Zico

Zico, born Woo Ji-ho in September 1992 in Seoul's Mapo District, occupies a position that is genuinely hard to hold. He debuted in 2011 as the leader of Block B, went solo in 2014, and works as a rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. Any one of those is a full career. What interests me is the crossover. Korean hip-hop's underground scene and the mainstream idol industry usually regard each other with suspicion, and artists who try to live in both tend to lose credibility in one. Zico has managed to keep standing in the underground while producing music with real mass reach. That is not a matter of charisma alone; you do not keep the respect of a scene like that unless the production work itself holds up under scrutiny. He studied at Inha University. From the outside, the through-line I see is someone who could have settled for making hits and instead kept insisting on being taken seriously as a builder of records, not just a performer of them.

Name (English)

Zico

Name (Japanese)

ジコ

Reading

じこ

Born

September 14, 1992 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

Origin

Mapo District, South Korea

Occupation

record producer / songwriter / singer / rapper

University

Inha University

• Official sitehttp://kozofficial.com/artist-main.php
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/woozico0914/
• Xhttps://x.com/ZICO92
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zico%20(rapper)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7696122

Tags

• record producer
• songwriter
• singer

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.