Biography
Yong Jun-hyung first gained notice as the lead vocalist of Beast, the second-generation K-pop act that formed in 2009 and maintained a run of number-one albums and EPs across the following decade. He stepped away from the lineup in 2019 and resurfaced three years later as a solo artist with the mini-album LONER.
A native of Seoul, the singer, producer, and actor entered the industry in his late teens, performing under the name Poppin' Dragon with the group Xing in 2007. Cube Entertainment recruited him shortly afterward, and he was revealed as a founding member of Beast ahead of the group’s 2009 debut EP Beast Is the B2ST. Strong sales and early award recognition quickly translated into the band’s first music-show victory on M Countdown with “Shock,” the title track of their second EP Shock of the New Era (2010). Commercial momentum carried forward: their fourth EP Lights Go On Again entered the Korean charts at number one, and the pattern continued with the chart-topping full-lengths Fiction and Fact (2011) and Hard to Love, How to Love (2013) plus the number-one EPs Midnight Sun (2012), Good Luck (2014), Time (2014), and Ordinary (2015). During those years Junhyung also built credits as an actor and variety performer on Monstar, Coffee Do Me a Favor, and Hitmaker, while producing every track on bandmate Yang Yo-seob’s debut EP The First Collage. His own outside projects included collaborations with HyunA, Wheesung, and G.NA, capped by the 2013 solo EP Flower, which reached number four on the Gaon chart. After the 2016 releases Guess Who? and Highlight, Junhyung and the remaining members parted ways with Cube and relaunched under the name Highlight at Around Us Entertainment. The mini-albums Can You Feel It? and Celebrate appeared in 2017, followed by the special album Outro when Doo-joon enlisted for military service. Junhyung himself exited the group in 2019.
Three years after leaving Highlight, Yong Jun-hyung resumed releasing music with the September 2022 mini-album LONER and the 2023 digital single “Post It.”
A native of Seoul, the singer, producer, and actor entered the industry in his late teens, performing under the name Poppin' Dragon with the group Xing in 2007. Cube Entertainment recruited him shortly afterward, and he was revealed as a founding member of Beast ahead of the group’s 2009 debut EP Beast Is the B2ST. Strong sales and early award recognition quickly translated into the band’s first music-show victory on M Countdown with “Shock,” the title track of their second EP Shock of the New Era (2010). Commercial momentum carried forward: their fourth EP Lights Go On Again entered the Korean charts at number one, and the pattern continued with the chart-topping full-lengths Fiction and Fact (2011) and Hard to Love, How to Love (2013) plus the number-one EPs Midnight Sun (2012), Good Luck (2014), Time (2014), and Ordinary (2015). During those years Junhyung also built credits as an actor and variety performer on Monstar, Coffee Do Me a Favor, and Hitmaker, while producing every track on bandmate Yang Yo-seob’s debut EP The First Collage. His own outside projects included collaborations with HyunA, Wheesung, and G.NA, capped by the 2013 solo EP Flower, which reached number four on the Gaon chart. After the 2016 releases Guess Who? and Highlight, Junhyung and the remaining members parted ways with Cube and relaunched under the name Highlight at Around Us Entertainment. The mini-albums Can You Feel It? and Celebrate appeared in 2017, followed by the special album Outro when Doo-joon enlisted for military service. Junhyung himself exited the group in 2019.
Three years after leaving Highlight, Yong Jun-hyung resumed releasing music with the September 2022 mini-album LONER and the 2023 digital single “Post It.”
Albums
Beautiful Dystopia
2024
Fall Into Blue
2023
POST IT
2023
LONER
2022
Monstar, Pt. 7 (Original Television Soundtrack)
2013
Singles
