• btob (bi • tu • bi) is a seven-membered boy group that debuted on march 21st, 2012 under cube entertainment.
• their name stands for "born to beat", referring to both the creation of music and the ability to surpass others.
• from oldest to youngest, the group consists of eunkwang, minhyuk, changsub, hyunsik, peniel, ilhoon and sungjae.
• their fanclub is named melody (because "the only thing that goes well with the musical beat is melody" – ilhoon) and their official colour is slow blue.
• even if you don't know much about them yet, chances are you're already aware that they're all fucking wild (read: have no image left to protect whatsoever).
• "how did cube manage to find seven of the weirdest guys in korea and put them in one group?" basically.

• name | seo eunkwang (서은광)
• birthdate | november 22nd, 1990
• position | leader, main vocalist, btob's small loud father
• sns | twitter, instagram
  • he has a voice from heaven and is known for his high notes.
  • he's pretty much positive no matter what and is basically btob's guardian angel.
  • he's always making fun of minhyuk's height even though they're both as short as each other.
  • and they're the most adorable parents ever.
  • please.
  • he is literally an embarrassing dad on social media.
  • he only just joined instagram and he's already posting dad videos.
  • he went on national television and let everybody know that he likes the smell of his own "sour and alright" armpit odour, much to minhyuk's dismay.
  • he's so kind-hearted and seldom gets mad at the members unless they're in danger that they have an ongoing joke that pretends to be a 'love angel' in front of fans but is actually the sca...'silver light' (which is the english translation of his...

• name | lee minhyuk (이민혁)
• birthdate | november 29th, 1990
• position | vocalist, rapper, visual, composer, btob's mommy
• sns | twitter, instagram
  • his name is minhyuk and he likes his appearance.
  • they make him rap a lot of the time but his singing voice is beautiful and he's a part-time member of vocal line.
  • he was previously known as underground rapper, heota (허타). he returned during hello melody.
  • he duetted with himself.
  • he's eunkwang's honey.
  • and tried to strip him on camera.
  • i love them.
  • LOOK.
  • he's a giant puppy who has his own puppy named hamo who is like his child (see: his instagram). he's just loved by dogs in general tbh.
  • he's also loved by human children.
  • he's a (flying) squirrel too.
  • he's btob's mommy but also a big mama's boy.
  • he's super athletic and can flip. (bonus: here he is at the gym.)

• first things first.
• acapella compilation.
• btob discover helium.
• the '짜라빠빠' dance.
• sexy 뿌잉뿌잉.
• seasonal bed selection.
• the least intimidating gang ever.
• look how cute.
• 'faded af' is 'faded af' backwards.
• they personally chatted to melodies on their fancafe during their 100th day anniversary.
• messages from their moms.
• some examples of the boys volunteering (cube artists do community service every month or so).
• they wrote, composed and recorded '끝나지 않을 (melody)' and 'hello mello' themselves especially for melodies.
• btob trying to make each other laugh (changsub loses like a billion times).
• eunkwang and minhyuk woke up early to prepare a lunchbox for ilhoon and sungjae who had an exam t...letters for them.

• name | lee changsub (이창섭)
• birthdate | february 26th, 1991
• position | vocalist, resident sleepyhead
• sns | twitter, instagram
  • to describe him in one sentence, changsub is the human equivalent of ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and very embarrassing.
  • and the self-proclaimed 'king of weird'.
  • but of course he's a great singer and can also play the piano, guitar and drums.
  • he does high notes too.
  • he takes the best ugly selfies.
  • he loves to talk shit but sucks at it.
  • he always manages to get in other people's selfies (okay, mainly sungjae's). look at him.
  • that being said, he and sungjae 'hate' each other and they had to clarify that they don't really.
  • any time he's not doing something bizarre he is very, very likely, almost 99% guaranteed to be sleeping.
  • even fans say he resembles a sloth.
  • what is math.
  • he's kind of obsessed with 'uptown funk'.

• name | im hyunsik (임현식)
• birthdate | march 7th, 1992
• position | vocalist, composer, producer, eye smile prince
• sns | twitter, instagram, weibo
  • his voice is to die for.
  • but everyone likes to imitate his singing.
  • he's an angel sent straight from heaven.
  • his dad is the folk singer, im jihoon.
  • he studied in shanghai for two years and can speak mandarin (bonus: singing)! here he is speaking english too.
  • a common misconception is that hyunsik is btob's 'most ordinary' member but he's just lowkey weird (HE IS REALLY FUNNY).
  • he once spent the majority of an mtv diary episode hiding just so he could scare someone.
  • most of the time, his victim is eunkwang.
  • the bb cream incident: he just wanted to cover his dark circles and ended up turning into a ghost.
  • music is his life (it truly seems that hi...drunk on it.

discography

• 비밀 (insane) (march 21st, 2012)
  • 비밀 (insane)
  • imagine
• born to beat (april 3rd, 2012)
  • born to beat
  • 비밀 (insane)
  • imagine
  • monday to sunday
• 아버지 (may 3rd, 2012)
  • 아버지
• born to beat (asia special edition) (may 23rd, 2012)
  • born to beat
  • 그 입술을 뺏었어
  • 비밀 (insane)
  • imagine
  • monday to sunday

• name | peniel shin donggeun (신동근)
• birthdate | march 10th, 1993
• position | rapper, vocalist, probably btob's entire pr team
• sns | twitter, instagram
  • peniel is from chicago and is still learning korean as his second language.
  • he has a lot of friends, particularly other american idols, english-speaking idols in general, jyp idols and former jyp trainees (as one himself).
  • f(x)'s amber calls him penoodle.
  • and the members like to call him 프니 (peuni).
  • he often does strange english intros and narrations in songs but sometimes he sings.
  • he uploads memes on instagram...
  • he once asked the other members if they knew what else was big if someone's hands are big on a family friendly show.

• name | jung ilhoon (정일훈)
• birthdate | october 4th, 1994
• position | main rapper, composer, producer, resident brat
• sns | twitter, instagram
  • ilhoon is well-respected as a rapper and lyricist despite the prejudice against idols.
  • his older sister is the singer, joo.
  • btob call him an angel (천사) because his birthday is 1004 which has the same pronunciation.
  • and michael (which he uses on instagram) is his catholic name.
  • he's known as (but not nearly credited often enough as) the creator of '귀유미 player' although he said a trainee actually taught him it.
  • don't mention it to him. seriously.
  • for almost three years now he's been a recurring guest host on weekly idol where he can be regularly seen making a fool out of himself.
  • he hates skinship but hyunsik is generally an exception and he enjoys touching minhyuk's ass.
  • ^o^

• name | yook sungjae (육성재)
• birthdate | may 2nd, 1995
• position | vocalist, visual, rapper 'yookduk' of big byung
• sns | twitter, instagram
  • he started off as both a sub-vocalist and sub-rapper in btob but is now primarily a vocalist and solid member of vocal line (showing how hard he works).
  • speaking of hard work, he's trending and incredibly busy right now for btob's sake and never forgets to introduce himself as 'btob's yook sungjae'.
  • he is a visual.
  • but seriously, he actually is.
  • sadly for everyone else in btob, he's really tall and a fashion model ok.
  • he's known for attempting to break open a watermelon by smashing it with his head and succeeding (bonus: he did the same with an egg).
  • outside of btob, he's friends with other 95line idols.