{"id":262596,"date":"2026-01-25T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/262596\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:27:11","slug":"enhypens-sunghoon-named-official-torchbearer-for-2026-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/262596\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhypen&#8217;s Sunghoon named official torchbearer for 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Published: 24 Jan. 2026, 12:04\n                            <\/p>\n<p>                          \u00a0  <br \/>                                                           <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhypen's Sunghoon has been named as an official torchbearer for the 2026 Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics. [BELIFT LAB]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7df81880-1bc5-4cc6-ac8b-bbbfe19a7c12.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Enhypen&#8217;s Sunghoon has been named as an official torchbearer for the 2026 Milan-Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo Winter Olympics. [BELIFT LAB]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   Enhypen&#8217;s Sunghoon has been named as an official torchbearer for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.\u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Sunghoon was appointed as a torchbearer following Samsung Electronics&#8217; recommendation, an official sponsor of the Winter Olympics, according to Enhypen&#8217;s agency Bilift Lab on Saturday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The details of the event, including the location and time when Sunghoon will carry the torch, have not been revealed as of press time.\u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The Enhypen member also competed on the national figure skating reserve team before his debut and currently serves as an ambassador for the Korean Sport &amp; Olympic Committee.\u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Sunghoon is the second K-pop artist to participate in an Olympic torch relay outside Korea after BTS&#8217;s Jin at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.\u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   &#8220;I know the passion and effort of the national athletes who worked hard for these Winter Olympics,&#8221; Sunghoon said in a press release Saturday. &#8220;So I just want to support them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0  <br \/>&#8220;It was my personal dream to compete in the Olympics when I was an athlete. I am happy and honored to achieve that dream as a singer.&#8221;  <br \/>\u00a0  <br \/>Enhypen recently released its seventh EP, &#8220;The Sin: Vanish,&#8221; on Jan. 16. The album sold 2.07 million copies in its first week.\u00a0\u00a0  <br \/>\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhypen's Sunghoon at the Korean national team send-off ceremony for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics on Jan. 23. [BELIFT LAB]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/03f720a1-3e81-46e8-8df3-e8300a5d6c48.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Enhypen&#8217;s Sunghoon at the Korean national team send-off ceremony for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics on Jan. 23. [BELIFT LAB]<\/p>\n<p>BY CHO YONG-JUN   [<a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"f7949f98d98e9899909d8299c6b79d98989990969990d99498d99c85\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: 24 Jan. 2026, 12:04 \u00a0 Enhypen&#8217;s Sunghoon has been named as an official torchbearer for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-262596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}