Kim Samuel facts

He was born to a Korean mother and a Mexican father
-He was born in Los Angeles, California. His nationality is American.
-Samuel has a younger sister named Susie.
-Education: Hanlim Multi Art School (Practical Dance Department)
-He speaks Korean, English and Chinese.
-Samuel was a former Pledis trainee and was supposed to debut with Seventeen. He left the company in 2013 due to personal reasons
-In 2015 he debuted with ONE in a duo called 1Punch under the stage name Punch. The group disbanded after ONE got scouted by YG Entertainment.
-Samuel later collaborated with Silento for song called “Spotlight” and also joined him to tour
-He was a part of Produce 101 Season 2 but was cut during the final round (Ranked 18)
-He’s been a trainee for 5 years and 3 months
-He’s a very talented Choreographer
-He is a b-boy dancer
-Samuel can play the drums.
-He wanted to became a singer after listening to Justin Bieber’s song “Baby” (Happy Together 3-Star Golden Bell part 1)
-His keepsake is a dragon ring that he always wears
-Samuel’s favorite TV show is Spongebob Squarepants
-His favorite drama “Fight for My Way” (Soompi’s 16 Q with Samuel)
His favorite color is white [interview – Samuel Quick Q&A (Taiwan)]
-He doesn’t like to eat onions [interview – Samuel Quick Q&A (Taiwan)]
-His favorite kpop girl group is SNSD (Girls Generation) (Soompi’s 16 Q with Samuel)
-His dad owned a golf course in Bakersfield, California.
-He can do beat-boxing, play soccer, acrobatics, play basketball (Soompi’s 16 Q with Samuel)
-The singer that he wants to collaborate with in the future is DEAN (Soompi’s 16 Q with Samuel)
-When he is not filming or promoting or working, he just relaxes and watches TV (Soompi’s 16 Q with Samuel)
-His favorite subject in school was Physical Education [interview – Samuel Quick Q&A (Taiwan)]
-His favorite artists are Chris Brown and Justin Bieber [interview – Samuel Quick Q&A (Taiwan)]
-Among Korean idols, he admires Kai from EXO [interview – Samuel Quick Q&A (Taiwan)]
-He’s a big fanboy of BlackPink’s Jisoo.
-He had a collaboration with Chungha for “With U”
-He was part of the cast in the tv show ‘Nest Escape 2’ (Ep. 1 – 4)
-On June 4, 2018, he became the host of the show ‘Pops in Seoul’.
-He acts in the web drama “Revenge note 2” (2018).
-He performed a collaboration of Bboom Bboom (Momoland) with Stray Kids, The Boyz, and MXM on the Inkigayo 2018 World Cup special stage.
-Samuel is in the Chinese show “The Collaboration” along with Seventeen’s Jun and The8.
Samuel and his partner singer/rapper Zhou Zhennan won the Chinese web music competition program, ‘The Collaboration’.
-Samuel won “Dance War”, a web series on 1theK YouTube channel, out of eight other contestants. Runner up was Rocky of Astro.
-On June 8 2019, he announced he will promote as an independent artist from now on.
-Samuel has filed a trademark application for his name and is planning to establish a one-man agency.
–Samuel’s Ideal Type: Someone who is pretty and nice with a good body