EUNJIWON born June 8, 1978 is a South Korean rapper, singer, host, dancer, composer and leader of the first generation idol group SechsKies (젝스키스).
📍EUNJIWON attended Hawaiian Mission Academy, from Grade 9 to 12. He was schoolmates with fellow SechsKies member, Kang Sung-hung.
📍Eun’s nickname in Sechs Kies was “Soy Sauce” (깜시) because of his dark skin.
📍After the group’s disbandment in 2000, Eun pursued a solo career in 2001 with his first single (“A-Ha”) and has mainly focused on hip-hop ever since. He wrote all the songs on his first solo album, G Pop.
🌟In addition he has appeared on hit shows like 2 Days & 1 Night, Reply 1997,New Journey to the West and Kang’s Kitchen.
🌟"Eun Choding" (“Kid Eun”) was a later nickname on the reality-variety show Happy Sunday: 1 Night 2 Days because of his childish on-screen persona.
📍After his successful first album, Eun refined his style and experimented with his music on his second album, Heavy G.
📍In 2002 Eun performed with former member Kang Sung-hun and J-Walk Kim Jae-duck and Jang Su-won.
📍Eun’s third album, Drunk on Hip Hop(with the single “Drunk on Melody”), was released on September 6, 2003.
He later reissued his third album, including a “winter version” of “To Mi Casa” and “Never Ever” from his first solo album.
📌"Drunk on Melody" won Eun the Hip Hop Award at the 2003 SBS Gayo Awards and the KMTV Korean Music Awards.
📍In 2007, he performed with J-Walk on a number of music shows, including KBS' Yoon Do Hyun’s Love Letter
(where they performed the SechsKies song, “Couple”) and Music Bank (performing Eun’s “Adios” and J-Walk’s “Light Storm”).
📍 Eun and J-Walk performed “Couple” at Lee Soo-geun’s wedding on March 2, 2008. Eun was featured on the third J-Walk album’s title track, “My Love” and in its music video.
📌On March 31, 2011, Eun, Gilme and Mr. Tyfoon formed Clover, which received much attention as Eun Ji-won’s new group after 10 years since Sechs Kies’ disbandment.
📍They performed “La Vida Loca”, from their mini-album Classic Over, on a number of musical shows.“La Vida Loca” was well-received, topping the Cyworld Music Chart even two weeks after the release.
📍In 2013, Eun, Chun Myung-hoon, Tony An, Moon Hee-joon and Danny Ahn appeared on a new show on QTV called Handsome Boys of the 20th Century.
📌Handsome Boys of the 20th Century was created by Moon Hee-joon who invited five celebrities, all of whom were born in the same year (1978), from three other first generation idol groups to start a reality show.
📍In 2016, May 11, SechsKies signed a contract with YG Entertainment after their reunion on Infinite Challenge.
📍SechsKies held a comeback concert on September 10 and 11 at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena. After Infinite Challenge aired, SechsKies earned many more fans, and their comeback concert tickets were sold out in only 5 minutes.
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