- Stage names : Sol, Tae Yang [태양]
- Used to be Known as : YB Taekwon [YB 태권]
- Real Name : Dong Young Bae 동영배
- Position in Big Bang : Vocalist
- Pendant: "YB" with a crown over it. ("To become the best in the music industry")
- Birthdate : May 18, 1988
- Height : 174cm
- Weight : 56kg
- Blood-type : AB
- Education: Daejin University in Theater & Film (starting in 2008)
- Family Members : Parents & older brother (Hyun Bae)
- Specialty : Rapping, dancing, beat boxing, singing, & foreign languages (Japanese & Chinese).
- Hobby : Gardening, listening to music, watching TV, & BasketBall
- Personality : Does his best in everything, over-achiever.
Doesn’t like to fight, he talks about his problem with the opponent.
He listens to you well and thinks about what he is going to say before he says anything.
- Likes : church, summer, clothes, games, and mangas.
- Musicians he admires : Usher, Omarion, Justin Timberlake
- Became ‘interested’ in music after hearing Brian McKnight’s first album when he was little.
- He can make ramyun.
- Once when he was younger, he had a nightmare of a unicorn riding on his mom and flying.
- When asked what love is when he was younger(2002), he answered ‘diarrhea’.
- He talks in his sleep.
- He has never had a girl friend before.
- Known to be extremely shy and nervous around girls, has become better but still unable to speak or look at them.
- First kiss was : “Last September(2006) when we had our 2nd single out, at the music video set. The girl was the actress Lee Suh Ra. A little bit but many times. What? I couldn’t help it!” He texted his the other Big Bang members soon after with “HYUNGS IM DEAD!” (them: what happened?)’I KISSED THE GIRL!!’
- Dislikes when people make face judgements about them.
- Picked Daesung as the member he would date if he was a girl.
- Says if he weren’t a music artist, he’d be a Gag Man.
- His biggest conflict with GD was during trainee years and it was over a basketball game where he even grabbed GD by the collar because he was so mad.
- Chooses love over work.
- One of his favorite songs is ‘Frankie J – Don’t Wanna Try’.
- Answered to if he crushed on a girl in his fan group, that he would give her his hand.
- Always carries his ipod, bible, and English vocab cards in his backpack and sometimes energy drinks.
“Music is a way for me to express myself. I’m usually bad at expressing myself to other people but I can do that through music.”