B2ST/BEAST

Name: BEAST (비스트)or B2ST
Meaning: B2ST - Boys 2 Search the Top, BEAST (Boys of East Standing Tall)
Company: CUBE Entertainment
Location: South Korea
Members: Yoon Doo Joon, Jang Hyun Seung, Yong Jun Hyung, Yang Yo Seob, Lee Gi Kwang and Son Dong Woon
First mini-album: Beast is the B2ST on October 14, 2009




Late 2009:
Journey leading to debut was showcased in their MTV documentary MTV B2ST.

October 14, 2009
First mini-album, Beast Is The B2ST: Sold over 20,000 copies in October 2009. Cube Entertainment revealed that they had sold all the albums they printed in the first batch and was able to produce 5,000 more. It went on to sell for an overall 40,000 copies. This brought the music industry's attention to the group considering a success for rookie artists is usually defined when they reach 10,000 copies in sales.

October 15, 2009
Debut showcase at the MTV GongGae Hall

October 16, 2009
Live debut on KBS Music Bank with debut track, "Bad Girl".

December 2, 2009
First award, Rookie of the Month for December which was awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

2010

January 4, 2010
Beast, along with labelmate 4minute, had concluded a mutual signing ceremony with world-wide album company Universal Music Group for their international promotions and album launches.

January 23, 2010
First international promotions in Taiwan with 4minute.

February 3, 2010
Attended the 19th Seoul Music Awards, awarded with the Best Newcomer Award alongside T-ara and After School.

March 1, 2010
Second mini-album, Shock Of The New Era, was scheduled for release on March 2, 2010 but was released a day earlier after being leaked on Youtube: Sold 20,000 copies.
Title song “Shock” introduced a new genre called Rocktronic which is a combination of rock and electronic music.
Reviews of the title track "Shock" described it has having both powerful vocals and an overall strong sound, with the live performances incorporating a complex VTach dance routine.

March 25, 2010
- Beast presented a different image by singing an orchestra version of the sad ballad "Butjapgodo” (붙잡고도, lit. Despite Holding On) by Korean group Noel, and were subsequently recognized as a boy group with outstanding singing ability.
- Received their first number-one win on Mnet’s M! Countdown with "Shock".

April 29, 2010

Digital single "Easy (Sincere Ver.)". The track used strings and piano as opposed to the hip-hop feel and electronic instruments of the original

August 10, 2010
Beast received the Golden Disk Award from Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand at the '2010 Summer CUBE Stars Party' at Seoul, Samseongdong in the Samyu Center Event Hall.

August 13, 2010
Beast and 4minute became the first Korean artists to be invited to perform on Singapore Youth Olympic pre-opening stage

Beast was awarded with the Cool Star Award on the 2010 Mnet 20's Choice Awards, where American R&B musician Omarion made a surprise appearance as a guest onstage when Beast received their award. Omarion had also performed a special showcase with Beast after seeing their performances.

September 17, 2010
3rd mini album single from album Mastermind "Jumeogeul Kkwak Jwigo” (주먹을 꽉 쥐고, lit. Clenching a Tight Fist) as a single from their 3rd mini-album, Mastermind.

September 28, 2010
Mastermind was released

October 8, 2010
Claimed first place on KBS Music Bank with the song "Soom” (숨, lit. Breath) from Mastermind. The song was noted for its original sound and distinctive choreography.

October 23, 2010
Beast is one of the recipient of the Asia Influential Artist Award which is given to those who had gained the most attention in Asia for the year.

November 3, 2010
Beast opened up the preorder sales for their 4th mini-album named Lights Go On Again.

November 8, 2010,
The album took the top 5 spots on the Mnet music charts with their lead track, “Beautiful” debuting at 1st place, while the album’s remaining four tracks placed 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th respectively.

November 15, 2010
Beast released the first part of the relay music drama from the 4th mini-album on their official YouTube channel.

