4Men
4Men in December 2021 Left to right: Hanbin, Joseph, and Haeun
4Men in December 2021
Left to right: Hanbin, Joseph, and Haeun
Background information
OriginSouth Korea
Genres
Years active1998 (1998)โ€“2019, 2021โ€“present
LabelMajor9
Members
  • Haeun
  • Joseph
  • Hanbin
Past members
  • Yoon Min-soo
  • Jeong Se-young
  • Han Hyeon-hee
  • Lee Jeong-ho
  • J1
  • Kim Young-jae
  • Shin Yong-jae
  • Kim Won-joo

4Men (Korean: ํฌ๋งจ) is a South Korean rhythm and blues group formed in 1998. The group consists of three members: Haeun, Joseph, Hanbin.

Originally a four-member group composed of Yoon Min-soo, Jeong Se-young, Han Hyeon-hee and Lee Jeong-ho, 4Men released their debut album, Four Men First Album, on February 1, 1998. Two years later, they released their second album Ireoke Cheonildongan Moeumyeon Ibyeori Sarajindago Haetda on December 29, 2000. In 2001, Yoon Min-soo withdrew from the group, forming R&B group Vibe in 2002 with Ryu Jae-Hyun and Yoo Sung-Gyu, meanwhile 4Men continued as a three-member group until J1 joined the group in 2006. In 2008, all members withdrew from the group, Jeong Se-young and Han Hyeon-hee join and form R&B group Someday in 2009, however, although, it later disbanded in 2011, later Jeong Se Young and Yoo Sung-gyu, better known as Noblesse, join and form the r&b duo, Takeout. However, following later that year, the group was revamped with three new members: Shin Yong-jae, Kim Young-jae and Kim Won-joo. 4Men promoted as a duo after Kim Young-jae's withdrawal from the group in 2014.[1]

On August 31, 2019, it was announced that Shin Yong Jae and Kim Won Joo had departed from Major9 after their exclusive contracts expired and formed vocal duo, 2F. On April 5, 2021, a teaser video was released and announced that 4Men would be making a comeback on April 14 with the single "Still". The following day, Major9 confirmed that the group would have a new, 4th generation lineup for the comeback, consist of Haeun, Joseph, and Hanbin.

Members

Current
  • Haeun (ํ•˜์€) 2021โ€“present / 4th Generation
  • Joseph (์š”์…‰) 2021โ€“present / 4th Generation
  • Hanbin (ํ•œ๋นˆ) 2021โ€“present / 4th Generation
Former
  • Yun Min-soo (์œค๋ฏผ์ˆ˜) 1998โ€“2001 / 1st Generation
  • Jeong Se-young (์ •์„ธ์˜) 1998โ€“2008 / 1st Generation, 2nd Generation
  • Han Hyeon-hee (ํ•œํ˜„ํฌ) 1998โ€“2008 / 1st Generation, 2nd Generation
  • Lee Jeong-ho (์ด์ •ํ˜ธ) 1998โ€“2008 / 1st Generation, 2nd Generation
  • J1 (์žฌ์›) 2006โ€“2008 / 2nd Generation
  • Kim Young-jae (๊น€์˜์žฌ) 2008โ€“2014 / 3rd Generation
  • Shin Yong-jae (์‹ ์šฉ์žฌ) 2008โ€“2019 / 3rd Generation
  • Kim Won-joo (๊น€์›์ฃผ) 2008โ€“2019 / 3rd Generation

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[2]
Four Men First Album
  • Released: February 1, 1998
  • Label: Kingpin Entertainment, Pison Contents
  • Formats: CD, cassette
 N/a N/a
If I Gather For a Thousand Days Like This,
the Breakup Will Disappear
(์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ฒœ์ผ๋™์•ˆ ๋ชจ์œผ๋ฉด ์ด๋ณ„์ด ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋‹ค)
  • Released: December 29, 2000
  • Label: Kingpin Entertainment, Pison Contents
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Andante
  • Released: March 10, 2006
  • Label: Avoid Note
  • Formats: CD, cassette
The 3rd Generation (Special Album)
  • Released: January 18, 2010
  • Label: YWHO
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 5
The Artist 3
1998
  • Released: May 13, 2014
  • Label: YWHO, Happy Face Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 15
Remember Me
  • Released: October 24, 2017
  • Label: Major9
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 28
"โ€”" denotes release did not chart.

