1st generation · DR Music
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Baby V.O.X offered a harder, more hip-hop-inflected idea of a girl group than S.E.S. or Fin.K.L did, and they worked abroad early.
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Kim E-Z, Lee Hee-jin, Shim Eun-jin, Kan Mi-youn and Yoon Eun-hye are the line-up most people mean, and the later singles reach for a wider audience.
Start here if you want to see how much range first-generation girl groups actually had.
キム・イージー김이지 · Kim E-ZView in Japanese
ヒジン희진 · Hee-jinView in Japanese
ウンジン은진 · Eun-jinView in Japanese
ミヨン미연 · Mi-younView in Japanese
ウネ은혜 · Eun-hyeView in Japanese| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| キム・イージー | 1979-02-03 | 47 | 172cm | AB | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ヒジン | 1979-02-21 | 47 | 168cm | B | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ウンジン | 1981-02-06 | 45 | 168cm | A | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ミヨン | 1982-02-02 | 44 | 170cm | O | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ウネ | 1984-10-03 | 41 | 168cm | O | Not disclosed | South Korea |
Ages are as of 2026-09-17.
Follow a few songs from the starting point to the group's current sound.
Killer MVKiller is a first-generation dance record that later groups kept borrowing from.Coincidence MVCoincidence is the most approachable of the late singles.Verified English shopping links are not yet available.
Baby V.O.X debuted from DR Music in July 1997 and threw themselves into the contest among first-generation girl groups with a strong image of womanhood and dance tracks that set them apart from S.E.S. and Fin.K.L. After changes in the line-up, the image locked into place once Kim E-Z, Lee Hee-jin, Shim Eun-jin, Kan Mi-youn and Yoon Eun-hye were all together. Among the groups of that era, putting an aggressive dance line at the centre is what lifted Baby V.O.X into a position of their own.
The first three to hear are Get Up, Killer and Coincidence. Get Up and Killer let you feel the core of that strong image and the dance tracks directly. Coincidence, tied to memories of the World Cup period in 2002, has a far wider popular reach and sounds so different that it is hard to believe it is the same group. Setting the three side by side makes the sheer width of what Baby V.O.X carried plain.
Ride West in 2004 stated the overseas ambition outright and stands as a record of trial and error on the eve of K-pop going global. NEW BABY VOX 2025 was released digitally in 2025, so the early signature songs can be heard again through a modern door. With that fresh regard now in the picture, following from the debut period in 1997 turns up plenty. Get Up, then Coincidence, then Ride West runs from the root of that strong image through the warmth of a popular hit to the first step abroad.
Editors' take Get Up / Coincidence / Ride West — from the root of a strong image of womanhood to the reach for a global audience, three songs from a DR Music five-piece.
No. 174 of 210 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 83%)
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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