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DK (Korean: 도겸), born as Lee Seokmin (Korean: 이석민), is a South Korean singer under Pledis Entertainment. He is a member of the boy group SEVENTEEN under "Vocal Team". He is the leader of the special sub-unit "BSS".
He debuted as a musical actor in 2019 with main role "King Arthur" in the korean musical XCalibur. In 2021, DK is casted back once more as 'King Arthur' in XCalibur in their 2021 production.
Profile[]
- Stage Name: DK / Dokyeom (도겸)
- Sub-Unit:
- Position:
- Main Vocalist
- Leader of BSS
Filmography[]
Music Video Appearances[]
| Year | Title | Artist | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | My Copycat | Orange Caramel | Pre-Debut |
| 2021 | Side By Side | The8 |
Musicals[]
| Duration | Title | Role | Venue | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 15, 2019 - August 4, 2019 | Xcalibur | King Arthur | Grand Theater, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts | Lead role |
| August 17, 2021 - November 7, 2021 | BLUE SQUARE Shinhancard Hall |
Music shows[]
| Year | Title | Network | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | M Countdown | Mnet | Special MC | with Wonwoo, Woozi, Jeonghan, Mingyu, The8 |
Magazines[]
Solo Features[]
- Scene Playbill (June 2019 issue) *COVER*
- Theater+ (August 2021 issue)
Features with Other Members[]
- DAZED (2016) with Vocal Team
- Cosmopolitan Korea: May Issue (2020) with Wonwoo, Mingyu, Seungkwan
- AnAn Magazine No. 2223 (Japan) 28 October 2020 with Jeonghan, Hoshi, Mingyu, Vernon, Dino *BACK COVER*
- ELLE Korea: November Issue (2020) with Joshua, Jun, Hoshi
Features with All of SEVENTEEN as a Group[]
- IZE Magazine: August Issue (2015)
- KWAVE December Issue (2015)
- CeCi Magazine: December Issue (2015)
- IZE Magazine: December Issue (2015)
- 10+ Star: TENASIA March Issue (2016)
- CeCi Magazine: May Issue (2016)
- @star1 Vol.50 (May 2016)
- IZE Magazine (May 2016) *PHOTOBOOK*
- haru*hana Magazine (Japan) Vol.36 (May 2016)
- AnAn Magazine (Japan) 21 June 2017
- @star1 Vol.64 (July 2017)
- DAZED Digital Magazine (July 2017)
- CeCi Magazine: October Issue (2017)
- HIGH CUT Vol.208 (October 2017) *COVER*
- CeCi Magazine: January Issue (2018)
- SINGLES Korea: April Issue (2018) *COVER*
- Sparkling Magazine’s Spring 2018 Issue *COVER*
- 1st LOOK Vol.155 (May 2018) *COVER*
- AnAn Magazine (Japan) 30 May 2018 *COVER*
- @star1 Vol.77 (August 2018) *COVER*
- CREA Magazine: October Issue (2018)
- SPARKS Japanese Idol Magazine Vol.1 (November 2018) *COVER*
- THE STAR: February Issue (2019)
- SPARKS Japanese Idol Magazine Vol.2 (April 2019)
- AnAn Magazine (Japan) 13 May 2019 *COVER*
- AnAn Magazine No. 2187 (Japan) February 2020 *COVER*
- SPRiNG Magazine (Japan): March Issue (2020)
- BILLBOARD Korea Vol.3 (April 2020) *COVER*
- Monotube Magazine Vol.2 (July 2020) *Thief & Heist Collaboration*
- HARPER`S BAZAAR: January Issue (2021) *COVER*
- MORE Magazine Japan: January Issue (2022) *COVER* [Jun and The8 weren't able to participate due to activities in China]
Credits[]
✓ = Participated
✖ = Didn't participate
SEVENTEEN Discography[]
| Year | Album | Song | Writing | Composer | Arrange |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Love & Letter | Say Yes | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ |
| Adore U (Vocal Team) | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ||
