ENHYPEN 엔하이픈

ABOUT

ENHYPEN (엔하이픈) is the final seven members from the survival show I-LAND under BE:LIFT Lab, a joint label created by BigHit Entertainment and CJ E&M Entertainment. ENHYPEN means just like hyphen connects different words to create new meaning, members of ENHYPEN will connect, discover each other, and grow together. ENHYPEN was confirmed to debut in November 30th, 2020.

PROFILE

• ENHYPEN Fandom Name: ENGENE
• Origin: South Korea
• Years active: 2020–present
• Labels: Belift

ENHYPEN Official Sites:

Twitter: @ENHYPEN / @ENHYPEN_members
Instagram: @enhypen
Facebook: @officialENHYPEN
YouTube: ENHYPEN
V-Live: ENHYPEN
TikTok: @enhypen
Weverse: ENHYPEN
Weibo: ENHYPEN 官方微博

MEMBERS

1. Heeseung (희승)
2. Jay (제이)
3. Jake (제이크)
4. Sunghoon (성훈)
5. Sunoo (선우)
6. Jungwon (정원)– leader
7. Ni-ki (니키)

TRIVIA

-March 2019, Belift Lab was co-founded by South Korean entertainment agencies CJ E&M and Big Hit Entertainment, with plans of creating a new band in 2020. Auditions commenced the same month in Seoul, the United States, Taiwan, and Japan, among others, for male trainees born between 1997 and 2008.

-May 8, 2020, television channel Mnet announced the survival competition series, I-Land, a joint venture of both companies that "follows the process of next generation K-pop artists being born." Enhypen was formed through I-Land, featuring 23 male idols who had been training under Belift Lab, and was aired weekly on Mnet from June 26 to September 18, 2020, and distributed internationally through Big Hit Entertainment's YouTube channel. The show was split into two parts. 12 contestants from the first part made it to the second part of the series. On the final episode of the show, seven members were selected out of the nine final contestants, with six being chosen by global ranking and the last member by the producer's choice

-2020: Debut with Border: Day One