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Sunghoon of the K-pop group ENHYPEN <\/a>will take part as a torchbearer for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, set to open on February 6.<\/p>\n Sunghoon, a former competitive figure skater and part of South Korea\u2019s national reserve team, was invited by Samsung Electronics, an official Worldwide Olympic and Paralympic Partner. He\u2019s remained closely connected to sports, serving as a promotional ambassador for the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee since last year.<\/p>\n \u201cI know how much passion and effort national athletes have put into preparing for the Winter Olympics, and I sincerely want to support and cheer for them,\u201d said Sunghoon in the press release. \u201cCompeting in the Olympics was once my dream as an athlete, so being connected to that dream now as a singer is truly meaningful and an incredible honor.\u201d<\/p>\n As the second K-pop artist to ever participate as a torchbearer, Sunghoon\u2019s participation in the Olympic torch duties showcases the group\u2019s growing international profile and K-pop\u2019s expanding popularity. BTS\u2019s Jin carried the Olympic torch for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.<\/p>\n SUNGHOON_2026 MILAN OLYMPICS (Photo Courtesy of BELIFT LAB) <\/p>\n BELIFT LAB<\/p>\n Prior to his debut, Sunghoon competed as a figure skater<\/a> from 2010 to early 2020. He received several medals in the novice and junior categories from the Asian Open Figure Skating Trophy<\/a> and Lombardia Trophy. He left the sport to focus on his debut but still has a soft spot for it. <\/p>\n \u201cI was a little sad to see it go since I had been doing it for 10 years, but I had a new dream now and thought I should see it off the best I could,\u201d he told Weverse<\/a>. \u201cWhen I think of my childhood, the only memories I have revolve around figure skating, to be honest. I have so many memories of all the spectacles I saw while skating, and I probably still have some muscle memory ingrained in me, whether I realize it or not, and lots of people say it\u2019s like I\u2019m skating no matter what I\u2019m doing. And I agree\u2014I think I naturally have a figure skating aura about me. Even though I don\u2019t do it anymore, I think it\u2019s an inseparable part of me. I\u2019ll always feel a little sad when I think about it, but it\u2019s a wonderful memory.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to Sunghoon\u2019s announcement, the group\u2019s 2022 song, \u201cSHOUT OUT,\u201d from their third mini album, MANIFESTO: DAY 1, has also been selected as Team Korea\u2019s official cheer song.<\/p>\n ENHYPEN\u2019s recently released 7th mini album, THE SIN : VANISH,<\/a> debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200<\/a>, marking the group\u2019s fifth consecutive Top 5 entry on the chart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNGHOON_2026 MILAN OLYMPICS (Photo Courtesy of BELIFT LAB) BELIFT LAB Sunghoon of the K-pop group ENHYPEN will take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6659,146,85,46,715,137335,67248,409,6661,88874,137334,129846,11678],"class_list":["post-260739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-k-pop","tag-manifesto-day-1","tag-milano-cortina-2026-winter-olympics","tag-music","tag-olympics","tag-shout-out","tag-sunghoon","tag-the-sin-vanish","tag-winter-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}