November 24, 2010
Beast discography entered Japan with the release of their first Japanese album, called Beast - Japan Premium Edition. It debuted at 13th place on the Oricon weekly album charts

November 27, 2010
Beast held their first Japanese showcase called the 'The Legend of Beast, Vol.1' at Tokyo Big Site in Ohdaiba, Tokyo. The members were transported to the site of the showcase by helicopter, where they were able to see a human formation of the group's name made up of fans as a welcome greeting. The group performed 9 hit tracks, including "Bad Girl," "Shock," and "Soom".

December 1, 2010
Beast won an award for being one of 2010's most photogenic figures by the 11th Korean Visual Arts Festival, hosted and organized by the Korea Broadcast Camera Directors Association.

December 9, 2010
Beast was awarded with the Yepp Newcomer Award at the 25th Golden Disk Awards: Sold 107,006 copies from January - October 2010 with 4 of their released mini-albums, including their first mini-album. This made Beast as the only rookie group out of all the boy/girl groups who have sold over 100,000 copies in 2010.

December 12, 2010
First solo concert at the Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul. The concert's official title was 'Welcome to the Beast Airline'

December 23, 2010
Digital mini album My Story: Tracks released were "Thanks To", a hiphop track from Yoseob and Junhyung, Hyunseung and Kikwang’s R&B track "Let It Snow",and Doojoon and Dongwoon’s ballad track "Muni Dathimyeon" (문이 닫히면, lit. When The Door Closes).[39] The tracks debuted at the Mnet M! Countdown stage. The songs were released on December 21, 2010 as the digital mini album My Story


2011

January 20, 2011
Japanese Debut and 1st Studio Album
The group was awarded with the Bonsang Award at the 20th Seoul Music Awards where they performed their hit songs “Shock” and “Soom”.

February 24, 2011
Beast was also listed as the No. 40 Power Celebrity according to the list released by Forbes Korea

March 16, 2011
First Japanese single "Shock"(Jap version)
The single debuted at number 2 on Oricon’s weekly chart, which became as the highest ranking debut single by a non-Japanese artist in Japan since Big Bang's “My Heaven” at no. 3 on 2009.

May 26, 2011
2nd Japanese single, “Bad Girl.” The single will come in 4 versions, the limited editions coming with DVD. No other information has been revealed other than covers and the coupling song on the each CD will be remixed by different artists, 80kidz, fine Rockets, FIREWORK DJs, and SONPUB.[46]

May 17, 2011
First full lengh Korean album titled Fiction and Fact, which contains 10 songs: 8 new songs, an Unplugged Version of their song "Lightless" and an Orchestra Version of their lead song "Fiction".
Their track “Biga Oneun Naren" (비가 오는 날엔, lit. On Rainy Days), which was released as a digital single prior to the release of their album, rose up the charts at the moment of its release.

May 27, 2011
"On Rainy days" won first place on KBS Music Bank instead of their heavily promoted lead song “Fiction”

SNSD/ Girls' Generation Lee Sunkyu, Sunny

Name: Lee Sunkyu, Sunny (이순규, 써니)
Group: SNSD/Girls' Generation/少女時代/소녀시대
Hanja: 李順圭
DOB: May 15, 1989
Height: 156 cm
Weight: 43 kg
Blood Type: B
Religion: Christian
Training: 5Years - Wheesung's company, 9 months - SME
Company: Wheesung's company(Bankrupt), SME
Education: Baehwa All-Girls High School
Roomate: Taeyeon
Position: Lead Vocalist

2PM Nichkun Buck Horvejkul

Name : Nichkun Buck Horvejkul (닉쿤)
Group: 2PM
Thai: นิชคุณ หรเวชกุล (Nitchakhun Horawetchakun)
DOB: June 24, 1988
Height : 180cm
Weight : 64kg
Blood Type : O
Religion : Buddhist
Training: JYPE
Company: JYPE
Education: Dhepkanjana School and Tangpiroondham School. At the age of twelve, studied at Wanganui Collegiate School in New Zealand for a year and a half and moved back to the United States to finish his schooling at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
Position : Sub Vocal, Dancer, Rapper


SOLO CAREER

2008
After 2PM's debut, Nichkhun began doing Thai endorsements
- Selected by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) for their campaign, "Come to Thailand; Let's Take a Break!"
- Done a wide variety of runway modeling for Pony and Andre Kim's fashion show with 2AM member Seulong

January 7, 2010
- Nichkhun and Taecyeon with actress Yoon Eunhye for Cass Beer, in which 2PM were chosen to endorse with special promotion single "Tik Tok".

