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Minwoo

Mino

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About Minwoo

Minwoo is the fan-shipped friendship between WINNER's Song Mino and Kim Jinu, two members of the YG Entertainment group who have promoted side by side since WINNER debuted in August 2014. The ship name joins Mino with Jinwoo, Jinu's given name. Jinu is the oldest member and a lead vocalist and visual, while Mino is the main rapper and a working composer and painter. Fans read Minwoo as a warm, older-and-younger friendship rather than a romance. The pairing rests on years of group content and on Mino co-writing and featuring on Jinu's first solo single, which fans point to as the clearest sign of how close the two are. It is a quieter pairing inside the Inner Circle fandom, with fewer viral moments than WINNER's louder ships. Its appeal is continuity: the same steady closeness across a decade of promotions, hiatuses, and each member's solo chapters.

Minwoo is a modest pairing within Inner Circle, WINNER's fandom, drawing smaller numbers than the group's more prominent ships. Fans keep it alive through group variety clips and reactions to each member's solo activity, and its draw is the steadiness of the friendship rather than any single viral moment.

Fun facts

✦ The ship name Minwoo joins Mino with Jinwoo, the given name of WINNER's Jinu.
✦ Jinu is the oldest member of WINNER, born in 1991; Mino is the group's main rapper, born in 1993.
✦ Mino featured on and co-wrote Jinu's 2019 solo debut single Call Anytime, and Jinu publicly thanked him for his friendship and support.
✦ Both are soloists in their own right: Mino released Fiance in 2018 and Jinu made his solo debut the following year.

Moments

2019-08

Call Anytime

Mino co-wrote and featured on Jinu's solo debut single Call Anytime, appearing in the music video. Fans read his hands-on part in his groupmate's first solo release as the heart of the pairing.
2014-08

WINNER debut

Mino and Jinu debuted together in WINNER under YG Entertainment, beginning the decade of shared promotions the ship is built on.