40 Fun Facts About Dreamcatcher (K-pop Group)

Dreamcatcher's video and choreography for 'BEcause' were inspired by which horror film written by Jordan Peele?

Us, the 2019 film about a family attacked by their own doubles, shaped both the dance and the video. Critics heard the single as a return to the group's horror roots, all plucked strings and score-style stings.

Which American pop star inspired the Dreamcatcher album track promoted on TV after 'Scream' in 2020?

Michael Jackson was the inspiration for 'Black or White', a track on the group's first studio album. They performed it on TV for two weeks once the lead single's run had ended.

Dreamcatcher's 2020 single 'Scream' builds its story around which practice from the Middle Ages?

Witch hunts give the song its motif, and the scream before the chorus is there to drive the image home. The track led the group's first full-length Korean album, a rock record laced with EDM.

Dreamcatcher's agency first found fame through producers E-Tribe, who made which hit for Girls' Generation?

Gee, written and produced by E-Tribe, spent nine straight weeks at number one on a Korean TV chart show in 2009. The duo's hits lifted their small label, which then began launching idol groups of its own.

Dreamcatcher's single 'Boca', a warning about words that wound, takes its title from the Spanish for what?

Mouth is what 'boca' means in Spanish, and the lyrics take aim at cyberbullying and hateful comments online. The track sets the group's rock sound over a moombahton rhythm.

In 2017 Dreamcatcher became ambassadors for Gangwon, the province hosting which sporting event the next year?

The Winter Olympics came to Pyeongchang in 2018, and Gangwon Province made the group its public relations ambassadors only four months after their debut.

Which Dreamcatcher member leads the group and names kawaii metal band Babymetal among her inspirations?

JiU is the leader of the seven, and her other inspirations are closer to home: the Korean girl group Fin.K.L and the singer Jang Na-ra.

In 2018 Dreamcatcher became the first K-pop girl group to complete a tour of major cities on which continent?

Europe got seven cities in under two weeks, from London and Lisbon to Warsaw and Paris. The group came back for a second run around the continent in late 2019.

Which UN agency backed 'Be the Future', the 2020 song on which Dreamcatcher thanked teachers during the pandemic?

UNESCO supported the project through its Global Education Coalition. The song, recorded with a boy group and a solo singer, also urged listeners to keep up good hygiene.

Under which name did five future Dreamcatcher members debut in 2014, before a darker relaunch added two more?

Minx had a bright, cute image, and the agency's CEO later said it failed because too many girl groups were doing the same thing. The relaunch set out to do what others would not.

Which Dreamcatcher member is the group's rapper and guested on the sunwoojunga song 'Buffalo' in 2021?

Dami is the group's rapper, and in 2021 she also teamed up with a bandmate on 'Shadow', a song for the Korean drama Dark Hole.

Which Dreamcatcher member, the group's main vocalist, fronted a rock band while she was in high school?

Siyeon has since sung solo on Korean drama soundtracks, including 'Good Sera' for Memorials and 'No Mind' for Get Revenge.

Fan-signing seats in four cities sold out within ten minutes for Dreamcatcher's 2017 tour of which country?

Brazil welcomed the group for the first time that December, and all 1,600 fan-signing seats went in minutes. The dates clashed with a TV survival show, so the members taking part in it withdrew.

Dreamcatcher's second Korean studio album, released in April 2022, sounds an alarm about which global problem?

Climate change runs through the album, whose lead single is a cry for help for a planet wrecked by warming, pollution and human indifference. The single's French title means home.

Which lead single from the single album Nightmare launched Dreamcatcher on Music Bank in January 2017?

Chase Me was billed as a young metal number built on a rock sound, a clean break from the cute pop most of the members had sung before. Billboard's critics ranked it among the best K-pop songs of 2017.

In June 2022 Dreamcatcher became the first K-pop act to play which music festival in Barcelona?

Primavera Sound hosted the group a few weeks before they opened a North American tour. The festival is held each year at the city's Parc del Fòrum in late May and early June.

Which Dreamcatcher member released the solo debut song 'First Light of Dawn' days after rejoining the group in 2020?

Handong had been away for months filming a Chinese idol show, and pandemic travel trouble then delayed her return from China until October 2020.

One Dreamcatcher vocalist names which British girl group, formed on a TV talent show, as her musical influence?

Little Mix came together on The X Factor in 2011 and became the first group to win the British series. Her bandmates' picks range from Japanese metal to Korean pop idols.

Which Dreamcatcher member changed the English spelling of her stage name in July 2024?

Gahyun had gone by 'Gahyeon' in English ever since the group's debut, until the agency announced the new spelling on the official fan café.

Which Dreamcatcher member has choreographed for the group and was a regular guest on radio's Wendy's Youngstreet?

