Who is Kang Daniel, the winner of Produce 101, who briefly dated Jihyo (TWICE)?

Kang Daniel, the male idol nicknamed "National Center", is a sought-after name on all media fronts in the land of Kim Chi from 2017 to 2019.

Once an unknown trainee, after only three months of participating in the Produce 101 program, Daniel quickly rose to fame and won the championship. He has a huge fan base and debuted in the Wanna One lineup.

Besides being an idol in the Hallyu music industry, Kang Daniel is also known for his many roles as a musician, actor and CEO of two corporations, KD and Konnect Entertainment.

Always appearing in public with a cheerful image, few people know that Kang Daniel has a difficult and scorned past. His real name is Kang Euigeon, born in 1996 in the port city of Busan, where Jungkook (BTS), Jimin (BTS), and Sulli are from. Because the name Euigeon is difficult to pronounce and is often mispronounced, he decided to change it to Daniel, the name of an outstanding hero in the Bible that he has always admired, as his stage name when he first entered the entertainment industry.

During his high school years, Kang Daniel had a burning passion for music, especially dance. However, because he was aware of his family's circumstances, he always hesitated between his passion or a normal job to make a living. At one point, the whole family had to live in a cramped room in the basement. Perhaps the economic downturn partly caused the singer's parents to often quarrel, unable to live together and filed for divorc.e not long after.

Kang Daniel once shared on a TV show that having to worry about tuition fees and being laughed at made him no longer want to go to school, instead he was determined to find a job to serve the purpose of earning mone.y.

Kang Daniel then dropped out of school and began his trainee life when he was just twenty years old to follow in the footsteps of his senior groups in Busan. He initially joined B2M Entertainment, but when the company was acquired, Kang Daniel became a trainee at MMO.

Moving to MMO Entertainment, Kang Daniel also found it difficult to debut. When he gave up and was about to move to Canada to settle down, at that time, MMO registered him to participate in Mnet's survival show Produce 101. Originally a rapper, Daniel showed strong determination in wanting to perfect both his dancing and singing skills to become an all-round idol. From a member of the B-class ability class, he excelled in joining the A-class class of the program.

Kang Daniel has proven his formidable talent and charisma through evaluations. After each performance, Daniel excels in topping the viewership of his personal videos.

In the end, he became the final champion, officially realizing his dream of becoming an idol. At first, it was hard to believe that an unknown trainee could have such an excellent comeback.

In August 2017, the project group Wanna One, formed from the show Produce 101, officially debuted to the public with their first mini-album 1X1=1 (TO BE ONE). The group consists of eleven boys with the highest rankings voted by the audience.

The group participated in programs such as Show Champion to promote the song, and within just nine days of their first music stage, Wanna One won their first win in their career.

Also in 2017, the group won Best New Male Artist at MAMA, Rookie of the Year at Golden Disc Awards, Best New Artist at MMA 2017, Best New Artist at Seoul Music Awards and many other awards.

After a bumper 2017, Kang Daniel and his ten members continued to "sweep" the year-end music awards ceremonies in 2018. The boys made history when they took home the prestigious Daesang awar.d in the Best Recording of the Year category at the 2018 MMA.

Wanna One also held their final concert in early 2019 at Gocheok Sky Dome, where the group performed their first show together. In just a year and a half, Wanna One's journey has ended successfully.

Kang Daniel returned to MMO Entertainment. In early 2019, his contract with MMO Entertainment ended. The male singer moved to MMO's subsidiary LM Entertainment to continue his music career and prepare for future projects.

The continuous restriction of activities caused discord between the two sides, Korean media reported that Kang Daniel wanted to unilaterally terminate his contract with LM Entertainment. However, the company immediately denied it and explained that this was just a misunderstanding. The lawsuits and malicious rumors caused Daniel to gradually lose faith and leave LM Entertainment. Instead of joining the entertainment company, he chose to work for himself and founded Konnect Entertainment.

As soon as it was released, Color on me and its title track What are you up to set a series of records. Kang Daniel became the solo artist with the highest first-week album sales with 466,000 copies, surpassing Baekhyun's (EXO) 380,000 copies.

Kang Daniel once acted in the MV "Days Without You" by the gir.l duo Davichi. In the MV, he transformed into a pure and melancholy bo.y in a romantic snowy scene in Gangwon Province.

At the end of 2019, Dispatch, a media news site specializing in celebrity dating news in the land of Kim Chi, released a series of dating evidence of Kang Daniel and TWICE leader Park Jihyo.

The photos provided by Dispatch were of the couple secretly dating in early August in the Hannam Dong area. The TWICE beauty drove herself to Kang Daniel's private home in the UN villa area to avoid media scrutiny.

Not long after their relationship blossomed, news of Kang Daniel and Jihyo's breakup surfaced. The rumors have worried fans of the couple, as they have only been officially dating for four months.

After a while, Dispatch announced that Kang Daniel had broken up with the TWICE beauty. The reason given was that due to busy schedules, the two sides no longer had time for each other, leading to emotional distance.

The news that Kang Daniel was depressed made fans worried. Immediately after, he also reassured his fans with a long letter on the Fan Café community. "I will regain my spirit from now on. Although I can't be happy every day, thanks to you guys, I have healed more." - Produce 101 champion confided in the letter

After that sincere letter, the male artist returned to the entertainment industry and released quality products.

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