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Hyunjin of Stray Kids, in a black jacket and a fine necklace, looks toward the camera on the red carpet of the 40th Golden Disc Awards on 10 January 2026.Hyunjin현진
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Artists

Hyunjin

현진

Hyunjin is a member of Stray Kids, the eight-member group under JYP Entertainment. The official profile gives his birthday as 20 March 2000. Versace named him a global brand ambassador in July 2023, and Cartier and GUESS have since appointed him too.

Group
Stray Kids
Position
Dancer, Rapper
Agency
JYP Entertainment
Debut
25 March 2018
Born
20 March 2000
Brand model
GUESS, Versace

Who is Hyunjin?

Hyunjin (현진) is a member of Stray Kids, the eight-member group under JYP Entertainment. The group’s official profile puts him fourth in the line-up and gives his birthday as 20 March 2000, and the official site dates the group’s founding to 25 March 2018. The Korea Herald described him as a dancer and rapper in a report on 13 September 2024.

Fashion work has followed. NME reported on 20 July 2023 that the Italian house Versace had named Hyunjin its newest global brand ambassador. The Korea Herald reported on 13 September 2024 that the jeweller Cartier had chosen him as a brand ambassador, and Soompi reported on 6 March 2026 that he had become GUESS’s newest global ambassador.

He has released music of his own. NME wrote on 15 March 2024 that Hyunjin was the sole lyricist and a co-composer of the solo song ‘long for you’, and that he had drawn its cover art himself. The Korea Herald introduced ‘Always Love’, his collaboration with the American singer d4vd, on 27 June 2025.

What to watch

The official music videos are published on the JYP Entertainment YouTube channel and the group’s own films on the Stray Kids channel. The official site at straykids.jype.com carries the discography with track credits and streaming links for each release. K-Culture Radar links to official uploads rather than rehosting them.

Timeline

  1. Endorsement

    Hyunjin's GUESS 2026 fall campaign is unveiled, with The Rolling Stones line in it

    The fall campaign spread set in California was published, and the GUESS JEANS × The Rolling Stones collection is part of it.

    Explainer · Read the story
  2. Endorsement

    Hyunjin's GUESS 2026 summer campaign is unveiled

    A summer campaign built around denim and T-shirts arrived, after the 'ROOM 1981' pop-up store in Seongsu-dong, Seoul.

    Explainer · Read the story
  3. Ambassador

    GUESS names Hyunjin a global brand ambassador

    Guess?, Inc. announced Hyunjin of Stray Kids as its newest global brand ambassador and unveiled his first GUESS JEANS campaign with it.

    Explainer · Read the story
Group

Stray Kids

Profile
Groups

Stray Kids

JYP Entertainment

Stray Kids are an eight-member boy group under JYP Entertainment whose official site dates their founding to 25 March 2018. Their in-house unit 3RACHA (Bang Chan, Changbin and Han) writes and produces their albums; all nine of their Billboard 200 entries have debuted at No. 1, the latest THIS & THAT in August 2026.

Endorsements

Stories

K-popTrend signal: Rising

GUESS unveils its 2026 fall campaign with Hyunjin

GUESS unveiled the photo spread for its '2026 Fall Campaign' with global ambassador Hyunjin on 10 September 2026. It is set in the California where the brand began in 1981, and the GUESS JEANS × The Rolling Stones collection is part of it. Hyunjin became a GUESS global brand ambassador on 6 March.

Sources

The reports behind the facts above, for the ones no story on the site covers yet. A row with a story cites its sources there; the act's own channel and a brand's official page are linked in the rows themselves.

  1. 01
    soompi.com GUESS · global ambassador· 6 Mar 2026 Endorsements
  2. 02
    nme.com Versace · global brand ambassador· 20 Jul 2023 Endorsements

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