Mark Yien Tuan, who was born in Los Angeles, California, spent some time in Paraguay and Brazil before eventually moving back to the state where he was raised. He is Taiwanese and has one younger brother and two older sisters. In elementary school, he studied the violin and piano, then switched to the guitar in junior high.
In Arcadia, California, he went to Arcadia High School. A JYP Entertainment scout noticed him in 2010 while he was hanging out with his buddies at school and asked him to the auditions. Tuan didn’t want to pursue a musical career, but his friends and family convinced him that it was a good chance, so he gave it a shot. After succeeding at the audition, he quit school, which he had been attending up to grade 10. He relocated to South Korea in August 2010, where he spent two years studying martial arts and a year studying acrobatics. He was encouraged to follow the life of an idol and become a singer after learning to sing, rap, dance, and perform on stage as a trainee. Tuan, who was raised in the US and came from a Taiwanese family, is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English and has also picked up Korean and Japanese. Tuan sustained a leg injury in December 2018 while practicing martial arts moves for the JYP Nation stage at the 2018 KBS Song Festival. He was unable to perform at the event or on subsequent dates, such as the fifth-anniversary fan meeting for Got7, and spent the majority of the concert sitting down.
Mark Tuan’s favorite foods-He enjoys eating beef and hamburgers.
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