SuA is the group's dancer as well as a vocalist, and in 2022 she sang her first drama soundtrack song, a dreamy ballad called 'Still With You'.

Which Dreamcatcher member made a cameo in the drama Backstreet Rookie and walked the runway at Seoul Fashion Week?

Yoohyeon modelled for the label BNB12 in October 2018 and played an arcade customer in the 2020 drama. In 2025 she joined two bandmates in the group's first sub-unit.

Which fandom name did Dreamcatcher announce at their first Seoul concert in 2018?

InSomnia, said to mean 'in dreams', was unveiled on stage at 'Welcome to the Dream World', the group's first solo concert at home, in March 2018.

Dreamcatcher's first weekly TV chart win, a record 1,924 days after debut, came in April 2022 on which programme?

Show Champion handed the group their first trophy for 'Maison', the longest wait any girl group had had between debut and a first win. A second win followed six days later on The Show.

Why was the Melbourne stop of Dreamcatcher's 2019 tour cancelled the day before the concert?

A venue fire shut the Melbourne show down with a day to go, though Sydney and Kuala Lumpur went ahead. Earlier that year the Jakarta concert had been cut back to a short fan meeting.

Which American magazine listed Dreamcatcher's first studio album among those that defined K-pop's 2020?

Time called the record the group's best release yet. Britain's NME placed it among the 25 best Asian albums of the year and hailed the group as masters of chameleonic pop.

Dreamcatcher's agency renamed itself after the group in February 2019; what had the company been called before?

Happyface Entertainment made the switch as a sign of more support for the group, on the day they released the EP The End of Nightmare. The label had started out in 2008 as Harvest Entertainment.

One Dreamcatcher member sat out two 2019 tours to compete on which Chinese idol-producing show?

Youth With You kept her away from the group's dates on two continents late in 2019, with no reason given at the time. The agency voiced its support once her place on the show was public in March 2020.

Dreamcatcher's orchestral rock single 'Deja Vu' came out in 2019 in collaboration with which mobile role-playing game?

King's Raid supplied the story and themes for a whole special EP built around the song. The group later sang the opening theme for the game's anime series as well.

Dreamcatcher members left which idol survival show in December 2017 because it clashed with an overseas tour?

Mix Nine lost every one of the group's contestants at once, even though their leader was sitting in the show's top nine. The agency put the tour first.

Which digital single did Dreamcatcher release in January 2018 as a first-anniversary gift to fans?

Full Moon was first performed at an anniversary fan meeting whose tickets sold out in under a minute. Five years later the group marked another birthday with a fan song called 'Reason'.

Dreamcatcher teased their 2023 EP Villains with cryptic posts from a mystery account, their first use of what?

An alternate reality game played out over almost a hundred cryptic posts and images in the month before the release. The EP opened a two-part story called Versus.

Which EP, led by 'Odd Eye', gave Dreamcatcher their first number one on the Gaon album chart?

Dystopia: Road to Utopia sold more than 60,000 copies in three days and closed a three-part story begun the year before. Its first-day sales beat the first week of the release before it.

Which Japanese record label signed Dreamcatcher in July 2018 and handled their Japanese releases until August 2021?

Pony Canyon launched the group in Japan that November with a Japanese version of 'What', and a full Japanese album followed in 2019.

Dreamcatcher's main vocalist, who fronted a band in high school, names which Japanese act as her musical influence?

One Ok Rock formed in 2005. Dreamcatcher's members say rock is the core of their musical identity, and they have trained their voices to suit it.

Five future Dreamcatcher members recorded a 2014 holiday cover single with which older girl group from their label?

Dal Shabet, the label's first idol girl group, shared the festive single that December. The younger act later remade one of their songs, 'Love Shake', as a summer single of its own.

Dreamcatcher's main vocalist finished runner-up in September 2019 on which Korean TV vocal competition?

V-1 aired on tvN over three nights that month, and she came second. Her first drama soundtrack song had come out back in 2014.

Dreamcatcher played a live-band set in 2017, and returned in 2021 and 2023, at which South Korean rock event?

Jeonju Ultimate Music Festival gave the group their first rock festival slot, a 30-minute set backed by a live band, in the summer of their debut year.

In May 2022 Dreamcatcher performed at the giant K-pop festival KPOP.FLEX in which German city?

Frankfurt staged what was then the largest K-pop festival the continent had seen. Three weeks later the group were on a festival bill in Spain.

Dreamcatcher's first world tour shares its name with which lead single from their 2017 EP Prequel?

Fly High opens on a piano melody before the guitars arrive, and the tour that shared its name began with concerts in Osaka and Tokyo.

Dreamcatcher's dancer and choreographer names boy band TVXQ and which female Korean soloist as her inspirations?

BoA and TVXQ are the two acts she cites, both stars of the generation before hers. Her own choreography has gone into the group's stage performances.