Overview
- Park Geon-roung, the seven-year-old who starred in Pinkfong's 2016 'Baby Shark Dance,' released his first digital single 'WAVE' under the stage name Baby Shark Boy on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026.
- 'WAVE' opens with the familiar 'Baby Shark' melody before shifting into an electropop track with trap elements, and the single features rapper Joohoney of Monsta X.
- The Pinkfong Company says Park directly helped write the song's lyrics and that a documentary about the single's creative process is in production and will follow the release.
- Park has said being known as the 'Baby Shark' boy never felt like a burden and that he led a fairly normal school life, framing the new single as a personal coming-of-age rather than a nostalgia stunt.
- Pinkfong calls this its first artist project in K-pop, a move that repurposes long-running franchise recognition into a music strategy and could signal the company's wider push into South Korea's competitive pop industry.