February 8, 2010
- Played a main character in the 12-minute music video drama Tik Tok

- Hosted JYP's talent competition, Superstar Survival.

June 1, 2010
- We Got Married, pairing up with Victoria Song of f(x)

February 26, 2010
- Nichkhun and 7 other male idols from 2PM, 2AM, MBLAQ and C.N.Blue would rotate as MCs for Mnet M!Countdown after it went off-air for 3 months

December 2009
- Star in 2010 film "The Shining Diploma", but due to scheduling conflicts with the filming delays, he dropped out of the project in March

March 21, 2010
- Along with actress Song Ji-hyo, they participated in MBC's "Sunday Sunday Night" program "Danbi" where they went to the Philippines to help with volunteer work

May 2010
- Featured in a commercial for Everland's Caribbean Bay water theme park along with 2PM Taecyeon & Chansung and Girls' Generation members Yoona, Seohyun & Yuri.

March 12, 2011
- MC for the 50th Anniversary Music Wave Concert together with SNSD Tiffany & Yuri.



FACTS

Relations:
Older Brother: Nichchan Horvejkul
Younger sister: Nichthima (Yanin) Horvejkul
Younger sister: Nachjaree (Cherreen) Horvejkul


Ideal girl:
- A nice, cute, and good girl
- First love was when he was in kindergarten
- On KBS2. ‘Imagination Plus’when asked of his favorite artist he chose SNSD Yoona because she has a beautiful smile
- On KBS 2TV 'Happy Birthday', ShinDong reveals that his girlfriend likes Nichkun


Fears:
- Scared of big, fierce-looking dogs, according to Nickhun's mum, when he was 3 or 4 years old he was attacked by a dog while trying to hug it


Nicknames:
- Khunnie Boy
- Khunnio Boo
- Khun-ddaeng

Likes and dislikes:

- Playing the piano
- Exercising
- Listening to music
- Watching movies
- Taking pictures
- Valina Ice cream
- Likes clams
- There isn't a food that he doesn't like
- He disliked his blonde hair for Without U concept at first
- Dislikes being asked about the differences between Thailand and Korea
- Dislikes being asked if he would like to marry a Korean woman or a foreign woman (Since Koreans are foreigners to him as well)
- Dislikes being called pretty


Habits:
- He writes a diary


Fun facts:
- After high school, he was a coach at Rosemead High School for their badminton team (He was scouted thereat the Los Angeles Korean Music Festival by Park Jin Young).
- Originally casted to be on WGM with BEG Ga-in but due to Jaebeom's MySpace controversy he was replaced at last minute by 2AM member Jo Kwon
- Nichkhun usually talks on the phone with Shinee Onew and Minho
- He feels the coolest when playing the piano
- Born in Rancho Cucamonga, California to Thai Chinese parents
- "I was really shy as a kid so my parents are still fascinated when watching me work".
- Nichkhun is famous for his signature winks and adorable features, but he says he wants to break out of that image


Skills :
- Playing the piano
- Languages : English, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Chinese (in order of fluency)
- Acrobatics


Older brother: Nichchan Horvejkul



Younger sister: Nichthima (Yanin) Horvejkul

Younger sister: Nachjaree (Cherreen) Horvejkul

Nichkun with his sisters



From debut till now

September 4, 2008 "10 Jeom Manjeome 10 Jeom" (10 Points Out Of 10 Points)

October 17, 2008 - "Hottest Time of the Day.": Only You

April 16, 2009 2:00PM Time For Change


November 10, 2009 - 1:59PM: "Heartbeat"


December 29, 2009 - second single off of 1:59PM album: "Tired of Waiting"


April 19, 2010 - Don't Stop Can't Stop: Without U


May 24, 2010 - "What's Your Celebration?" for the FIFA 2010 World Cup


October 11, 2010 - Still 2:00PM: "I'll Be Back"


May 8, 2011 - Japanese Debut-Single "Take Off"

