TEEN TOP 틴탑 Members Profile

Teen Top, (Korean: 틴탑) is a South Korean pop group that consists of six members: C.A.P, Chunji, L.Joe, Niel, Ricky, Changjo. They are under the label T.O.P. Media and were founded in 2010 by Andy Lee of Shinhwa. They released their first single album, Come Into the World, on July 9, 2010 and made their official debut on July 10, 2010 on MBC's Show! Music Core.

Before their official debut, Teen Top held showcases at Lotte World covering various songs by artists including Big Bang, 2PM and Shinhwa. Teen Top's official fan club name is 'Angel', previously (unofficially) referred to as 'Andromeda' (adapted from their Daum fan cafe).

Teen Top had been chosen through various open auditions. There were 10 candidates for the six member group. The group was featured on the MTV program The Vice Guide to Everything in December 2010.

The Teen Top members, Ricky and also Niel were both child actors. The two had ample experience working in movies, CFs and musicals before their debut as singers through TEEN TOP; they’re also known for their close relationships with top tier stars like Lee Sora, Seo Taiji, and Song Seung Hun. Niel debuted through the musical “Please“, and played the younger role of actor Joo Won in the musical. Ricky debuted through the music video for Seo Taiji’s “Human Dream“, and played the younger role of Song Seung Hun in “Love Song” as well. Ricky's appearances as a young CF advertising model also garners a lot of attention.

C.A.P

Real Name : Bang Min Soo

Birthdate : 4th November 1992

Height: 178 cm

Weight: 61kg

Hobbies: Design, drawing and exercise

Speciality: Writing lyrics and rapping

Education: Seongname Information Industry High School, 3rd Grade

'Charisma Rapper'

Leader of the group

• ChunJi
• Full Name: Lee Chan Hee
• Title: Power Vocal
• Position: Lead Vocal
• Birthday: October 5, 1993
• Height: 173 cm
• Weight: 53 kg
• Blood Type: B
• Education: Seongji Middle School

Fun Facts:
•His stage name means to have a voice that covers the heavens and the earth.
•Loves doing puzzels (Especially the 1000 piece ones).
•He loves brain games.
•He wants to play Zac Efron’s role in “High School Musical”
•His ideal type if Girl’s Generation/SNSD’s Yuri.
•He stated in an interview that during his trainee period, he kept getting low marks on his monthly evaluation.  At the time being a member of TEEN TOP didn’t seem possible (While reavealing this he was actually shaking)
•He has an older brother who is 5 years older than him.
•He plays games on his iPod whenever he has free time in TEEN TOP’s dressing room.
•He can’t sleep without pajamas, and feels weird without them.
•When he has free time he likes to go to the movie theater by himself.
•He use to listen to g.o.d when he was younger.

• L.Joe
• Full Name: Lee Byung Hun
• Title: Bad Boy Rapper
• Position: Lead Rapper
• Birthday: November 23, 1993
• Height: 171 cm
• Weight: 50 kg
• Blood Type: A
• Education: Korea Arts High School
• Languages: Korean, English

Fun Facts:
•His role model is BIGBANG’s G-Dragon
•His mother lives in the U.S.A
•He once stayed up until 3AM writing a birthday song for Niel.
•His stage name, L.Joe, stands for Lee (his last name) and Joe (his English name).
•His ideal type is 4minute’s HyunA.
•He and HyunA actually went to the same school.  They didn’t see each other often, but when they did they always greeted each other.
•He lived in California for five years (He went when he was 12 but came back at age 17).
•While living in America, he used his Korean name, Lee Byeonghyun, but people around him nicknamed him Joe.
•On TEEN TOP’s first radio appearance with the Brown Eyed Girls, Narsha asks L.Joe to say a short greeting in English but he was too nervous.
•He is the shortest member of TEEN TOP.
•He ran away from home when he was younger.
•He and Ricky had to perform a kiss scene for an Mnet Japan photoshoot (Which was actually L.Joe’s first kiss).

• Niel
• Full Name: Ahn Daniel
• Title: Emotional Vocal
• Position: Main Vocal, Lead Dancer
• Birthday: August 16, 1994
• Height: 177 cm
• Weight: 54 kg
• Blood Type: A
• Education: Heungjin High School

Fun Facts:
•He relieves stress by picking on Ricky
•Loves to watch and play soccer.
•He used to love playing soccer when he was in elementary school, but started to become lazy.
•He thinks if he continued playing soccer, he might has become famous like soccer player Park Ji-sung.
•Looks up to solo singer SE7EN
•In the TEEN TOP dorm, he rooms with Ricky since they are the loudest members.
•Since a young age, he’s dreamed of becoming Korea’s Micheal Jackson.
•Ricky says Niel gave him the best impression out of the members when they first met. He says he gave off a feeling of being friendly and mischievous, which really caught his attention.
•He has two male siblings. An older brother’s named David and a younger brother named Bo-Sung.
•He was a child actor.
•He had a hard time understanding the lyrics to song “Clap” so he asked the composers a lot of questions about the song.
•He went for an on-the-spot audition at Lotte World because of his mom. His mom said that he should try it so he sang NeYo “So Sick”.

• Ricky
• Full Name: Yoo Chang Hyun
• Title: Lovely Vocal
• Position: Sub-Vocal
• Birthday: February 27, 1995
• Height: 172 cm
• Weight: 55 kg
• Blood Type: AB
• Education: Namgang Middle School

Fun Facts:
•Has been acting since he was a child.
•He likes Sci-Fi and action movies
•Likes to play board games. Especially Monopoly
•In the TEEN TOP dorm, he rooms with Niel since they are the loudest members.
•When he feels overly stress, he smiles to make himself feel better.
•He takes vitamins everyday.
•His ideal type is T-ARA’s Hyomin.
•Since he has a cute and lovely image in TEEN TOP, he ended up using Ricky as his stage name since the name helps you imagine those things perfectly.
•He is hot tempered.
•While performing “Super Luv”, he gets too eager to bend his back to go even lower in his Matrix dance move, which sometimes gets his feet twisted.
•He gets really embarrassed watching himself play HyunBin TEEN TOP’s parody to Secret Garden.  When ever he watches it he puts his fingers to his ears and looks away.
•Meeting fans personally at fan signs makes him happy.
•Even though he always claims himself as the maknae, ChangJo is the real maknae.
•He and L.Joe had to perform a kiss scene for an Mnet Japan photoshoot (Which was actually L.Joe’s first kiss).

• ChangJo
• Full Name: Choi Jong Hyun
• Title: Dancing Boy
• Position: Main Dancer, Sub-Vocal, Maknae
• Birthday: November 16, 1995
• Height: 177 cm
• Weight: 58 kg
• Blood Type: B
• Education: ChunCheon Middle School
• Fun Facts:
  •He looks up to BIGBANG’s TaeYang as a dancer.
  •He has an older sister.
  •He knows Taekwondo and Jeet Kune.
  •He sang FloRida’s “Be On You” (feat Ne-Yo) to pass the audition to be a trainee.
  •He says the first time he saw Niel he though he looked like a Simpson.
  •When he was younger he dreamed of being a bodyguard.
  •His stage name,ChangJo, means “to create” because he wants to create a new world through his dancing.
  •Even though he always claims himself as the maknae, ChangJo is the real maknae.
  •He is the quietest member.
  •On TEEN TOP’s first radio appearance with the Brown Eyed Girls, he said that Narsha was his ideal type.
  •He thinks that he would get hit before he get a chance to defend himself in a real fight.
  •His hobby is to come up with a choreography. He wants to create a powerful dance number with a song written by L.Joe.