2nd generation · Around US Entertainment
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HIGHLIGHT began as BEAST in 2009, left Cube Entertainment in 2016, and restarted under a new name while keeping the same four members.
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Bad Girl, Shock, Fiction, Beautiful Night and 12:30 belong to the first name; Can You Feel It? and Plz Don't Be Sad open the second.
Start here for a group that kept its audience through a change of name, label and ownership.
ドゥジュン두준 · DoojoonView in Japanese
ヨソプ요섭 · YoseobView in Japanese
ギグァン기광 · GikwangView in Japanese
ドンウン동운 · DongwoonView in Japanese
ヒョンスン현승 · HyunseungView in Japanese| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ドゥジュン | 1989-07-04 | 37 | 178cm | A | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ヨソプ | 1990-01-05 | 36 | 168cm | B | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ギグァン | 1990-03-30 | 36 | 172cm | A | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ドンウン | 1991-06-06 | 35 | 181cm | A | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ヒョンスン | 1989-09-03 | 37 | 174cm | B | INFP | South Korea |
Ages are as of 2026-09-17.
Follow a few songs from the starting point to the group's current sound.
Fiction MVFiction is the song people remember, melody and routine together.
Plz Don't Be Sad MVPlz Don't Be Sad is the restart and proof the group could carry a new name.
Chains MVChains is the recent one and shows how little the quality slipped.Verified English information is not yet available for this section.
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What anchors HIGHLIGHT is a line of 2nd generation signature songs running from the BEAST years to the present name. Starting as BEAST and now working at Around US Entertainment as a 4-piece boy group, they stacked up the standards of their era with Bad Girl, Shock, Fiction and 12:30. Fiction in particular is remembered as melody and choreography together.
They left Cube Entertainment in 2016 and set out again in 2017 as HIGHLIGHT with Can You Feel It? and Plz Don't Be Sad. The strength is not the popularity carried over from the old name alone but that music shows and concerts have kept running under the current one.
The standard lineup now is Doojoon, Yoseob, Gikwang and Dongwoon, four members, with the BEAST years handled as working history. The newest releases run unbroken up to Chains in 2025. Fiction, then Plz Don't Be Sad, then Not The End covers the old name, the restart and the current one.
Editors' take Fiction / Plz Don't Be Sad / Not The End — a 4-piece whose 2nd generation standards run from the BEAST years to the present name across 3 tracks.
No. 177 of 210 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 84%)
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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