40 Fun Facts About Oh My Girl

Oh My Girl teamed up in 2020 for the children's single 'Supadupa' with which famous penguin character?

Pororo is the little penguin hero of a South Korean animated series that began in 2003. The group also recorded a version of 'Barabam', a song from the series.

Oh My Girl's acoustic ballad 'B612' takes its title from the home asteroid in which classic French book?

The Little Prince lives on Asteroid B-612, and the song's lyrics cast the singer and her crush as the story's rose and its young traveller.

Which name did Oh My Girl give their official fan club at the 2016 showcase for Pink Ocean?

Miracle was announced on the day the third EP came out, both on stage at the comeback showcase and in a live broadcast on the V app.

Customs officials turned Oh My Girl away in December 2015 at the airport of which American city?

Los Angeles was where the group had flown to shoot an album cover, but they arrived as tourists on the visa waiver programme instead of holding the performance visas the trip required.

Which Oh My Girl member, born in Anyang in 1994, serves as the group's leader?

Hyojung has been the leader since the 2015 debut. In 2018 she also joined two bandmates in the group's first sub-unit, and she later hosted the beauty programme Get It Beauty.

Mimi of Oh My Girl hunts a runaway moon rabbit with Lee Young-ji and An Yu-jin on which tvN show?

Earth Arcade added her after its other three stars. The director had been quarantining with Covid-19 when his wife suggested they watch her YouTube videos.

Seunghee of Oh My Girl appeared on Star King at 11, billed as the 'little' version of which singer?

BoA was the pop star the 11-year-old was likened to on the SBS talent programme in 2007, eight years before she debuted as an idol herself.

Oh My Girl finished runner-up on the first season of Mnet's Queendom in 2019 behind which winning act?

Mamamoo took first place, though Oh My Girl won two of the three preliminary rounds on the way to second, after starting the contest in third.

Oh My Girl's sub-unit Banhana debuted in 2018 with a song titled after which animal with a banana allergy?

A monkey gives 'Banana Allergy Monkey' its name. The trio first released it in a pop-up album in April 2018, then took the sub-unit to Japan that August.

Which reggae singer joins his duo partner, Running Man's Haha, on Oh My Girl's 'Listen to My Word (A-ing)'?

Skull and his partner add a reggae flavour to the 2016 single. It led a summer album of four covers, the first Oh My Girl release to top the weekly Gaon album chart.

Oh My Girl were promoted at their 2015 debut as the sister group of which boy band on the same label?

B1A4 had been the label's first boy band four years earlier, and their member Jinyoung went on to write the Oh My Girl song 'Step by Step'.

Which 2015 debut single by Oh My Girl did critics compare to Gwen Stefani's 'Hollaback Girl'?

Cupid earned the comparison with its drumline beat and cheerleader-style chants, and it made the year-end best-of-K-pop lists at both PopMatters and Idolator.

Which 2021 single gave Oh My Girl their first number one on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart?

Dun Dun Dance is a nu-disco track with a sci-fi-themed video shot in an open green field, and it went on to win a Digital Song Bonsang at the Golden Disc Awards.

Which 2020 Oh My Girl single with a game-themed concept became Melon's longest-charting girl-group song in 2021?

Nonstop passed 480 days in the daily top 100, only for 'Dolphin', a B-side from the same EP, to outlast it with a run of 546 days.

Arin of Oh My Girl was named a promotional model for the Expo 2030 bid of which port city, her birthplace?

Busan is where she was born in 1999, and she has given back to the city with donations to its elderly welfare centre and a local briquette charity.

The video for Oh My Girl's 2016 single 'Windy Day' was shot in a hedge maze and forest on which island?

Jeju supplied the outdoor settings for the folk-pop song, which fronted a repackaged edition of the EP Pink Ocean only two months after the original came out.

Which Oh My Girl member swapped her stage name for her real given name in January 2022?

Yubin had performed as Binnie since the group's 2015 debut. She had acted in television dramas as a child, years before she joined the line-up at 17.

Arin of Oh My Girl played Jin Cho-yeon in which tvN fantasy period drama that began in 2022?

Alchemy of Souls, written by the Hong sisters, follows a group of young mages. She joined its cast in a supporting role in March 2022, and the series ran for 30 episodes.

Seunghee of Oh My Girl competed under the name 'Zoo' in 2019 on which singing contest?

King of Mask Singer hides its contestants behind elaborate costumes, and the group's leader had sung on it two years earlier under the name 'Moon'.

Which member left Oh My Girl in May 2022 after choosing not to renew her contract with the label?

Jiho had sat out the first months of 2020 on hiatus before returning for a spring comeback, and her exit two years later turned the group into a six-piece.

