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Mingi (민기) is the rapper of ATEEZ, who debuted under KQ Entertainment in October 2018. He and Hongjoong are credited on the lyrics of every track of GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5, and in 2026 he released FIX OFF Desire Project : ORIGIN, a project album of his own songs.
Mingi (민기) is the rapper of ATEEZ. He debuted with the group under KQ Entertainment on 24 October 2018. In an October 2024 interview with Marie Claire Korea he said: “Being a rapper, I handle strong, hyped-up moods well.” Of how he writes, he explained: “I collect my thoughts and feelings and melt them into the music. That’s why I take a lot of notes.” The goal he named in the same interview was the Super Bowl halftime show, a stage that had struck him hard as a trainee.
He has written the group’s lyrics with Hongjoong. According to Korea Times, the two wrote the title track and three B-sides of GOLDEN HOUR : Part.3 in 2025. Electronic Times reported that both are credited on every track of GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 in 2026. In between, at the GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4 press conference, Mingi said “the title track was chosen unanimously by the eight of us”, and described ‘Adrenaline’ as “a song that feels like it keeps running, like the sound of an engine” (Kookmin Ilbo).
Desire Project, his personal series of self-written songs, began with ‘Tunnel’ on 6 February 2024 (Newsis). The second song, ‘AUTOBAHN’, came out on 15 March 2025 featuring Yoonmin of TOUCHED. On 11 May 2026 he released FIX OFF Desire Project : ORIGIN, a seven-track project album of earlier songs and new ones (TopStar News). That June he attended the Singapore launch of ‘FIX ON’, a capsule collection he presented with MCM (Fashion Seoul).
Mingi wrote and composed his solo song ‘ROAR’ himself, and it is on the July 2025 repackage. According to JTBC, he first performed it on his solo stage on the IN YOUR FANTASY world tour, and its video was released on 20 September.
The explainer on ‘BAD’ covers the sound of the song he wrote the lyrics for.
Credited on the writing of every track on GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5
Electronic Times named him and Mingi as the members who worked on the writing across the album.
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ATEEZ (에이티즈) are an eight-member boy group under KQ Entertainment, who debuted on 24 October 2018 with the mini album Treasure EP.1: All To Zero. Three of their albums have entered the Billboard 200 at number one, most recently GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 in July 2026.
'BAD' is the title track of ATEEZ's fourteenth mini album GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5, released 26 June 2026 and described by Korea Herald as a Brazilian funk-inspired dance track. A remix relay and a Japanese-language version, out 29 July 2026, followed.
On 10 July 2025 KQ Entertainment said it had completed seven-year contract renewals with all eight ATEEZ members. Two albums have followed under that agreement: GOLDEN HOUR : Part.4 in February 2026 and GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5 in June 2026.
ATEEZ's fourteenth mini album GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5, released 26 June 2026, entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 on the chart dated 5 July 2026 with 228,000 units, Star News reported. It is the group's third No. 1 on that chart.
A guide to ATEEZ in eight steps: the eight members as KQ Entertainment's renewal statement names them, what the group's name and ATINY stand for, the album series from 2018 to GOLDEN HOUR : Part.5, and the three Billboard 200 number ones as of July 2026.
