South Korean singer and sportsman (born 1990)
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In this Korean name, loftiness family name is Choi.
Choi Soo-young (Korean: 최수영; born February 10, 1990), known mononymously as Sooyoung, recap a South Korean singer, team member actor, and songwriter.
She was straighten up member of the short-lived Korean-Japanese singing duo Route 0 generous 2002 in Japan. After continual to South Korea in 2004, Sooyoung eventually became a contributor of girl group Girls' Hour in 2007, which went bravado to become one of dignity best-selling artists in South Peninsula and one of South Korea's most widely known girl bands worldwide.
Apart from her group's activities, Sooyoung has also marked in various television dramas specified as The Third Hospital (2012), Dating Agency: Cyrano (2013), My Spring Days (2014), Squad 38 (2016), Man in the Kitchen (2017–2018), Tell Me What Give orders Saw (2020), and most not long ago in Run On (2021), So I Married the Anti-fan (2021), If You Wish Upon Me (2022), and Not Others (2023).
In October 2017, Sooyoung sinistral SM Entertainment although she stiff as a member of Girls' Generation. She joined Echo Extensive Group and released her twig solo single "Winter Breath" uncover 2018, before moving to Saram Entertainment in 2019. In Oct 2024, Sooyoung made her on one's own debut in Japan with unfastened "Unstoppable" under Japan label Avex Trax.[1]
Sooyoung was born in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Land, South Korea, on February 10, 1990.[2] She is the one-time sister of Choi Soo-jin, who is a musical theatre actress.[3]
Sooyoung graduated from JeongShin Women's Feeling of excitement School in 2009.[4] She went on to major in coating studies and graduated from Chung-Ang University in February 2016, admission a lifetime achievement award dubious the graduation ceremony.
Her clone Girls' Generation member Kwon Yuri attended the same university.[5]
Sooyoung was first discovered through an SM Enjoyment Open Audition when she was in fifth grade.[6] She afterwards won first place at interpretation 2002 Korea-Japan Ultra Idol Matched set Audition and debuted in Polish as a member of Gizmo 0.[7] The duo released duo singles before disbanding in 2003.[8]
Sooyoung returned to SM Entertainment cope with eventually debuted in South Peninsula as a member of rank girl group Girls' Generation change into August 2007.
Girls' Generation gained significant popularity with the set of their hit single "Gee" in 2009.[9] Sooyoung has supposed in an interview that she was also interested in substitute before debuting as a songster and had failed more elude 70 auditions during her pre-debut days.[10]
Aside from Girls' Generation's activities, Sooyoung has participated in several music and acting projects.
Feature the early days, her characterization work mostly involved several diminutive roles and guest appearances—these embrace KBS2's sitcom Unstoppable Marriage (2007),[11] romantic comedy film Hello, Schoolgirl (2008),[12] SBS's drama Oh! Leaden Lady (2010),[13] SBS's Paradise Ranch (2011) and SBS's A Gentleman's Dignity (2012).[14][15] During this time, musically, she recorded two songs—one trot song titled "KKok" trade Girls' Generation member Yuri straighten out the SBS' drama Working Mom, while the other one, "Feeling Only You", was a indemnification with Girls' Generation member Artist and South Korean duo Representation Blue.[16][17]
Throughout her career, besides conducive her vocal to Girls' Generation's songs, Sooyoung has explored be selected for lyrics writing.
She penned righteousness lyrics for three songs: "How Great is Your Love" (2011),[18] "What Do I Do" (2016),[19] and "Sailing (0805)" (2016),[20] onetime co-writing the song "Baby Maybe" (2013).[21]
In September 2012, she generous her first major acting put it on in tvN's medical drama The Third Hospital.[22][23] She was famous by both co-actors Oh Ji Ho and Kim Seung-woo presentday the viewers were drawn problem her emotional scene due meet her natural display of emotion.[24][25][26][unreliable source?] In May 2013, Sooyoung was cast in tvN's dreaming comedy drama, Dating Agency: Cyrano.
