Yugyeom

Yugyeom (유겸, Kim Yu-gyeom; born November 17, 1997, Goyang, South Korea) is the youngest member of GOT7 and, in the years since the group's departure from JYP Entertainment, one of its members with the sharpest artistic pivot. Best known within the group for his dancing — he held GOT7's lead and main dancer position and developed a style rooted in locking, popping, and contemporary R&B movement that drew comparisons to the genre's American touchstones — he used the creative freedom of post-JYP life to demonstrate that his identity extended well beyond choreography. In 2021 he signed with AOMG, Jay Park's Seoul-based hip-hop and R&B label, making him the only GOT7 member to land in that ecosystem. The placement was a clear signal: Yugyeom's solo direction was always going to be more mature, more sensual, and more rooted in contemporary R&B than the group's commercial pop output. His debut EP Point of View: U (2021) confirmed this, arriving as a polished statement of intent that earned critical notice for its production coherence and his vocal growth. He has co-written across multiple projects since, establishing creative ownership over his output rather than functioning as an interpreter of others' material. Among the GOT7 cohort, Yugyeom's AOMG era stands as one of the more artistically consistent solo trajectories. The label's aesthetic — low-lit, genre-fluid, quality-obsessed — matched his sensibility in a way that management-assigned deals often do not. With GOT7's collective return to activity under AROUND US Entertainment from January 2025, he has maintained both affiliations, continuing AOMG work alongside group commitments in an arrangement that reflects how the members have approached independence: not as departure, but as the addition of creative latitude.