50 Fun Facts About ENHYPEN

ENHYPEN's name, unveiled live on the I-Land finale, is derived from which punctuation mark?

A hyphen joins words to make new meanings, and ENHYPEN say the name stands for connection, discovery and growth. Belift Lab formed the group in September 2020.

Which sport did ENHYPEN's Sunghoon compete in until early 2020, representing South Korea at junior Grand Prix events?

Figure skating was Sunghoon's first career: he won novice gold at the 2015 Asian Trophy and Lombardia Trophy, trained as an idol from 2018 and left the ice only in early 2020.

Six ENHYPEN members were chosen by global vote on I-Land; which member was instead added as the producers' pick?

Sunoo had actually topped the August global vote with 1,705,287 votes, but slipped outside the top six by the finale, so the producers used their one pick to debut him.

Which ENHYPEN member, who topped the final I-Land global vote with 1,417,620 votes, was named the group's leader?

Jungwon finished first of the nine finalists, ahead of Jay and Jake, and was named leader of the line-up that debuted on November 30, 2020, with the EP Border: Day One.

Which lead single from ENHYPEN's debut EP was the first song they performed on KBS's Music Bank in December 2020?

Given-Taken was named one of BuzzFeed's 35 songs that helped define K-pop in 2020, and its music video was directed by Yong Seok Choi of the studio Lumpens.

In the webtoon Dark Moon: The Blood Altar, the students based on ENHYPEN's members are secretly what sort of beings?

Vampires with powers such as telepathy, pyrokinesis and shadow control hide at a night school whose rules bar supernatural beings; an English print edition arrived from Ize Press in December 2023.

What is the official name of ENHYPEN's fandom, announced in a Weverse video seven weeks before the group's debut?

Engene plays on 'engine', the fans who keep the group going, and 'gene', a shared DNA to connect, discover and grow; the name was revealed on October 9, 2020.

On their first world tour, ENHYPEN became the first K-pop group to sell out three straight nights at which Manila venue?

Mall of Asia Arena hosted the Manifesto World Tour from February 3 to 5, 2023, near the end of a 22-show run that had opened in Seoul the previous September.

Which 2024 ENHYPEN studio album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and was that year's best-selling K-pop album?

Romance: Untold sold 117,000 pure copies in its first US week and was also the second best-selling album worldwide in 2024; a reissue subtitled Daydream followed in November.

Under what stage name did Heeseung debut as a soloist in June 2026, three months after leaving ENHYPEN?

Evan is a name Heeseung had used since childhood; his debut single 'Ride or Die' arrived on June 22, 2026, and an EP titled Death of Me was scheduled for September.

I-Land, the 2020 survival show that formed ENHYPEN, was produced by which cable channel, also home to M Countdown?

Mnet produced I-Land with Belift Lab, confining the trainees to a forest complex for 113 days, where a stage at the gate between the two living quarters hosted every evaluation.

ENHYPEN's label Belift Lab began as a joint venture between Hybe and which media group, which sold its stake in 2023?

CJ ENM held 51.5% of Belift Lab until Hybe bought it out for about 150 billion won, completing the deal on September 1, 2023.

Which single from ENHYPEN's second EP earned their first music-show win, on The Show in May 2021?

Drunk-Dazed is where the Dark Moon story began: its April 2021 music video seeded the webtoon's plot, and the single was certified gold for streaming in Japan.

Which Dimension: Dilemma lead single gave ENHYPEN their first number one on the Billboard Japan Hot 100?

Tamed-Dashed sold 386,142 units in its first week in Japan, and its album became ENHYPEN's first million-seller after a COVID-19 outbreak among the members had delayed the release.

At which US festival's Sahara Tent did ENHYPEN play two April 2025 sets, announcing their sixth EP during the show?

Coachella's second-weekend set ended with the reveal of the sixth EP, which went on to 2.18 million pre-orders and a number-three debut on the Billboard 200.

For which Major League Baseball team did ENHYPEN throw the ceremonial first pitch in August 2022, during a KCON trip?

The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted ENHYPEN at Dodger Stadium for a game against the Miami Marlins on August 19, 2022, while in town for KCON LA.

ENHYPEN became the first global ambassadors of which French fashion brand in June 2021, seven months after debuting?

