Seventeen (세븐틴)

Seventeen

Seventeen (세븐틴) is a 13-member boy group under Pledis Entertainment. The group is known for their sweet and youthful image, their visuals, and their powerful performances. The members are proud to be deeply involved in the composition of their music and dance moves, and are in fact, divided into three sub-units: h
ip-hop unit, vocal unit, and performance unit. Since their debut in 2015, they have released one studio album and four extended plays, and they have already achieved numerous awards for their great music.




SEVENTEEN's Hip Hop Unit

SEVENTEEN's Hip-Hop Unit Has 4 members:
  • S.Coups (real name: Choi Seung-cheol, age 21) - Leader, Hip Hop Team Leader, Main Rapper
  • Wonwoo (real name: Jeon Won-woo, age 20) - Lead Rapper
  • Mingyu (real name: Kim Min-gyu, age 20) - Lead Rapper, Face of the Group
  • Vernon (real name: Han-sol Vernon Choi, age 19) - Main Rapper  
 
SEVENTEEN's Vocal Unit

Their Vocal Unit Members:
  • Woozi (real name: was born Lee Ji-hoon, age 20) - Vocal Team Leader, Lead Vocalist
  • Jeonghan (real name: Yoon Jeong-han, age 21) - Vocalist
  • Joshua (real name: Joshua Ji-soo Hong, age 21) - Vocalist
  • DK / Do-kyeom (real name: Lee Seok-min, age 20) - Main Vocalist
  • Seungkwan (real name: Boo Seung-kwan, age 19) - Main Vocalist
Their Performance Unit has 4 members:
  • Hoshi (real name: Kwon Soon-young, age 20) - Performance Team Leader, Main Dancer, Sub Vocalist
  • Jun (real name: Wen Jun-hui, age 20) - Lead Dancer, Sub Vocalist
  • The8 (real name: Xu Ming-hao, age 19) - Lead Dancer, Sub Vocalist
  • Dino (real name: Lee Chan, age 18) - Main Dancer, Lead Rapper, Maknae
Awards, fun facts and trivia:
  • SEVENTEEN debuted on May 26, 2015.
  • Their EP album, Boys Be, debuted at number one on Billboard's World Albums Chart, and together with their hit-song, "Mansae", it become the highest selling rookie album of 2015.
  • The same album earned the group awards at the Golden Disk Awards, Seoul Music Awards and Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards.
  • SEVENTEEN was the only K-pop group on Billboard's "21 Under 21 2015: Music's Hottest Young Stars" list.
  • SEVENTEEN is the first ever Korean models for the American perfume brand, Clean. Their young, fresh, and youthful group image made them the best choice as the new faces of the product.
  • Their fan club name is Carat.

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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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