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Got7 - K-Pop Group

Got7 is another hot K-Pop boy group which debuted in 2014. Since debut, their colorful and bombastic image gained attraction to many, especially their stage performances which includes martial arts kicking and b-boy, which later become the signature style of the group. They are under JYP Entertainment.
Members & Positions:

JB (real name: Im Jae Bum, age 23) - Leader, Main Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Face of the Group/Center
Mark (real name: Mark Yi En Tuan, age 23) - Main Rapper, Vocalist, Visual
Jackson (real name: Wang Ka Yee, age 23) - Lead Rapper, Lead Dancer, Vocalist
Jr / Jinyoung (real name: Park Jin Young, age 23) - Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer, Rapper
Youngjae (real name: Choi Young Jae, age 21) - Main Vocalist
BamBam (real name: Kunpimook Bhuwakul, age 20) - Lead Rapper, Vocalist
Yugyeom (real name: Kim Yu Gyeom, age 20) - Main Dancer, Vocalist, Maknae

Awards, fun facts, and trivia:

Got7 was JYP's first boy group since the debut of 2PM in 2008.
The group debuted in January 2014 with the release of their first EP Got It?, which peaked at #2 on the Gaon Album Chart and #1 on Billboard's World Albums Chart.
Their most commercially successful single, "Just Right", reached 100 million views on YouTube, making Got7 the first JYP Entertainment boy group to achieve this milestone.
Their first full length album, Identify, topped Gaon's Weekly Album Sales Chart in its first week and "Stop Stop It" peaked at #4 on Billboard's World Digital Songs chart.
On March 13 2017, the third album of the Flight Log series, Flight Log: Arrival, was released. The album sold 220,000 copies in pre-orders alone.
They won the Best Worldwide Act (Korea) in the 2016 MTV Europe Music Awards and the Bonsang Award for the album Flight Log: Turbulence, at the 2017 Seoul Music Awards.

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South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK) (Hangul: 대한민국, Hanja: 大韓民國, IPA) often referred to as Korea and the "Land of the Morning Calm", is a semi-presidential republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital is Seoul.

Korea is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, first inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic. After the Gojoseon period, Three Korean Kingdoms period ran from 57 BC until Silla's triumph over Goguryeo in 668, which marked the beginning of the North and South States period of Unified Silla in the South and Balhae in the North. Following the unification of North and South States period under Goryeo 936 AD. Korea went through the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasty as one nation until the end of the Korean Empire in 1910. After liberation and division, South Korea was established in 1948 and has since become one of the two full democracies in Asia. Following the Korean War, the South Korean economy grew significantly, transforming the country into a major global economy. South Korea's economic growth is known as the Miracle on the Han River, and South Korea today is considered one of the Four Asian Tigers. South Korea has an international outlook with memberships in the United Nations, WTO, OECD and G-20 major economies. It is also a founding member of APEC and the East Asia Summit, being a major non-NATO ally of the United States.

South Korea is a developed country. It has the fourth-largest economy in Asia and a High-income OECD member, classified as an Advanced economy by the CIA and IMF. Today, it is among the world's fastest growing advanced economies and is leading the Next Eleven nations; its economic success serves as a role model for many developing countries. South Korea has a high-tech and futuristic infrastructure, and is a world leader in technologically advanced goods such as electronics, automobiles, ships, machinery, petrochemicals and robotics, headed by Samsung, POSCO, and Hyundai Heavy Industries. Since the 21st century, South Korea's modern culture has become popular in Asia and beyond in a phenomenon known as the Korean wave.

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