JAKE: TMI

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Read more about Jake’s official stats and positions within the team here.

PREFERENCES & TASTES

Food

• Jake’s favorite food is pizza.
• Some of Jake’s favorite foods are steak, ugeoji galbi-tang (spicy napa cabbage and beef short-rib stew), ramyeon, and tteok-bokki.
• Jake’s favorite fruit is grape.
• Jake’s favorite dessert is vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.
• Jake’s favorite Baskin Robbins ice cream flavor is Puss in Boots.
• Jake dislikes the mint-chocolate chip flavor.
• Jake likes bubble tea.
• Jake prefers underdone ramyeon noodles to overcooked ramyeon noodles.
• Jake dislikes grains like red beans and injeolmi (Korean rice cake with soybean powder).

Hobbies

• Jake is skilled at playing ping pong.
• Jake likes to go fishing.
  • When he used to live in Australia, he would often go to the beach to go swimming and fishing with his father.
• Jake’s favorite sport is soccer.
  • He used to be part of a soccer club in Korea and also played soccer after school after moving to Australia.
  • He said he wishes to visit Spotify Camp Nou stadium in Spain someday and watch a soccer game.

Likes and Dislikes

• Jake likes math and physics; he said he is interested in physics and would have chosen it as his major if he had gone to college.
• Jake’s favorite colors are black and ivory.
• Jake’s favorite season is spring.
• Jake’s favorite movie genre is musicals.
• Jake enjoys listening to hip-hop music.
• Jake is scared of insects.

Other Trivia

• In ENHYPEN, Jake often takes on the role of choosing the menu and ordering food.
• Jake has said that his dream collaboration would be with Drake.
• Jake enjoys listening to BTS songs, and often recommends BTS songs to his fans.
  • He has also said that he would like to emulate the teamwork and chemistry between the BTS members.
• Jake was one of the bass members in his church’s junior choir.
• When Jake was young, he would watch the Korean quiz talk show Problematic Men every day and solve the brain exercise quizzes on the show with his mother and older brother.
• Jake prefers to be called by his Korean name, Jaeyoon.
  • The name “Jake” was given to him by his mother. He likes his English name because it’s not a common name in Australia.
• Jake is confident about his ability to hold his breath for a long time.
• Jay has a border collie named Layla.

JAKE’S NICKNAMES

Most of the nicknames on this page have originated from Korean media or conversations held in Korean among members.