{"id":686759,"date":"2026-05-22T06:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:26:12","slug":"profile-how-got7s-jackson-wang-went-from-hong-kong-fencing-prodigy-to-global-music-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686759\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile | How Got7\u2019s Jackson Wang went from Hong Kong fencing prodigy to global music icon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the 77th instalment in a biweekly series<\/a> profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.<\/p>\n

If your radar picked up even a blip of K-pop in the mid-2010s, you probably encountered Jackson Wang Ka-yee long before you realised he was a Hong Kong native.<\/p>\n

To overseas fans, he was first known as the magnetic, mischievous rapper of Got7, a boy band that debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014 and quickly amassed a loyal international following.<\/p>\n

Among the seven members, Wang was unmistakable \u2013 a whirlwind of chaotic energy on Korean variety shows and a multilingual charmer<\/a> who could crack jokes in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and English.He has since earned a reputation as a prominent K-pop idol who has helped pave the way for pop celebrity exports worldwide, regularly smashing chart records and founding his own fashion label, Team Wang Design<\/a>.Trading sabre for stage<\/p>\n

Born in Kowloon Tong in Hong Kong in 1994, Wang was raised in a family of elite athletes \u2013 his father was an Olympian fencer, and his mother was a national-level gymnast.<\/p>\n

\"JacksonJackson Wang with his father in 2010. Before he became a singer, Wang was a champion fencer. Photo: SCMP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the 77th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[330833,64,63,512,4690,8220,295057,134,57038,10340,330828,330830,77199,9975,330831,330832,330829,136,83177,53645],"class_list":["post-686759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-88rising","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-coachella","tag-coachella-valley-music-and-arts-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-got7","tag-hong-kong","tag-jackson-wang","tag-jackson-wang-ka-yee","tag-jyp-entertainment","tag-k-pop","tag-korean-music","tag-magic-man","tag-magic-man-2","tag-music","tag-rapper","tag-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}