50 Fun Facts About IKon

Singing iKon's catchy 2018 hit 'Love Scenario' in class was banned by some South Korean institutions of which kind?

Elementary schools were where the craze peaked: young pupils sang the easy melody so constantly that some teachers barred it from their classrooms.

B.I wrote iKon's hit 'Love Scenario' after watching the last ten minutes of which Hollywood film?

La La Land ends with two former lovers exchanging a smile, and B.I said that warm farewell, neither sad nor happy, was the mood he wanted for the track.

As a child actor, Chan of iKon played the childhood version of which actor's character in the drama Boys Over Flowers?

Lee Min-ho's characters were played as boys by Chan twice: he returned as the young lead in The Heirs in 2013.

Bobby of iKon won which South Korean TV rap competition in 2014, a year before the group's debut?

Show Me the Money made him its third-season champion while he was still a YG trainee, competing alongside his future bandmate B.I.

iKon's 'Love Scenario' can be heard in the third season of which Netflix survival drama from South Korea?

Squid Game used the track seven years after its release, a sign of how deeply the 2018 hit had lodged in the country's popular memory.

Ju-ne of iKon first appeared on television in 2009, billed on the show Star King as a young version of whom?

Michael Jackson was the star he imitated on SBS in 2009, three years before YG Entertainment scouted him as a trainee.

The rival YG trainee team that beat iKon's future members on a 2013 survival show debuted as which group?

Winner debuted in 2014 after taking the public vote, while the six who lost returned to training and had to fight through a second contest.

Months before their own debut, iKon opened a 2014–15 Japan dome tour for which senior boy band?

Big Bang's Japan Dome Tour X gave the newly formed group a stadium-sized audience in December 2014, nine months before their first single.

iKon were one of six boy groups on Mnet's 2021 contest Kingdom: Legendary War, which was won by whom?

Stray Kids won the live finale in June 2021 and earned their own reality show and a special 'Kingdom Week' as the prize.

The dance from iKon's 'Love Scenario' became an emote in which video game through a 2019 Samsung phone deal?

Fortnite offered the emote only to buyers of a Galaxy S10 phone, under a partnership between Epic Games and Samsung.

Which 2014 Mnet survival show settled iKon's final line-up and added Chan as a seventh member?

Mix & Match made three of the original six compete against three newcomers for places, and 150,000 fans applied to watch its final performance.

Bobby of iKon formed the hip-hop duo MOBB in 2016 with which rapper from a fellow YG boy band?

Mino and Bobby each released a solo video that September before unveiling their joint singles 'Full House' and 'Hit Me'.

Bobby of iKon left Seoul with his family at about age nine and grew up in which US state?

Virginia was home from 2005: his family settled in Fairfax, and he auditioned for YG Entertainment while living in the United States.

Before joining YG as a trainee, Ju-ne of iKon was eliminated from the first season of which TV audition show?

K-pop Star eliminated him, yet YG Entertainment, whose founder sat on the show's judging panel, scouted him in April 2012.

Which debut single won iKon a music-show trophy in 2015 before the group had made a live TV appearance?

My Type won on MBC's Music Core eleven days after its release, the same week it took a 'triple crown' across three Gaon charts.

Which debut album did iKon release in two parts in late 2015, a half album first and the full version weeks later?

Welcome Back arrived as a half album in October and in full on December 24 after a delay, and both versions topped the Gaon Album Chart.

After leaving YG at the end of 2022, all six iKon members signed together with which label?

143 Entertainment signed the whole group on January 1, 2023, two days after their seven-year YG contracts ended, and a new album followed that May.

Ju-ne of iKon has told fans since 2017 that he trains in which combat sport as a hobby?

Brazilian jiu-jitsu is the grappling art he first described as his hobby during a live broadcast for fans, and he has kept up the classes since.

Which iKon member, born in February 1994, serves as the group's main vocalist and a lead dancer?

Jay, known as Jinhwan until he changed his stage name, spent nearly five years as a YG trainee before the group's 2015 debut.

On the 2016 Chinese TV contest Heroes of Remix, iKon competed with which South Korean star as their mentor?

Psy guided them to three weekly wins, more than any other act, although the group was cut from the final episodes amid a political dispute.

Which trap-driven breakup song led iKon's 2018 EP New Kids: Continue and inspired an official dance cover contest?

Killing Me took its title from an everyday expression of exasperation, and it peaked inside the top ten of the Gaon Digital Chart.

Which lead song of iKon's 2017 single album New Kids: Begin was first performed at a dome concert in Japan?

Bling Bling had its live premiere at the Kyocera Dome two days before its release, during the group's first dome tour.

Which sentimental hip-hop ballad led New Kids: The Final, the EP that closed iKon's four-part series in 2018?

Goodbye Road pairs its chorus farewell with a shooing hand gesture in the choreography, and it reached number one on six major Korean charts.

The Japanese edition of iKon's debut album earned the group Best New Artist honours at which 2016 ceremony?

Japan Record Awards judges gave them both the New Artist Award and Best New Artist after the album sold over 61,000 copies in its first week.

On Kingdom: Legendary War, Ateez reworked which early iKon single with a concept based on Money Heist?

