Kim Young-woon, famous by his stage name Kangin, is a South Korean singer, actor, MC and radio personality
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Kim Young-woon, famous by his stage name Kangin, is a South Korean singer, actor, MC and radio personality
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Kangin has remained in news several times for breaking law. He was arrested in an assault case that took place on September 16, 2009 and in a couple of DUI hit-and-run incidents that occurred in October 16, 2009 and May 24, 2016 respectively where he was found to be under the influence of alcohol.
Kangin was born Kim Young-woon on January 17, 1985, in Seoul, South Korea.
He became member of the project group ‘Super Junior 05’ among eleven others. The group, formed in 2005 by S.M. Entertainment’s producer Lee Soo-man, made its debut on November 6 that year on SBS aired music program ‘Popular Song’ where the group performed their first single ‘Twins (Knock Out)’.
In December 2005, ‘Super Junior 05’ released their debut album ‘Twins’ that included their debut single ‘Twins (Knock Out)’ as also their first numero uno radio single, ‘Miracle’. The album debuted at #3 in the monthly chart of December that year and recorded a sale of 28,536 copies in its first month of release and over 100,000 till present.
He along with Shindong and Leeteuk became MC of Mnet aired ‘M!Countdown’ after five days of debut performance of ‘Super Junior’. He remained so till mid-2006 before being replaced by Eunhyuk because of his other hosting endeavours in ‘Show! Music Core’, an MBC aired music program; and in EBS ‘Reckless Radio’.
Following his debut in ‘Super Junior’ till February 2006 he remained a regular in ‘Image Survival’, an MBC variety show. ‘Super Junior 05’ was rechristened as just ‘Super Junior’ after addition of its thirteenth member, Kyuhyun that year.
The first musical pursuit of the boy band following its renaming to ‘Super Junior’ was the single ‘U’. The single not only remained at the top of the CD charts for several weeks but also climbed the monthly MIAK K-pop album charts selling 91,416 copies by 2008. It remained the group’s most successful single till the release of another ‘Sorry Sorry’ in March 2009.