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TEMPEST (템페스트) also known as TPST, is a seven member Korean boy group under Yuehua Entertainment who debuted in March 2, 2022 with their debut mini album called It's ME, It's WE.TEMPEST means ‘strong storm’ which represent how they are a group that will sweep the music industry with their bright energy and strong performances which a lot of fans and non-fans praised about. With these, they acquired and live up to these multiple titles as a group in just a span of a year in the kpop industry. Such titles are: "4th Generation Hot Item", "Performance Idol" and "B-Side Restaurant."Beside for the literal meaning for their team name, each letter from the word TEMPEST represent each member based on the keyword they were given.
WHERE TO FIND TEMPEST?
As of March 17, 2023, TEMPEST are now part of Dear U Bubble which is a paid platform where you can communicate with each member individually! Along with BBL, they use their official members twitter account as well as fancafe to communicate ahd share photos. They sometimes use their Japan official account to post photos and updates too!They do their live on their vlive account before but after VLIVE transferring to Weverse, TEMPEST started doing lives on their instagram account or youtube account. Some members already tried doing live on Bubble! Their previous lives on VLIVEs are uploaded by iEs on youtube!
Fandom Name: iE
Revealed Date: March 2, 2022
Meaning Behind the Fandom Name: Pronounced as /ai-ee/, this is a pun that dubs fans of TEMPEST as the “eye” of the storm. Elaborated meaning of the fandom name means that the fans always stand at the center of TEMPEST, like the clear and warm eye of the storm, and it captures the wish that only good things will happen to iEs and TEMPEST.
Fandom Color: As of August 2023, there is still no official color announcement.
Lightstick: iETEM // iEbong
Lightstick Color: Aurora lights.
iE Membership: iE-Cloud (1st Generation) ; March 2023.
Team Greetings: "It's We! We are TEMPEST!"
TEMPEST Handsign: TEMPEST also have their own hand sign: One of their hand is in a 'T-shaped' position while the other one is below the 'T-shaped' hand, where the palm is facing upward. If someone looks at it closely, the hand sign looks like a Tornado.
TEMPEST Number:
7 - for the reason that they are a seven member group that were destined to be together.
95 - According to LEW, his favorite number is 95 because it stands for IE. I is the 9th letter and E is the 5th letter of the alphabet.
TEMPEST Standing Position: Eunchan - Hwarang - Hyuk - LEW - Hanbin - Hyeongseop and TaeraeTo further learn more about the members of TEMPEST and to know who is who, click here.
After more than a year as a group and idols in the kpop industry, TEMPEST already performed in a lot of different events in South Korea as well as in other countries. The septet also wrapped up their first ever concert called TEMPEST Show Con [T-OUR] in Seoul, Japan (Osaka & Tokyo) and Macau. And throughout those events and concert, iEs are there to be supportive by singing along to their discography which lead us to Cheering Guides!If you are planning to go to a TEMPEST concert or an event where the group is included in the line up, it's best to prepare to sing and cheer along! Whether you have an iE lightstick or not, joining the cheers through some of their songs will be appreciated by the seven members!
Take note that these cheering guides are for their title tracks and two b-sides that they promoted along with it (Dangerous era and Vroom Vroom era!) For some of their discography that has no fanchants, you can always sing along from the start until the end! Fanchant Playlist: Here