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6. TMI

Stray Kids: TMI

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This page lists “TMI” of Stray Kids, an 8-member boy group from JYP Entertainment.
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TMI originally stands for “Too Much Information.” However, in Korean popular culture, the term has evolved to mean “interesting personal details/trivia.”

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Read more about Stray Kid’s official information here.

MANAGEMENT AND FORMATION

  • The members have become trainees of JYP Entertainment in the chronological order below (from first to last):
    • Bang Chan - Han - I.N - Hyunjin - Changbin - Felix - Seungmin - Lee Know
  • Stray Kids are composed of six Koreans, and two Korean-Australians.
  • The members of Stray Kids were picked by the leader of the team, Bang Chan.
    • Bang Chan had been a trainee of JYP Entertainment for 7 years when he was told by the company to pick out the members of Stray Kids himself.
    • Bang Chan picked the two members of 3RACHA, and six more trainees of JYP Entertainment to be part of the survival program Stray Kids.
  • In 2017, the 10-episode show finished airing, and all 9 trainees were confirmed to debut as Stray Kids; in March of 2018, they debuted as a 9-member group.
    • However, in October of 2019, Woojin terminated his contract with JYP Entertainment and departed from the group, making Stray Kids an 8-member boy group.

WORDPLAY IN TITLES

  • As a self-produced K-Pop group, Stray Kids is known for including wordplay in album titles or song titles, often mixing Korean, Chinese characters, and English.
  • Below are some of the wordplay in Stray Kids’ album/song titles, explained:

God’s Menu

  • The song in Korean is written as “神메뉴,” and pronounced “shin-menu.”
  • In Korean, “shin (新) menu” means “new menu” that a restaurant might roll out; however, the Chinese character used in the title of the song, 神, means “spirit” or “God.”
  • Another Chinese character pronounced as “shin” in Korean is 辛, meaning “spicy.”
  • Thus, the title could mean “new menu,” “God’s menu,” and “spicy menu.”

GO生 / IN生

  • GO生 is the title of Stray Kids’ first full album; IN生 is the title of the repackage version of the same album.
    • The chinese character 生 means “life” or “live,” and is pronounced as “saeng” in Korean.
    • “Gosaeng” in Korean means “tribulation” or “hardship,” while “GO LIVE” means “go out there and live your life, despite the hardships.”
    • “Insaeng” in Korean means “a person’s life” or “lifetime,” while “IN LIFE,” in conjunction with the previous album title, spells out “GO LIVE IN LIFE.”

Rockstar (樂-STAR)

  • The Chinese character 樂, is pronounced as “rock/lak” in Korean and means “music/melody” or “entertainment/pleasure.”

CASE 143

  • The “143” stands for the number of letters in the sentence, “I love you.”
    • The lyrics of case 143 includes “8 letters is all it takes,” again referring to “I love you.”

SKZOO

  • On December 24th, 2020, Stray Kids released their official character IP, SKZOO.
    • WOLF CHAN - Bang Chan (wolf)
    • Leebit - Lee Know (rabbit)
    • DWAEKKI - Changbin (pig-rabbit)
    • Jiniret - Hyunjin (white ferret)
    • HAN QUOKKA - Han (quokka)
    • BbokAri - Felix (chick)
    • PuppyM - Seungmin (puppy)
    • FoxI.Ny - I.N (fennec fox)

MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA

  • The official logo of Stray Kids was designed by Bang Chan himself.
  • On the day of their debut (March 25th, 2018), five members (Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, I.N) were underage.
    • On February 8th, 2020, all of the members have become legally adult, with I.N turning 19.
  • In August 2023, Bang Chan, Changbin, Hyunjin, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N opened their official Instagram accounts.
    • On March 25th, 2024 (6th anniversary of their debut), Lee Know and Han opened their official Instagram accounts.
  • Though Stray Kids is known for their brand of music being “spicy” or “mala-tasting,” all of the Stray Kids members say they can’t handle spicy food well.
  • Stray Kids have all blood types; Seungmin and I.N are type A’s, while Han and Hyunjin are type B’s, Bang Chan, Lee Know, and Changbin are type O’s, and Felix is type AB.
  • With the exception of I.N and Hyunjin who were born in February and March, resectively, all of the members are born in the August to October period of the year.
    • Han and Felix’s birthdays are only a day apart, and Felix and Seungmin’s birthdays are only a week apart.
  • On the first day of every year, Stray Kids release a video called “STEP OUT,” announcing their plans for the year including album releases, tours, performances, and self-produced variety series.