B2ST/BEAST Yoon Doo Joon

Name: Yoon Doo Joon (윤두준)
Group: BEAST/B2ST
Hanja: 金東文
DOB: July 4, 1989
Height: 180 cm
Weight: 67 kg
Training: JYPE (As One Day), CUBE Entertainment (Sub company of JYPE)
Company: CUBE Entertainment
Education: Joongsan High School, Kyung Hee Cyber University
Position: Leader, Vocals

*First appeared on Mnet's Hot Blood documentary as one of the candidates for JYPE group One Day.
*Rapper for AJ/B2ST Gikwang's Wiping the Tears


Solo career

- Before his debut with BEAST, he auditioned for High Kick Through the Roof and was offered a role in the sitcom, but he turned it down to focus on his music career.

- After a month from debut, he became a member of the reality-variety series Danbi, a segment part of MBC's Sunday Sunday Night line-up which ended on August 15, 2010

- Chosen to model on an ad for premium jeans brand Buckaroo along with actress Shin Sekyung

-When Girls' Generation member Taeyeon left MBC Radio FM4U 91.9Mhz Chin Chin Radio, he was a temporary DJ for 2 weeks together with solo singer IU

- Featured for G.NA's album title song "I’ll Back Off So You Can Live Better" music video along Beast member, Jun Hyung.

December 29, 2010
- Awarded the Rookie Comedy Award from the 2010 MBC Entertainment Awards for roles in All My Love and More Charming By The Day



FACTS

Relations:
- Older sister: Yoon Doori


Ideal girl:
- Doo Joon's ideal type changes constantly
- B2UTYs are Doojoon’s ideal type as Doojoon thinks all B2UTYs are goddesses
- Doojoon has a crush on Sung Yuri from Fink.K.L
- Doojoon states that they can't even dream about it(BEAST and 2NE1 together)
- On MBC's 'Good Day' on the 24th, Doojoon confessed that his ideal type is costar Yoon Seung Ah.
- Lee Hyori and Shin Bong Sun (Idol maid) picked DooJoon as their ideal types


Fears:
- Heights


Nicknames:
- General (Yoon)
- National Boyfriend Idol
- Falling Doo Joon (He constantly trips)


Habits:
- Doojoon does not believe in quitting after a failure
- Doojoon is right handed
- On important occasions, Doojoon makes sure everyone is calm and well behaved
- Doojoon always throws his clothes around.
- Doo Joon once couldn't sleep when Hyunseung, Kikwang, Dongwoon, 4minute Gayoon and Jiyoon were about to take their college entrance exams
- "I will pack up in three days" Doojoon always says. Interviewer: "Does he pack up?" Nah.
- Doojoon bangs his head against the top of the bed while sleeping
- Out of all the members Doojoon loves to go online the most
- Doojoon double checks with problems, even when they are solved
- Doojoon was out with ok taecyeon when he was still a trainee under JYPE. Ok taecyeon was experiencing high popularity and fans only crowded around ok taecyeon. A bored doojoon therefore started to dig his nose, when he turned to face eye to eye with a fan. Doojoon was speechless, that fan was also speechless.
- It’s very difficult for Doojoon to relax
- Doojoon has made the members appreciate every little thing


Likes and Dislikes:
- Enjoys hip hop and R&B
- Denys his love for taking selcas, but Junhyung proved otherwise by stating that he takes them when nobody looks (Whenn he finds a pretty place, or when he is bored, pulls out his phone to take selcas)


