Kim Jong-hyun 김종현 - Onew. Jonghyun. Key. Minho. Taemin

Kim Jong-hyun 김종현

Real Name: Kim Jonghyun (김종현)

Stage Name: Jonghyun (종현)

Nicknames: Bling Bling Jonghyun, Jjong, Dino, JaMong (Ja Ri Mong Dang: short and stubby)

Birthday: April 8, 1990

Birthplace: Seoul

Blood Type: AB

Height: 173 cm/5’8″

Languages: Korean, Chinese

Instruments: Bass, Guitar, Piano

Hobbies: watching movies, dancing, writing lyrics, playing the piano

Siblings: older sister, Seodam

Education: Seoul Music Institute

Fans: Blingers

Social Medias: Twitter / Instagram

Random facts:

-Jonghyun does not mind if his girlfriend is pretty or not, as long as she is sweet towards him.

-Minho said that Jonghyun has a very sexy shoulder line.

-Jonghyun thinks that Amigo is a exhausting song.

-Jonghyun’s favorite SuJu member is Heechul because they have the same blood type.

-Whenever he hears his own songs, he would get excited and lip-sync or sing along.

-Jonghyun is ambidextrous, meaning he can write with both hands.

-Jonghyun spent a lot of time training for his back muscles during Lucifer period.

-Jonghyun often/still sing “Love’s Way” (SHINee’s song) in the shower. According to the members, he sings very loudly.

-Jonghyun has a small scar above his left eyelid. During their Amigo promotions, he fell in the bathroom.

-The person Jonghyun respects the most is his mother.

-Jonghyun thanks his mother and his sister often because they believed in him the most when he decided to pursue a singing career.

-If Jonghyun could have one characteristic of the other SHINee members, it would be Taemin’s small feet.

-Jonghyun thinks that short hair suits Minho the best.

-Jonghyun plays the bass, guitar, and piano.

-The bass was the first instrument he learned to play and the one he played in his high school band.

-Jonghyun wants to be a father who is like a friend.

-Jonghyun is not afraid of being tickled.

-According to Onew, when Jonghyun cries, he would cry the whole day.

-When Jonghyun joined band during his school days, he hid it from his family, fearing that they would not approve it.

- If he had a girlfriend, he would want to exchange photos with her, so she would have a picture of him everywhere she goes.

-Jonghyun wants to be a man who is able to know the heart of his girl, and is also able to take care of her very well.

-Jonghyun likes someone who looks pretty when smiling.

-Jonghyun usually gets the feeling of a demon lying on him when he sleeps.

-According to Jongyun, dogs like him.

-Jonghyun likes to pin Key down on the ground and tickle him until his face turns purple.

-Jonghyun admitted that he had stuffed some peanut butter into Onew’s coffee, causing Onew to turn slightly green and rush to the bathroom to get rid of the horrible contents in his mouth.

-Jonghyun learnt this effective method from Onew : Threaten to eat up all Taemin’s ice-cream if Taemin refuses to get out of bed.

-Jonghyun believes that Donald Duck is another species of Onew.

-When he was a kid and his father had to go overseas for a business trip, Jonghyun was reluctant and didn’t want him to go. So on the day of his dad’s departure, he stuffed A HUGE RAW FISH into the car’s engines so that the car wouldn’t work.

-According to Jonghyun: Recipe for a cake for SHINee: 1. Look for some flour. 2. Accidentally dump flour onto Key. 3. Drop a mixing bowl. 4. Spend the rest of the day listening to Key’s nagging and cleaning up the mess.

-When Jonghyun was a trainee, instead of going to class, he would head over to the SM building and practice all day.

-Jonghyun understands the importance of health, and will not eat instant noodles even when he is very hungry.

-Whenever he hears Key nagging at him, he would use Taemin’s packet of sweets to throw at Key for defence. If that doesn’t work, he would start grabbing his cushions and start yelling ‘rape’ loudly for everyone to hear .

-Jonghyun was ONE of the choreographers for 4minute’s I My Me Mine.

-He thinks Key’s best feature is his eyes.

-Jonghyun thinks that he is the scariest of all members when he gets angry.

-If Jjong have to choose only one kind of food to eat for the rest of his life,he’d choose milk tea and water.

-Jonghyun once chased Taemin with a raw fish before because Taemin refused to get out of bed.

-According to a fan account, SHINee was kicked out of a casino in Las Vegas because Jonghyun got himself stuck in a slot machine.

-He said that he like to make ham sandwiches when he was a kid. But at that time, he didn’t know what ‘ham’ was. His definition of a ham sandwich was a sandwich filled with chocolate M&Ms;and some chilli sauce, which he will then force his mother to eat.

-During their trainee days, Jonghyun would walk Taemin home and when he took a taxi, Jonghyun made sure to take a picture of the license plate before seeing him off.