South Korea is now in trend for its K-pop Culture. The K-pop industry is reaching every milestone nowadays. The industry came into view when the famous K-pop song Gangnam style was published by PSY., and all the K-pop idols are the ones who work to their blood, sweat, and tears to make the best songs and deliver them to their fans.
All K-pop artists are not only from South Korea. There are K-pop idols who are from Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, India, Vietnam, and other Countries too. In Vietnam, they have their own Pop Culture known as V-pop, but the industry is not as popular as the K-pop industry. But Some Vietnamese singers and Dancers have made their way into the K-pop industry and achieved their goals.
Here we have listed all the Vietnamese K-pop idols in the industry till now. You will find the names who are currently active also who are not. Read the article and find out the names. And don’t forget to comment down if you know any of them or have been following.
Roy fromZ-Stars
Z.M.C. has a boy band called Z-Boys . 7 members of the group made their debut. When Z.M.C. closed in February 2020, they relocated to Divtone Group. Currently, they are made up of Mavin, Roy, Josh, and Gai. all the members of the group are from different countries in Asia. Roy was born in Vietnam.
Roy from Z-Stars
he was revealed as a member of the group on January 15, 2019, through Twitter. On February 22, 2019, along with Z-Stars, he made his debut in the industry. Their first single was “No Limit.” Indian Z-pop idols Priyanka Mazumdar and Siddhant Arora are also members of the group. And Roy is the only Vietnam member of Z-Stars.
Hanbinfrom TEMPEST
TEMPEST is a boy band with seven members that is part of Yue Hua Entertainment. Hanbin , Hyungseop, Hyuk, Eunchan, Lew, Hwarang, and Taerae are the members of the group. Hanbin is the only member from Vietnam. He started showing interest in singing and dancing at the age of 15. after he passed the audition in Hanoi he became a trainee on July 2019 under Belift Lab.
Hanbin from TEMPEST
On June 2, 2021, Belift Lab revealed that Hanbin had left the agency. But later on, it was announced that he had signed the contract with Hua Enternment. He was revealed as the fifth member of the group Tempest On January 3, 2022. They debuted with the album “It’s Me, It’s We ” on March 2, 2022. An interesting fact is that he’s the first Vietnamese Kpop Idol under Hua Enternment.
Anh fromBeauty Box
Six international girls make up the BY-U Entertainment group Beauty Box. Rina, Anh, Sara, Gahyun, Jerin, and Sori are the members of the group. Anh is the only Vietnam member of the group. Before becoming a K-pop idol, she was previously a V-pop idol with the stage name Chérie.
Anh from Beauty Box
On June 26, 2021, she was revealed as the new member of the girl group Beauty Box. On September 23, they made their debut with the single “Beyond of B.B..” Subsequently, BY-U Entertainment said that Anh would be taking a break for health-related reasons and that the group would be performing and touring with just five members for the time being.
Hari WonfromKISS
South Korean ballad/R&B trio KISS performed under the J-Entercom banner. Mini, Jini, and Umji were in the starting lineup. They made their public debut on November 26th, 2001, with “Because I’m a Girl.” Hari, who is known by her stage name Mini was the only Vietnam member in the group.
Hari Won from KISS
The group disbanded after one year of its formation. The member later revealed that the reason behind the disbandment of the group is one of the members was dating, which was prohibited by the Company. After the group disbanded, Hari started her solo singing career in Vietnam by releasing the MV along with the song for Hương Đêm Bay Xa.
On her YouTube account, where she goes by the name Hari Won, she also performs K-pop covers. Her fans must visit her Youtube channel to find her Korean content.
Queen fromZ-Stars
Z-Stars is the girl group under Divtone Entertainment, with three members in total. On February 22, 2019, the group debuted with the track named “What You Waiting For.” The members of the group are Vanya, who is originally from Indonesia, and Priyanka, from India, who is the first K-pop idol from India. And lastly, Queen from Vietnam.
Queen from Z-Stars(credit to Z-Pop Dream)
On January 17, 2019, she was revealed as a member of Z-Stars. She is the Main Rapper, Lead Dancer, and Sub Vocalist of the group. The group may not be much active, but their song “Streets of Gold” is pure gold. You should check it out, as this is one of their hit song of all time.
HannifromNEWJEANS
Five girls make up the A.D.O.R. female group NewJeans . Prior to the August 1 release of their first E.P. New Jeans, they made their public debut on July 22, 2022, with the lead track “Attention.” Minji, Hanni, Danielle, Haerin, and Hyein are the members of the group. On July 21, 2022, Hanni debuted on their First track, “Attention.” and he is the only Vietnam member of the group.
Hanni from NEWJEANS
The fun fact is even before becoming a K-pop idol, he had a cameo appearance in B.T.S.’s “Permission to Dance” music video. We didn’t know anything about her before she became an idol. That’s why she was given the nickname “Cherry” by the army when the music video was released.
JadefromA-Daily
DK Entertainment’s female group A-Daily made its debut as a group of six on December 3, 2014. With their first song, “If You Don’t Tell Me,” Yunseol, Sena, Ziu, ChaeE, Jade, Diana, Jei, YoungBi, Taeryeong, and NoA are the members of the group. Jade is the only member of the group who is from Vietnam. She is the Vocalist of the group.
Jade from A-Daily
She was a member of the group from 2014 to 2015. after that, she terminated her contract with the group. Later on, the group stopped doing activities from 2019 Onward. as the Company hasn’t clarified anything, it is not sure if the group is Disbanded. But many assume that the group is most likely to be disbanded.
