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Doo Joon

Yoon Doo-joon
Yoon Doo-joon in February 2017.jpg
Yoon Doo-joon in February 2017
Native name 윤두준
Born Yoon Doo-joon
(1989-07-04) July 4, 1989 (age 28)
Goyang, South Korea
Other names Dujun
Education
Occupation
Musical career
Genres K-pop
Instruments Vocals
Years active 2009–present
Labels Around Us Entertainment (2016-present)
Cube Entertainment (2009-2016)
Associated acts Highlight
Korean name
Hangul 윤두준
Hanja
Revised Romanization Yun Du-jun
McCune–Reischauer Yun Tu-jun

Yoon Doo-joon (born July 4, 1989), better known mononymously as Doojoon, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is the leader of the South Korean boy group Highlight.

Yoon Doo-joon was born in Goyang, South Korea on July 4, 1989. His dream of becoming a high school Physical Education teacher changed suddenly during his second year of high school after watching MTV's Big Bang Documentary. His parents and teachers didn't agree with him at first. However, he pleaded them to register him for Music school and he soon started auditioning to become a singer.

Doojoon then became a trainee of JYP Entertainment and was featured in the Mnet documentary Hot Blooded Men, a reality program that shows the preparation for their debut, with 2AM and 2PM, but he was eliminated along the course of the show.

He then moved to Cube Entertainment and was featured as a rapper in AJ's "Wipe the Tears". After his debut with the group, he became part of Danbi and debuted as an actor through More Charming by the Day and All My Love.

He finally debuted as the leader of Beast. Their journey leading up to debut was showcased in their MTV documentary MTV B2ST.

He graduated from Kyung Hee Cyber University in post-modern musicology. He currently attends Dongshin University as a student majoring in Broadcast Entertainment, under a full scholarship, along with 4 other members of Beast.

Beast (비스트, stylized as BEAST or B2ST) is a boy band from South Korea that consist of six members under Cube Entertainment, in 2016 Jang Hyun-seung officially left the group. They were originally known as B2ST, an acronym for Boys 2 Search the Top, however, their name was changed to BEAST (Boys of East Asia Standing Tall). They released their first mini-album Beast Is The B2ST on October 14, 2009 and made their first live performance on KBS's Music Bank 2 days later. The group has released a total of 8 mini-albums, "Beast is the B2ST", "Shock of the New Era", "Mastermind", "Lights Go On Again", "Midnight Sun", "Good Luck", "Time", "Ordinary" and 3 full-length albums called "Fiction and Fact", "Hard to Love How to Love" and "Highlight".


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