SEOUL, Aug. 13 -- A Japanese entertainment agency has apologised and promised a change to its new girl group's name and logo after drawing criticism for being too similar to K-pop act Everglow's.

Online allegations surfaced on August 10, pointing out that the rookie Japanese group, also called everglow in lowercase, shared not only the same name but also a similar logo design with the South Korean group.

"We sincerely apologise for the discomfort and inconvenience caused by the name and logo design used by our group," the agency Sova and the group's producer Soichi Yoshimura said in an official statement carried today on South Korean entertainment news portal Soompi.

Yoshimura said the name "everglow" was something he had personally us...