Dawn

Dawn — formerly E'Dawn — is one of those rare artists who genuinely leveled up by walking away. Watching him navigate the split from Cube Entertainment back in 2018 while simultaneously making headlines for his relationship with HyunA took real nerve, and honestly it made me respect him more. His Pentagon days showed he had the rap chops, but going solo gave him room to get genuinely weird with his music in the best way possible — the kind of experimental, boundary-pushing sound you can only pull off when nobody's managing your image for you. He raps, writes, dances, acts, and somehow still manages to feel like an underground artist rather than a polished idol product. That tension is exactly what makes him interesting to me.

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Name (English)

Dawn

Name (Japanese)

DAWN

Reading

どん

Real name

キム・ヒョジョン

Born

June 1, 1994 (age 32)

Origin

South Jeolla, South Korea

Occupation

singer / actor / rapper / songwriter / dancer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hyojong_1994/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%20(rapper)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAWN%20(%E6%AD%8C%E6%89%8B)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42101185

Tags

• South Jeolla
• singer
• actor
• rapper

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.