90 Fun Facts About ENHYPEN

ENHYPEN's name comes from the hyphen and is said to stand for connection, discovery and which third idea?

Growth completes the trio: as a hyphen joins words to make new meanings, the seven I-Land winners were to connect, discover each other and grow together.

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 won the final vote at 16 despite a comparatively short time as a trainee, and was named leader although he is the group's second-youngest member.

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 first seen as one of the pairs of opposite words, alongside 'Failure-Success' and 'Mortal-Immortal', that flashed across the group's debut trailer weeks earlier.

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, unveiled in a video before the group's November 2020 debut?

Engene plays on 'engine', the fans who keep the group going, and 'gene', the DNA fans and members are said to share; the members picked it from names their fans sent in.

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 drew about 27,000 fans over February 3 to 5, 2023, on dates added when a tour due to end in Japan the previous November was extended.

Which 2024 ENHYPEN studio album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, then the group's highest placing?

Romance: Untold sold 117,000 copies in its first US week, the group's best to that point, and was kept from number one only by Eminem's The Death of Slim Shady.

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 the EP Death of Me followed on September 7.

I-Land, the 2020 survival show that formed ENHYPEN, aired weekly on which South Korean cable channel?

Mnet, still mired in a vote-rigging scandal over its Produce 101 shows, promised fairness this time: I-Land's vote ran on an outside platform, with outside observers at the count.

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: the webtoon's characters and plot grew out of its April 2021 music video, and the song beat AB6IX and ONF to that first win.

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 did ENHYPEN play two sets in 2025, announcing their sixth EP at the end of the second?

Coachella's Sahara Tent hosted both sets, on April 12 and 19; in the week between them the group announced the US and European dates of its Walk the Line world tour.

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 the group at Dodger Stadium before a game against the Miami Marlins, though one member missed the trip, kept in Korea for health reasons.

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

Ami Paris was marking its tenth anniversary, and founder Alexandre Mattiussi said the group's energy, authenticity and message of inclusivity resembled the brand's own.

Which American singer joined ENHYPEN on an August 2024 remix of their track 'Brought the Heat Back'?

Ava Max said the day after the remix came out that producer Cirkut's funk-pop track had first 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) marked a change of mood: after years of dark fantasy concepts, the group fronted its new album with what NME called cute puppy love.

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) led an EP trailed by the line 'I'm gonna make you mine' and by three sets of concept photos titled Make, You and Mine; its debut at 68 was then the group's highest on the Billboard Global 200.

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

Knife led an EP the group teased with a spoof news website and its own Instagram account; Heeseung left that March, making it the last record by all seven.

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 performed two months before its release on the reissue Dimension: Answer, and later earned a gold streaming certification in Japan.

Yeonjun, who features on ENHYPEN's Dimension: Dilemma track 'Blockbuster', is a member of which boy group?

TXT, short for Tomorrow X Together, are the Hybe seniors Heeseung once trained beside; the two groups also shared a 2021 Lunar New Year variety special, Playground.

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

Rain and Zico also mentored the trainees but appeared in Part 1 only; Jay, who went on to finish second, named Rain as the singer he looked up to.

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 got a Dark Moon spin-off webtoon of their own, The Grey City.

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

Decelis Academy gets a transfer student with a secret of her own: Sooha has superhuman strength, which she has long had to conceal.

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 gathered six songs, from 2022's 'One In A Billion' onwards, and split the members into two units for the new tracks 'Teeth' and 'Lucifer'.

Ni-ki, who danced in a Michael Jackson tribute as a child and was nicknamed '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 a 2017 concert tour by 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 of ENHYPEN was raised from the age of nine in which English-speaking country?

Australia gave Jake a Brisbane schooling at St Peters Lutheran College before he returned to Korea, where he trained for only nine months ahead of I-Land.

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 opened Re-Main, an anime whose hero, a champion water-polo player, wakes from a 203-day coma to find his three middle-school years wiped from his memory.

For a 2022 Coca-Cola summer campaign, ENHYPEN covered which 1986 Queen song?

A Kind of Magic, the title track of Queen's album that year, suited the campaign line 'Engrave the Magic of Summer' and came out through Coke Studio on June 8, 2022.

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 made up the band ENHYPEN voiced in a film whose villain, a pop starfish called Stariana, plots to steal Baby Shark's gift of song and rule underwater music.

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

Lotte World let visitors spend the festival in the uniform of the webtoon's school, and turned the third floor of its castle into the story's banquet hall.

With which organisation did ENHYPEN run a ten-day donor campaign in January 2026 that drew a 19-fold rise in first-timers?

