Tae Min Biography

Name : Lee Tae Min(이태민)

Stage Name : Tae Min(태민)

Birthday: 1993.07.18 (19 years old)
Height : 175 cm
Interest/Speciality: Dancing, Listening to music, Piano, Dogs, and Chinese
Nicknames: Maknae Taemin
Favourite Colour : White

Taemin was discovered and recruited by his current label agency, SM Entertainment, at the "2005 S.M. Open Weekend Audition Casting."

After training for three years at his label company SM Entertainment, Taemin became a member of a contemporary R&B and pop quintet boy band, Shinee The group debuted on May 25, 2008 on SBS's Inkigayo with their promotional single, "Noona Neomu Yeppeo (Replay)" ("누난 너무 예뻐 (Replay)," lit. " Older Girl, you're so pretty (Replay)." Since then, they have released two albums and three mini albums in South Korea that were commercial successes. Since their debut, Shinee has won numerous awards. The group has starred in various shows as guests as well as in their own reality shows like Mnet's Shinee's YunHaNam and KBS's Hello Baby.Shinee has also endorsed and promoted numerous commercial products like Smart,Korean cosmetic company Nana's B, and Reebok. The group has also recorded songs for OSTs of various films and dramas. Taemin and his band mates also participated in tours of SM Town - including the sold out SMTOWN in Paris (June 2011) and SMTOWN in New York (October 2011) where the group performed in the legendary Madison Square Garden - as well as in their own concert, Shinee World, held in Tokyo (2010) and Seoul (2011). Shinee signed a contract with EMI Music Japan for their Japanese debut in 2011.

Taemin debuted as an actor as Lee Junsu in the sitcom Taehee-Hyegyo-Jihyun! (Korean: "태희혜교지현이!").
He later played Kim Sung Chae on Moonlight 90 with band member,Key.

Taemin has appeared on television shows such as Idol Maknae Rebellion as a guest star alongside his SHINee group mates Key, Jonghyun, and Onew in several episodes. He appeared together with other idol group members, including Dongho from U-KISS, Shorry J from Mighty Mouth, Jinwoon from 2AM, Yunhwa from T-Max, Seunghyun from F.T. Island, and Mir from 

Min Ho Biography

Name : Choi Min Ho(최민호)

Stage Name : Min Ho(민호)
Birthday: 1991.12.09 (20 years old)
Height : 181cm
Interest/Speciality : Soccer, Basketball, Working out, Acting, Reading, English, and Chinese
Nickname: Flaming Charisma Minho

Favourite Colour : Blue 

Minho was born on December 9, 1991 in Incheon, South Korea. He graduated from Konkuk University's affiliated high school on February 10, 2010. After taking the college admissions test the previous year, he was admitted to the year 2010 of Konkuk’s part-time admittance for the arts and culture film major where he is currently attending. His father, Choi Yun-Gyeom, is a well-known South Korean soccer coach. He has an older brother named Choi Minseok.

Minho is known as Flaming Charisma Minho and he was casted in the 2006 S.M. Casting System. He is the main rapper of the group. He has also written rap parts for some of SHINee's songs, such as "Get it".

Before debuting with SHINee, Minho modelled for Ha Sang Baek's Seoul Collection F/W 08-09 in March.

In 2008 he was the 3rd Youth International Video Festival "the aura" Goodwill Ambassador with fellow SHINee member, Key. Minho has been appointed as the ambassador of Konkuk University 2010. On May 23, 2011, he was named Honorary ambassador for Youth 2011. He then received a name plate at the Youth Week celebration held in the COEX auditorium.

Minho hosts MBC's Music Core, alongside fellow SHINee member, Onew. But due to oversea schedules, they are on temporary leave. He is a permanent cast member in KBS's Let's Go Dream Team! Season 2. He is often dubbed as the "Ace" of the show, having won the challenges at numerous occasions. He was also a permanent cast member in the KBS program Oh! My School, also known as 100 Points Out of 100 ,

On October 3, 2011, Minho co-hosted the Hallyu Dream Concert held at the Kyungju Citizen Stadium alongside 2PM’s Taecyeon and actress Park Shin Hye which was broadcasted on October 6, 2011 by Mnet Broadcasting Station. On October 6, 2011, Minho alongside KARA's Nicole helped in the torch run for the opening ceremony of the 92nd National Sports Festival held on Goyang, Gyeonggi Province which featuring 17,983 athletes.

