50 Fun Facts About Day6

Day6 are a band on which South Korean agency, also the home of Twice and Stray Kids?

JYP Entertainment introduced Day6 in 2015 as a band whose members write, compose and play their own songs, a break from the dance-led idol groups it was known for.

Which Parasite actor is caught in a love triangle in the video for Day6's 2015 debut single?

Choi Woo-shik filmed the breakup story years before Parasite won Best Picture, and one of his co-stars came back for a sequel video in 2017.

Young K of Day6 was originally picked for which other boy band, then cut from its line-up?

Got7 debuted in 2014 without him, though two of its members, Mark Tuan and Jackson Wang, had rapped beside Young K on a 2013 survival show.

Dowoon of Day6 spent his leave days during military service enjoying which outdoor hobby?

Fishing filled his breaks from a military band, where he served from January 2022 until his discharge in July 2023.

Which Day6 album track topped South Korea's Circle chart in 2024 without ever being a single?

Happy reached number one on the Circle Digital Chart in September 2024, six months after it appeared on the EP Fourever and a week after the band's next lead single had led the same chart.

Which Day6 member, a guitarist and singer from Busan, has led the band since its 2015 debut?

Sungjin is also the eldest of the four current members, and he trained recruits as a drill instructor during his military service.

Jae of Day6 earned his trainee contract after finishing sixth on which TV talent show in 2012?

K-pop Star was in its first season, and Jae took a leave from university in California to compete as a singer-guitarist before moving to South Korea.

Jae, the former Day6 guitarist now known as eaJ, opened shows in 2024 for which American rock band?

Imagine Dragons took him along for part of their Loom World Tour while he was also headlining his own first world tour across Asia and North America.

Young K of Day6, known in his school days as Brian Kang, grew up in which Canadian city?

Toronto is where he formed his first bands with school friends, and staff from his future agency travelled there in 2010 to audition him.

Jae, Day6's guitarist until 2021, grew up in California but was born in which South American city?

Buenos Aires was home only briefly: his family moved to Cerritos, California, in his early childhood, and he later studied political science at Cal State Long Beach.

Which name, shared with a B-side the band released in February 2017, do Day6 give their fan club?

My Day became the official fan club name in June 2017, on the day the band's first full-length album came out and four months after the song of that title.

Dowoon, the last to join Day6 after just three months as a trainee, plays which instrument?

Drums completed the line-up in mid-2015, when the group gained its sixth member and took its present name. He also sings, and he leads the sub-unit Even of Day.

For the 2017 project Every Day6, Day6 released two new songs and played weekend concerts how often?

Once a month for a whole year added 25 songs to the catalogue, in styles running from hard rock to mellow ballads.

Which Day6 album came 14th on Billboard's list of the best K-pop albums of the 2010s?

Sunrise was the band's first full-length album, gathering the songs from the first half of their year of monthly releases along with reworked versions of two earlier singles.

Which breakup song, with lyrics by all six original members, was Day6's debut single in 2015?

Congratulations is addressed, bitterly, to a lover who has already found someone new, and a final version of it was recorded for the band's first full album two years later.

Which song gave Day6 their first music-show win in July 2019, almost four years after their debut?

Time of Our Life won on Show Champion and on M Countdown a day later, then found a second wind five years on, placing tenth on Circle's digital chart for the first half of 2024.

Which unpromoted Day6 single won Best Band Performance at the 2020 Mnet Asian Music Awards?

Zombie came out the day after the band announced a break for their health, so it was never performed on the weekly shows, yet it still climbed to fourth on Melon's live chart.

Which 2024 single was Day6's first release as a four-piece, after every member's military service?

Welcome to the Show arrived almost three years after the band's previous EP, and they followed it by selling out three nights in the round at Seoul's Jamsil Indoor Stadium.

Wonpil of Day6, the last member to finish his mandatory military service, served in which branch?

The Navy made him a deckhand in its 7th Task Flotilla, and he kept adding solo concerts right up to the day before he enlisted in March 2022.

Under which earlier name did future Day6 members record 'Lovely Girl' for a 2013 drama soundtrack?

5Live was a five-piece whose planned 2014 launch never happened; a sixth recruit arrived in mid-2015 and the group took a new name before its debut.

Day6's first world tour, spanning 24 cities, took which name from a pair of EPs released in 2018?

Youth ran for seven months from June 2018 and reached Asia, Australia, the Americas and Europe, sharing its name with the EPs Shoot Me: Youth Part 1 and Remember Us: Youth Part 2.

Which 2017 Day6 ballad has a video continuing the debut single's story with the same lead actress?

You Were Beautiful looks back on a past love, and during the band's military break it surged on streaming platforms again, years after its release.

Which subtitle did Day6 sub-unit Even of Day give their 2020 debut EP in The Book of Us series?

Gluon was the fourth chapter of the series, made by three members while two bandmates rested, and it entered the Gaon Album Chart at number three.

Which plush Day6 merchandise characters play the leads in the video for 'Where the Sea Sleeps'?

Denimalz are plush mascots standing in for the members, and the sub-unit's debut EP even credits a trio of them as collaborators on several songs.

Young K of Day6 was named DJ of the Year at a 2023 KBS awards ceremony for hosting which programme?

Kiss the Radio first made him its host in November 2020, and the station invited him back to the microphone after his military discharge in 2023.

