TXT: TMI

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MANAGEMENT AND FORMATION

• TXT’s executive producer is Bang Si-hyuk (”Hitman” Bang), and the main producer is Slow Rabbit.
• Even though TXT is not a fully “self-produced” group, the members actively participate in the process of song production and writing lyrics.
  • For example, Beomgyu co-produced “Maze in the Mirror” from The Dream Chapter: Eternity with Slow Rabbit, and all of the members participated in the songwriting or the writing of the lyrics. Yeonjun wrote the melody for “Happy Fools” from The Name Chapter: Temptation while the other members participated in the lyrics.
  • For all 5 songs released in minisode 2: Thursday’s Child, the members of TXT participated in the songwriting process.
• Upon the news of TXT’s debut, TXT received a lot of media attention as “the group to succeed BTS,” even before the official debut.
  • The general perception was that the members would have spent their trainee days under luxury treatment as the popularity of BTS has made Bighit Entertainment, and later HYBE Co., into a huge multinational entertainment company.
  • However, when TXT was first scouted as trainees, Bighit was not the huge company that HYBE has become today, and the members of TXT have had to train under the conditions of a small agency.
• Soobin and Hueningkai became trainees by auditioning; Soobin through applying by email, and Hueningkai through initially auditioning at a different agency and leaving a favorable impression on a staff member who later moved to Bighit Entertainment. The other three members (Yeonjun, Beomgyu, and Taehyun) became trainees by being scouted by casting managers on the street.
• The members, in order from first to join Bighit Entertainment as trainees to last, are as follows; the brackets indicate the number of years spent training before debut.
  • Yeonjun (4~5 years) - Taehyun (3 years) - Soobin (3 years) - Hueningkai (2.5 years) - Beomgyu (2 years)

LONG TITLES

• The official group name, TOMORROW X TOGETHER (투머로우바이투게더), is 17 characters in English and 9 characters in Korean.
• “Long titles” of albums and songs have become something of a trademark of the TXT brand. This becomes even more evident in Korean, as most of the English titles are much shorter or are not a direct translation of the longer Korean titles.
  • Below is the list of TXT song titles that are longer than 10 characters in Korean and the direct translation of those Korean titles in English.
    • “어느날 머리에서 뿔이 자랐다” / One day, horns grew out of my head
      (official English title: CROWN)
    • “9와 4분의 3 승강장에서 너를 기다려” / I wait for you in platform 9 and 3 quarters
      (official English title: Run Away)
    • “그냥 괴물을 살려두면 안 되는 걸까” / “Can’t we just leave the monster alive?”
    • “세계가 불타버린 밤, 우린…” / On the night the world burned down, we…
      (official English title: Can’t You See Me?)
    • “동물원을 빠져나온 퓨마” / The puma that got out of the zoo
      (official English title: PUMA)
    • “5시 53분의 하늘에서 발견한 너와 나” / You and I found in the sky at 5:53
      (official English title: Blue Hour)
    • “자정의 창가에서 만난 악마의 목소리는 달콤했다” / The devil I met by the window at midnight had a sweet voice
      (official English title: Devil by the Window)
    • “머리에 솟아난 뿔은 나의 왕관이었다” / The horns that grew on my head were my crown
      (official English title: Deep Down)
    • “기적은 너와 내가 함께하는 순간마다 일어나고 있어” / Miracles happen in every moment you and I are together
      (official English title: Miracle)

MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA

• All 5 members of TXT are quite tall; 4 of the members are over 180cm (5’ 11’’) and even the shortest member is considerably taller than the average Korean male height, standing at 177cm (5’ 9’’).
  • For their height, TXT as a group has the nickname of “EIGHT FEET X TOGETHER,” as “eight feet” (팔척) is the traditional Korean way to hyperbolically call people that stand much taller than others. Other idols have often been seen to avoid standing behind TXT in situations like music show winner announcements and award shows.
• 3 out of the 5 TXT members have the surname Choi, though all three Chois come from different ancestral backgrounds.
  • Yeonjun’s Choi family is from Jeonju, Soobin’s Choi family is from Gangneung, and Beomgyu’s Choi family is from Gyeongju.
• None of the members were born in the same month of the year, though two of the members were born on the 5th, and two of the members were born on the 13th.
  • December 5th - Soobin / Febuary 5th - Taehyun
  • September 13th - Yeonjun / March 13th - Beomgyu
  • August 14th - Hueningkai
• All of the members, except Beomgyu, have blood type A. Beomgyu’s blood type is AB.
• None of the members have younger brothers. All of the members have an older sibling, except for Yeonjun who is an only child.
• Currently, 3 out of the 5 TXT members have official Instagram accounts.
  • The members who currently have an Instagram account all opened their accounts when they were 24 by Korean age.
  • The remaining two members, without personal Instagram accounts, Taehyun and Hueningkai will turn 24 by Korean age in 2025.
• The signature pose (hand sign) of TXT, forming the TXT sign with two hands, was made by Yeonjun.

• For their popularity in Japan, TXT members made a special appearance on an episode of a Japanese anime show, Crayon Sin-Chan, as themselves.
  • TXT has done both the Japanese and the Korean dubbing.