo One being the members who currently have crazy schedules since they're very busy. They teased about their new song, mentioning that they want to incorporate elements that universe will love and about the songs they want to perform at the concert. They expressed that they feel very excited about being able to promote together again after so long, that they're very united and have been working hard to make it happen despite they had to face many obstacles and it feels surreal to see that it's finally coming true. They want this 10th anniversary project to bring happiness for everyone and to have fun with it and they hope that the members, the staff working with them and the fans will treasure 2026 as a good memory.

as sad as it is that yanan and yuto have no interest in promoting as pentagon anymore, i get why they feel that way. excited for the anniversary comeback ♡ 7 is better than 0 after all!!

It might not even be no interest, just a logistical nightmare. They would need visa sponsorship for the comeback, but are already signed to agencies abroad. I don’t want to think about the lawyer bills.

yuto soft blocked all the members years ago (hongseok said blocked completely iirc), and yanan has distanced himself from pentagon considerably. they seem to have no interest on top of it being a logistical nightmare

Oh man I forgot all about the blocking thing. Yeah definitely sounds like no interest from at least one, probably both.

:") at least yuto was positive about his experience in pentagon on pd101 this year!! it was sweet seeing him as a mentor