Hamin

Hamin sits in the 2010s class of Reply High School, the public-facing reality format SM Entertainment built around SMTR25 as it tests its next boy-group pipeline in real time. Born on August 5, 2006, he moved from trainee anonymity into weekly audience exposure once the project shifted from SMTOWN stages into a broadcast format with actual character-building, class structure, and official content drops.

That rollout matters because SM is not treating him like a quiet practice-room prospect. Hamin is already tied to the 2026 single We Go Up and the Mnet series that frames SMTR25 as a debut race rather than a vague internal training pool. The official introduction film and profile-photo sequence gave him a cleaner visual identity, while the show gave fans a reason to track his tone, timing, and on-camera pull before any final lineup announcement lands.

For HITKULTR, Hamin is worth watching as part of SM's broader pre-debut experiment. He is still early, but the infrastructure around him is already operating like a real launch campaign.