Jae

Jae promoting The Book of Us : Negentropy - Chaos swallowed up in love (2021)

**Park Jae-hyung** (박재형; バク・ジェヒョン), mostly known by **Jae**, **Jae Park** or **eaJ**, is a Korean-American singer and guitarist. He was the main guitarist, lead vocalist and rapper on DAY6.

On January 1, 2022, he announced that he would go on a hiatus from the group activities. Later that same day, it was announced from JYP that he left the band after he had his exclusive contract with them terminated the day before.

## Biography

Park Jae-hyung was born on September 15, 1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has an older sister. When he was 5 years old he moved to California, USA, and got an American citizenship. Lately, his family moved to South Korea, where he lives now.

He got cast by JYP in 2012 while participating on the first season of SBS's survival TV show *K-Pop Star*. He got cast alongside former labelmates Park Jimin and Baek A-yeon.

## Profile

* **Name:** Park Jae-hyung (박제형; バク・ジェヒョン)
* **Stage name(s):** Jae Park (제이 박), Jae (제이; ジェイ), eaJ
* **Nicknames:** Jejong Daewang (제종대왕; *A great king*), Pororo (뽀로로), Chicken Little, Sweg Chicken, King of Hashtag, Jje (쩨), Hyung Park (형박), Flowerchild
* **Birth date:** September 15, 1992 (age 31)
* **Blood type:** B
* **Birth place:** Buenos Aires, Argentina
* **Hometown:** Long Beach, California, United States
* **Height:** 182cm
* **Education:**
	+ Cerritos High School
	+ California State University, Long Beach
* **Position:** Lead vocalist, main guitarist, rapper

## Works

### Music

*For a list of songs he wrote or/and produced for DAY6, see Category:Songs written by Jae and Category:Songs composed by Jae*.
Writing/Composition
* [2019] Jeong Sewoon - "Good night" (lyrics, music)

### TV

* [2011-2012] K-Pop Star (SBS) — contestant, finished 6th place
* [2016-2018] After School Club (Arirang) — co-host

## eaJ Project

In January 2020, Jae started posting self-composed songs under the stage name eaJ (Jae written backwards) on his YouTube and SoundCloud personal accounts. In a reply on Twitter, Jae revealed that it was just a personal project and not a proper solo debut yet. He officially made his solo debut on April 08, 2022 with the release of the single 'Car Crash'.

List of songs released as eaJ
* [2020] LA TRAINS
* [2020] Otherside
* [2020] Guess Not
* [2020] Pinnochio
* [2020] Rose
* [2020] 50 proof
* [2020] Truman
* [2020] Pacman
* [2020] It Just Is (with Seori)
* [2020] pillows (with keshi)
* [2021] mom cut fruit
* [2022] Car Crash
* [2022] typical story

## Controversies

On January 8, 2022, Jae made a commentary about Jamie in a live stream in his Twitch account: "*Now that I'm not in K-pop anymore, I can say this. Why is Jamie trying to be a th\*t?*". After that part of the video became viral on Twitter, on January 9, Jamie found out about the commentary and addressed her displeasure and disappointment with it in her personal Twitter account, which she later deleted the tweets, with the only one remaining being: "*I hate that we as women have to be subjected to men's humor to appease incels on the internet.*". A few moments later, Jae posted an apology message in his Twitter account apologizing to Jamie and to everyone who felt hurt by his commentary, and acknowledged that the comment had been in poor taste and that he had misjudged the word he had used as being a synonymous with "baddie".Jamie stated via Twitter on January 20 that she and Jae had talked about the incident in person. “*Jae came by the other day we had a talk he apologised for his words and mistake*,” wrote Jamie, before adding that she doesn’t believe his comments were meant to be intentionally harmful. “*If anyone knows about Jae as a friend or close person you would know he wasn’t meaning that as what he said.*” She also added that Jae had “promised” her that he would be more mindful of his words moving forward from the incident, calling it a “wakeup call” for Jae. “Just a wakeup call for Jae and for his future I do really want him to go for the right direction,” she wrote.

## Trivia

* Before joining DAY6, he would often post song covers to YouTube.
* His hobbies are playing badminton and video games.
* He placed 6th on K-Pop Star season 1 and signed a contract with JYP Entertainment.
* He gets called *Hashtag King* because he uses a lot of long hashtags.
* Founder of jaehyungparkian (his ship name with Young K).
* He doesn't like aegyo.
* He formed a debate club in high school.
* He thinks he looks attractive with glasses on.
* He believes he introduced the "Bernie dance" to Korea.
* He used to edit DAY6's own Wikipedia page and played with members' nicknames.
* Loves his foam cleanser a lot.
* He is fluent in English but not that good in speaking Korean.
* Jae dreams in both English and Korean.
* Jae is lactose intolerant and allergic to pollen and several fruits.
* Jae is friends with The Rose members, especially Woosung.

## References

1. ↑ DAY6’s Jae Personally Announces Hiatus From Group Activities
2. ↑ Soompi: DAY6’s Jae Leaves Group And JYP Entertainment
3. ↑ Nickname given during the K-Pop Star days.
4. ↑ Nickname given by Park Jimin. She said Jae resembles the character from the movie of same title.
5. ↑ Nickname given in 2015 on a hashtag to celebrate his 23rd birthday on Instagram.
6. ↑ meaning *Jae*
7. ↑ Nickname given by himself while introducing on *After School Club* ("What's good. I'm ASC Flowerchild Jae.").
8. ↑ DAY6’s Jae Sings “LA TRAINS” As eaJ In New Video
9. ↑ Soompi: DAY6’s Jae Apologizes For Comment He Made About Jamie
10. ↑ NME: Jamie says she “had a talk” with ex-Day6’s Jae over “thot” remark
11. ↑ http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bernie-dance

## External Links

* Twitter
* Instagram
* Soundcloud
* YouTube Accounts: eaJ • yellowpostitman