Rhythm Ta, a 2015 hit co-composed by Ju-ne, came back in Ateez's version with a sample of Vivaldi's 'Summer' woven into the arrangement.

As trainees in 2013, iKon's future members danced in the 'Ringa Linga' music video for which YG soloist?

Taeyang later returned the favour as a songwriter, contributing to the group's second studio album in 2018.

Years before iKon, a young B.I rapped on the 2009 single 'Indian Boy' by which South Korean artist?

MC Mong brought the boy, then about 12, on stage at the 2009 SBS Dream Concert and onto the TV show You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook.

Which founder of the YG agency said iKon's name expressed the goal of becoming an 'icon for Korea'?

Yang Hyun-suk, who found fame in the 1990s group Seo Taiji and Boys, swapped the 'c' for a 'K' to stand for the band's home country.

Which lead single of iKon's 2020 EP I Decide was written by B.I, months after he had left the group?

Dive was one of four songs on the five-track EP credited to the former leader, whose writing outlasted his 2019 exit.

Which 2022 EP, iKon's last release under the YG label, set the group's record for first-week sales?

Flashback sold 73,362 copies in its first week and included 'At Ease', the song written for the group's finale on a TV contest a year earlier.

Which 2023 studio album, iKon's first for a new label, shares its name with the world tour that followed?

Take Off closes with solo tracks by three members, and nine of its ten songs were written or co-written inside the group.

B.I and Bobby of iKon both guested on 'Born Hater', a 2014 single by which veteran hip-hop act?

Epik High shared the track with five guest rappers, and the two trainees joined the trio to perform it at that year's Mnet Asian Music Awards.

Which 2017 solo debut album by Bobby of iKon carries the lead single 'Runaway' and ten self-written tracks?

Love and Fall brought in a bandmate as a guest on the track 'Secret', and a second solo album did not follow until 2021.

Ju-ne of iKon made his acting debut in which television drama, which aired before his first film?

True to Love reached screens ahead of the film he had been cast in first, back in October 2021, so the drama became his debut.

iKon's first concert, Showtime, sold 13,000 tickets in October 2015 at which Seoul venue?

Olympic Gymnastics Arena was the country's largest concert hall, an unprecedented booking for a new act, and 500,000 more people watched online.

Which iKon song was reissued as the group's first original Japanese single and debuted atop the Oricon chart?

Dumb & Dumber sold more than 48,000 copies in its first week in Japan and led both the daily and weekly Oricon singles charts.

iKon's 2018 tour took the group for the first time to which country, with a show in each of two cities?

Australia hosted shows in Sydney and Melbourne as an extension of a tour that otherwise covered eight cities across Asia.

Bobby of iKon won his 2014 TV rap title on the team mentored by Dok2 and The Quiett, named after which label?

Illionaire Records was the label Dok2 and The Quiett ran together, and their team's rapper beat Iron of Team YDG in the final.

Which 2021 album was B.I's first full-length solo release after leaving iKon, issued as a charity project?

Waterfall followed a charity single album earlier that year, both issued through the label he had founded.

Which publication named iKon's 'Love Scenario' one of the 100 greatest songs in Korean pop history in 2023?

Rolling Stone's list honoured a track that had already won Song of the Year at both the Melon Music Awards and the Golden Disc Awards.

iKon were edited out of the last episodes of China's Heroes of Remix amid tension over which missile defence system?

THAAD stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense; the row over it between Seoul and Beijing erased the show's most successful act from its closing episodes.

The dance for iKon's 2023 single 'Tantara' was created by which choreographer and her crew Hook?

Aiki and her dancers also appear in the performance video, released nine days before the album it previewed.

Kony's Summertime and its 2017 sequel Kony's Wintertime, both made for Japan, were iKon releases in which format?

DVD editions of both titles reached number two on Japan's Oricon chart, with the winter volume selling about 5,400 copies.

In January 2015, which US music magazine listed the still-undebuted iKon among five Korean acts to watch?

Billboard picked them as the only act on its list that had not yet released a debut single.

Bobby of iKon featured on 'I'm Different' by Hi Suhyun, a 2014 project duo with a singer from which act?

Akdong Musician's Lee Su-hyun fronted the one-off unit with a YG labelmate, and the guest verse came two months after the rapper's TV contest victory.

Under which name did iKon's future members compete on YG's 2013 trainee survival show WIN: Who Is Next?

Team B lost the public vote, yet all six of its members went on to debut together two years later.

iKon's 'Love Scenario' was the first song to earn a Gaon platinum certification in which category?

Streaming certification at platinum level required 100 million plays, a mark no song had reached before under the scheme.

During a 2013 trainee contest, iKon's future members released the single 'Climax' and which other track?

Just Another Boy and its companion were the only releases by the losing side of the contest, two years before the group's proper debut.

iKon's first Japanese dome concert took place in May 2017 at the Kyocera Dome in which city?

Osaka opened a tour that drew 323,000 people in total, although only two of its venues were actually domes.

Which lead single fronted iKon's 2022 comeback EP, their final release as artists on the YG label?

But You led a six-track set whose final song had first been performed on a TV contest the previous year.