Kangin

Kangin is one of those guys from the second-generation K-pop era who you remember not just for the music but for the sheer force of his personality — he was never the quietest one in the room, and Super Junior had a lot of rooms. His stage name literally means "strong benevolence," and honestly that tension between those two words kind of sums him up: big energy, big voice, capable of real warmth when he lets it through. Super Junior-T and Super Junior-H showed he could go comedic and trot-style without blinking, and his solo acting work proved he wasn't just along for the group ride. He's had a turbulent road outside the spotlight, but as someone who followed the group from their mid-2000s peak, I think the good-faith version of Kangin — the one belting it out on stage — was genuinely magnetic and irreplaceable in that lineup.

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Name (English)

Kangin

Name (Japanese)

カンイン

Reading

かんいん

Born

January 17, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

singer / film actor / actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

University

Kyung Hee Cyber University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kanginnim/
• Xhttps://x.com/himsenkangin
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483175

Tags

• singer
• film actor
• 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.