2nd generation · With US Entertainment / IST Entertainment
エーピンク / 에이핑크
Apink began as the cleanest of the innocent-concept girl groups and spent more than a decade quietly editing that image.
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NoNoNo and Mr. Chu are the popular songs, I'm So Sick turned toward adult synth pop, and %% and Dumhdurum come with separate choreography cuts.
Come here to see how a group survives its own introduction and grows out of it in public.
チョロン초롱 · ChorongView in Japanese
ボミ보미 · BomiView in Japanese
ウンジ은지 · EunjiView in Japanese
ナムジュ남주 · NamjooView in Japanese
ハヨン하영 · HayoungView in Japanese
ナウン나은 · NaeunView in Japanese| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| チョロン | 1991-03-03 | 35 | 162.8cm | O | ESFJ | South Korea |
| ボミ | 1993-08-13 | 33 | 163cm | O | ISFP | South Korea |
| ウンジ | 1993-08-18 | 33 | 162.3cm | B | INTP | South Korea |
| ナムジュ | 1995-04-15 | 31 | 165cm | B | ESFJ | South Korea |
| ハヨン | 1996-07-19 | 30 | 169cm | B | INFP | South Korea |
| ナウン | 1994-02-10 | 32 | 168cm | B | INTJ | South Korea |
Ages are as of 2026-09-17.
Follow a few songs from the starting point to the group's current sound.
NoNoNo MVNoNoNo is the clearest picture of the early image and the warmth that carried it.
Mr. Chu MVMr. Chu widened the audience further, and the comparison against the debut era is instructive.Verified English information is not yet available for this section.
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What anchors Apink is straight-down-the-line wholesome pop and an update towards polished, city-pop-leaning expression. The girl group debuted on April 19, 2011 with I Don't Know, started out as approachable and wholesome, and has renewed that image across a long run. Today the line-up is Chorong, Bomi, Eunji, Namjoo and Hayoung.
NoNoNo and Mr. Chu made signature songs with wide appeal, and I'm So Sick turned towards grown-up synth pop. Songs such as Dumhdurum have choreography videos as well, so the expressions in the music video and the choreography can be watched apart.
There are many Japanese releases too, and they can be followed as a separate line. 15th Season is a song for the fans at the fifteenth anniversary, where the relationship particular to a long-running group shows. NoNoNo, then Mr. Chu, then I'm So Sick covers the wholesome entrance, the signature song and the turning point.
Editors' take NoNoNo / Mr — Chu / I'm So Sick. Three songs cover the range from wholesome pop to matured city pop in a long-running five-piece.
No. 62 of 210 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 30%)
The denominator is the 210 groups, out of 525 covered by KPOP DISCOVER, whose raw score reaches at least one point. The score adds 10 points per Japanese-market release, 3 per Japan-related track, 12 per member from Japan, and 8 per official Japanese account. Japanese-market releases carry the most weight because they are the most direct evidence of activity; related tracks add track-level detail; members from Japan stand for Japanese-language communication and continuity; official accounts stand for a permanent point of contact. The weights are an editorial judgement, not a statistical optimisation, and the ranking tracks release volume in Japan closely. Source: releases, tracks, members, and official links recorded by KPOP DISCOVER (updated 2026-09-17).
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