The Korean Red Cross campaign was for blood donation, with special gifts for registered donors; two months earlier the group and Belift had given 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.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, ENHYPEN shared a panel with the cast of which blockbuster film saga?

Twilight shared the stage: ENHYPEN and its cast discussed why such stories endure across generations, a theme that runs through the group's own dark-fantasy concept.

ENHYPEN remade the theme song of which South Korean kids' cartoon about talking vehicles in 2021?

Tayo the Little Bus got an ENHYPEN makeover: the group re-recorded its theme as "Hey Tayo" and added a brand-new song for the series, "Billy Poco".

Heeseung of ENHYPEN won praise in 2022 for covering 'Off My Face' by which Canadian pop star?

Justin Bieber's song drew warm reviews in Heeseung's hands: Rolling Stone called the cover "wedding-ready" and NME praised the rendition as "beautiful".

Which Korean soloist first recorded 'Into the I-Land', the theme song of ENHYPEN's survival show?

IU sang the original, and the trainees' first mission was to perform it themselves, each choosing one of the song's 12 parts.

I-Land, which formed ENHYPEN, aired multi-camera house footage styled on which reality franchise?

Big Brother was the model for I-Land Cam, a one-hour segment released four days a week that switched to daily live streams in the final week of the contest.

ENHYPEN sang their digital single 'Loose' on which US late-night show in April 2025?

Jimmy Kimmel Live! hosted the group on April 10, 2025, less than a week after 'Loose' came out as a digital single.

In February 2026, ENHYPEN became Asia-Pacific regional ambassadors for which oral-care brand?

Listerine, the mouthwash brand, signed the group months after Samyang Foods had made them the first ambassadors of its MEP brand.

ENHYPEN's Jake and Sunghoon were named 'friends of the house' in 2024 by which luxury jeweller?

Tiffany & Co. named the pair regional ambassadors for South Korea and Japan after a W Korea pictorial showing off its pieces; both had been attending its events since 2023.

Which ENHYPEN EP was the best-selling 2020 release by any K-pop group that debuted that year?

Border: Day One drew more than 300,000 pre-orders before release, then entered South Korea's Gaon Album Chart at number two.

Members of which group visited I-Land to run a mini-mission on their songs 'Pretty U' and 'Hit'?

Seventeen sent The8, Jun, Dino and Hoshi to set the mini-mission in person, and the unit covering 'Pretty U' won it.

On ENHYPEN's show I-Land, trainees outside the top 12 lived in which plainer second building?

The Ground was a simple building with a dance studio and a dining area, and its residents had to commute to the main complex at set times every day.

I-Land Cam videos and ENHYPEN's first album announcement both appeared on which fan platform?

Weverse hosted the I-Land Cam videos on its app and website, and in October 2020 Belift used the platform to tell fans the debut EP's title and release date.

Before I-Land, ENHYPEN's Heeseung and Sunghoon had both been scouted as trainees by which agency?

Big Hit Entertainment found Heeseung at a Hanlim Arts School entrance exam in 2017 and took on Sunghoon a year later; several I-Land trainees transferred from the label.

In January 2023 ENHYPEN sold out two nights at which Osaka venue, their first shows on that scale?

Kyocera Dome hosted the group's first dome concerts on January 21 and 22, 2023, dates added to the Manifesto tour only two months earlier.

Which title is shared by an intro on ENHYPEN's first EP, a 2022 trailer and their third world tour?

Walk the Line opened the first EP as an intro that MTV ranked among 2020's best K-pop B-sides, then returned as the trailer for Manifesto: Day 1 and as the 2024–25 tour.

ENHYPEN's Jay helped write the lyrics of 'Whodunit', a 2024 song by which Japanese rock band?

Glay released the music video for 'Whodunit' on May 29, 2024, with Jay credited among the writers of its lyrics.

Hybe made Dark Moon: The Blood Altar, the comic based on ENHYPEN, with which South Korean platform?

Naver Webtoon serialised the story from January 2022 to August 2023, and it passed 100 million page views on the platform.

A web novel of ENHYPEN's Dark Moon: The Blood Altar with a different plot ran on which reading site?

Wattpad carried the web-novel edition, launched alongside the comic in January 2022 with a storyline that deliberately departs from it.

Bench and the local arm of Dunkin' both made ENHYPEN ambassadors in which Asian country?

The Philippines also saw the group and Belift donate 100 million won to flood relief in November 2025, after back-to-back typhoons hit the country.

Japan's ABC-Mart made ENHYPEN the face of its 2022 promotions for which sportswear giant?