EP/Mini-albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
KOR
[2]
First Kiss
  • Released: October 7, 2008
  • Label: The Vibe Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
 N/a N/a
Sorry
  • Released: October 28, 2010
  • Label: YWHO, Taillruns Media
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 9
That Man, That Woman (๊ทธ ๋‚จ์ž ๊ทธ ์—ฌ์ž)
(Collaboration with MIIII)
  • Released: November 1, 2011
  • Label: Happy Face Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 13
The True Story (์‹คํ™”)
  • Released: January 28, 2013
  • Label: YWHO, Happy Face Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 10
Thank You
  • Released: May 8, 2013
  • Label: YWHO, Happy Face Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 19
Studying Abroad (์œ ํ•™)
  • Released: June 24, 2015
  • Label: YWHO, Happy Face Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 20
The Eternal
  • Released: June 4, 2021
  • Label: YWHO, Happy Face Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download
 N/a N/a

Compilation album

  • Baby+4Men (2015)

Live album

  • 4Men 1st Live Album (2015)

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Sales Album
KOR
[12]
"More Than I Love Myself" (๋‚˜๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•œ) 1998 N/a Four Men First Album
"Flower Petals" (๊ฝƒ์žŽ) 2000 If I Gather For a Thousand Days Like This, the Breakup Will Disappear
"Confession" (๊ณ ๋ฐฑ) 2006 Andante
"Can I Love Again?" (๋‹ค์‹œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ) (with Park Jung-eun)
"Gift" (์„ ๋ฌผ) 2007 Non-album singles
"Melody" (๋ฉœ๋กœ๋””) (with Park Jung-eun) 2008
"First Kiss" First Kiss
"Knock Knock Knock" (๋˜‘๋˜‘๋˜‘) 2009 52 Voice of Autumn
"I Can't" (๋ชปํ•ด) (featuring MIII) 2010 3 The 3rd Generation
"U" 2 Non-album singles
"Crying, Calling..." (์šธ๊ณ , ๋ถˆ๊ณ ...) (with Zia) 4
"Sorry" (๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•ด) (featuring MIII) 13 Sorry
Hello! 33
"Once While Living" (์‚ด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์ฏค) 2011 2 The Artist
"Vision of Love" (๋„ˆ์˜ ์›ƒ์Œ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์›Œ) 10 Non-album single
"That Man, That Woman" (๊ทธ ๋‚จ์ž ๊ทธ ์—ฌ์ž) (with MIII) 4 That Man, That Woman
"Hello, It's Me" (์•ˆ๋…• ๋‚˜์•ผ) 2013 4 The True Story
"Thank You" 16 Thank You
"Propose Song" (์ฒญํ˜ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”) 3
"Pray" (์˜ˆ์˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์ž˜ ๋  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ) 2014 13 1998
"Erase" (์ง€์šฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค) 7
"OK" 36
"Lonely Christmas" (๋‚˜ํ™€๋กœ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค) (with The Vibe artists) 47 Non-album singles
"Celebrate Love" (์ถ•๊ฐ€) (with The Vibe artists) 2015 27
"You're My Home" (๋„Œ ๋‚˜์˜ ์ง‘) 6
"Blanket Kick" (์ด๋ถˆํ‚ฅ) 37 Studying Abroad
"Hug Me" (์•ˆ์•„๋ณด์ž) 1 4Men 1st Live Album
"Break Up in the Morning" (๋ˆˆ ๋– ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ด๋ณ„์ด๋”๋ผ) 2017 11 Remember Me
"Goodbye Santa Claus" (๊ตฟ๋ฐ”์ด ์‚ฐํƒ€ํด๋กœ์Šค) (with Major9 artists) โ€” Non-album single
"Stil" (์šฐ๋ฆฐ ์•„์ง ํ—ค์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ ์ „) 2021 โ€” The Eternal
"Eternal" (์˜์˜) โ€”
"Butterfly Grave" (๋‚˜๋น„๋ฌด๋ค) 2023 15 Non-album singles
"Lost Mind" (๋ฏธ์นœ๊ฑฐ๋‹ˆ) 182
"โ€”" denotes release did not chart.

Awards and nominations

Award Year Category Nominated work/nominee Result Ref.
Korea Drama Awards 2013 Best Original Soundtrack "Only You" Won [24]
Melon Music Awards 2010 Top 10 Artist Award 4Men Won [25]
Mnet Asian Music Awards 2010 Best Vocal Performance (Group) "I Can't" Nominated [26]
2011 "Once While Living" Nominated [27]
2012 "That Man, That Woman" Nominated [28]
Seoul Music Awards 2011 R&B Ballad Award 4Men Won [29]

References

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