KPOP 3rd generation · Core Contents Media / MBK Entertainment
SPEED
スピード / 스피드
SPEED split off from the mixed group Coed School and built their stages around acrobatics and long narrative videos.
- 2013DebutJan 17, 2013
- 10Members
- 3thGeneration
- DEEPSFandom
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In 30 seconds: SPEED
The line-up changed enough that the membership is best read release by release, but the physical staging stayed constant.
Start here if you want boy-group performance that borrows more from stunt work than from dance.
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Key facts
- Group name
- SPEED
- Reading / Hangul
- スピード / 스피드
- Company
- Core Contents Media / MBK Entertainment
- Debut date
- January 17, 2013
- Days active
- 714 days (1 year, 11 months)
- Final activity date
- 2015
- Debut song
- It's Over
- Generation
- 3rd generation
- Fandom name
- DEEPS(ディープス)
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Member guide
テウン태운 · TaewoonView in Japanese
Profile comparison
| Members | Birth date | Blood type | MBTI | Nationality | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| テウン | 1990-05-11 | 36 | 184cm | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ジョンウ | 1990-05-09 | 36 | 181cm | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ソンミン | 1995-12-07 | 30 | 178cm | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ジョングク | 1993-09-08 | 33 | 180cm | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| セジュン | 1993-12-10 | 32 | 180cm | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ユファン | 1991-07-29 | 35 | 180cm | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| テハ | 1992-03-04 | 34 | 176cm | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| キオ | 1994-05-14 | 32 | 176cm | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
| ヌリ | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea | |||
| グァンヘン | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | South Korea |
Ages are as of 2026-10-31.
Selected releases
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Start here
Follow a few songs from the starting point to the group's current sound.
It's Over MVIt's Over is the official debut and the long-form video that set the world up.
Don't Tease Me MVDon't Tease Me is the one that gets rediscovered, and the acrobatics are why.
What U MVWhat U carries the later staging and the wheeled-shoe routine it is remembered for.05
From debut to now
- 2012Reorganised from a mixed gender group into a boy group, Lovey-Dovey Plus and others show the stage just before the SPEED name.
- 2013Formal activity opened with a long drama style music video, and Pain the Love of Heart left the kind of strongly narrative footage MBK was known for.
- 2014Around the mini album of that period came fierce stages including acrobatics, and the performance footage is still talked about years later.
- 2015With the line-up changing, activity moved on to the later mini album, where a gliding kind of performing showed the physicality of SPEED from another direction.
- 2016Even after group activity ended, the rap and production of Taewoon, the acting of Sungmin and renewed attention to Don't Tease Me keep SPEED in view.
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Achievements
Key milestones
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Official links
Official site
Official social accounts and platforms
Shopping guide
Verified English shopping links are not yet available.
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KPOP DISCOVER's SPEED note
Drama style music videos and acrobatic stages are the two poles of SPEED. The boy group made its formal debut in January 2013 with It's Over, stands in the line of Core Contents Media / MBK Entertainment, and carries a complicated run of line-up changes going back to Coed School, so following the membership song by song makes it easier to understand.
The ways in are It's Over, Don't Tease Me and What U. It's Over builds the world through a long drama music video, Don't Tease Me won fresh attention through stages that include acrobatics, and What U remains as the performance route of the later years.
There are easy ways back in at the level of individual members as well, through the rap and production of Taewoon, the singing of Jongkook and the dancing and acting of Sungmin. The group was short-lived, yet the impression left by its stage footage is unusually strong for its generation. Set It's Over beside Don't Tease Me and What U to take in the drama music video, the stage and the closing years.
Editors' take It's Over / Don't Tease Me / What U — drama style music videos and acrobatic stages in three songs, from a boy group in the MBK line.
Trivia worth knowing
Offshoot
SPEED grew out of the male side of Coed School, and that prehistory explains the later changes in line-up.
Name
The name SPEED calls up quick movement and acrobatics, which is exactly how Don't Tease Me and What U play out.
Fandom
DEEPS is the word used for the fandom and sits as a counterweight to the name of the group itself.
Video
It's Over and Pain the Love of Heart make most sense approached through the drama-style videos that MBK favoured.
Performance
Don't Tease Me needs the stage and dance clips as well as the music video before the later reappraisal of SPEED makes sense.
Related
Held up against T-ARA, DIA and ToppDogg, the MBK house style and the mid-tier boy groups of the period separate out.
Frequently asked questions
What defines SPEED?
The line-up changed enough that the membership is best read release by release, but the physical staging stayed constant.
Why should a new listener start with SPEED?
Start here if you want boy-group performance that borrows more from stunt work than from dance.
Which songs should a new listener try first?
Start with It's Over, Don't Tease Me, What U, then continue to the official video index.