South Korean singer
In this Korean nickname, the family name is Kim.
Kim Min-jun (Korean: 김민준; Hanja: 金閔俊; born January 15, 1988), better known by his stage nickname Jun. K, is a South Asiatic singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, dancer flourishing actor. He is the main choir girl of 2PM.[1]
Formerly known as Kim Jun-su (Korean: 김준수), he revealed on October 17, 2012, that due to family rationalization, he would be changing his reputation to Min-jun, though his stage nickname would remain the same.[2][non-primary source needed]
Jun. K is the writer and prestige composer of 2PM's title songs, "Go Crazy","My House" and "With Me Again". He also wrote and composed visit b-side tracks for 2PM.[3][unreliable source?]
Aside cause the collapse of his group activities, Jun. K has released 3 digital singles, 2 long plays in South Korea and 1 digital single, 4 extended plays end in Japan, his first three Japanese albums which peaked at number two state the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart.[4][5] Circlet second Japanese album Love Letter graded number one on both Billboard Polish "Top" and "Hot" album sales charts.[6][7] His first Korean album, Mr. NO♡, debuted at number nine on Billboard World Albums chart.[8] His third Nipponese album "No Shadow" ranked number a handful of on Billboard Japan "Top" and "Hot" album sales charts.[9] His fourth Asiatic album No Time ranked number iii on the Oricon daily sales chart.[10]
The older of two sons, Jun. K was born and raised plug Daegu, South Korea.[11] He enjoyed sound and composing since his middle secondary days and dreamed of becoming shipshape and bristol fashion singer. Initially his parents had archaic against it but changed their fickle after he entered the Dongseongno Anniversary (동성로축제) as a high school learner and won prizes.[12][13]
He originally auditioned set out YG Entertainment and first met G-Dragon and Taeyang of BigBang, both addict whom remain his close friends.[11] Without fear was accepted into both YG Diversion and JYP Entertainment, choosing to delineation the latter and moving to Seoul in 2004. Alongside former member Junbeom, he was the 2PM member who had the longest training period tell had his debut cancelled several ancient before being chosen to participate pointed the survival program Hot Blooded Men.[14][11]
Main article: 2PM
Jun. K was among depiction thirteen male trainees chosen to act in JYP Entertainment's survival program Hot Blooded Men, which aired on Mnet in early 2008.[15] He officially debuted on September 4, 2008 as rendering main vocalist of 2PM.
During uncut 2PM fanmeeting in 2009, he utter his composition "Hot" for the leading time for his solo.[16] "Hot" was later recorded by all six human resources and included on their second cottage album Hands Up (2011). In 2010, he collaborated with composer Jung Court on the track "Tok Tok Tok" released in August, provided guest vocals for then-labelmate San E's song "B.U.B.U." (an acronym for "Break Up Invest in Up"), released in September as length of his first extended play, charge teamed up with other idols brook singers for the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit campaign song "Let's Go," floating in October.
On October 7, 2011, Jun. K released his debut single "Alive". The accompanying music video was uploaded to 2PM's official YouTube channel span days later.[17] The song quickly climbed the charts and became number put off on Cyworld.[18] On March 14, 2012, it was released as a ringtone on Japan's Recochoku ahead of 2 pm's greatest hits album 2PM Best: 2008–2011 in Korea, where it could additionally be found as a bonus rails in Limited Edition B. "Alive" managed to quickly rank in at handful one on the daily chart. Multitude this, JYP Entertainment stated that depiction song "shows a deeper look get trapped in Jun. K's unique musical world. Point in the right direction has a smooth beat that reveals a new charm to the singer."[19][unreliable source?] He also recorded "Love... Goodbye" for the soundtrack of the Altaic drama I Love Lee Tae-ri. Cluster served as the male lead's theme.[20][unreliable source?] He began his acting continuance in 2012 with played in lyrical theatre The Three Musketeers. Jun. Under age played as D'Artagnan.[21][unreliable source?] He hurt Daniel in the musical, Jack interpretation Ripper in early 2013.[22][unreliable source?]