On October 16, 2011, Minho won Let's Go Dream Team Season 2 ACE Special episode and took away a Kia Cadenza (k7) home.

Last March 2010, Minho was injured during a filming for Dream Team Season 2. He had to withdraw from his activities while his fellow SHINee member Taemin replaced him on the show during his absence.After his recovery, Minho finally came back last August 2010 to continue his activities and promotions of SHINee's second full length studio album, "Lucifer".

Minho is known by the general public for his athletic skills by topping numerous TV surveys on Athletic Idols.

Key Biography

Name : Kim KiBum(김기범)

Stage Name : Key(키)

Birthday: 1991.09.23 (21 years old)
Height : 177 cm
Interest/Speciality: Rapping, Dancing, Snowboarding, English, Japanese, and Chinese
Nickname: Almighty Key, Key Umma, Diva Key, Fashionista Key
Favourite Colour : Pink  

Key debuted with SHINee in 2008 with the song "Noona Neomu Yeppeo (Replay)" ("누난 너무 예뻐 (Replay)"). He serves as a singer, rapper and dancer in SHINee; he is therefore known as the "triple threat" and gained the title 'Almighty' Key. 

Key was born on September 23, 1991, and raised in Daegu. He was a varsity water-skier in Dae Gu Yeong Shin Middle School. He was discovered at the "2005 S.M. National Tour Audition Casting". Prior to his debut, Key appeared in Super Junior's Wonder Boy music video as an extra dancer. 

On November 18, 2010, Key took his college entrance exam. At that point he had already graduated from high school, and was taking the exam a year late as he had been unable to take it the previous year. He passed his university entrance examination to Myungji University in November, 2011, where he will be taking classes in 2012 as a musical major. 

Key is also known for his multilingual talents. Since he spent six weeks on an exchange in America, out of his fellow band members, Key has the strongest fluency abilities in English. He also is fluent in Japanese, as SHINee prepares for their Japanese debut. 

He is known to be the most sociable member with the most celebrity phone numbers. He is known to be close to the 91' Line which he had claimed to be the founder of. The group contains people from popular groups such as 2AM's JinWoon, FT Island's JaeJin and Seunghyun, BEAST's DongWoon, MBLAQ's Mir, Infinite's Woohyun, Afterschool's Nana, Miss A's Min and Kara's Nicole. 

Key featured in label-mate Xiah's solo performance of "Xiahtic" in TVXQ's concert, 2009: The 3rd Asia Tour Mirotic, in Seoul. In 2010 Key was featured in the song "치유 (Healing)" on TRAX's mini album "Trax Mini Album Volume 1". Later, it was also announced that Key would have a small part in Girls' Generation's song "Hwaseongin Virus (Boys & Girls)" (Korean: "화성인 바이러스 (Boys & Girls)") on their second studio album Oh!. 

Key has also appeared on television shows such as Idol Maknae Rebellion as a guest star alongside his SHINee group mates Taemin, Jonghyun and Onew in several episodes. Together with other idol group members: Dongho from U-KISS, Shorry J from Mighty Mouth, Jinwoon from 2AM, Yunhwa from T-Max, Seunghyun from F.T. Island and in the later part, Mir from MBLAQ. Key was part of the cast of the show Raising Idol, also known as Keydol

by his fans. 

Key also participated as a DJ alongside labelmate Super Junior member Leeteuk to fill the other members in errand for the group's radio program Super Junior Kiss the Radio (SuKiRa).

Key featured in Girls' Generation's first live album The 1st Asia Tour: Into The New World Album in the song "Barbie Girl" with Girls' Generation's Jessica Jung also in Im Yoona's solo in Girls Generation's 1st Asia tour in Shanghai with the song If You Find A Cool Guy, Please Introduce Me.

He had performed a duet with solo artist IU for MC Mong's song "Love Letter For You (Neoyege Sseuneun Pyeonji) as a rapper.

 

JongHyun Biography

Name: Kim JongHyun(김종현)

Stage Name : JongHyun(종현)

Birthday: 1990.04.08 (22 years old)
Height : 173cm
Interest/Speciality: Watching movies, Singing, Piano, Guitar, Song-writing, and Chinese
Nickname: Bling Bling Jonghyun

Favourite Colour : Black & Green  

Jonghyun was scouted on the streets, and auditioned at the "2005 S.M. Casting System" Before debuting, Jonghyun sang a duet, "Wrongly Given Love" (交错的爱), with Zhang Liyin for her debut Chinese album, I Will.

