TWS Explained: The Six-Member Group Whose 'Overdrive' Shoulder Shake Hooked Korean Stars

A shoulder shake did a lot of work for TWS. The six-piece added the move to its choreography for "Overdrive," a slew of A-list Korean celebrities started copying it, and the single had passed 19 million YouTube views by the time Rolling Stone published its profile of the group on March 25.

The group's name is pronounced "Two Us." Shinyu, Dohoon, Youngjae, Hanjin, Jihoon and Kyungmin joined the magazine for an hour-long Zoom call around lunchtime in Seoul. They started in Korean and switched languages at points along the way.

TWS debuted in January 2024 with the mini album Sparkling Blue. Shinyu, 22, is the leader and the oldest. Kyungmin, 18, is the maknae, the group's youngest member. Hanjin, who comes from China, is the only member who is not Korean.

Rolling Stone calls the group's sound Boyhood Pop, and the look has grown up with it. The schoolboy uniforms from the debut year are gone, replaced by edgier techwear.

The members are also doing more of the creative work themselves. Dohoon and Jihoon wrote lyrics for the 2025 EP Play Hard, and Jihoon helped build some of the choreography for that promotional cycle.

Dohoon was frank about how early in their careers they still are:

"You know, it hasn't been really long since our own debut, and we haven't met any trainees who have come up to us and asked for our advice yet."

Kyungmin sees that short history as plenty to write about:

"We have packed in so many memories since our debut two years ago, and we have many stories to tell through our songs."