| 2017 | Teen, Age | Without You | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ |
| Clap | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ||
| Hello | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ | ||
| Campfire | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ | ||
| 2020 | Semicolon | HEY BUDDY | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ |
BSS Discography[]
| Year | Song | Writing | Composer | Arranger |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Just Do It | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ |
| 2023 | Fighting (feat. Lee Young Ji) | ✓ | ✖ | |
| LUNCH | ✓ | ✖ | ||
| 7PM (feat. Peder Elias) | ✖ | ✓ |
Others[]
| Year | Song | Artists | Writing | Composer | Arrange |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | In the SOOP | SEVENTEEN | ✓ | ✖ | ✖ |
| You're My Christmas | DK | ✓ | ✓ | ✖ |
Discography[]
Collaborations[]
- Cinematic Love (with Yang Da Il) (2017)
- 17 (2020)
OSTs[]
- "Missed Connections" (Tempted OST Part.3) (2018)
- "Is It Still Beautiful" (Hospital Playlist Season 2 OST Part 8) (2021)
- "Go!" (Twenty-Five Twenty-One OST Part 5) (2022)
- "Short Hair" (2023)
Unofficial songs[]
See also: Unofficial songs
Original songs[]
- Fly (2018)
- You're My Christmas (2021)
Cover songs[]
- She Didn't Love Me (사랑했던걸까) (2018)
- The Road (길) (2020)
- When you love someone (그렇더라고요) (2020)
- I Decide (2020)
- Honesty (2020)
- Candy (2020)
- 행운을 빌어 줘 (A journey) (2022)
- 놀이공원 (Amusement Park) (2023)
- ベテルギウス (Betelgeuse) (2023)
- 결국 아무것도 알 수 없었지만 (Sequel) (2024)
Awards and Nominations[]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2019 Stagetalk Audience Choice Awards | Musical Male Rookie | King Arthur - Xcalibur | Nominated |
| 2020 | 4th Korea Musical Awards | Male Rookie Award | King Arthur - Xcalibur | Nominated |
Trivia[]
- Nickname: Mr. Hat, Smile Man, Happy Virus, Soonseok Talk, Rockstar, Docutie, Seok Min, Dokyeomie, MC Doul, Sunshine, Megaphone, Arthur, Arthur Kyeom, Pizza boy, Black Jaguar, Internal Voice, Prince Excalibur Kyeom
- Emoji: ⚔️
- Family: Mom, dad and older sister (born in 1994)
- Education:
- Sin-ri Elementary School (Graduated)
- Hongcheon Middle School (Graduated)
- Shinbong High School (Move out)
- School of Performing Arts Seoul (Graduated)
- Specialty: Singing songs loudly, Losing stuff
- Hobby: Watching movies, Singing while wearing earphones while resting, Rap
- Training Period: 2 years and 7 months
- Favorite Foods: Doenjang Jjigae/Korean Stew
- He loves snacks, so if he sees them he eats them a lot. In trainee days, they used to eat some chicken snack. But when seungkwan bought it, he was so surprised and happy.
- Favorite Drinks: Chocolate
- Favorite Animals: Puppy
- Favorite Body Parts: Arms
- Favorite Colors: Blue, Red, Black
- He likes bright colors such as blue
- Favorite Number: 17
- Favorite Flower: Sunflower
- MBTI Personality Type: INFP (Mediator)
- The meaning behind his real name is that Seok means ‘big’ and Min means ‘precious gem stone’. It means to be a big existence like a precious gem stone.
- His stage name Dokyeom is defined as, “Do” meaning “a path or road” and “Kyeom” meaning “multitasker”.
- Before finally taking the name Dokyeom, he previously was supposed to take The8's name with multiple variations of it such as YongPallie and EightLight.
