1st generation · KYT Entertainment / Trifecta Entertainment
コヨーテ / 코요태
Koyote have been going since 1998, a mixed trio built on Shinji's voice, Kim Jong-min's television familiarity and Bbaek Ga's rapping.
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The early records lean euro-dance, the middle ones are made for television, and the later ones show a group that simply refused to stop.
Start here for the longest-running dance act in Korean pop and one of the few from that decade still working.
シンジ신지 · ShinjiView in Japanese
キム・ジョンミン김종민 · Kim Jong-minView in Japanese
ペッカ빽가 · Bbaek GaView in Japanese| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| シンジ | 1981-11-18 | 44 | 165cm | AB | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| キム・ジョンミン | 1979-09-24 | 46 | 176cm | O | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ペッカ | 1981-05-14 | 45 | 186cm | 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.
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What anchors Koyote is mixed-gender dance music running since the end of the 90s, and the updating a long-running group keeps doing. A leading Korean mixed-gender dance group that debuted in 1998, it combines Shinji's vocals, the wide recognition of Kim Jong-min and Bbaek Ga's rapping into an entrance that has stayed listenable ever since.
The way in is Pure Love, Passion and Bingo. Pure Love and Passion give the early Eurodance colour, Bingo moves on to the warmth that suited television, and Hollywood and STORM confirm the updating a long-running group keeps doing.
Following through to Call Me shows a mixed group that is still releasing rather than a shelf of nostalgia. Pure Love, then Passion, then Bingo covers the Eurodance, the momentum and the warmth.
Editors' take Pure Love / Passion / Bingo — three songs cover mixed-gender dance music still running since the end of the 90s, from a first-generation trio.
No. 179 of 210 groups with recorded activity in Japan (top 85%)
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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