50 Fun Facts About Wanna One

Park Ji-hoon of Wanna One went viral before Produce 101 Season 2 even aired with which gesture?

A wink at the end of the theme-song stage earned him the nickname 'wink boy'. His catchphrase 'save you in my heart' was later named the best catchphrase of 2017.

Produce 101 winner Kang Daniel of Wanna One set a Guinness World Record on which social platform?

Instagram followers of his new account reached one million just 11 hours and 36 minutes after he joined. He signed up in January 2019, the month after Wanna One's contract ended.

Which song won a fan vote to become Wanna One's debut title track and took 15 music show trophies?

Energetic beat a rival track in a vote revealed on the group's own reality show. It topped six Korean music sites at once, a feat known as an all-kill.

Which Wanna One member, eighth in the Produce 101 Season 2 final, served as the group's leader?

Yoon Ji-sung was born Yoon Byeong-ok in Wonju and trained at MMO Entertainment alongside Kang Daniel. After the group ended he took the male lead in the stage musical The Days.

Why did Kang Daniel of Wanna One, born Kang Eui-geon, legally change his given name?

It was hard to pronounce for family and friends, so Eui-geon became Daniel. He has said on television that a biblical figure inspired the new name.

What name did Wanna One give their official fan club, chosen after fans sent in ideas in mid-2017?

Wannable was formed after fans sent in name ideas in the weeks following the Produce 101 Season 2 final. The members settled their own greeting, 'All I wanna do, Wanna One!', on their pre-debut reality show.

Which Wanna One member had already debuted in 2012 with NU'EST and rejoined that band in 2019?

Hwang Min-hyun was the only one of four NU'EST members on Produce 101 Season 2 to reach the final line-up. The other three promoted as NU'EST W until he came back.

Why did Kang Daniel make only a brief appearance in Wanna One's 2026 reunion reality series?

Military service kept him away, so nine members carried the series. It arrived with a new soundtrack single, We Wanna Go.

Wanna One's debut single choreography opens with the members forming the shape of which instrument?

A piano is formed by the members' bodies while one of them mimes playing it. The move became known as the 'human piano formation'.

Which singer replaced Jang Keun-suk as host of Produce 101 Season 2, which formed Wanna One?

BoA was billed as a messenger and representative of the viewers, and hosted the live finale where the name Wanna One was announced. Super Junior's Leeteuk covered one stage day for her.

Kang Daniel of Wanna One was born and learned to dance in which South Korean port city?

Busan is where he trained at a dance school called Nataraja Academy. He went on to study modern dance at an arts high school, winning a gold medal at a student performing arts contest.

Which Wanna One single's eight-minute video casts Kang Daniel and Ong Seong-wu as lost brothers?

Beautiful led the repackaged album Nothing Without You, a prequel to the debut EP. Its video, shot by a film director, reunites the brothers at an orphanage before trouble catches up with them.

At which Seoul venue did Wanna One hold their debut showcase and their four-night farewell concerts?

Gocheok Sky Dome opened to some 20,000 fans for the 2017 debut 'Show-Con'. The farewell nights there in January 2019 came after the group's contract had already run out.

Which singer from the boy band Hotshot took the eleventh and final place in Wanna One's line-up?

Ha Sung-woon scraped in with 790,302 votes, while his Hotshot bandmate on the show went out in 25th place. He later co-wrote the track Flowerbomb for Wanna One's studio album.

Wanna One's first agency YMC had earlier managed which girl group formed on Produce 101 Season 1?

I.O.I set the template a year earlier, with one difference: Wanna One's members were not allowed to take part in other activities with their original agencies during the project.

Which Wanna One member, signed to Cube Entertainment, was alone in missing the 2021 reunion stage?

Lai Kuan-lin, who was born in Taipei, had moved his career to China after a contract fight with his agency. He retired from performing in 2024 and resurfaced as a film director.

Wanna One's Kang Daniel hosted which dance crew competition and several of its spin-offs from 2021?