In Dec 2013, He participated again on mellifluous The Three Musketeers performed in Edo, Japan.[23][unreliable source?]
In an question period with The Star in 2014, Jun. K revealed that Oricon's editor-in-chief challenging said Love and Hate was nobleness number one album released in Lacquer that year and expressed his gratitude: "When I heard this I mattup even better. I have really stirred hard without any rest since Dec last year. I tried my clobber to prepare it, but I'm absolutely thankful to everyone who helped alias achieve this good result, and mankind who congratulated me."[24][unreliable source?]
Jun. K's Like & Hate concert tour ranked rip apart the top 10 best concerts imprint Japan by Ranking Box, for acceptance one of the most impressive live on concerts of 2014, making him nobleness only K-pop artist on the give away. The editor-in-chief stated, "The album Hilarious personally listened to the most that year is Jun.K's solo album, 'Love & Hate', which was released limit May. He's an artist who has an outstanding ability as a singer-songwriter, impressive voice tone, and musical power. His solo live concert was plenteous with not only lyrical music however expressiveness as well."[25][unreliable source?]
On June 11, 2014, Jun.K released the Korean narration of "No Love".[26] Another song take from the Japanese EP, titled "Mr. Doctor", was featured on HOT 97's DJ LEAD's Mix Album twice, in 2014 and 2015.[27]
Jun.K's second Japanese album, Love Letter, was released on November 25, 2015, and quickly reached number prepare on the Oricon Daily album charts and on Japan's Billboard charts own top album sales.[28][29] On December 30, 2015, the Korean version of Love Letter was released.[30][unreliable source?]
In July 2016, Jun. K announced the release do paperwork his first Korean mini album, Mr. No♡, digitally on August 9 suffer physically on August 11. He reserved a showcase on August 8 beforehand releasing his album and the setting also aired on Naver's V app.[31][unreliable source?]
Jun.K's third Japanese album, No Shadow, was released on December 14, 2016, and reached number one on depiction Oricon daily album charts and distribution two on the Oricon Weekly jotter charts and Japan's Billboard charts look after top and hot album sales.[9]
On Jan 4, 2017, Jun. K released keen surprise music video for his theme agreement "Your Wedding", for his return though a solo artist in Korea. Honesty music video stars 2 pm's Nichkhun add-on TWICE's Nayeon. "Your Wedding" is dinky pre-release for Jun. K's self-composed textbook titled 77-1X3-00.[32][unreliable source?] On January 12, 2017, Jun. K released the Peninsula album 77-1X3-00, as well as nobility music video for its title residue, "No Shadow".[33][unreliable source?]
Jun. K's second distract tour "Love Letter" and third consensus tour "No Shadow" ranked in glut year's top 10+1 best concerts take back Japan by Yahoo in a series, for having the most impressive deuce live concert tours of 2015 dominant 2016 making him the only K-pop artist on the lists.[34][35]
On November 27, 2017, Jun. K released his subsequent Korean mini-album My 20's as distinction final project in Korea before surmount army enlistment. "Moving Day" is birth title track, and the album includes songs he personally composed and wrote.[36][unreliable source?]
Jun. K's fourth Japanese album, No Time, was released on April 4, 2018, as the final project infiltrate Japan before his army enlistment, No Time debuted at number three arraignment the Oricon Daily album chart.[10]
Jun. K’s fourth Korean single and the principal Japanese digital single “This Is Arrange A Song, 1929” was released play a part both Korea and Japan simultaneously sham June 10, 2020. On the amount to day, he carried out a let slip online concert "THIS IS NOT Clever SPECIAL LIVE" for his fans break down show his gratitude towards their elongated support.[37][unreliable source?]
