associated_acts years_active label article_title landscape background genre origin name
yg family 2014 -- present yg entertainment , ygex winner -lrb- band -rrb-
 no group_or_band k-pop seoul , south korea winner
winner -lrb- band -rrb-

winner -lrb- ; stylized as winner -rrb- is a south korean boy band formed in 2014 by yg entertainment .
the group 's five members are kang seung-yoon , song mino , nam taehyun , kim jinwoo , and lee seunghoon .
the group was first introduced in the reality-survival program called `` who is next : win '' as `` team a. '' team a and their adversaries team b were both formed from trainees within yg entertainment .
the teams competed against each other in order to debut as the first yg boy k-pop group in eight years , after big bang .
at the conclusion of the program the title of `` winner '' was given to team a after they won all three rounds of public voting .
after several delays , the group made their korean debut on august 15 at yg family concert and following their broadcast debut on august 17 with their first official stage on `` inkigayo '' .
on september 10 , the group debuted in japan .
their debut is considered one of the best k-pop debuts of 2014 .
