Lee Know Solo Album: Early 2027 Release, Enlistment Timeline

Lee Know will release a solo album before he enlists. A JYP Entertainment official confirmed to Dispatch on Thursday that the Stray Kids member is preparing his first solo record and is aiming for an early 2027 release. Dispatch reported that the jacket and music video shoots are finished and the album is in its final stage, with a January release expected.

Newsen, which also reported the news Thursday, gave a slightly different account of the filming. As relayed by Soompi, it said Lee Know finished the jacket shoot and filmed parts of the music video in October, and is now putting finishing touches on the release. Neither report gave a title, track list, lead single or exact date. JYP's own commitment stops at "early 2027."

Soompi describes the album as Lee Know's official solo debut, which would make him the first Stray Kids member to take that step. He has released individual songs inside group projects before, including "Cinema," a 2025 duet with Seungmin. This would be an album of his own.

It also lands one week after a different announcement. On Nov. 5, JYP said Lee Know is scheduled to begin mandatory military service in the first quarter of 2027, the first of the group's eight members to do so. The notice said he may miss some of the activities planned for that quarter, and that before enlisting he would keep meeting fans through "various content and individual activities." It gave no enlistment date and did not say what form his service would take. JYP said it would announce further details separately.

Stray Kids is not a group in a lull. The Korean outlet Isplus reported that the group has debuted nine consecutive albums at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. On Nov. 10, the group announced 23 more cities for its "Run It" world tour, bringing it to 46 shows in 31 cities, with the new dates running from April through July 2027, according to the Korea Herald. The first of them are two shows in Yokohama, Japan, on April 24 and 25.

Those dates fall after the first quarter ends. JYP's Nov. 5 notice does not say how Lee Know's enlistment fits around them.

Dispatch's January report is the only date attached to the album so far. The enlistment date, still unannounced, is the one that decides how much time Lee Know has between the two.