- His nickname is internal voice. The members call him that because he’s noisy when he’s practicing his singing and it sounds like a speaker.
- His blood type is one of the rarest in the world (O-). This means he can only receive blood donations from the same exact blood type, but can donate to any blood type in the world.
- He loves rock bands. He was a part of a rock band when he was in middle school.
- He was previously a student at YP Music Academy.
- He dreamed of becoming a singer when he saw Yoon Dohyun’s performances in middle school. The amount of energy he had on stage and the way he interacted with the fans and shared their energy was very cool to him. He sang for a YB concert in late 2020.
- For his audition, he sang "지금 이 순간" from the musical Jekyll and Hyde.
- He said when he first joined Pledis, he felt scared and lonely, but ended up being the member who got along with everyone the fastest.
- Vernon, Seungkwan & Jisoo think he’s the funniest member.
- He was voted by the other members as the member that likes to joke the most.
- He says he likes to spend his time cheerfully so he likes to make others feel energetic but sometimes it can get out of control so he needs to have more self control.
- He’s a very lively but sensitive person.
- He cries easily and is considered one of the most emotional members.
- He wants to be someone who can help others and give them hope.
- When he was young, his dream was to be a volunteer.
- He's a very pure and innocent person, according to the members.
- Once, he got into an argument with Mingyu and threw a plastic black bag at him. Mingyu told him to pick it up and he did. (Going Seventeen 2020 EP.8)
- He also got into an argument with Seungkwan once and threw a grey towel at him. (Going Seventeen 2020 EP.8)
- He's not the type to yell when he's angry. He gets sulky instead.
- He shares the same birthday as Vernon. They are called the 218's based on their birthday, but DK is a year older than Vernon.
- They both have the same foot size (280mm), and lived only 10 minutes apart. There is only a 1cm listed height difference and 1cm listed weight difference.
- Both have participated in Archery in ISAC, and both have made a Perfect X10 shot where the pinhole camera inside the center of the board is broken by the arrow.
- He likes collecting earphones and headphones, regardless of whether they are wired or wireless. This also extends to him having the largest collection of in ear monitors.
- He's allergic to cat fur
- He’s envious of Jihoon’s fair skin and sexy figure (body figure).
- He says he has a great passion for the things he likes so sometimes he can get greedy when he sings.
- He sang karaoke a lot when he was in middle school and his friends told him his singing is good. Since then, he enjoys singing when his friends are playing a guitar. Now he always listens to songs whenever he’s resting and he continues to practice and improve his vocals.
- Part of the 97-liner- consists of Jung kook (BTS), BamBam and Yugyeom (GOT7, Cha Eunwoo (Astro), Mingyu and The8 (SVT), Jaehyun (NCT).
- When he was younger, he was really loud with his friends. He also loved exercising. He wasn’t good at studying, but he did try his best.
- He likes refreshing/clean clothes. He prefers moderately tight clothes to baggy clothes. As for colors, black or blue or red is good. He wears quite flashy clothes too
- He watches a lot of movies. He goes to the cinema, and also watches them at home. He likes a variety of genres, but Haikyuu!! and One Piece are his favorite.
- In a Korean poll, DK ranked 1st in ” Male Idols You’d like to be Your Sunbae”.
- For 2 years in a row (2017&2018), DK ranked 2nd as the best kpop vocalist. This was a ranking in which 100 idols (21 kpop groups) had participated in.
- He has a guitar named Woody.
- He is a shopaholic. He says feels good when he buys something new. He enjoys online shopping more than offline shopping.
- He thinks he matches with Jeonghan the best.
- To celebrate his 26th birthday, he released a cover of Baekhyun’s song Amusement Par[1]
Spotify[]
Videos[]
-COVER- 도겸-사랑했던걸까 (원곡-양다일)
COVER 도겸 - 길 (원곡 폴킴)
Pets[]
Coco
Wooju
Dodol
Official Links[]
Gallery[]
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