{"id":249865,"date":"2026-01-24T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/249865\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:31:13","slug":"enhypens-sunghoon-to-carry-olympic-torch-at-2026-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/249865\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhypen&#8217;s Sunghoon to carry Olympic torch at 2026 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c96485cb-85d2-49e9-a6c4-7225106ce474.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1200 \/ 799; width: 100%\" alt=\"Sunghoon of Enhypen \/ Bilift Lab\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunghoon of Enhypen \/ Bilift Lab<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Sunghoon of K-pop boy band Enhypen has been selected as a torchbearer for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo, Italy, his agency said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Before debuting, Sunghoon was part of South Korea&#8217;s national figure skating reserve team. Since last year, he has served as an ambassador for the Korean Sport &amp; Olympic Committee. He was recommended by Samsung Electronics, one of the official sponsors of the global event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;As I am fully aware of the passion and effort by the national representatives who have shed sweat for the Winter Olympics, I have great respect and support for them,&#8221; Sunghoon was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;I had dreamed of being part of the Olympics when I was skating, and I am thrilled to be able to fulfill that dream now as a singer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The seven-member multinational boy group, which debuted in 2020, released its seventh EP last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunghoon of Enhypen \/ Bilift Lab Sunghoon of K-pop boy band Enhypen has been selected as a torchbearer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-249865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}