Jungwon

## History

### Early Life

Jungwon comes from a very private family. Not much is known about his family members aside from the fact that he and his older brother both debuted under E&A Entertainment. It is assumed he is the youngest and that he is very close to his older brother. There are suspicions as to who the idol older brother is but no confirmations have been made at this time.

Jungwon was only 8 years old when he became a trainee, becoming the youngest trainee ever in E&A Entertainment history. He was scouted when he was seen copying his much older brothers' dance moves off to the side. The CEO saw a lot of potential and signed both of them in that instant.

### Pre-Debut

Jungwon trained for 4 years. He gained the respect of older trainees and the mentors alike. He very quickly raised in the ranks, constantly scoring higher than anyone else. Jungwon was described by his dance teacher as one of the best she has ever had. Jungwon was not only naturally talented, he was also a hard worker even as a kid; choosing to spend his free time learning all that he could instead of taking rests like most others did. It was because of that dedication that led Jungwon to debut as the youngest trainee in history of all of K-Pop.

### Debut

After training for 4 years, Jungwon was hand picked by the CEO to debut in this group. He was the youngest member, with the next youngest being 4 years older than Jungwon with less years of training. He debuted as the Main Dancer of the group, quickly rising to fame due to his talent at such a young age.

#### Vici

Jungwon debuts with Vici March 2nd, 2015. This group burned bright but burned fast, disbanding August 15th, a mere 6 months after their debut. The group was originally an instant hit, but their demise was imminent. They were riddled with internal conflicts even pre-debut, many claiming that the age gaps caused many issues between the team members. But it wasn't until their leader, B.I., announced his hiatus of the group only two months into their promotions, that fans saw the issues themselves. B.I.'s contract was terminated by E&A Entertainment and the group was put on a small hiatus until they announced their official disbandment a few months later.

Not much is known about what happened in those few months, only speculations that B.I. was the cause of their ruin.

#### The Dream

Two months later, Jungwon would be added to the line-up of The Dream a week before their debut. Jungwon had no official lines in the album itself, he took some lines during their promotions. He, once again, rose to fame but this time he rose faster than the rest of the other members. The age gaps between these members were still pretty significant, as the two closest in age to him were still quite a bit older in terms of maturity, so the two members tended to stick together quite often, leaving Jungwon to feel a bit isolated in the group.

This group was very revolutionary in the sense that they were very self sufficient, produced all of their music and made up their own choreography. This was pretty much unheard of at this time and maybe this was also a source of tension, as Jungwon became the main dancer whilst their choreographer member was given just lead.

They had two very successful comebacks and were on the path to greatness when tragedy struck.

On October 19th, 2016, the group were doing a show in Japan, when one of the light rigging systems came unhooked and landed on one of the members. The freak accident killed one of the back up dancers and critically injured one of the members. The Dream were then placed on an indefinite hiatus. As of this time, no new information has been given about the status of the injured member.

#### New Order

There was a bit of a halt on Jungwon's career. He went silent for a few months before he was announced that he would be re-re-debuting once more in a different group. During the silence, many negotiations were happening behind the scenes as The Dream's career was up in the air for awhile until it was decided to leave them alone for now, but debut Jungwon once more as his popularity had been steadily climbing and only skyrocketing after the incident.

On April 8, 2017, New Order would debut with Jungwon as their Leader, once again making K-Pop history as the youngest idol to ever be given the role of leader. This group was considered the intro group to what would be a long list of subunits of a much larger, more complex K-Pop group that would revolutionize the K-Pop world and who better to lead it than the boy who kept making history; Yang Jungwon.

This group is not a permanent group, constantly changing the member line up depending on the concept.

#### Rogue

This is the first subunit to debut with a permanent line-up. Jungwon, once again, being given the role as leader. They debuted in July 6th, 2017. They started with 8 members, adding two more in 2018, only to have one of the original members (Hu Xiaoling) go on an indefinite hiatus. They now work as a 9 member group and are still active.

This group is known for how close their bond is, Jungwon has mentioned several times how much he relies on the other members and how grateful he is to have older members that are willing to listen to him despite his young age. This group has seen a very steady increase in their success, charting very well every comeback and always getting better.

