YangYang

## YangYang刘扬扬

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**Yangyang** (Simplified Chinese: 扬扬; Korean: 양양), born Yang Yang Liu (Simplified Chinese: 刘扬扬), is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter. He is the main rapper and main dancer of the Chinese male idol group WayV. Despite debuting in 2019, he was only introduced as a member of the South Korea-based male idol group NCT and its sub-unit NCT U during the NCT 2020 project. He is also part of WayV's second sub-unit WayV-TEN&YANGYANG.

## Early life

He was born and raised in Taiwan, but moved to Düsseldorf, Germany with his family at the age of 11. He attended ISR International School on the Rhine, an international school where German and English were both used. In school, he was required to learn another additional language, and he chose to learn Spanish over French.

He flew back to Taipei just to participate in the Global Audition for SM Entertainment held in February 2016. He started his training in June of the same year, moving to South Korea.

## Career

### Pre-debut

He was introduced as a member of the SMROOKIES SR18B on September 15, 2018. He is SM Entertainment's first and only Taiwanese artist (an in extension, an artist coming from Europe).

### WayV

*For specific activities by WayV, please visit the main article.*

The formation of WayV was announced through the group's official Weibo account on December 31, 2018, though the group's existence had been alluded to during the NCT 2018 promotions.

He debuted with WayV as the group's main rapper on January 17, 2019, with the digital release *The Vision*.

For WayV's Rainbow V project, he created a dance performance with Lucas and Hendery. The concept was fashion and freestyle dance, and the music they used was Post Malone's "Wow."

On August 17, 2021, with **YangYang**, Ten debuted as a member of the sub-unit WayV-TEN&YANGYANG, with the digital release *Low Low*.
### NCT

*For specific activities by NCT, please visit the main article.*

WayV was not considered a part of the NCT brand until the promotions for NCT 2020, marking Xiaojun, Hendery, and Yangyang's official debut in NCT and in South Korea.

Yangyang participated in promotions for the song "Misfit" for *NCT RESONANCE Pt. 1* and 90's Love for *NCT RESONANCE Pt. 2*.

## Other activities

### Song collaborations

*For a complete list of song collaborations, please visit YangYang/Discography.*

Along with Kun, Yangyang released "LEONIDAS" for Play V. Performance and lyrics were by Yangyang, music composed by Yangyang and Kun, and arranged, recorded and mixed by Kun.

Yangyang featured on IMLAY's 3rd album *DYSTOPIA* which was released on February 19, 2020, with the title track "Asteroid."### Variety shows

*This page only shows programs wherein the member is a permanent cast member. For a complete list of variety show appearances, please visit YangYang/Filmography.*### Radio shows

 2021
 Mar 17

## Personal life

His family is composed of his father, mother, and older sister. His family owns a dog named Nian Nian. His family is still living in Düsseldorf, Germany, though they occasionally go to Taiwan. The reason for the move to Germany is due to his father's business with IT company branches in Taiwan and Germany.

## Profile pictures

For a more complete list of photos, please go to *YangYang/Gallery*.

## Trivia

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* Promotions
* WayV YouTube channel
* NCT 2020 ENQUETE
* WOW 大牌 TMI

* He can speak five languages: Mandarin, English, German, Korean, and a little bit of Spanish.
	+ He thinks in Mandarin and English.
	+ During fansigns, when fans ask him to write something in Chinese and he doesn't know how to write it, he will either ask their manager how to write it or type the character on his phone and draw it on paper.
* In the new dormitory, he has his own room, but shares the unit with Kun and Ten. He has three fish as pets, which he call by the names "Fish 1", "Fish 2", and "Fish 3". He believes giving the fishes names is meaningless because they won't respond to it when they are called.
* In the old dormitory, he shared a room with Kun and Xiaojun. The room has a computer, which they use to play games.
* During his trainee days, he shared a dormitory with Kun, Lucas, and Hendery.
* His English name is also Yangyang, and he used this when he was living in Germany. Pre-debut, fans speculated his name to be Yangyang Fisher, though of course this was proven to be false.
* He decided to audition for SM Entertainment after seeing a dream of himself standing on stage, but it wasn't his life dream to be an artist. Through the experience of watching SMTOWN LIVE WORLD TOUR VI in SEOUL on July 8, 2017, he knew exactly what he wanted, and started to seriously engage in the life of a trainee.
* He doesn’t have a nickname because people thought YangYang was already a nickname. He wants to be called Xiao Yang (Chinese: 小羊, Little Sheep).
* During Moonwalk promotions, he was nicknamed the Annoying Orange by his fellow members.
* It's speculated that he has been a fan of EXO before debuting, as he was seen wearing an EXO cap in pre-debut photos.
* Although he's not tall, he was good at basketball and won an MVP in a game against other schools when he was in school. He is also confident in other ball games such as soccer and handball.
* Yangyang's mother once gifted the other WayV members with t-shirts with Nian Nian printed on them.
* He's called the Boss Maknae of WayV, especially because he likes teasing the older members, particularly Kun. Yangyang thinks Kun is kind because he accepts his jokes well.
* He admitted to looking around Twitter in his free time and reading tweets written about him and WayV.
* When you search his name in Korean, Yangyang County (a place in Gangwondo) pops up, so he's disappointed by it.
* Yangyang and Hendery are the ones who mainly help Ten with learning Chinese when it comes to translations from English.
* The part from the movie *Titanic* that stuck with him was the part where the lead actor said "I am the king of the world", without knowing what was coming for him later on in the movie. He also likes the part where the lead actor was drawing the lead actress. (Akdong Seoul 210411)
* From Instagram Live, V Live, and Yizhibo content:
	+ He calls himself "yangyang\_x2" because his name has different variations. The members call him Yángyáng (proper tones, both second), while his mom and Ten call him Yǎngyáng (third tone, second tone). In Germany, he's called Yángyang (second tone, neutral tone), while in English, it's pronounced Yengyeng.
	+ He is learning boxing.
	+ His role models are SHINee's Taemin and Travis Scott.
	+ Ten's sister made Yangyang a cap, which she gave to him during the 2019 WayV FANMEETING TOUR 'Section 1 We Are Your Vision'.
	+ Though Yangyang and Renjun are very close in the present, it took a long time to get to know Yangyang. He came to know Yangyang through Xiaojun, where Yangyang would talk "through" Xiaojun even though they were all together.
	+ Yangyang would sing high notes to Xiaojun as a joke, but he eventually got better at it so it was noticed by their AR team. He has a solo song "Asteroid", in which his vocals are featured. During "Bad Alive", Yangyang's parts were all vocals.
	+ He wanted his parents to listen to "Only Human" because he wanted them to know that his Mandarin is good enough for him to be able to write lyrics.
* From WayV's HUYA livestreams:
	+ According to Hendery, Yangyang didn't talk to the other members much at first, even when they were living in the same dorm. He became comfortable with the others once Lucas regularly started conversations with him.
	+ Yangyang himself said that he wasn't actually close with Winwin when they debuted, and they barely talked during "理所当然 (Regular)". They became closer during promotions for "90's Love".