Hai YenfromM.I.S.O.
D.K. Entertainment’s female group A-Daily made its debut as a group of six on December 3, 2014. With their first song, “If You Don’t Tell Me,” Park Jiin was a member of the group from South Korea. Megumi was from Japan, and Lina was also a group member. Hai’s Birth name was Hoàng Hải Yến, and her stage name was Haiyen was the only one who was from Vietnam. But the group disbanded shortly after one year of its formation.
In Lord of War, Yuri Orlov, played by Nicolas Cage , is based on a well-known real-life international munitions dealer. During Lord of War’s bizarre opening, Yuri Orlov tells viewers, “There are over 550 million guns in international circulation.”
That works out to one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. “How do we arm the remaining 11?” is the sole question. In Orlov’s goal to put guns in the hands of every able-bodied pair of hands on the earth, Cage shines as an important participant in the international stage of modern warfare.
Yuri Orlov from Lord of War is based on a variety of real-life international armaments dealers, the most well-known of whom is Viktor Bout. Many facts about Orlov’s life in Lord of War came directly from the charges concerning Bout’s personal life and criminal behavior, the linkages implied by these allegations, and Bout’s own testimony during his trial.
Amnesty International recognized and even commended the film shortly after its release for shedding light on the global illicit arms trafficking sector, as shown by protagonist Yuri Orlov.
Merchant Of Death: The True Story Behind Lord Of War’s Yuri Orlov
If the charges against him are true, Viktor Anatolyevich Bout was a more successful smuggler than Amado Carrillo Fuentes from Narcos: Mexico. Bout’s main products, however, were weapons and ammunition rather than cocaine.
According to several intelligence assessments, eyewitness testimony, confessions, and paper and money trails obtained by multiple law enforcement agencies, Bout utilized his African air freight company Air Cess to become the world’s most prolific gunrunner from the 1990s to the early 2000s.
Bout’s ability to bypass UN arms embargoes in order to fund different armed factions in countries such as Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, the Congo, and Liberia earned him the nicknames “Sanctions Buster” and “Merchant of Death.”
During the First Liberian Civil War in the late 1990s, Bout allegedly sold armaments to war criminals and former Liberian president Charles Taylor, as depicted in Lord of War when Orlov collaborates with Liberian ruler and warlord Andre Baptiste (Eamonn Walker).
Lord of War
Viktor Bout, like convicted Mexican drug lords, used legitimate enterprises and activities to hide his tracks. Air Cess has offered air freight services to the UN, as well as the governments of France, America, and Africa. When law enforcement struggled with the Taliban during the Airstan hostage crisis in 1995, he even assisted in the freeing of Russian captives.
Despite a United Nations report in 2000 linking Air Cess to gunrunning activities due to forged documents related to a large export of weapons by a Bulgarian company, Bout, and his associates have maintained that he is not only a legitimate businessman but also an ecologist and environmental activist committed to the preservation of the rain forest.
What Lord of War’s Yuri Orlov Changed About Viktor Bout’s Case And Life Story
The barrage of vitriol directed at Viktor Bout, the Russian arms trafficker called “the Merchant of Death,” who was released to Russia as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for US basketball player Brittney Griner, only serves to hide the reality about Bout, his crimes, and his trade.
Bout was ten years into a 25-year sentence in a US maximum-security prison. His terrorist sentence was based on an alleged plot to send weapons to Colombian militants so that they might shoot down American planes. It’s headline-worthy, just like his career.
While Nicolas Cage has a reputation for making awful films, Lord of War is not one of them. Aside from Cage’s unmistakable similarity to Viktor Bout, Lord of War did a good job of loosely translating bits of Bout’s background to create a gripping semi-autobiographical drama.
Lord of War
While Bout agrees with the UN documentary that he was born in Tajikistan on January 13, 1967, South African intelligence believes he is ethnically Ukrainian, which Lord of War accepted as Yuri Orlov’s provenance. Furthermore, while Yuri collaborated closely with his younger brother Vitaly Orlov (Jared Leto) in the film, Viktor was frequently accompanied by his older brother Sergei Bout in real life.
Bout, who purportedly served as a soldier and translator for the Soviets during the USSR’s glory days and graduated from Russia’s Military Institute of Foreign Languages, is glaringly absent from Lord of War. While both Bout and Orlov have a Soviet commander for an uncle, Orlov’s Soviet ties end there.
Lord of War’s Yuri Orlov was a Ukrainian-American refugee who acquired many languages in the 1980s to survive in the global armaments trade, rather than a former Russian intelligence and army operative who was purportedly discharged in 1991.
What Happened To Viktor Bout, And Where Is He Today?
Viktor Bout, like many other convicted criminals whose exploits have inspired films and television shows, is in prison. While Lord of War closes with Yuri Orlov avoiding authorities (due to the fact that Bout was still free at the time the film was shot), Viktor Bout has been in prison for more than a decade and is expected to stay so for the next 15 years.
Lord of War
The barrage of vitriol directed at Viktor Bout, the Russian arms trafficker called “the Merchant of Death,” who was released to Russia as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for US basketball player Brittney Griner, only serves to hide the reality about Bout, his crimes, and his trade.
Bout was ten years into a 25-year sentence in a US maximum-security prison. His terrorist sentence was based on an alleged plot to send weapons to Colombian militants so that they might shoot down American planes. It’s headline-worthy, just like his career.