#### R.E.N.

After seeing the success of the last two groups under Jungwon's thumb, E&A Entertainment debuted another group very soon after Rogue, debuting October 31st, 2017. Jungwon, once again, being the leader. This time, his position was voted in by the other members, everyone in agreement that Jungwon has the most experience to be able to lead them to great success. This is the first group ever in which Jungwon is not the maknae. The role is taken by Harua who is only a few months younger than Jungwon, but it counts. Jungwon has very outwardly stated that R.E.N. is his favorite subunit to be in, much to the playful rage of the Rogue members.

In this group, many fans have seen Jungwon show off a more youthful and playful side as he's closer in age to all the members.

#### 7th Sense

In August, it was announced the E&A Entertainment would be taking the best of the best members of all of their previous debuted groups, and promised to do something no one had ever seen before. On September 4th, 2018, 7th Sense dropped a random music video without any sort of promotional pictures or teasers, going absolutely viral when people saw that Jungwon, once again, was in this lineup. Later, fans' suspicions would be confirmed that Jungwon, once again, was their leader. And, once again, was voted in by the other older members as they all agreed that Jungwon was the most experienced, and they had respect for him and everything that he could teach them. This group was crafted with a lot of love and care.

## Personality

Jungwon is described by all of his members as a strict but caring leader. He is known to work harder than anyone, always taking time to make sure everyone is on the same page before moving forward. He's seen a lot in rehearsal rooms with many members making jokes that Jungwon has snuck a mattress in there and just lives there. Jungwon absolutely loves to do aegyo and skinship, always clinging to some hyung in one way or another, or pouting his way into getting what he wants.

Jungwon is also known as the most extroverted of the groups, being infamous for his weekly, 5 hour long VLives that he uses as a sort of gossip session with his fans.

## Physical Appearance

Jungwon is small. He's mentioned having trouble gaining weight no matter how much he eats but also admits he forgets to eat quite often since his schedule is so busy. He thinks he's sort of unremarkable when it comes to his visuals, much to his fans' horror and rage. He thinks he looks best with red hair, which his fans do agree with.

Jungwon was voted in the top 100 of most handsome idols, ranking 53rd.

## Skills & Abilities

Jungwon is a very talented dancer. No one, not even Jungwon himself, really know where the talent came from as he claims he never had any formal training before he became an idol. Jungwon self claims perfect pitch, but sometimes the pitch wants to be too low or high. He also has mentioned offhandedly that he can speak Korean and Japanese, and he used to speak Thai but has long forgotten how to. He also knows how to play 4 different instruments that he will not say which ones, as he gets too frustrated to really learn more than just basics of all of them.

Jungwon is known to be an amazing leader. All of his members absolutely adore him and would follow him blindly anywhere, even off a cliff, cause they know Jungwon would always lead them home.

## Relationships

### Friendships

Sunoo: Sunoo is his best friend in the entire universe that he would trade out for a tic tac. They are roommates when Jungwon is in R.E.N. and both of them hate it as they can't stand being each others' roommate. They get into everything together and have known each other since they were both trainees. Sunoo admitted in a live once that he cried when he found out he would be debuting with Jungwon as he couldn't wait to be reunited with his best friend. Jungwon admitted in an interview once that Sunoo has always been there for him, even being there for him as far back as trainee days as Sunoo would comfort him during the difficult monthly evaluations and that he would not be there if it wasn't for Sunoo. He's very thankful for his best friend but also wants his best friend to learn how to clean up after himself while Sunoo wants Jungwon to learn to chill out on cleanliness.

Harua: Harua and Jungwon met during the first day of practice and Jungwon was so excited to finally have a same year friend. Harua, being Japanese, didn't understand what the big deal was but Jungwon didn't give him a choice. Jungwon much rather prefers to room with Harua as he's the cleanest member, but snores the loudest so he sticks with Sunoo. The two members are very close and have formed an unofficial mini trio subunit within the subunit, being called the Aegyo3 unit.

### Familial

Mino: it is unconfirmed if Mino is actually Jungwon's brother. But Mino is one of the few idols that joined E&A Entertainment the same year that Jungwon did. The two idols have never been spotted near each other, but Mino has mentioned having a little brother but has not said if he's in the industry or not. There are doubts to this theory as Mino mentioned having several younger brothers while Jungwon has only ever spoken fondly of one older brother.