- He is the "shopping king" of WayV, and most parcels delivered to the dormitory are his purchases.

- His hobby is collecting shoes. The WayV members come to him for shoe recommendations.

- He wants to collect anime figurines, but he can't because his shoes already take up almost half of the storage space in the dormitory.

- His favorite songs from *Take Off* are 噩梦 (Come Back), 无翼而飞 (Take Off), and 真实谎言 (Say It.

- From his SM Rookies introduction video:
	* His favorite plant is a rose.
	* His favorite city is Düsseldorf (located in Germany).
	* His favorite sound is the sound of a bass.
	* His acute sense is his sense of vision.
	* His favorite number is zero.
	* His favorite word is "mellifluous" (in English).
	* His favorite time of the day is 2-3pm.
	* His favorite color is red.
	* His habit is playing with his hair.
	* His favorite movie/book character is Puss in Boots from Shrek.
	* His first memory was going to the beach and eating barbeque with his parents when he was 3-4 years old.

- His member color in WayV is pink, which is his favorite color.

- His animal motif is a sheep because of his name, which is a homophone of sheep in Chinese.

- His jersey number was 00 during the 2019 WayV FANMEETING TOUR 'Section 1 We Are Your Vision' and NCT World 2.0, and 24 during 90's Love promotions. He explains that his favorite number is zero, while 24 was his idol Kobe Bryant's jersey number.

- His prison cell number in 超时空 回 (Turn Back Time) was 00 10110.

- His member code for NCT 2020 promotions was S00, with S signifying that he's the 19th member of NCT according to age order (excluding Sungchan and Shotaro).

- He has been part of 3 NCT U releases: "Misfit", "90's Love", and "I.O.U".

- He wrote his signature as "Yang Yang Liu" for the *NCT 2020 RESONANCE Pt. 2* ID and access cards.

- From [WayV-ariety] Research Note:
	* His strong point is that he talks a lot and that he talks quickly.
	* He is shy around the people he meets for the first time, but he becomes affable once people get to know him better.
	* His amazing characteristic is that he spends a lot of money on his shoe collection.
	* Winwin's first impression of him was that he was well-behaved and quiet, but as they got to know each other, Yangyang is actually very active and has good sense.
	* He is full of passion but exercises prudence and wisdom.
	* Winwin thinks that he looks like an angel on the outside, but is a devil inside.
	* He shared a room with Xiaojun, and slept on the bottom of their bunk bed.

- From Dream Launch Plan:
	* His role in *无翼而飞 (Take Off)* was a racer, which is actually his dream. He wanted to be a racer because of Michael Schumacher, a German racer. Düsseldorf, where Yangyang grew up, is actually a city that has a long tradition related to automobiles as it was the site of the factory of Auto Union AG, which was the predecessor of AUDI in the past, and it is possible that Yangyang was influenced by the environment.

- From WayV-log content:
	* Ten's first impression of Yangyang was that he thinks highly of himself, because Yangyang said he loved rapping and was good at rap.
	* On the other hand, Yangyang's first impression of Ten was that the older was aloof and difficult to approach. But on the second day of meeting each other, Ten was already comfortable with Yangyang and even asked him to eat out together.
	* Yangyang's first impression of Xiaojun was that he was strong and muscular. During pre-debut, Xiaojun would walk around confidently wearing short-sleeved hoodies.
	* Hendery's first impression of Yangyang was that the younger doesn't talk.
	* During Secret Santa 2019, Yangyang got Hendery and gave him a whole box of Chinese medicine. Ten got Yangyang and gave him a bracelet.

- From WINformation:
	* Yangyang calls Winwin as "Winwin."
	* Yangyang dressed up as Ariel from *The Little Mermaid*.

* Translation by Hanippun

* Translation by Hanippun
## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61oLG6Se2\_Q
2. ↑  https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/k-town/8469964/k-pop-label-sm-entertainment-to-launch-china-oriented-nct-group
3. ↑ https://www.teenvogue.com/story/wayv-profile-chinese-pop-group-fanboying-shrek-future-interview
4. ↑ Weibo live by Hendery on March 18, 2021.
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWdssg7Vhdg
6. ↑ One Year of WayV: The Chinese Pop Group on Fanboying, Shrek, and Their Vision for the Future | Teen Vogue
7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61oLG6Se2\_Q
8. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB0Q9bBuzRg