Hi guys! Welcome to season 4 of the MIA2K Podcast! To start our season off strong, today we’re going to be talking about K-Pop Aces, or idols who can do it all and who do it well. 

We’ll disclaim that we’re only focusing on a few today so we might not be including someone you consider an ace, and if so, we invite you to share your thoughts in the polls or comments and let us know who are your aces! 

Before we begin, we have to establish what an ace is to us here at MIA2K Podcast, so we’ll start there.

Listen here:

A K-Pop ace for us at MIA2K Podcast is an idol who can do all 5 of the following things:

1. Sing
2. Dance
3. Rap
4. Produce music
5. Write songs 

With this rubric in mind, we consider the following idols K-Pop Aces, and they’ll be the main focus of our episode today:

• Joohoney from Monsta X
• Soyeon from (G)-IDLE
• Han from Stray Kids
• Moonbyul from Mamamoo

Joohoney from MX

• Born in 1994
• Active since 2015
• Part of Monsta X (Starship Entertainment)
• Solo debut in 2023 
• Currently enlisted 
• Credited for 180 songs on KOMCA as of Sep 2023
  • Notably for us:
    • “Who Do You Love?” – Credited with lyrics, music 
    • “Gambler” – Credited with lyrics, music, arrangement 
    • “Rush hour” – Credited with lyrics, music, arrangement 

Soyeon from (G)-IDLE

• Born August 26, 1998
• She is known for:
  • PRODUCE 101 SEASON 1 in 2016(placed 20th) 
  • UNPRETTY RAPSTAR 3 2016 (placed 3rd)
• She debuted solo on November 5th, 2017, with her single “Jelly” written, composed and arranged by herself.
• (G)I-DLE debuted on May 2, 2018
  • Rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and leader
• KOMCA – 81 Composer, Arranger, and Lyricist
  • https://x.com/G_IDLENEVERLAND/status/1703524518441128320?s=20 
• Notably
  • “Senorita”
  • “Dumdi Dumdi”
  • “Tomboy”
  • “My Bag”
  • “Nxde”
  • “Queencard”
• Also
  • CLC – “No”
  • Key – “I Wanna Be”

Han from Stray Kids

• Born in 2000
• Active since 2017
• Part of Stray Kids (JYPE Div. 1)
• Part of 3RACHA – Producing team for Stray Kids (includes Bang Chan and Changbin)
• Notably:
  • “Collision” – Credited with lyrics and composing 
  • “God’s Menu” – Credited with lyrics, producing, composing 
  • “Winter Falls” – Credited with lyrics and composing 
  • 137 songs in KOMCA

Moonbyul from Mamamoo

• Born December 22, 1992
• Debuted June 18, 2014 with MAMAMOO
  • Rapper, songwriter, and composer
  • Solo debut in May of 2018 with Selfish 
  • MAMAMOO+ Subunit August 30 2022
• Notably:
  • She originally auditioned to be a vocalist but changed to become a rapper instead
  • She created the choreography for “Mr. Ambiguous”
  • Mamamoo appeared on the show Immortal Songs, for which Moonbyul wrote all the raps that were included in those performances 
  • 2018, when she went solo, was the first time she was credited for the music composition for a Mamamoo song in their “Blue;s” album
  • She was credited for music production on both Mic On songs from Mamamoo’s last Digital Single album and she produced and wrote on every song on the Mamamoo+ releases
• As of September 2023, the Korea Music Copyright Association has 117 songs listed under her name
• Her nickname is “Black Hole” because she tends to sweat a lot. This makes her the ultimate relatable queen to Kathy and just became her bias wrecker (bias: Hwasa) in MAMAMOO by default. 

To watch us go into all of the detail that we believe makes these idols absolute aces plus to watch us cover a few idols from yesteryear who are 100% bonafide aces AND also see an honorable mentions section…