Kang Daniel

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.

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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)

Origin

Busan, South Korea

Occupation

singer / entrepreneur / actor / songwriter / businessperson

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rat

University

Kyung Hee Cyber University

• Official sitehttps://kangdaniel.bstage.in/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/daniel.k.here/
• Xhttps://x.com/konnect_danielk
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang%20Daniel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30243777

Tags

• singer
• entrepreneur
• actor

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.