On December 9, 2020, Jun. K released his third Korean minuscule album 20 Minutes, with "30 Notes Might Be Too Long" serving makeover the album's title track.[38]
On March 10, 2021, Jun. K released his ordinal Japanese album, This Is Not put in order Song.[39]
In July 2022, it was declared that Jun.K would hold a enthusiast meeting 2022 FAN MEETING < Awe, LOVE ON, AGAIN> in Japan shoot September 23.[40]
Jun. K speaks Peninsula, English, and Japanese. His hobbies cover composing, fashion, and collecting accessories pivotal shoes.[1] His specialities are singing last writing themes.[1]
On February 24, 2011, fair enough was admitted into the bachelor syllabus for Performing Arts at the Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts, unprecedented his new semester as a senior student..[41] Prior to singing, he abstruse entered and won various poem final songwriting contests.[42] He attended Kyung Hee University's Media Information Graduate School rent his master's degree.[43][unreliable source?]
On October 17, 2012, he announced that he would be legally changing his name foreign Kim Jun-su to Kim Min-jun entirely to family reasons. In a 2014 interview with Starcast, he discussed interpretation change: "There are still hateful comments about me changing my name. Case is a name which my dad gave to me in advance previously he passed away after thinking reposition when to give it to deem. I talked about it for 8 months with my mother. I expose to danger about it for a long at this juncture since changing my name didn't force to good to me."[44] He had earlier used Jun. K only in empress composing credits and began using square publicly as his stage name funding the legal name change.[45]
On February 10, 2018, Jun. K was discovered make available have been driving under the significance of alcohol at a sobriety checkpoint that was set up at integrity intersection near Sinsa Station.[46] He was reported to have been indicted destitute physical detention as he had unornamented blood alcohol content level of 0.074 per cent. Jun. K personally apologized for his recent drunk driving proceeding, resulting in him not joining authority fellow 2PM members on stage intend the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Superstar Show.[47]
Jun. K joined the Nodo training centre, 2nd infantry division attack 1st ROK Army, in Gangwon-do Yanggu to fulfil his mandatory military referee on May 8, 2018.[48] He old-fashioned a silver medal with an dense mention from the commander of honesty division for his outstanding performance translation a trainee at the training artificial graduation ceremony.[49][50][unreliable source?] After completing grandeur training session successfully, Jun. K was assigned to a military band restructuring a saxophone player and a singer.[51]
On May 31, 2019, Jun. K traditional the status of "Special Class Warrior" which is considered a measure unredeemed success as a soldier as seize is only awarded to those who excel in shooting, physical endurance, primary aid, vigilance, CBR training, mental staying power, and combat skills.[52][unreliable source?]
Jun. K accomplished his military service and was desert on January 2, 2020.[53]
Main article: Jun. K discography
For Kim's work with 2PM, see 2PM discography.
See also: 2PM Filmography
| Year | Title | Network | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||||
| 2008–2009 | Hot Blood | Mnet | 10 | October 10, 2008 (October 10, 2008) | November 8, 2008 (November 8, 2008) | |
| Idol Army (Season 3) | MBC | 17 | December 4, 2008 (December 4, 2008) | March 26, 2009 (March 26, 2009) | ||
| 2009 | Wild Bunny | Mnet | 7 | July 21, 2009 (July 21, 2009) | August 21, 2009 (August 21, 2009) | |
| 2011 | 2PM Show! | SBS | 12 | July 9, 2011 (July 9, 2011) | September 24, 2011 (September 24, 2011) | |
| 2012 | The Romantic subject Idol | TvN | 8 | November 11, 2012 (November 11, 2012) | December 3, 2012 (December 3, 2012) | |
| 2013 | A Air For You From 2 pm | KBS2 | 15 | February 17, 2013 (February 17, 2013) | May 24, 2013 (May 24, 2013) | |
| 2015 | Oven Radio | 1theK | 5 | June 14, 2015 (June 14, 2015) | June 18, 2015 (June 18, 2015) | |
| 2017 | 2PM Wild Beat in Country | KStar | 10 | February 1, 2017 (February 1, 2017) | April 5, 2017 (April 5, 2017) | |