My Take
Kang Daniel is one of those rare cases where a reality show actually launched someone worth paying attention to — he won Produce 101 Season 2 back in 2017 with the highest votes in the show's history, which is wild when you think about it, and he didn't just coast on that momentum. He went on to found his own label KONNECT Entertainment rather than stay locked into a big agency deal, which takes serious guts for someone barely in his twenties. The Busan roots show too — there's something grounded and no-nonsense about how he carries himself, and juggling a solo music career, acting, television hosting, and running an actual business while studying at Kyung Hee Cyber University is legitimately impressive. He's the kind of guy who makes you realize the "idol-to-full-artist" pipeline can actually work when the person has both the drive and the talent to back it up.
Overview
Kang Daniel (Korean: 강다니엘; born Kang Eui-geon, December 10, 1996), stylized as KANGDANIEL, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, television host, and businessman who rose to fame in early 2017 as the first-place winner of the second season of reality competition series Produce 101.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kang Daniel
- Name (Japanese)
- カン・ダニエル
- Reading
- かん・だにえる
- Born
- December 10, 1996 (age 29)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rat
- Origin
- Busan, South Korea
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- singer / entrepreneur / actor / songwriter / businessperson
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Kyung Hee Cyber University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.