Skip to content
Vinony
English
EnglishBahasa IndonesiaDeutschEspañolFrançaisItalianoNederlandsPolskiPortuguêsSvenskaTiếng ViệtTürkçeРусскийالعربيةفارسیहिन्दीไทย한국어中文日本語
Jungkook

File:Jung_Kook_of_BTS,_February_12,_2026_(1).png · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons

EntityQ22338877· pop 67· linked from 803 articles

Jungkook

Sign in to save

Also known as Jeon Jung-kook, Jeon Jeong-guk, Jung Kook

South Korean singer

OverviewAI-generated

Jungkook, born Jeon Jungkook on September 1, 1997, in Busan, South Korea, is a South Korean singer, record producer, songwriter, and composer. He is a member of the K-pop group BTS and works under the record label Big Hit Music. His musical genre is K-pop, and he performs as a tenor vocalist. Jungkook began his professional work period in 2013 and is educated at the School of Performing Arts Seoul.

He speaks Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese, with Korean as his native language. His birth name is written in the Hangul writing system as 전정국. In addition to his music career, he is associated with the acting department. His height is 178.

Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, Last.fm, TMDb, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • I Love K-Pop

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Busan, South Korea

Jeon Jung-kook (전정국; born September 1, 1997), known mononymously as Jung Kook (정국), is a South Korean singer, songwriter and record producer under BigHit Music. He is the maknae of the boy group BTS. Jung Kook has performed three solo songs as part of BTS' discography —"Begin" in 2016, "Euphoria" in 2018, and "My Time" in 2020— all of which charted on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart. He…

Known for

  • BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG — Self2026
  • BTS: THE RETURN — Self2026
  • BTS World Tour 'Arirang' in Japan: Live Viewing — Self2026
  • BTS World Tour ‘Arirang’ in Goyang: Live Viewing — Self2026
  • BTS World Tour ‘Arirang’ in Busan: Live Viewing — Self2026
  • BTS WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' IN GOYANG2026
  • BTS WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' IN TOKYO2026
  • BTS Army: Forever We Are Young — Self2025
  • BTS MAP OF THE SOUL ON:E — Self2025
  • BTS 2016 Live The Most Beautiful Moment in Life On Stage: Epilogue Remastered — Self2025

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
South Korea
Active from
1997

Discography

Member of

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
31,285
Total plays
1,696,168

Tags

Jung Kookpopk-popKoreanjungkook

Jeon Jung Kook (전정국) born September 1, 1997 in Busan, South Korea is the main vocalist, dancer(s) and maknae of the seven member South Korean boy group "방탄소년단" (Bangtan Sonyeondan) also known as BTS which debuted on June 13, 2013. In 7th grade, influenced after listening to G-Dragon, he had dreams of becoming a singer. The following year he auditioned for a national talent search program, Superstar K, but failed to pass the audition elimination round. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jungkook

via Last.fm · Jungkook

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A comparative study of web site performance

    · 2010 · cited 60x

  2. A Data Analytics Approach to the Cybercrime Underground Economy

    · 2018 · cited 20x

  3. Eliph

    · 2017 · cited 17x

  4. Elice

    · 2016 · cited 11x

  5. Building a Korean Sentiment Lexicon Using Collective Intelligence

    · 2015 · cited 11x

via Crossref · CC0

~17 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Jeon Jung-kook (Korean: 전정국; born September 1, 1997), known professionally as Jung Kook, is a South Korean singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence as a member and vocalist of South Korean boy band BTS. He has performed three solo songs as part of BTS' discography—"Begin" in 2016, "Euphoria" in 2018, and "My Time" in 2020—all of which charted on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart. He also recorded the soundtrack song "Stay Alive" for the BTS-based webtoon 7Fates: Chakho.

In 2022, Jung Kook featured on American singer Charlie Puth's single "Left and Right", which peaked at number 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Later that year, he became the first South Korean artist to release an official song for the FIFA World Cup soundtrack with "Dreamers", which he subsequently performed at the 2022 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony. In 2023, Jung Kook released his debut solo single "Seven" featuring Latto, which broke numerous chart and streaming records. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the Global 200, and the Global Excl. U.S. charts, making him the first Korean solo artist to do so, and eventually became the fastest song in history to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify. His follow-up single "3D", featuring Jack Harlow, debuted at number five on both the Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart, making Jung Kook the first South Korean solo artist to achieve two consecutive top-five entries on the latter.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jungkook” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (6)

Available in 67 languages

Show 48 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0