Jo Kwon (Hangul: 조권, born August 28, 1989) is a South Korean singer and entertainer, leader of ballad boyband 2AM. Jo Kwon is the longest-serving male trainee in JYP entertainment, having trained for 2567 days; exactly 7 years and 10 days since joining JYP. He was chosen as the last members of Park Jin Young’s “99% Challenge Project” along with Sunye of Wonder girls. In 2008, he appeared on MNET’s Hot Blood, a program that showed the intense physical training that 13 male trainees had to go through for the opportunity to debut in either 4-member ballad group 2AM or 7-member dance group 2PM under JYPe. After getting through the eliminations, Jo Kwon was given the position of 2AM’s leader. Jo Kwon regularly appears as a regular guest on variety shows such as “Star King” and “Sebakwi”. He also the permanent member of Family Outing 2. He is also known as “kkap kwon” because of his kkap dance. He is the member of Wonder Boys,Boys Generation,Bracademy and Dirty Eyed Girls which are the group which contain idol boys who perform girlgroup’s songs. He joined the cast of We Got Married on October 3, 2009, coupled up with Brown Eyed Girls member Ga-in. On June 30,2010 he released his first digital single titled ” the day i confessed”.