Nike's Air Max range led the shoe chain's campaign, which gave online buyers AR experiences and stickers; the group went on to model the brand's sandals and winter boots.

Which ENHYPEN song, made for the Dark Moon webtoon in 2022, later became its anime's opening theme?

One in a Billion premiered in September 2022 as the webtoon's soundtrack single; a Japanese version opened the 2026 anime, with two more of the group's songs closing each episode.

ENHYPEN's stage concept is known for blending dark fantasy with elements of which ancient mythology?

Greek myth sits beside the fantasy in the group's imagery, and the concept feeds a whole fictional universe: a comic and an anime are based directly on their music.

ENHYPEN's tours have visited the home countries of members Jay and Ni-ki; which country is Jay's?

The United States is Jay's home country, and American cities from Houston to Chicago hosted the group's second big tour in October 2023.

Belift Lab gave which reason when it announced Heeseung's departure from ENHYPEN in March 2026?

Musical differences was the label's stated reason: Belift cited a split over music direction and said he would prepare a solo album under the same company.

Which ENHYPEN variety series began in June 2021 and later spawned the reality spin-off So So Fun?

EN-O'Clock premiered on June 10, 2021 and became the group's regular variety show; So So Fun followed in 2022 as its reality offshoot.

Within two weeks of debuting, ENHYPEN won the Next Leader Award at which Korean year-end ceremony?

The Fact Music Awards honoured the group on December 12, 2020, twelve days after the debut EP came out, and they performed its lead single at the ceremony.

In Dark Moon: The Blood Altar, the boys based on ENHYPEN are star players of which fictional sport?

Nightball gives each of the seven a role on the school side, from captain and centre to wing, forward, back and enforcer.

ENHYPEN joined W Korea's 2024 charity event 'Love Your W', which raises awareness of which illness?

Breast cancer awareness is the cause behind the fashion magazine's campaign; the same title had put Jake and Sunghoon in a jewellery pictorial six months earlier.

Which opening track of ENHYPEN's EP Dark Blood shares its name with the group's second world tour?

Fate opens the EP, and days after its May 2023 release the group announced a tour of the same name, starting with two nights in Seoul that July.

Heeseung launched his solo career after ENHYPEN in June 2026 with which alternative-rock single?

Ride or Die mixed grunge and punk into its rock sound and came paired with a laid-back indie-pop B-side, three months after he left the group.

In June 2022 ENHYPEN's Heeseung sang a set of covers as a guest on which YouTube music show?

LeeMujin Service had him sing a solo take on one of the group's own title tracks among the covers, and he returned in 2026 to perform his first solo songs.

Which Korean skincare brand, maker of Cicapair, named ENHYPEN its first global ambassadors in 2023?

Dr. Jart+ launched the partnership with a campaign called "Supercharged repair, Cicapair"; the group had modelled for another Korean skincare label, Abib, in 2021.

ENHYPEN's second world tour opened in July 2023 with two nights at which Seoul venue?

KSPO Dome drew such demand that three more nights there were added for February 2024, before the tour pushed on to more dates in the US and Japan.

ENHYPEN's first EP was sold in two versions named after which pair of times of day?

Dusk and Dawn also supplied the title of the group's second debut trailer, "Dusk-Dawn", and each version of the record got its own set of concept photos.

ENHYPEN's Heeseung, Jay and Jake sang 'Zero Moment' for which 2022 drama starring Im Si-wan?

Summer Strike, adapted from a webtoon, began airing on ENA and Genie TV a week before the trio's song joined its soundtrack.

ENHYPEN's Dark Moon anime was first announced in September 2024 at which company's online festival?

Aniplex Online Fest broke the news on September 16, 2024, and the series reached Japanese television in January 2026.

Which song first performed as an I-Land test piece was later released on ENHYPEN's debut EP?

Flicker was one of two new songs handed to rival units in the fan-chemistry test, and it resurfaced weeks later as the fifth track of the debut record.

On ENHYPEN's show I-Land, the top scorer of mission two won which reward, usable on any trainee?

A dropout exemption card went to the contestant K, who spent it not on himself but on rescuing a fellow trainee from demotion.

ENHYPEN's 2022 song 'I Need the Light' was the theme of which South Korean drama series?

Mimicus got its theme on August 12, 2022, three months before three of the members recorded a song for another series' soundtrack.

ENHYPEN were chosen in October 2022 as ambassadors for which outdoor clothing brand?

Kolon Sport dressed the group for its 2022 Fall/Winter collection and then for a 2023 range built around trekking looks.