The pink dolphin in Oh My Girl's 'Coloring Book' video was a nod to which absent member?

JinE had been on hiatus since August 2016 and took no part in the 2017 EP. She left that October, and the original eight became seven.

On Queendom in 2019, Oh My Girl won the second round with a cover of 'Destiny' by which rival act?

Lovelyz had taken the original into the Gaon top ten in 2016, and the Oh My Girl version went down well enough to be released as a single that September.

Which music programme gave Oh My Girl their first weekly chart win in January 2018 for 'Secret Garden'?

The Show handed over the trophy on January 23, nearly three years after the group's debut, and Show Champion followed with a second win the very next day.

Viewed from above, the choreography for Oh My Girl's 2015 single 'Closer' traces the shapes of what?

Astrological signs suit a song whose lyrics lean on cosmic imagery, and a Billboard writer praised the video and its dance for their sense of artistry.

YooA of Oh My Girl topped the performance-unit vote on Queendom dancing to which Michael Jackson song?

Smooth Criminal won her more audience votes than any of the other five dancers, which handed her group the round's maximum of 2,500 points.

YooA of Oh My Girl partnered U-Kwon of Block B in 2016 on which Mnet dance contest for idols?

Hit the Stage teamed idols with professional dance crews. The pair came fourth, finishing behind her own older brother and his partner, Hyoyeon of Girls' Generation.

Seunghee of Oh My Girl reached the final 13 on the 2010 season of which Mnet audition show?

Superstar K cut her at the interview round that settled its finalists, in a season that Huh Gak won ahead of the Korean-American singer John Park.

Seunghee of Oh My Girl sang credited backing vocals in 2014 on 'Full Moon' by which soloist?

Sunmi released the song a year before Oh My Girl debuted. Its producer, Brave Brothers, ran Brave Entertainment, where the future idol had started as a trainee in 2012.

Oh My Girl's leader sang the Korean version of the song 'Lead the Way' for which Disney animated film?

Raya and the Last Dragon came out in 2021, and Walt Disney Company Korea chose her that February to record its theme for the film's local release.

Oh My Girl debuted in April 2015 as the first girl group from which South Korean agency?

WM Entertainment was founded in 2008 by the former singer Lee Won-min, who was credited as the producer of the group's debut EP.

YooA of Oh My Girl made her solo debut in September 2020 with which EP and title track?

Bon Voyage mixes tropical house and synth-pop across five songs, and it won her a first solo trophy on a weekly chart programme only eight days after release.

Arin of Oh My Girl became a global brand muse in July 2020 for which French beauty house?

Clarins later worked with her on charity projects, sending Christmas gift boxes to low-income families and planting 1,459 trees in a riverside park for World Bee Day.

A points miscount first handed which boy band the M Countdown trophy Oh My Girl had won with 'The Fifth Season'?

NU'EST were named winners of the May 16, 2019 edition before the programme admitted an error in its sums, and the trophy went to Oh My Girl a week later.

Which Jam Factory lyricist co-wrote Oh My Girl singles including 'Closer', 'Windy Day' and 'Secret Garden'?

Seo Ji-eum filled the first of those songs with cosmic imagery to match its dreamlike mood, and in 2021 she co-wrote the group's first chart-topping single.

Seunghee of Oh My Girl finished runner-up on JTBC's 2016 contest Girl Spirit behind Bohyung of which group?

Spica's singer won the final by 13 points, on a programme designed to spotlight the vocalists of twelve lesser-known acts.

Oh My Girl's 2016 summer single 'Listen to My Word (A-ing)' remade a hit from 2000 by which girl group?

Papaya began as a five-piece and released only two albums before going quiet. The Oh My Girl remake reached number 15 on the Gaon Digital Chart.

In the dance version of the video for Oh My Girl's 'Liar Liar', the members wear shoes that resemble what?

Roller skates were the look for the dance cut, while the main video, about friends hiding a crush on the same boy, gave the group its first scenes shot underwater.

Which single did Oh My Girl release in August 2020 as a collaboration with Keanu Silva and Mougleta?

Rocket Ride came out on August 28, capping a busy summer in which the group also issued three Japanese digital releases in three months.

Which promotional single did Oh My Girl release in December 2021 through the fan app Universe?

Shark arrived through Universe Music two days before Christmas, adding another sea creature to a songbook that already held the long-running B-side 'Dolphin'.

YooA of Oh My Girl has an older brother who has worked as a dancer and choreographer at which dance studio?

1Million is where her brother has worked, and the siblings met as rivals on a 2016 Mnet dance contest, where his team finished above hers.