Three SS501 members to return as SS301

/Courtesy of CI ENT

Heo Young-saeng, Kim Kyu-jong, and Kim Hyung-joon -- members of former K-pop boy band SS501 -- will regroup as “SS301.”

“The three members will work as “SS301”,” Heo Young-saeng and Kim Hyung-joon’s agency CI ENT announced on Jan. 14, along with a teaser image.

Exact release dates have yet to be announced.

The members cannot use the original name because their former agency DSP Media owns it. Also, SS501 was a five-member band that included Kim Hyun-joong and Park Jeong-min.

After releasing their mini album “Destination,” in May 2010, SS501 went on hiatus after its contract with DSP Media ended.