Months before Day6 debuted, Young K rapped on 'Shouldn't Have', a sleeper hit for which solo singer?

Baek A-yeon composed the song herself, and it climbed to number one on Korean real-time charts a month after its release in May 2015.

Which solo debut did Day6's keyboardist release in February 2022, weeks before he enlisted?

Pilmography entered the Gaon Album Chart at number one, his first chart-topper under his own name, with Voiceless as its lead single.

Wonpil of Day6 grew up around music in Incheon because his parents ran which kind of business?

A piano academy in the family meant he knew the instrument from a young age, yet he taught himself to play it.

Jae of Day6 spent two years, from 2016 to 2018, as a host of which Arirang TV music talk show?

After School Club paired him with the singers Jimin Park and Kevin Woo from June 2016 until he stepped down in July 2018.

Jae of Day6 and 2PM's Nichkhun voiced a crime-fighting boy band in which Disney animated series?

Big Hero 6 introduced the group, 4 2 Sing, in its third season, and Jae voiced half of it by himself by playing a pair of twins.

Which 100 Thieves streamer stars in the video for 'Car Crash', ex-Day6 guitarist Jae's solo debut?

Valkyrae, a co-owner of the gaming organisation, appeared with her fellow creator Kyedae in the April 2022 release that launched his career outside the band.

Which 2024 Day6 EP was led by the single 'Melt Down'?

Band Aid joins 'band', for the four as a rock group, to 'aid', a promise of help, and its lead single went to number one on the Circle Digital Chart.

Three linked Day6 videos from 2017, starting with 'What Can I Do', tell a story about whom?

High school students fall in and out of love across the videos for the band's August, September and October singles, which play as three chapters of one story.

In December 2024 Day6 became the first Korean band to stage a concert at which Seoul venue?

Gocheok Sky Dome, the home ballpark of the Kiwoom Heroes baseball club, held 38,000 fans across the two nights of the show.

Day6 collected their first daesang in 2024 at the inaugural edition of which ceremony?

The Korea Grand Music Awards handed the band its Grand Performer prize, one of five top honours, along with Best Band, at a ceremony held in Incheon.

Young K of Day6 served in KATUSA, a programme that attaches South Korean soldiers to which force?

The US Army's Eighth Army, which hosts the programme, named him the winner of the Korean-soldier category at its 2022 Best Warrior Competition.

As a trainee in 2013, Day6's leader competed on which show where impersonators sing beside a star?

Hidden Singer placed him behind the blinds in its second season, where he was introduced as the lead vocalist of an upcoming rookie group.

Day6's 2019 single 'Sweet Chaos' was described as a groovy blend of punk rock and which other genre?

Swing powers the title track, while the rest of the album it leads borrows from glam metal, disco, bossa nova and reggae.

Fans learned of Day6's October 2019 comeback early by spotting an unannounced advert in which place?

A subway station poster showing only the band's logo, a date and a time set off the reports, and the agency soon confirmed the album The Book of Us: Entropy.

Day6's 2025 album The Decade launched with two singles on one day: 'Inside Out' and which other?

Dream Bus shared lead billing on the band's fourth Korean album, their first full-length record in almost six years.

Day6 were the first group on which in-house label, launched in 2015 with the singer G.Soul?

Studio J was set up to back artists working outside the mainstream, and the members' solo albums later came out through it as well.

Day6's Japanese single 'Stop the Rain' was produced by Shinichi Ubukata, guitarist of which band?

Ellegarden announced their reunion in May 2018, the same month the collaboration was revealed, ending a hiatus that had lasted ten years.

Day6 made their Japanese debut in 2018 with 'If (Mata Aetara)', the theme song of which TV drama?

Repeat carried the song as its theme, and three months after the single came out the band played their first Japanese concert at Tokyo's Tsutaya O-East.

Future Day6 members sang for their agency against YG trainees on which 2013 Mnet survival show?

WIN: Who Is Next set the two companies' trainees against each other in its fourth episode, where the five future bandmates formed a vocal team.

Which opener of Day6's 2017 monthly releases made Billboard's 100 best K-pop songs of the 2010s?

I Wait came out with the B-side Goodbye Winter and was ranked 81st on the magazine's staff list of the decade's greatest K-pop songs.

Day6's debut EP The Day climbed to number two, a week after release, on which Billboard chart?

World Albums placed the six-track EP second even though the band did not make their music-show stage debut until six months later.

Which producer, a frequent Day6 collaborator, oversaw both of the EPs the band released in 2024?

Hong Ji-sang has shared composing credits with the members since their debut single, and he also produced the final chapter of The Book of Us series.

Wonpil of Day6 and Shinee's Onew shared the male lead in which 2021 musical, his theatre debut?

Midnight Sun adapts the 2006 Japanese film A Song to the Sun, and its Seoul run was streamed online to audiences in 147 countries.

Jae, the former Day6 guitarist, joined which Filipino girl group on their 2025 single 'Secrets'?

Bini included the song on their EP Biniverse, and he shared a stage with them at the group's Los Angeles concert that year.

Which name did Day6 give their third world tour, which opened at Incheon's Inspire Arena in 2024?

Forever Young began as 15 dates across Asia and grew into a tour that ended in May 2025 with six nights at Seoul's KSPO Dome.