40 Fun Facts About Pentagon (K-pop Group)

Pentagon's name stands for five idol essentials: vocals or rap, dance, teamwork, talent and what?

Mind completes the five, and Pentagon Maker, the web show that picked the line-up, graded every trainee on the same categories.

Which 2019 Pentagon single, co-produced by Giriboy, resurfaced in 2020 as a social-distancing meme?

Humph scolds someone for overstepping a boundary, which Korean listeners decided made it the perfect song for a pandemic. Views of its music video climbed again as the jokes spread.

Which founding Pentagon member left in 2018 after going public about dating labelmate Hyuna?

E'Dawn and Hyuna were both dropped by their agency, which said it could no longer maintain trust with them. The pair said they had been together since 2016.

Which agency, also behind BtoB and 4Minute, launched Pentagon in 2016 through a web survival show?

Cube Entertainment first scheduled the group's debut for July 2016, then pushed it back to October.

Pentagon's Kino built his stage name from the K of his surname Kang and a clipped form of which word?

Innovation gave him the INO, and he has said the K stands for Korea as well as for his family name.

For Road to Kingdom's first round, Pentagon reworked Block B's Very Good around which film franchise?

Mad Max was the concept for an arrangement by leader Hui, and the performance put the group second in the first-round ranking.

Pentagon leader Hui took his stage name from how people in which country pronounced his given name?

China is where he heard locals say the first syllable of Hoe-taek as Hui, and he felt his full name was hard for foreigners to say.

Which 2018 Pentagon single became a sleeper hit, creeping up Melon's chart for weeks by word of mouth?

Shine started in the 500s on Melon before reaching its real-time top 100 a month after release, and Billboard's critics ranked it second among 2018's best K-pop songs.

Using his real name, Pentagon leader Hui entered which 2023 Mnet survival show and finished 13th?

Boys Planet ranked him seventh at its first survival announcement, but 13th place left him outside the final line-up of Zerobaseone.

Which 2020 alternative rock single brought Pentagon their first music show win, four years after debut?

Daisy won on SBS MTV's The Show ten days after the group's fourth anniversary, and its choreography mimes sowing flower seeds.

Which name do Pentagon's fans go by, honoured in a surprise single on the group's seventh anniversary?

Universe is the fandom's name, and the group's first studio album swapped 'hole' for 'hall' in its title to mean a space where fans and members walk hand in hand.

Pentagon leader Hui joined labelmate Hyuna in which project group, which debuted in 2017 with 199X?

Triple H paired the two with a second Pentagon member, released a further EP called Retro Futurism, and came to an end in 2018.

Which Pentagon member formed a 2019 duo with former Wanna One member Lai Kuan-lin for the EP 9801?

Wooseok and his partner opened at number two on Korea's weekly album chart with the EP, led by the track I'm a Star.

Pentagon leader Hui co-composed which debut single for Wanna One, chosen by a public vote in 2017?

Energetic won the vote and topped Korea's real-time charts, as did Never, which he co-composed for the TV contest Produce 101.

Which original Pentagon vocalist came back in September 2020 after sitting out 440 days for health reasons?

Yan An had missed a world tour and the group's first studio album, and later became known as an actor for playing the villain Li Lun in Fangs of Fortune.

Which lead single from Pentagon's self-titled 2016 debut EP has a dance that Kino helped choreograph?

Gorilla earned the newcomers the nickname King Kongdol, a nod to the dance they performed to it.

Which Pentagon vocalist, once his Singapore school's top swimmer, missed out on iKon on Mix & Match?

Hongseok was cut in the final episode of the YG contest, and has spent 11 years of his life living outside South Korea.

Which original Pentagon member, born in Nagano in the year of the city's Winter Olympics, moved to Korea at 15?

Yuto talked his parents round before leaving Japan as a teenager, and trained for three and a half years before the group's debut.

Pentagon played a fictional idol group called Asgard in the second season of which JTBC drama?

Hello, My Twenties! gave the group a 2017 cameo in the same autumn they released Demo_01, their first EP of entirely self-written songs.

Pentagon sang on I'm Loving You, a track for the 25th anniversary album of which Japanese rock band?

Glay featured the group on a Latin-tinged dance-pop song for the 2020 best-of collection Review II.

