Are you a newbie in the k-pop world? Or a veteran and just wondering what the meanings behind your favorite groups are?
Even though some are weird, make no sense, or are just embarrassing, it’s crucial to know what they mean. It’d be like walking around telling people ‘B.A.P‘ means ‘Blonde Asian People’ or ‘Bunnies Are Puffy’. You not only look stupid for not knowing, but the group sounds rather dumb as well. Haha. Check out the list KMUSIC admins compiled just for our viewers.
Past and present artists are included.
But anyway, this article is a list explaining the meaning behind group name acronyms and initialisms.
Note: Since this is a very long article if you are looking for a specific group, use ‘CTRL + f’ to search.
1TYM: 1 Time for Your Mind
2NE1: New Evolution of the 21st Century
AOA: Ace of Angels
AST’1: A Star 1
B1A4: Be the One, All For One
B2Y: Babyboys 2 Yearninggirls
Baby V.O.X: Baby Voices of Xpression
Baby V.O.X Re.V: Baby Voices of Xpression Renaissance Voices
B.A.P: Best Absolute Perfect
BB.Boys: Best of Best Boys
BBde Girl: Beauty Blessed de Girl
BEAST: Boys of EAst Standing Tall
Block B: BlockBuster
BoM: Blooming of Our Music
BTOB: Born TO Beat
C-Clown: Crown Clown
CHI-CHI: Creative electronic House Idols
C.N Blue: Code-Name Blue
C-REAL: Chemi Redee Effie AnnJ Lenny
DMTN: Desire.Motivation.Timing.Now
EVoL: Effective Voice of Ladies
EXID: EXceed In Dreaming
F.Cuz: For Century Ultimate Zest
Fin.K.L: Fin Killing Liberty
F.I.X: Four Immaculate Xtraordinaries
F.T Island: Five-Treasure Island
GLAM: GirLs be AMbitious
g.o.d: Groove Overdose
GP Basic: Girl Power Basic
H.A.M: Heart And Mind
HITT: Here Is The Top
H.O.T: High-Five of Teenager
Jevice: Jewelry Voice
jtL : Jang Woohyuk Tony Lee Jaewon (the names of the members)
JQT: J Quality Quartet (J is a common letter between the original member’s names)
JYJ: Jaejoong Yoochun Junsu (the names of the members)
LPG: Lovely Pretty Girls
MaskOT: Mask of Thetis
MBLAQ: Music Boys Live in Absolute Quality
MIB: Most Incredible Busterz (orig. Bastardz)
M.I.L.K: Made In Lovely Kin
M.I.S.O: Magic Souls of Oriental
Ne-P: New Passion
New.F.O: New Five Order
N.EX.T: New EXperiment Team
NRG: New Radiancy Group
N:Sonic: Neo Sonic
NU’EST: New Established Style and Tempo
Pascol: Pastel Color
RaNia: RegenerAtioN Idol of Asia
R.ef: Ruff Easy Flava (orig. Rave Effect)
Roo’Ra: Roots of Reggae
SeeYa: See You Always / See You Again
S.E.S: Sea [Bada] Eugene Shoo (the names of the members)
SG Wannabe: Simon & Garfunkel Wannabe
SHU-I: So Hot Union of Idols
S.L.I.M: SunLight In the Morning
SS501: 5 Superstar Singers as 1 Forever
TEEN TOP: Teenager Emoboy Emotion Next generation Talent Object Praise
T.G.U.S: The Guys Using Sound
The BOSS: The Boys Of Super Space (adapted from the meaning of their Korean name: 대국남아 “Daeguk Namah”)
T.O.A: Top of Asia
TOUCH: The Original Undeniable Charismatic Homme
TRAX: Typhoon of the Rose Attack on X-Mas (based on the member’s stage names)
T.T.MA: Taste The Maximum (orig. To The Maximum)
TVXQ: Rising Gods of the East (based on the Chinese pronunciation of the group’s official hanja: 東方神起 “Tong Vfang Xien Qi”)
U-KISS: Ubiquitious Korean International Super Star
UN: United N-generation
VIXX: Value In Excelsis
VNT: Voice of Ninety-Two
X-5: Xenos-Five
YMGA: Young Men’s Gangsta Association
ZE:A: Children of Empire (based on the pronunciation of their Korean name: 제국의아이들 “[Z]Jegook-ui Aideul”)
Article by: Mir & Jenny
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