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윤두준- Name
- Yoon Doo-joon
- Born
- 4 July 1989
Played the lead in the first two seasons of the tvN drama Let's Eat.
Their story
How it started
Highlight began as BEAST, a six-member boy group from Cube Entertainment. They debuted on 16 October 2009 with "Bad Girl", from the EP Beast Is the B2ST, and won several rookie awards for that first year. Doojoon led the group, with Yoseob, Gikwang and Dongwoon among the original six. Five months after debut, "Shock" gave them their first music show win, on M Countdown on 25 March 2010.
The breakthrough
The first full album, Fiction and Fact, came out in May 2011. Its title track "Fiction" won Best Dance Performance for a male group at the 2011 MAMA. That November, BEAST also took Artist of the Year at the Melon Music Awards. Fans of those years are still called Beauty.
Their sound and style
The BEAST years mixed dance tracks with an upbeat streak. "Beautiful Night" (2012) was a party song, and "YeY" (2015) tried EDM. After their Cube contracts ended in 2016, the members founded their own company, Around US Entertainment, and relaunched as Highlight, the title of their 2016 album, in March 2017. The first single as Highlight, "Plz Don't Be Sad", was a lively synth-pop track with a bouncing rhythm. In 2025 "Chains" moved to hip-hop, with a relaxed chorus, a jazzy clarinet riff and a noir look. Gikwang, who co-wrote it, called it something neither BEAST nor Highlight had done before.
Where they are now
Highlight continues as four: Doojoon, Yoseob, Gikwang and Dongwoon. An agreement with Cube in April 2024 lets them use the name BEAST again, and "Endless Ending" came out under that name in April 2025. The EP From Real to Surreal followed as the 20th physical album of BEAST and Highlight together. That summer they toured seven Asian cities. From 16 to 18 October 2026 they held three sold-out fan concerts at Jangchung Arena in Seoul for their 17th anniversary.