Which lead single of the 2017 EP Demo_01 was the first Pentagon title track produced by leader Hui?

Like This opened an EP made up entirely of the members' own songs, a first for the group since their debut.

Which single led Thumbs Up!, the 2018 EP that was Pentagon's first project without all ten members?

Naughty Boy went ahead with two members missing, one unwell and one caught in a dating scandal, though the absent rapper kept a writing credit.

As Jino, Pentagon's Jinho debuted in 2010 in which group with Super Junior's Kyuhyun and Shinee's Jonghyun?

SM the Ballad took their debut EP Miss You to number one on the Gaon album chart, six years before he started again with Pentagon.

After leaving his first agency in 2015, which job did Pentagon's Jinho take before joining the group?

Vocal coach was his role at Modern K Academy, whose staff urged him to audition for the agency behind Pentagon, and he later trained labelmates (G)I-dle.

Pentagon's Hui joined Super Five, formed on MBC's Favorite Entertainment in 2020, to sing which genre?

Trot was the brief for the five-man idol group, in which he performed under his birth name alongside Astro's MJ.

Which lead single of Pentagon's first studio album is built on four themes: love, fall, hurt and crazy?

Dr. Bebe had its music video brought forward to midnight because of demand, and the clip passed 10 million views within four days.

Pentagon teased which lead single of their second EP, late in 2016, with a Mannequin Challenge video?

Can You Feel It got its first outing at the group's sold-out debut solo concert, the night before the EP came out.

Which 2022 EP, led by Feelin' Like, gave Pentagon their first number one on Korea's Gaon album chart?

In:vite U also set the group's best first-week sales, close to 77,000 copies, and topped iTunes album charts in 30 regions.

Kino drew the cover art for which Pentagon EP as a gift to leader Hui for writing its lead single?

We:th became the group's first release to pass 100,000 copies, and he called the cover his debut drawing after the other members talked him into using it.

Which singer, then a member of I.O.I, starred in Pentagon's 2017 music video for Pretty Pretty?

Chungha appeared in the special video for a B-side from Five Senses, months after her group had modelled school uniforms alongside Pentagon.

Pentagon represented South Korea at the 2019 Star of Asia event, staged at the Medeu rink in which country?

Kazakhstan hosted the annual show in Almaty, where more than 20,000 people gathered to watch.

Pentagon's Kino formed the collective M.O.L.A with Woodz, Nathan, 15&'s Jamie and which Seventeen rapper?

Vernon and the rest took the name from the phrase Make Our Lives Awesome and posted a song called Chillin on SoundCloud.

Which 2022 single made Kino the first Pentagon member to make an official solo debut?

Pose came out the year before he left the group's agency, after which he set up a one-man label called Naked.

Pentagon gave which Monsta X song a Pharaoh theme in the third round of Road to Kingdom?

Follow closed a round in which a joint stage with rivals ONF had taken first place, and the group went on to finish the series third.

Which 2019 release, Pentagon's first Japanese single, gave their first Zepp tour its name?

Cosmo sold more than 50,000 copies in Japan, and the Dear Cosmo Tour took the group to Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo and Fukuoka.

Which member of labelmates BtoB produced Beautiful, the single Pentagon released a month before the EP Ceremony?

Jung Il-hoon produced the slow song for his juniors, and it came out in May 2017 as an advance taste of the seven-track EP.

Which rapper produced Young, a song Pentagon's trainees released in July 2016 during Pentagon Maker?

Dok2 produced Young while Tiger JK handled its companion track Find Me, both out three months before the group's delayed debut.

Pentagon's Yeo One played Nigel Bottom in the 2020 Korean adaptation of which comedy musical?

Something Rotten! ran from August to October, and that September he was the cover model of Men's Health Korea.

Which song Kino composed for the EP Demo_02 later became the title track of Pentagon's second Japanese EP?

Violet got a special music video the day after a Seoul concert, and its Japanese EP reached number four on Oricon's weekly chart.

Pentagon's Yeo One recorded an audiobook of Youth, Beautiful Youth, a story by which German-born author?

Hermann Hesse's story went out through Naver's Audio Clip service, in the same year the singer took the lead in a web drama about a witch's shop.