Ami Paris signed the rookies the same month they launched recovery slippers with GOALSTUDIO; a two-year term as Seoul City tourism ambassadors came in 2025.

Which singer, who said the song was first written for her, joined ENHYPEN on a 2024 'Brought the Heat Back' remix?

Ava Max revealed the day after the remix's August 2024 release that producer Cirkut's funk-pop track had been made for her before it went to ENHYPEN.

What is ENHYPEN's first Japanese studio album, a nine-track October 2022 release that topped Oricon's daily chart?

Sadame means 'destiny'; it sold 183,373 copies on day one and included 'Make the Change', written as the theme for a Japanese TV drama.

Which girl group, formed on the 2023 show R U Next?, debuted in 2024 as ENHYPEN's labelmates at Belift Lab?

Illit's March 2024 debut made Belift a two-group label; the company later sued ADOR's Min Hee-jin for claiming Illit had copied NewJeans.

Which 2023 ENHYPEN lead single gave them their first M Countdown win, amid a fan row over its paired female dancers?

Bite Me's video had each member dance with a female partner, prompting protest trucks outside Hybe; a Japanese-version video without the dancers followed that September.

Which lead single from ENHYPEN's EP Orange Blood got a digital version featuring the TikTok star Bella Poarch?

Sweet Venom was co-written by member Jay alongside producer Slow Rabbit, and its EP sold more than 1.38 million copies on its first day in Korea.

Which lead single from ENHYPEN's 2024 studio album also had an English version featuring its co-writer, the singer Jvke?

XO (Only If You Say Yes) was ENHYPEN's first song to enter the Philippines Hot 100, debuting at 19, and it opened at 84 on the Billboard Global 200.

Which November 2024 reissue single was then ENHYPEN's top-charting song in Korea, debuting at 55 on the Circle chart?

No Doubt debuted at number 55 on Korea's Circle songs chart and 24 on the Japan Hot 100; the reissue added just two new songs, 'Daydream' and the single itself.

Which 2025 single from ENHYPEN's sixth EP brought the group its first-ever win on SBS's Inkigayo?

Bad Desire (With or Without You) debuted at 68 on the Billboard Global 200, the group's highest entry there, and hit number one on iTunes in 38 regions.

Which lead single from ENHYPEN's seventh EP, The Sin: Vanish, was the group's last title track recorded with Heeseung?

Knife topped Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart, and its EP, released January 16, 2026, was the final record of the seven-member line-up.

Which Brazilian-funk lead single from The Sin: Bliss was first previewed at an ENHYPEN concert in Brazil in July 2026?

Bloody Paradise fronted the first release by the six-member ENHYPEN on August 21, 2026, and the full song was played at Busan shows before the album dropped.

Which ENHYPEN track from Manifesto: Day 1 was chosen as Team Korea's official anthem for the 2026 Winter Olympics?

Shout Out, co-written by member Jake, was picked for Team Korea ahead of the Milan–Cortina Games; the EP it came from topped Billboard's Top Album Sales chart in the US.

Which ENHYPEN B-side, debuted live at the 2021 En-Connect: Companion concert, hit the top ten in Malaysia and Singapore?

Polaroid Love was added to the reissue Dimension: Answer and became a sleeper hit, debuting at number nine on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart.

Yeonjun, who features on the Dimension: Dilemma track 'Blockbuster', is a member of which Hybe labelmate group?

Tomorrow X Together also shared a 2021 Lunar New Year variety special, Playground, with ENHYPEN and a joint documentary, Backstage, in 2022.

Alongside Bang Si-hyuk, which two artists served as producers judging the trainees in I-Land's first part?

Rain and Zico judged only Part 1; the trainees' theme song 'Into the I-Land' was originally sung by IU, and the finale song was 'Calling (Run To You)'.

Former I-Land contestants K, Nicholas, EJ and Taki later debuted in which Japan-based Hybe boy group?

&Team was completed through the 2022 audition show &Audition – The Howling, and its members inspired the rival characters in ENHYPEN's Dark Moon webtoon.

In Dark Moon: The Blood Altar, the transfer student Sooha enrols at which night school, said to bar supernatural beings?

Decelis Academy's logo ended up on SPAO pyjamas, rugby tees and ball caps in a September 2023 collection sold in the retailer's stores.

Which Japanese studio made the 2026 anime of Dark Moon: The Blood Altar, aired January to March on Tokyo MX?

