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It’s their Lunar New Year in 2022: the K-pop stars born in the Year of the Tiger – BoA, Dahyun of Twice, NCT’s Jungwoo and more
- Lunar New Year on February 1 marks the start of the Year of the Tiger, and K-pop stars born under that sign will be hoping for even more success
- BoA and TVXQ’s U-Know Yunho were born in 1986, the Year of the Fire Tiger, while (G)I-dle’s Soyeon is one of many born in 1998, the Year of the Earth Tiger
Tamar Hermanin United States
Though January 1 rang in the Gregorian year of 2022, February 1 will mark the Lunar New Year of the upcoming Year of the Water Tiger.
Like all other animal years of the Asian zodiac calendars, the Year of the Tiger arrives every twelve years: the last year of the Tiger began in February 2010, and the next one will not arrive until February 2034.
According to tradition, the zodiac’s tiger represents a variety of strong traits, including determination, strength, braveness, and exorcising evil.
All are important characteristics for dealing with the third year of a global pandemic, while the year of the Tiger is also especially impactful for those born in previous years of the Tiger, including many popular K-pop stars.
1986: Year of the Fire Tiger
Though many popular stars born in the Year of the Tiger that began in February 1986 are no longer active, some of the long-standing power players in K-pop were born that year, including BoA, Super Junior’s Donghae and Eunhyuk, and TVXQ’s U-Know Yunho, all of whom have been active recently.
BoA recently released Step Back as a member of the female supergroup GOT the beat, while the Super Junior duo released their Countdown – Zero ver. album in December. All four were featured on SM Entertainment’s recently released SMCU Express album of stars signed to the label, and performed at the label’s New Year’s concert on January 1.
1998: Year of the Earth Tiger
Most of the active Year of the Tiger K-pop stars were born in 1998. Among the most prominent are Twice’s Dahyun and NCT’s Jungwoo.
Other fan favourites born that year include (G)I-dle’s Soyeon, Stray Kids’ Lee Know, Ateez’s Seonghwa and Hongjoong, E:U of Everglow, and SinB and Umji of Viviz, both formerly of GFriend.
Members of The Boyz, Dreamcatcher, Loona, Astro, Pentagon, Golden Child, fromis_9, Oneus, Onewe, Momoland, Cosmic Girls, Cherry Bullet, OnlyOneOf, Verivery, Weki Meki, cignature, Xdinary Heroes, and AB6IX were also born that year. Rising soloist Bibi was born in 1998 too.
Finally, although Seventeen’s resident tiger aficionado Hoshi was not born in the Year of the Tiger, his bandmates Vernon and Dino were.
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