WINNER (Hangul: 위너) is a five-member South Korean pop group formed in 2013 by YG Entertainment. It currently consists of four members: Jinwoo, Seunghoon, Mino and Seungyoon. Member Taehyun left the group in November of 2016. The group was first introduced in the reality-survival program called Who is Next: WIN as "Team A." Team A and their adversaries Team B were both formed from trainees within YG Entertainment. The teams competed against each other in order to debut as the first YG boy group in eight years.