Hwang Minhyun Profile

Hwang Minhyun (ex NU’EST & Wanna One) Profile and Facts:

Hwang Minhyun (황민현) is a South Korean singer and actor under Pledis Entertainment. He’s a former member of boy groups NU’EST and Wanna One. He debuted as a soloist on February 27, 2023 with the album “Truth Or Lie” and the title track “Hidden Side“.

Fandom Name: Hwangdo
Fandom Color: grey

Official Signature:

Official SNS:
Instagram: optimushwang
Threads: optimushwang
X: MINHYUN_PLEDIS
YouTube: HWANG MIN HYUN
Weverse: hwangminhyun

Name: Hwang Minhyun (황민현/黃旼炫)
Birthday: August 9th, 1995
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Pig
Height: 181 cm (5’11″)
Weight: 67 kg (148 lbs)
Blood Type: O
MBTI Type: ESFJ

Hwang Minhyun facts:
– He was born in Busan, South Korea.
– He has an older sister named Hwang Sujin.
– Personality: conservative, with sharp and intellectual charm.
– He is not religious, but believes in superstitions.
– He has a dachshund named Mel.
– School education: SOPA, Department of Stage Arts.
– College education: Inha University, College of Arts and Physical Education, Department of Theater and Film (graduated); Hanyang University Institute For Future Talents, Department of Popular Arts, K-pop Music Studies Major.
– His eyesight on both eyes is -1.5.
– Minhyun’s waist is 30 inches. (Show Champion behind 170829)
– Minhyun has asthma and rhinitis.
– He has allergies to pig fur, dust, pineapple, cherry, kiwi, and eggs.
– He is allergic to salt. Even when he’s dancing he would have an allergic reaction to his own sweat and get rashes.
– He says hair does not grow well on his body.
– He can wink only on stage.
– His ears turn red on any occasion.
– He takes a lot of care of his palms, like using hand cream before every stage, cutting his fingernails everyday, and removing cuticles.
– He can cook well, but doesn’t like this process.
– He can break an egg with his thumb.
– He can speak Japanese.
– He plays the piano, writes lyrics and composes music.
– He has more than 70 nicknames, the most known are Shanghai Boy, Basaengsa, Hwang Mina, Emperor, Hwang Geolryang, Desert Fox, Aegi, Counseling Rabbit, Hwang Sweet, Chungtungka, White Puppy, Captain of Hwangdo, Prince of the Forest.
– His hobbies are cleaning and organizing.
– He loves reading, his favorite genres are long-running novels and essays.
– He likes drawing, watching movies and dramas, taking landscape pictures.
– For his SNS photos and selfies, he prefers wearing long black clothes. For his daily life and interacting with fans, he prefers casual yellow clothes.
– As for food, he is a big fan of meat, but for chicken, he likes only seasoned or fried ones. He also likes hamburgers, sweet bread, jajangmyeon, watermelon, bananas, grapefruit, peaches, red beans, jelly, almonds, Baskin Robbins ice cream, churros, red bean cream buns, donuts, scones, scrambled eggs, and Dubai chocolate cookie.
– As for drinks, he likes all kinds of coffee, strawberry smoothies, juices, beverages, milk, and hogchae tea.
– As for alcohol, he does not like it for a regular basis, but can drink two sips if he finds a good place and company.
– When going to cinemas, he takes caramel popcorn, onion popcorn and grapefruit ade.
– He takes a lot of nutritional products in order to stay healthy.
– He does not like spicy and too sweet (sugary) food, and boiled eggs.
– His favorite numbers are 8 and 9.
– His favorite animals are elephants and dogs.
– His favorite seasons are winter (he like fresh air) and summer (his birthday is in this season)
– His favorite hairstyles are ones with bangs due to him looking fierce with his eyes focused. He prefers dyeing his hair brown.
– His favorite TV program is I’m SOLO.
– He would like to appear on Yoo Jae Suk’s You Quiz on the Block.
– His favorite music genres are modern rock, R&B, and K-pop.
– His favorite K-pop artists are TVXQ, SHINee, EXO, NCT, Kim Sungkyu, NELL, DAY6, Damons year, Maktub, Yerin Baek, Baekhyun, Park Hyoshin, BUMZU, Standing egg, JYJ, Urban Zakapa, Acouruv, IU, Paul Kim, and Fromm.
– He likes cute things and starry nights.
– He loves travelling. He had visited Iceland, Vietnam, Turkiye, England, all Western Europe and Hawaii.
– He admires mascot and online personality Pengsu.
– He has got over 100 flasks of perfumes in his house, and keeps them there even after running out and reaching expiration dates.
– On YouTube, he watches mukbangs, travel vlogs and the content his fans make.
– His role models are Eric Benet and TVXQ.
– He loves soccer. He plays FIFA Online and spent 1,000,000 won on it, the best character for him is Mbappe. His favorite soccer club is Chelsea, and his favorite player is Tammy Abraham.
– He likes to ride a bike. He bought himself an electric bike in 2022 and rides it on his days off on Han River.
– Since 2022, he never sleeps without his electric blanket.
– As for pajamas, he prefers wearing short-sleeved T-shirts, soccer jerseys, and three-quarter-length shorts.
– He prefers mountains to sea, but likes only seeing it from afar, not climbing them.
– He used to not to be afraid of bugs, but as he grew older, he became scared of them.
– He had become afraid of birds since 2019, there was an accident with a goose while travelling to Milan, Italy.
– He doesn’t believe in ghosts and isn’t afraid of them, but considers zombies as dangerous.
– He doesn’t like extreme attractions.
– He doesn’t like exercising, especially jogging, he does it only for maintaining his body.
– He once tried to look after plants, but due to being very busy with dramas, he almost killed them. He sent plants to his family.
– When recording, he doesn’t put the headphones over both ears, but leaves one ear open.
– He believes he almost got abducted by aliens at his 8 years old.
– He once hid under a car after coming across with a classmate.
– He lied about having stolen a bike when he was 14 and his friends and teacher had to clarify he didn’t do that.
– He never really dated. His only dating experience is via text (when he was in the 9th grade), but they never held hands or hugged before breaking up. (Happy Together)
– He is very sociable with other Korean celebrities, like he is friends with all members of After School, Seventeen, BTOB, TXT, fromis_9, ZEROBASEONE, TWS, Wanna One, some members of EXO, VIXX, BTS, GOT7, NCT, and many more actors and actresses.
– During JR’s birthday, he chose to buy a tie with money sacks as a pattern for the mission of buying him a gift. (NU’EST Love Story)
– After Wanna One‘s disbandment, Minhyun returned to his original group, NU’EST. They unfortunately disbanded on March 14, 2022.
– NU’EST members moved out of the dorm and had been living separately since early 2019.
– Starred in Orange Caramel’s “Shanghai Romance” MV, from where he received his nickname “Shanghai Boy“.
– He was a backup dancer in After School Blue‘s MV for “Wonder Boy.”
– Minhyun, Ren and JR acted in the Japanese movie “Their Distance” (2016).
– Pledis confirmed that Minhyun decided to renew his contract after the expiration of his previous contract, on March 14, 2022.
– He had been in social service personnel from March 21, 2024 until December 20, 2025.
– He played the role of Count Axel von Fersen in musical Marie Antoinette in 2019.
– Minhyun’s Ideal Type: Someone older than him, with short hair. Someone he can communicate well with.

