• real name: kang younghyun / brian kang
• date of birth: december 19, 1993
• position: main rapper, lead vocalist, bassist

important facts

• he was born and raised in ilsan, then moved to canada to attend high school. he lived in toronto for 4 about years
• he was part of a band named 3rd degree back in high school
• he then left canada in 2010 to become a trainee under jyp after being scouted
• he trained for 5 years
• member of the original formation of day6, 5live
• while being active in day6 he studied business management at dongguk university and very recently graduated (i'm so proud of him ahdsjsj)
• was originally going to debut in a dance team in jyp
• he's also the main lyric writer in the band and pretty much writes all of their songs

interesting facts

• his stage name is young k but literally everyone calls him brian, which is his english name he used back when he was in canada. he gets annoyed by it and it always shouting at people to call him young k
• predebut on his now deactivated instagram he'd share his playlists of his favorite songs which featured a lot of alternative and "emo" bands (green day, mcr, queen, p!atd, etc.)
• his hobbies are playing basketball, watching webtoons, going to restaurants, movies, and traveling alone
• he loves eating. especially his ramyeon
• a well-known fact about him is that predebut he and his friends back in high school won a math dance competition
• he's fluent in english and so he's a living dictionary when it comes to the korean language. always has to translate english to korean and vice versa for his members
• multitalented king. he can do everything: sing, rap, dance, play multiple instruments, beatbox, some weird human trumpet thing wtf how is that possible
• he's very generous and is always complimenting the others. he's usually the one to reassure a band member when the others are laughing at them. they always turn to him for support

ways to remember him

• he's got a kind and caring, charismatic personality
• he has the mOST CHARMING SMILE AND FOX EYES
• changes his hair color A LOT someone save his hair
• he's got the widest vocal range out of all the members and can go from having a really deep voice to hitting the highest notes and falsettos
• he's a real mesmerizing performer. when he's on stage he performs really passionately and it comes off as sexy but off-stage he's just a lil' bean