Fun facts:
- DooJoon is the father to the group BEAST/B2ST
- Doojoon was ranked top as the male celebrity with a good body figure on Sixth Sense along with After School’s Gahee as the female celebrity chosen.
-Doojoon is the most animal-like member in their group according to BEAST/B2ST members
- Doojoon beat Dongwoon’s record in ripping pants while filming MVs. Dongwoon did 6, while Doojoon did 9. But if we were to include the recent Mystery MV, Dongwoon now has ripped 7 pants.
- Doojoon has a apple iPhone
- Doojoon has neat handwriting, he said he won an award for neat handwriting while he was still in school
- Doojoon said once Yoseob acted cute towards him, Junhyung followed after batting his eyelids and smiling making aegyo sounds
- Doojoon said once he called Kikwang up and he rolled off his bed onto the floor, instead of getting up properly
- A fan brought a bag of 왕꿈틀이 for doojoon during fansign. Doojoon awkwardly smiled and rejected her kind offer. seeing the fan’s disappointed reaction, Doojoon: “errr… we’ve 3 boxes of 왕꿈틀이 in our dorm…”
- When Beast upgraded to a better dorm, Doojoon phoned his mum and excitedly told her, “The dorm’s living room is so huge to the point that i can play soccer in it!”
- Doojoon’s aegyo wants to make people leave
- Many ppl mistake Doojoon as a manly person since he looks manly, he’s actually the most sensitive and easily driven to tears
- A fan gave Doojoon a bread and asked him to pass to Yoseob. Doojoon: “Yoseob doesn’t eat bread” and then, ate it.


Aspirations:

- Doo Joon was a soccer player until middle school and started wanting to be a singer in high school after watching BIG BANG debut documentary.


Skills:
- Soccer player
- High variety show skills
- Cooking
- Acting
- Rapping



Older sister: Yoon Doori

From Debut till now


14th October, 2009 Debut - BEAST is the B2ST: Bad Girl (Korean version)


1st March, 2010 Shock of the New Era: Shock


17th September, 2010 Mastermind: Breath


3rd November, 2010 Lights Go On Again: Beautiful


21st December, 2010 My Story: When The Door Closes 문이 닫히면 (Ballad track with Dong Woon)


16th March, 2011 Shock (Japanese version)


15th May, 2011 2nd Japanese single: Bad Girl (Japanese version)



17th May 2011 Fiction and Fact: Fiction (Orchestra version)

B2ST/BEAST Yang Yoseob

Name: Yang Yoseob (양요섭)
Group: BEAST/B2ST
Hanja : 楊曜燮
DOB: January 5, 1990
Height:174cm
Weight:56kg
Training: M-Boat(Once a sub company of YGE), CUBE Entertainment(Sub company of JYPE)
Company: CUBE Entertainment
Education: Hanyoung High School, University of East Broadcasting Arts
Position: Main vocal, Visual Maknae

*Was AJ/B2ST Gikwang's highschool classmate and back-up dancer(AJ days).



Solo career

Along with Beast member Jun Hyung, MC Lee Hyukjae, Moon Hee Jun (formerly of H.O.T.) and Kim Sook, Yo Seob welcomed Japanese tourists for "Visit Seoul 2010" campaign, where Korean celebrities and Japanese tourists explored Seoul in MBC's Star Guide Doshiraku to raise awareness of Seoul's famous areas as well as its delicious cuisine

On July 16, 2010

- Participated in the More Charming By The Day official soundtrack in promotion for the show with the song "Happy Birthday".

On November 29, 2010

- Released a digital single with Dalmatian's Daniel titled "First Snow and First Kiss". Both were friends from their trainee years at M Boat Entertainment and had released a UCC series, "To Pick On Mr. Daniel", which succeeded to rise up as a hot topic when it was selected as no. 1 amongst the weekly TOP 5 UCC's by a sports newspaper.

- Permanent cast member on KBS's Oh! My School (100 Points out of 100), along with other idols such as MBLAQ's Lee Joon, Secret's Hyosung, T-ara's Soyeon, Miss A's Min, and Simon D.

- Casted in his first musical as Ji Yong through Kwang Hwa Moon Love Song. The musical started its performances from March 20, 2011 and ended on April 10, 2011.

- Contributed to the soundtrack of My Princess, with the song "Cherish That Person" which was released on February 7, 2011.

- Contributed to "What I Want To Do Once I Have A Lover" with GaYoon 4Minute

May 1, 2011

- Casted in the original line-ups on KBS Immortal Song 2 – Sing the Legends. However, on June 8, 2011, the show announced that Yo Seob would leave the show due to his conflicting overseas promotions schedule with Beast.