PD101 S2 Information:
– He had 6 years and 3 months of practice prior to participating.
– His motto was “I will work hard and become a person loved by many people”.
– He named as his hobbies cleaning and tidying up.
– He named as his specialty writing lyrics, composing music and speaking Japanese.
– He chose to be graded C on episode 1.
– He was ranked 11th on episode 1.
– He was graded D after the initial evaluation.
– He was ranked 9th on episode 2.
– He performed “Sorry, Sorry” on episode 3. His position was Sub Vocalist 1.
– He was ranked 16th on episode 3.
– He was ranked 11th on episode 5.
– He was ranked 4th on episode 6.
– He performed “Shower” on episode 7. His position was Sub Vocalist.
– He was ranked 6th on episode 8.
– He performed “NEVER” on episode 9. His position was Center and Sub Vocalist.
– He was ranked 12th on episode 9.
– He performed “Hands on Me” on episode 10. His position was Sub Vocalist 4.
– He was ranked 11th on episode 10.
– He was named Kong Minhyun due to being second by audience voting in every team he was in.
– He was named Destruction for being expressionless in episode 3, where many events happened.
– He was named Produce’s Cha Hong for being nice and encouraging to low-ranked trainees.
– He was named Mija Magnet for younger trainees were sympathetic to him and show a lot of skinship with him.
– He was named Yellow Turtle for running too slow in a yellow longsleeve.
– He was ranked 9th on episode 11 with with a total of 862,719 votes and got to debut in Wanna One.
– He, along other 3 members of NU’EST (JR, Ren and Baekho), participated in Produce 101. He is the only member of NU’EST out of the four members who participated in Produce 101 who made it into the final 11.
– He received attention for his famous giggling butt dance (can be seen in Produce 101 ep. 11 and in Happy Together).

Wanna One Information:
– Minhyun’s role in Wanna One is the “dad” (During their discussion, they mentioned the role of mom and dad).
– Daehwi said he would marry Minhyun if he was a girl. (Wanna One Amigo TV Ep. 1)
– When Wanna One moved to the dorm. they chose the rooms after playing Rock-Paper-Scissors.
– Jihoon, Jaehwan, Woojin, Guanlin and Minhyun used to share a room. (Wanna One’s reality show “Wanna One Go” ep. 1)
– Wanna One moved to 2 new apartments. Minhyun and Sungwoon used to share a room (Apartment 1).

Hwang Minhyun Filmography:
– Random Family Season 3 (무작정 패밀리 시즌3) | TVING / Hwang Minhyun (2013)
– Trot Lovers (트로트의 연인) | KBS 2TV / as MC (2014)
– Momo Salon (모모살롱) | Naver TV / as Mr.Fantastic (2014)
– Their Distance (좋아해, 너를) | TVING, Watcha / as Nam Sangsoo (2017)
– Live On (라이브온) | JTBC / as Go Euntaek (2020)
– Alchemy of Souls (환혼) | tvN / as Seoyul (2022)
– Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow (환혼: 빛과 그림자) | tvN / as Seoyul (2022)
– My Lovely Liar (소용없어 거짓말) | tvN / as Kim Doha (2023)
– Study Group (?) (스터디그룹) | TVING / as Yoon Gamin (2025)

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