J.Seph
김태형- Name
- Kim Tae-hyung
- Born
- 21 June 1992
Enlisted in October 2020 and was back for the EP Re: in 2022; he says 2026 is simply where the contract ends.
Their story
A deck of four
DSP Media announced a new co-ed group in December 2016 and built it around a card game. BM was the King, J.Seph the Ace, Somin the Black JokeR and Jiwoo the Color JokeR. Each of three project singles brought in a hidden card, starting with singer Hur Young-ji on "Oh NaNa". Somin had already been through Puretty and April. The official debut, the EP Hola Hola, came on 19 July 2017.
Big abroad first
The tropical, dancehall-heavy sound travelled fast. The Wild Kard tour went through the Americas and Europe in the debut year, and Latin America in particular kept bringing them back. Korea was slower to notice, which Jiwoo later called the group's big unsolved assignment. A turning point came with "Bomb Bomb" in 2019: after it, Somin says, the members wrote their own music and shaped their own concepts. BM wrote and composed "Gunshot" a year later.
Moombahton and pair dances
Moombahton stayed the base, from "Hola Hola" to the 2026 title track "Back To Life". The members say the co-ed line-up was an advantage: they could sing about love more directly and build choreography around pairs. J.Seph served in the military from late 2020; the four were back together for the EP Re: in 2022 and released an EP almost every year after that.
Where they are now
On 6 July 2026 DSP Media announced that KARD would end its group activities, with the members' contracts running out at the end of the year. Two days later "Don't Recall" passed 100 million YouTube views. Their first and only studio album, Where To Now? (Part.2): NOWHERE, came out on 28 July, and the NOW HERE tour opened in Seoul on 8 August with dates planned into early 2027. The members avoid the word disbandment and say they would like to make another KARD album one day.
