K-pop idol Minho and Physical: Asia star Amotti steal the thunder at AIA Hyrox Singapore

SINGAPORE – Blackpink were not the only K-stars in town over the weekend.

South Korean celebrities, including K-pop idol Minho from boy band Shinee and Physical: Asia personality Amotti, drew huge crowds to the Singapore Expo for the AIA Hyrox Singapore challenge held on Nov 29 and 30.

Minho was spotted in the audience cheering on his compatriots, Amotti and Choi Seung-yeon, on Nov 29.

Hyrox is a gruelling global fitness event that tests both strength and endurance. Over 10,000 athletes across two days raced in a circuit comprising eight 1km runs and eight workout stations.  

Amotti and Choi were part of the winning Team Korea in the recent Netflix reality competition series Physical: Asia (2025), which pitted South Korea against teams from Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Thailand and Turkey.

Amotti, whose real name is Kim Jae-hong, has won legions of fans since becoming the champion in Netflix’s Physical: 100 Season 2 – Underground (2024). He and Choi came in second in their mixed doubles category with a timing of 59:09 minutes.

Meanwhile, Minho, 33, competed with Physical: 100’s Hong Beom-seok, 39, in the men’s doubles division, under the 35-39 age group (based on the average age of the duo), on Nov 30.

Although the duo missed the pole position by 1:14 minutes, their timing of 55:15 minutes ranked them overall second in the category.

It was Hong’s second race in the event. The former firefighter and runner-up in Physical: 100 Season 2 partnered fellow Hyrox ambassador American Gabe Heck for the pros double men’s division. The pair came in first at 53:41 minutes.

Hong was also in Singapore in June for the Hyrox Open Asian Championships at the National Stadium as the captain of Team Korea, which placed first with 53:39 minutes in the four-member mixed relay category. He finished fifth in the men’s pro division race in the same championships with a time of one hour and 26 seconds.

Minho told women’s lifestyle publication Her World in an interview after his race that the competition was amazing because of his many fans cheering him on. A self-professed sports fanatic who exercises every day, the singer said he regularly trains with “crazy men” Amotti and Hong.

He added that he planned to feast on chilli crab and black pepper crab after the race.

Food was also an indulgence for Amotti, who told Her World in a separate interview that he was looking forward to bak kut teh after the race.