KATSEYE fandom terms in Korean: 캣츠아이, EYEKONS (아이콘즈), WILD lines

KATSEYE is written 캣츠아이 in Korean. The HYBE and Geffen Records global girl group was formed through the audition series The Debut: Dream Academy and debuted in the United States on June 28, 2024. Its six members are 다니엘라 (Daniela), 라라 (Lara), 마농 (Manon), 메간 (Megan), 소피아 (Sophia) and 윤채 (Yoonchae), spelled the way Korean newspapers spell them. Manon has been taking a break from activities since February 2026 and Sophia since August 2026, so KATSEYE is currently performing as four: Daniela, Lara, Megan and Yoonchae.

Our app translates fan messages from 28 languages into Korean, and until this week the group name was the part our pipeline got wrong. KATSEYE came back as 캣아이, which is simply “cat eye” in Hangul, in 25 of 27 runs, and the other two were misspelled as well. Megan came back as 메건 in 8 of 9 runs, and Yoonchae on her own came back as 은채 in all 3. The rule we added this week pins all three: 캣츠아이 in 27 of 27 runs, 메간 and 윤채 in every run, and sentences our rule never shows as examples, like “Katseye, please come back to Manila soon, we miss you”, now come back right, on the live site too. The lines below write the group and the members the way the Korean press does.

EYEKONS, written 아이콘즈 in Korean, is KATSEYE's fandom name, announced in April 2024. The name is usually explained as the EYE in KATSEYE plus icon. In Korean it stays 아이콘즈 for one fan or for all of them, and the 즈 matters: 아이콘 on its own is also how Korean writes the boy group iKON, so 아이콘즈 is the spelling that points to KATSEYE.

Until this week our translator wrote the name two ways. A capitalized EYEKONS standing alone, next to the group name or in a Japanese sentence came back as 아이콘즈 in 12 of 12 runs. Lower-case eyekons, the singular eyekon, the plural Eyekons and Spanish and Filipino sentences came back as 아이콘 in 23 of 24 runs. The rule we added this week pins every form to 아이콘즈, in 36 of 36 runs, while iKON still comes back as 아이콘 and the ordinary word icon is left alone. “all the Eyekons in Manila are waiting for you” now comes back as 아이콘즈 on the live site. The lines below use the name the way Eyekons write it in Korean.

WILD, written 와일드 in Korean, came out on August 14, 2026 and became KATSEYE's first No. 1 on the Billboard 200. THE WILDWORLD TOUR opened in Dublin on September 1 and moved to North America on October 13, starting in Miami. Our translator writes most KATSEYE titles correctly in Korean: 날리 (Gnarly), 가브리엘라 (Gabriela), 터치 (Touch), 핑키 업 (PINKY UP) and 와일드 (WILD) came back right in all 3 runs each. Animal, the pre-release single from July, is the exception, and we would rather say so: it stayed in Latin letters in every run, both before and after the group-name rule, which was never about titles. Latin letters cannot be written on a Hangul-only card, so a title that stays in English simply drops out of the handwritten line.

In Korean, Animal is written 애니멀, and one of the lines below already uses it. If you name another song, write the Korean title yourself, or start from these lines, which keep every word in Hangul.