After training for three years at his label company SM Entertainment, Jonghyun became a member of the five member contemporary R&B and pop boy band, Shinee. The group debuted on May 25, 2008 on SBS's Inkigayo with their promotional single, "Noona Neomu Yeppeo (Replay)" ("누난 너무 예뻐 (Replay)", lit. "Older Girl, You're So Pretty (Replay)"). Since then, they have released two albums and three mini albums in South Korea that were commercial successes. Since their debut, Shinee has won numerous awards. The group has starred in various shows as guests as well as in their own reality shows like Mnet's Shinee's YunHaNam and KBS's Hello Baby.

Shinee has also endorsed and promoted numerous commercial products like Smart, Korean cosmetic company Nana's B, and Reebok. The group has also recorded songs for OSTs of various films and dramas. He and his band mates also participated in tours of SM Town as well as in their own concert, Shinee World, held in Tokyo (2010) and in Seoul (2011). SM Town has been to New York's Madison Square Garden on October 23, 2011. The show was sold out. Shinee signed a contract with EMI Music Japan for their impending Japanese debut in June 22, 2011 with a remake of their Korean debut single, "Replay".

He had written songs such as "Juliette" in Romeo, "Yok (Obsession)" and part of "Up & Down" in Lucifer.

In November 2010, it was revealed by SM Entertainment that Shinee's Jonghyun along with TRAX’s Jay, Super Junior’s Kyuhyun, and rookie singer, Jino, have formed a project group, SM The Ballad, under their label. The group focuses more on ballad rather than pop and R&B themes. The group released their debut album, "Miss You", on November 29, 2010. They debuted on November 28, 2010 on SBS's Inkigayo with their lead single, "Miss You." They also promoted another single from the album, "Hot Times."

In October 2010, Jonghyun was one of 20 idols from various South Korean groups that recorded the song, "Let's Go," for the purpose of increasing public participation in the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit. He provided vocals along with labelmates Sungmin, Seohyun and Luna.

He was also a cast member in KBS's Immortal Song 2 for two episodes with fellow labelmate Yesung.

In June 2011, Jonghyun recorded a song titled "So Goodbye" for drama series City Hunter. The song for ‘City Hunter OST Part 2' was released June 3.

Jonghyun has dated Shin Se-kyung. When they first revealed it to the public, there was a huge uproar. Many SHINee fans were unsupportive, while the majority encouraged them, hoping to see a relationship between K-Pop idols work out. However, they broke up in 2011.

Onew Biography

Name : Lee Jinki(이진기)

Stage Name : Onew(온유)

Birthday: 1989.12.14 (23 years old)
Height : 177 cm
Interest/Speciality : Singing , Piano, “Onew Sangtae,” English, Chinese
Nickname: Dubu Onew, Pure Tofu, Leader Onew 
Favourite Colour : Yellow & Red 

Onew is the leader and the lead vocalist of the K-pop group SHINee. His stage name 'Onew' denotes to his soft voice. After training for two years, he became the leader of SHINee, who debuted in 2008 with the song "Noona Neomu Yeppeo (Replay)" ("누난 너무 예뻐 (Replay)", lit. Since then, they have released two albums and three mini albums in South Korea that were commercial successes.

The singer contributed to singles for Lee Hyeon-ji (for "Vanilla Love Part 2") and Girls' Generation member Jessica for the song "One Year Later" in the Tell Me Your Wish (Genie) mini-album.

Onew also starred in various musicals starting in 2010, debuting in the musical Hyeongjeneun Yonggamhaetda (형제는 용감했다, "Brothers were Brave") alongside singer Lee Ji-Hoon. He then starred in the Korean production of Rock of Ages playing the lead role, Drew.

In addition to music, Onew became an MC on two programs — KBS's Yahaengsung and MBC's Show! Music Core.

Onew has also started becoming a fixed panel regular in new — SBS's Show 'Dalgona'

Recently, he has also showcased his acting skills via television having a cameo role of a clumsy doctor in the drama Dr. Champ. He appeared in the drama's final episode