Troyca's series used ENHYPEN songs at both ends of each episode: a Japanese 'One In A Billion' as the opening, with 'Criminal Love' and 'Fatal Trouble' as endings.

What was the title of the May 2024 special album collecting ENHYPEN's soundtrack songs for Dark Moon: The Blood Altar?

Memorabilia came in three themed editions packed with webtoon merchandise and gathered six songs, from 2022's 'One In A Billion' to 2024's 'Lucifer' and 'Scream'.

Ni-ki, who danced in a Michael Jackson tribute as a child as 'Riki Jackson', was born in which Japanese city?

Okayama-born Ni-ki was already teaching dance classes in middle school to cover his transport costs before joining Belift as a trainee in 2019.

As a child dancer, Ni-ki performed on the 2017 world tour of which K-pop group, two years before joining Belift?

SHINee's 2017 shows used a troupe of 'SHINee kids'; years later Ni-ki danced 'Guilty' with the group's Taemin at MBC's 2024 year-end music festival.

Seoul-born Jake, ENHYPEN's English narrator, was schooled in which country, where he passed a Belift audition?

Australia gave Jake a Brisbane schooling at St Peters Lutheran College and years of soccer, violin and bass guitar before he returned to Korea to train.

Sunghoon co-hosted KBS's Music Bank from October 2021 with which member of the girl group Ive?

Wonyoung and Sunghoon's pairing was nicknamed 'Jangkku' by fans; Music Bank was also where ENHYPEN made their live debut in December 2020.

Heeseung and Jake featured on 'Confessions', a January 2025 single by which American rapper, alongside Paul Russell?

Flo Rida's track was released on January 10, 2025; Heeseung had earlier charmed Rolling Stone with a 'wedding-ready' cover of Justin Bieber's 'Off My Face'.

Which lead single from ENHYPEN's third EP, Manifesto: Day 1, won on The Show, Show Champion and Music Bank in July 2022?

Future Perfect (Pass the Mic) fronted an EP that sold 1.24 million copies in a week, making ENHYPEN the fastest K-pop group to two million-selling albums.

Which original Japanese song on ENHYPEN's 2021 single Border: Hakanai was the opening theme of the anime Re-Main?

Forget Me Not came with the group's Japanese debut in July 2021, on a single that also carried Japanese versions of two tracks from their debut EP.

For a 2022 Coca-Cola campaign, ENHYPEN covered which 1986 Queen song, the title track of its parent album?

A Kind of Magic was recorded for Coca-Cola's 'Coke X Music' message and released through Coke Studio on June 8, 2022, ahead of a Coke Zero campaign that August.

Which 2023 song did ENHYPEN record for the Pokémon Music Collective, a collaboration announced by the video-game series?

One and Only was released on July 12, 2023, a month after the group's first M Countdown win and two months before their Japanese single 'You'.

In the 2023 film Baby Shark's Big Movie!, ENHYPEN voiced an underwater K-pop band made up of which animals?

Belugas were ENHYPEN's first film role, described as an 'underwater powerhouse K-pop band', and the group sang 'Keep Swimmin' Through' on the soundtrack.

Which Seoul theme park held a Dark Moon: The Blood Altar festival in autumn 2023, handing out character photocards?

Lotte World ran the festival from September 1 to October 22, 2023, with a party room, a merch pop-up and rentable school uniforms from the webtoon.

With which organisation did ENHYPEN run a January 2026 campaign that lifted first-time blood donations 19-fold?

The Korean Red Cross offered registered donors special gifts; two months earlier the group and Belift had donated 100 million won to Philippine flood relief.

Which track on ENHYPEN's 2024 studio album credits all seven members as writers, with Heeseung also producing?

Highway 1009 is an acoustic number described as heartfelt, and the CD edition carried a bonus narration version of it as a tenth track.

Which actor served as I-Land's host and 'storyteller' while Bang Si-hyuk's panel judged the trainees?

Namkoong Min narrated a show whose hidden cameras, placed behind two-way mirrors and in dorms, later drew ethical complaints from former contestants.

Which Italian luxury house named ENHYPEN brand ambassadors in June 2023, the year they opened Seoul Fashion Week?

Prada's deal was followed that September by ENHYPEN's first appearance at a Prada Mode event, as ambassadors for Seoul Fashion Week.