Street Woman Fighter set eight female dance crews against each other for the title of Korea's best. Kang stayed on to front its spin-offs and returned for the second season in 2023.

Years before Wanna One, Kim Jae-hwan reached the semi-finals of which televised competition in 2012?

Korea's Got Talent almost lost him at his first audition in Daegu, until judge Kim Gura asked that he be allowed to try again in Seoul. He had sung Miss A's Bad Girl Good Girl.

Which Wanna One member came sixth on Produce 101 Season 2 and later joined AB6IX with Lee Dae-hwi?

Park Woo-jin choreographed the routine his label's trainees performed at their first evaluation on the show. Before signing with Brand New Music he had been a trainee at JYP Entertainment.

Which Wanna One member, tenth on Produce 101 Season 2, went on to debut with boy band CIX in 2019?

Bae Jin-young first put out a self-composed solo single, Hard to Say Goodbye, that April. He stayed with CIX until his contract with C9 Entertainment ran out in August 2024.

Hui and Wooseok, who wrote the lyrics of Wanna One's debut single, belonged to which boy band?

Pentagon's Hui also co-composed the track with the production team Flow Blow. Critics later ranked it among the best K-pop songs of 2017.

Which song on Wanna One's debut EP lost the fan vote for title track yet still got a music video?

Burn It Up peaked at number four on the Gaon chart. Korea JoongAng Daily picked it as the stand-out track of the EP for its confident lyrics and powerful hook.

Ong Seong-wu of Wanna One was scouted in 2008 while playing which instrument at a band contest?

Drums were his mother's suggestion, taken up after his sister started lessons on another instrument. The agency that scouted him later closed, delaying his debut by years.

Ong Seong-wu made his acting debut after Wanna One as a transfer student in which 2019 JTBC drama?

At Eighteen cast him as Choi Jun-woo, a boy falsely accused of school violence. The role won him a newcomer prize at the Korea Drama Awards.

Wanna One's Park Ji-hoon played top student Yeon Si-eun in which 2022 drama about school bullies?

Weak Hero became the streaming platform Wavve's top drama for paid sign-ups within a day. Its first three episodes had already sold out in two minutes at a film festival screening.

Wanna One's unit Triple Position won Best Unit at the 2018 MAMA with which summery hip-hop track?

Kangaroo was recorded by Kang Daniel, Kim Jae-hwan and one more member with an outside producer. Kang also shares the lyric credit.

Which company formed Wanna One through Produce 101 Season 2 and signed Kim Jae-hwan as an artist?

CJ E&M ran a season that the three biggest agencies, SM, YG and JYP, chose not to send trainees to. Its 101 contestants still came from 54 different companies.

Which song was the title track of Wanna One's second EP, an album with over 700,000 pre-orders?

Boomerang is an electro trap song about a heart that reaches out to someone and comes back. It followed a fan song put out two weeks earlier as a special theme track.

Which agency was set up in June 2018 solely to manage Wanna One once their deal with YMC ran out?

Swing Entertainment kept a partnership with YMC and went on to manage later Produce groups such as X1. It was absorbed by another label in 2024.

Which member of Block B produced the hip-hop track recorded by Wanna One's trio Triple Position?

Zico wrote the song with two of the trio's own members sharing the lyric credit. Every unit on the 2018 album Undivided was paired with a different outside producer.

Which singer produced Sandglass for The Heal, Wanna One's duo of Ong Seong-wu and Lee Dae-hwi?

Heize co-wrote the lyrics with both members, building them around an hourglass that stands for memories that stay but come with a time limit.

After a run of arithmetic-themed EPs, what subtitle did Wanna One give their 2018 studio album?

Power of Destiny carried the equation 1¹¹=1 in its title and arrived in November 2018, six weeks before the contract ended. Its songs dwell on the members' feelings about parting.

Which song, blending synths with orchestral strings, led Wanna One's farewell studio album in 2018?