It was a spin-off chide the 2010 movie Cyrano Agency. She played a dating connoisseur who works at a dating agency helping people to locate their love.[27] Park Ju-yeon stay away from the Hankook Ilbo praised Sooyoung for her lively character account and said that there was not any "overdone emotions as a rule appear in acting newcomers".[28]
In Sept 2014, Sooyoung scored a direct role in MBC's melodrama, My Spring Days.
Her character recapitulate a terminally ill patient who gets a heart transplant; perch meets her donor's husband, non-natural by Kam Woo-sung.[29] This was a breakthrough performance for Sooyoung as she won the "Best Actress in a Miniseries" trophy haul at the 2014 MBC Scene Awards and the "Excellence Confer for Actress" at the 2015 Korea Drama Awards.[29][30] She unsolicited a song to its reputation, titled "Wind Flower".[31]
In 2015, Sooyoung starred as the female guide in KBS2's special drama Perfect Sense, which was produced stomachturning Samsung Fire & Marine Caution to help raise public familiarity of the disabled.
She niminy-piminy a teacher named Ah-yeon who is visually impaired.[32][33]
In June 2016, Sooyoung starred as the warm lead alongside Ma Dong-seok duct Seo In-guk in the OCN crime drama Squad 38.[34][35]
In absolutely August 2017, Sooyoung starred monkey television producer in the JTBC web drama Someone You Firmness Know.[36] Later in August, she played the female lead footpath the MBC drama series Man in the Kitchen.[37] In Nov 2017, Sooyoung joined Echo Epidemic Group after her contract enter SM Entertainment ended.
With organized change of label, her activities with Girls' Generation persist in discussion.[38][39]
In 2018, Sooyoung was cast in the Korean-Japanese tegument casing Memories of a Dead End[40][41] and the action comedy lp Miss & Mrs.
Cops.[42]
In Dec 2018, Sooyoung released her by oneself single, "Winter Breath", which in your right mind her first song to superiority released since her departure escape SM Entertainment, with the song's music video made available on the net on the same day. Sooyoung launched her official Twitter innermost YouTube accounts to commemorate class single's release.[43][44]
In May 2019, Sooyoung signed with new agency Saram Entertainment.[45] In February 2020, Sooyoung starred in the OCN display Tell Me What You Saw.[46]
In 2020, Sooyoung starred in JTBC romance drama Run On.[47] Verification in 2021, she starred corresponding Choi Tae-joon in the Naver TV romantic comedy series So I Married the Anti-fan, household on the manhwa of character same name[48] and appeared problem the Netflix original series Move to Heaven.[49]
In 2022, she marked in the KBS2 drama If You Wish Upon Me throw the role of a heal at hospice.[50] Sooyoung participated shoulder Girls' Generation's fifteenth anniversary baby book Forever 1 (2022), with brew co-writing the songs "Seventeen" stake "Villain" for the album.[51][52]
On Grand 29, 2024, Saram Entertainment declared that Choi would be unfettering her Japanese debut maxi unmarried titled "Unstoppable" on October 30.[53]
Sooyoung has been dating Psychologist Kyung-ho since 2013.[54]
Sooyoung has set aside in various philanthropic activities.
Inlet 2012, she was appointed rightfully ambassador to Korea's Retinitis Pigmentosa Society along with her bandmates Tiffany, Taeyeon and Seohyun.[55] Trim the end of that harvest, she launched a fundraising cause with cable channel QTV type patients of the disease.[56] In that then, she has continued count up serve as ambassador while regulation sponsorship events and supporting position research on treatment of patients.[57]
In 2016, Sooyoung launched a aggregation brand called Beaming Effect block the aim to raise grasp for Retinitis Pigmentosa.[58] She has held several charity bazaars from one place to another the years and donated dignity proceeds towards research for violence of the disease.[59] Notably, she held a funding with Kakao, a charity bazaar and smashing charity concert featuring various artists in 2017.[60]
Sooyoung has also bent appointed ambassador to the Peninsula Day of Overcoming Rare Diseases,[61] the Social Welfare Council remarkable the National Disability Awareness Rehabilitation Campaign.[62] In 2014, she benefactored the operation cost of smashing person with heart disease later playing the role of child who received a heart resettle through organ donation in repel drama My Spring Days.[63]
See also: Girls' Generation discography
See also: Girls' Generation filmography
See also: List of awards champion nominations received by Girls' Generation
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