FACTS

Relations:
- One elder sister: Yang Hae Yeon
- His look-alike cousin is a clothing model: Kim Yo Jin(1992)
- Yoseob’s mother likes to see Yoseob in Black Hair because she thinks that Yoseob looks more like her son when he has black hair
- Yoseob's jealous of his sister when he was young. "It seemed like my parents loved her more than me"
- Yoseob once got angry after a fight with his sister. He grabbed his sister’s shoes and told their mom: “Mom, it looks like she skipped lessons to play!”
- Yoseob treasures his Eastpack backpack because his sister gave it to him after winning a journal image contest


Ideal girl:
- Cute
- Long, straight black hair (Teenage magazine)
- Fair white skin
- Does what she loves passionately
- Will be very happy if someone confesses her love to him. Doesn’t have anyone in mind.
- SNSD's SEOHYUN(When asked who he likes in SNSD), Jung Gaeun (When asked in Idol maid) and IU
- Yoseob wants his wife to be and feel beautiful. She will be the happiest.
- Miss A's Suzy says that she likes Yoseob (In Oh! My School and radio)


Fears:
- Lightning


Nicknames:
- B2st members call him, YANGDERELLA because he is a very SENSITIVE and "GIRLY" guy
- Yoseob was once known as the ‘Church Oppa'


Habits:
- Yoseob has a habit of hitting Doojoon while sleeping
- Yoseob likes to call Kikwang 'Hyung' although Kikwang is younger
- Yoseob takes red ginseng capsules and uses youngkkaksan powder, which elders often use
- Yoseob does weird things when the members are upset to cheer them up
- He can't express his actual feelings properly
- When talking about their hard times, Yoseob starts crying.
- Yoseob searches for himself on the Internet.
- Yoseob used to act as Junhyung’s alarm clock. He wakes him up by singing and dancing “Change” on his bed.
- Yoseob might only feel full after eating a bowl of rice, ramyun and 7 sausages.
- Yoseob would buy medicine for the sick members

Likes and dislikes:
- Ramen is Yoseob’s favorite food, others include Black bean noodles and Kimchi stew
- Yoseob likes to take Hyunseung's food
- Yoseob is the worst at games (including computer games). He’s a sore loser and won’t play again if he loses.
Yoseob used to love soccer. Junhyung influenced him and now he only uses his strength unless he must
- Yoseob likes dressing in normal clothes such as t-shirts and hats.
- Yoseob likes how none of the B2ST members are good drinkers


Fun facts:
- When Yoseob trips/falls, fans think it’s cute.
- I’m always full of charm or cuteness." - YOSEOB (Even Yoseob thinks that he is cute)
- Yoseob was more popular than B2ST Gikwang in highschool
- Kikwang and Yoseob are school mates
- YoSeob once fell asleep on Dong Woon's shoulder. However, he was not woken up and Dong Woon ended up sitting there until his hyung woke up.
- Yoseob has a small head
- Yoseob and Junhyung nearly got rejected from Cube
- During elementary school, Yoseob’s parents were called to school when he exposed that his teacher was really wearing a wig
- The B2ST members think Yoseob looked the weirdest before debut because of his hair
- After watching Hyunseung at a photo shoot, Yoseob joked that he was falling for Hyunseung


Aspiration:
- Yoseob gained his interest in singing after listening to Brian McKnight’s songs

Skills:
- Like Gikwang, Yoseob can learn a dance very quickly
- “When YoSeob is here, the lyrics go on the paper faster.” - Junhyung
- Yoseob can beatbox very well
- In high school, Yoseob was in a hard rock/metal band.


Older sister: Yang Hae Yeon

Cousin: Kim Yo Jin

From Debut till now

14th October, 2009 Debut - BEAST is the B2ST: Bad Girl (Korean version)

1st March, 2010 Shock of the New Era: Shock

17th September, 2010 Mastermind: Breath

3rd November, 2010 Lights Go On Again: Beautiful

21st December, 2010 My story: Thanks to (Hiphop track with JunHyung)

16th March, 2011 Shock (Japanese version)

15th May, 2011 2nd Japanese single: Bad Girl (Japanese version)

17th May 2011 Fiction and Fact: Fiction (Orchestra version)