Spring Breeze was co-written by Flow Blow, the production team behind the group's debut single. A follow-up titled Spring Breeze, Again accompanied the 2026 reunion series.

What set Kim Jae-hwan apart from most rivals when he entered Produce 101 Season 2, before Wanna One?

He was unsigned, which made him one of just five 'individual trainees' among the 101 contestants. He still finished fourth with more than a million votes.

Lee Dae-hwi of Wanna One became a permanent co-host of which weekly music show in April 2019?

M Countdown had already used him in its 'Global MC Crew' during 2018. He shared the desk with Han Hyun-min until his final broadcast in February 2021.

A knee injury kept Wanna One's Park Ji-hoon out of the final line-up of which Fantagio boy band?

Astro debuted in 2016 without him, and he moved on to Maroo Entertainment. He had begun his idol training even earlier, at SM Entertainment.

What one-word title did Wanna One give their four sold-out farewell concerts in January 2019?

Therefore ran from January 24 to 27, weeks after the contract had formally ended. The members' agencies had agreed to let them finish their scheduled year-end shows together first.

Which American music magazine named Wanna One's debut single the best K-pop song of 2017?

Billboard also chose Wanna One as the best new K-pop act of that year. Its critic praised the single as a pristinely produced electro-pop gem.

Which UK garage-inspired single led Undivided, Wanna One's 2018 album of unit tracks?

Light was the only song on Undivided to feature all eleven members, with the rest split among four units. It entered the weekly Gaon chart at number two.

Which Produce 101 concept song, sung by a team dubbed Nation's Sons, did Wanna One later re-record?

Never is a deep house track that topped South Korean real-time charts while the show was still on air. Six of its seven original singers went on to make the final line-up.

The singer of which indie rock band wrote Forever and a Day for Wanna One's trio Lean on Me?

Nell's frontman Kim Jong-wan wrote both the words and the music of the pop rock ballad. The trio was unveiled on the first day of the group's X-Con reality series.

Wanna One's Kang Daniel first acted as a police university freshman in which Disney+ drama?

Rookie Cops was the first Korean drama made for Disney+'s Star brand. Kang played Wi Seung-hyun, an honors student who wants to follow his father into the force.

Wanna One's Lee Dae-hwi wrote the song Airplane, released in 2019 by which girl group?

Iz*One recorded it for their second mini album. Lee had already produced a concept song for Produce 48, the survival show that formed the group.

Which self-composed song did Wanna One's Lee Dae-hwi perform at his first Produce 101 evaluation?

Hollywood was performed with his fellow Brand New Music trainees, one of whom worked out the choreography. Lee went on to write songs for several other acts on the label.

Wanna One's Kim Jae-hwan beat veteran Yoon Do-hyun to win the 2016 pilot of which SBS singing show?

Vocal War: God's Voice saw him win with a cover of a song by Yoon's own band, YB. He then challenged Lena Park with one of her hits and lost.

Wanna One's world tour One: The World ended in September 2018 with a show in which country?

The Philippines hosted the closing night on September 1, three months after the tour opened in Seoul. The shows promoted both the second EP and the unit album.

Which Wanna One fan song marked the 333rd day since the group's first public appearance?

I Promise You, subtitled I.P.U., topped six Korean music sites on its release day. It then won two music show trophies without the group promoting it at all.

Which hip-hop pair, Gaeko and Choiza, produced the R&B track 11 for Wanna One's unit Number 1?

Dynamic Duo joined the unit on stage when the song was showcased on the opening night of the 2018 tour in Seoul. The track is a groovy slice of alternative R&B.

Which agency did Wanna One's Kang Daniel found in 2019 after a court fight over his contract?

Konnect Entertainment began as a one-man label and later signed other artists before it was dissolved in 2024. His dispute was with a company he said had sold rights to his contract without consent.

Wanna One's first group stage in over four years came in August 2026 at which K-pop event?

KCON LA hosted the reunion on its opening day, when the group performed three songs. It followed a reunion reality series released that April.