Pentagon (펜타곤) is a 9 piece group under Cube Entertainment that was formed through one of Mnet’s survival shows- Pentagon Maker. The members are- Hui, Jinho, Hongseok, Shinwon, Yanan, Yeo One, Yuto, Kino and Wooseok.
Debut Date: 10th October 2016
Debut Song: Gorilla
Debut Album: Pentagon
Fandom Name: Universe
Indian Fanpage: @pentagon_india (please note this is the one we’re aware of, contact them to be part of groups and chats)
MEMBERS PROFILE
HUI (Lee Hoetaek)
Position: Leader, Vocalist, Dancer, Producers
Birthday: 28th August 1993
He has written a lot of the groups songs
He has a lot of aegyo in him
The members enjoy playfully teasing him
He used to be in a Cube subunit called Triple H with HyunA and ex members E’dawn
JINHO (Jo Jinho)
Position: Vocalist
Birthday: 17th April 1992
He is the shortest member of the group
Although he doesn’t rap in Pentagon, he is a good rapper
He gets scared fairly easily
He enlisted in the military on 11th May 2020
HONGSEOK (Yang Hongseok)
Position: Vocalist
Birthday: 17th April 199
Other than Korea he has lived in San Diego, Wisconsin, Singapore and China
Along with Korean he can speak both English and Chinese
He loves to work out and he has abs
People say that he can fall asleep anywhere
SHINWON (Ko Shinwon)
Position: Vocalist
Birthday: 11th December 1995
He’s sensitive and gets scared easily
He loves McDonald’s, especially their burgers
His face is very expressive
On The Immigration he said that one of his hobbies is lying down
YEO ONE (Yeo Changgu)
Position: Vocalist
Birthday: 27th March 1996
He makes ASMR videos
He works out a lot and has abs
Most of the time he is easily embarrassed
He said that if he could only eat one food for the rest of his life it would be bibimbap
YANAN (Yan An)
Position: Vocalist
Birthday: 25th October 1996
He is Chinese but was born in Japan
He can play the piano well
He has a few tattoos
From August 2018 till September 2020 he went on a hiatus for his health to get better
YUTO (Adachi Yuto)
Position: Rapper, Dancer, Vocalist
Birthday: 23re January 1998
He is Japanese and is friends with a lot of other Japanese K-Pop idols
He is very affectionate with his members and likes hugging them
He has a lot of black clothes
In a lot of Pentagon songs you can hear his iconic ‘yutoda’
KINO (Kang Hyunggu)
Position: Dancer, Vocalist, Rapper
Birthday: 27th January 1998
Along with Korean he can speak English and Japanese
He likes wearing accessories
People call him ‘dance machine’ because of his dancing and choreographing skills
He used to be in a dance crew called Urban Boyz
WOOSEOK (Jung Wooseok)
Position: Rapper, Vocalist, Maknae
Birthday: 31st January 1998
He is the tallest member of the group
When he is free he likes to watch anime
Despite his intimidating looks, he is a very soft person
He was in the unit with Kuanlin from Wanna One called Wooseok x Kuanlin
ACHIEVEMENTS
• In the 2017 Soribada Best K-Music Awards, Pentagon won the New Artist of the Year award
• They won the New Star award at the Asia Model Awards 2017
• At the Korea Music Festival Special Awards 2017 the group were the winners of the Rising Star Award
• Pentagon won the Public Singing Performance Award at the 2018 Korea Popular Music Awards
• In the 2018 Korea Culture Entertainment Awards they won the KPop Singer Award
• At the Genie Music Awards 2019 Pentago won the M2 Hot Star \ MBC Plus Star Award
• They won the Popular Star award at the Asia Model Awards 2019
• Pentagon won the Korea Volunteering Grand Award category at the Korea Volunteering Grand Award 2019
• In the 2020 10Asia Top Ten Awards the group won the K-pop Global Top 10 (Japan) award
Check out their latest release Daisy
Jam to their most popular song Shine
Groove to their debut song Gorilla
Watch their version of Monsta X’s song Follow on Road To Kingdom
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