Jacob

Jacob Profile

• Birth Name: Jacob Bae
• Korean Name: 배준영 (Bae Jun Young)
• Stage Name: Jacob
• Nationality: Canadian
• Date of Birth: 1997.05.30
• Zodiac Sign: Gemini
• Chinese Zodiac: Ox
• Height: 175cm (5’7”)
• Weight: 61 kg (132.2 lbs)
• Blood Type: B
• Personal Social Media: N/A

Jacob Facts & TMI

• Jacob was born and grew up in Toronto.
• His family consists of mother, father and an older brother.
• He is Christian.
• His position in the team is vice leader and lead vocalist.
• He has 3 puppies named Lucky, Dexter and Cobey.
• On the same day as THE BOYZ’s 200th day debut anniversary (June 23, 2018) he was chosen as the group’s vice leader.
• Many fans think that Jacob resembles a rabbit because of his teeth.
• The members sometimes call him ‘human sunflower’ because he posed with a sunflower for the group’s debut teaser.
• Fans also think that he looks like actor Gong Myung in his early debut days, until he bleached his hair.
• Jacob is the official ‘angel’ of the team, because of his kind-hearted nature and cheerful personality.
• He was voted as the most hardworking and caring member by his teammates.
• Although he thinks that he is a timid person, he is one of the most outgoing members in THE BOYZ.
• He is the biggest scaredy-cat out of all THE BOYZ’s members.
• His MBTI personality type is INFP-T.
• He likes eating cereal, his favorite cereal is Kellogg’s Krave.
• He has shrimp allergy.
• He learned to play the guitar by himself.
• Jacob has learned to play the guitar since he was in middle school.
• He likes listening to acoustic genres.
• His nicknames are BaeKkob (from his English name ‘Bae’ and ‘Jacob’), Coby, Human Sunflower, Hades, Baeksa, etc.
• He is bilingual, able to speak both English and Korean.
• He was casted as a trainee through an audition held by LOEN Entertainment in Toronto.
• He is good at sports, he used to play volleyball as a setter for 6 years and basketball for 4 years in his school days.
• He is a big fan of singer-songwriter Sam Kim.
• His special skill is playing guitar, playing drums, beatboxing, writing music, basketball, volleyball, and photography.
  He loves puppies.
• Jacob is quick-witted.
• When he’s excited, he’ll laugh in high-tone just like Spongebob or imitating Elmo’s voice.
• Among the foreign members, he is the worst at Korean because he uses English as his mother language.
• There is a hand pose that Jacob does when he takes photos, which means “I love you” in sign language.
• It is said that he had lasik surgery.
• Jacob’s favorite superhero character is Wolverine.
• He once injured his hand during practice.
• Jacob has a habit of covering his mouth or touching his lips. 
• He has the driest skin among the members.
• He also composes songs. He also occasionally participates as a lyricist for non-title tracks. 
• He also participated in composing the group’s song ‘Spring Snow’.
• His shoe size is 270 mm.