Hyomin

This article is about the South Korean idol-singer from T-ara. For the South Korean idol-singer from f(x), see Luna (singer). For the South Korean actress, see Park Sun-young (actress).
This is a Korean name; the family name is Park.
Hyomin

Hyomin performing in Hong Kong, August 2013
Native name 박선영
Born Park Sun-young
(1989-05-30) May 30, 1989[1]
Busan, South Korea
Other names Hyomin
Occupation

Musical career

Genres
Years active 2009–present
Labels MBK Entertainment
Associated acts
Website T-ara
Korean name
Hangul 박선영
Hanja 朴宣映
Revised Romanization Bak Seon-yeong
McCune–Reischauer Pak Sŏn-yŏng
Stage name
Hangul 효민
Hanja 孝敏
Revised Romanization Hyo-min
McCune–Reischauer Hyomin

Park Sun-young (Hangul: 박선영; born May 30, 1989), better known by her stage name Hyomin, is a South Korean singer and actress. She is the lead vocalist, lead dancer of K-pop girl group T-ara.

Music career

Hyomin performing in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2012

Career beginnings

Hyomin’s path to stardom started early when she won the MiMi Princess modeling contest at the age of 8. She was a famous internet ulzzang and even modeled for online shopping malls before debuting with T-ara.[2] She was a trainee under JYP Entertainment and was considered to be a replacement for Hyuna, who was a member of the Wonder Girls in 2007. Before being cast by Core Contents Media, she started appearing in music videos like SS501's "Unlock", SG Wannabe's "Smooth Break-Up", and FT Island's "Heaven".

She was chosen by Core Contents Media to be featured in some of her labelmates' songs prior to her debut. This included Hwang Jung-eum, the Colour Pink project with Seeya, Davichi and Black Pearl. She has also performed on a music show with SeeYa during their promotions for the song, "Hot Girl".

T-ara

Main article: T-ara

In 2010, Hyomin was in the Wonder Women project group with label mates Seeya and Davichi, along with fellow member Eunjung. She was featured on the soundtrack for SBS's drama Coffee House in 2010 and also collaborated with Brave Brothers for their digital single "Beautiful Girl" in 2011.

On June 14, 2011, Core Contents Media announced that Hyomin would take over leadership as T-ara's third leader for their comeback album, John Travolta Wannabe, and Japanese promotions. She later passed on her leadership to fellow member, Soyeon.[3]

Solo Debut

It was revealed that Hyomin and Jiyeon would be making solo debuts, they are considering promoting simultaneously, but also considering having Jiyeon promote in early April and Hyomin promote in early May. On March 28 it was announced that Jiyeon would start promoting on April 30 with single 1MIN,1SEC. On the 2nd of June Hyomin's second teaser and album title was released. The EP will be called Make Up with the lead single "Nice Body".[4]

Hyomin is returning solo on march with her 2nd album, a year and seven months since making her debut with the EP Make Up in June 2014. MBK Entertainment revealed, “Hyomin is preparing to make a solo comeback in March. She is producing her album with Ryan S. Jhun who has previously EXO’s Love Me Right, Red Velvet’s Dumb Dumb and Shinee’s View.”

Acting career

Hyomin at 'Love Jinx' movie premiere, 2014

2009: I Really Really Like You and Invincible Youth

In November 2009, Hyomin was cast in the musical production of "I Really Really Like You",[5] an adaption of the hit drama "Love Truly". Fellow member Boram was cast in the same musical in December 2010 alongside her father Jeon YoungRok.[6]

Hyomin was a fixed cast member of KBS's variety show, Invincible Youth, from October 23, 2009 to December 24, 2010. She was one of the seven original members and one of the four that remained after the show experienced member changes.

2010-2011: My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox and Gisaeng Ryung

She starred in the drama My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox as Ban Seon Nyuh from August 11, 2010 to September 30.[7]

Hyomin made her big screen debut in the horror film Gisaeng Ryung, playing the role of a bright and outgoing high school student named Yurin.[8] The film was released on August 4, 2011.

2012-2013: The Thousandth Man and Jinx

In early 2012, Hyomin was cast in the musical "Our Youth Roly-Poly" along with group members Jiyeon and Soyeon. Hyomin was also cast in the Chinese version of We Got Married, in which her partner is Fu Xinbo, a Chinese idol. In Summer 2012 Hyomin was once again cast as a gumiho in MBC's fantasy sitcom, "The Thousandth Man". On February 10, 2013, Hyomin was cast in the Japanese film "Jinx".[9] Her character, Ji-Ho, is a Korean exchange student at a Japanese university who gets two of her friends there to date.

Other work

Fashion design

During T-ara's "Roly-Poly" promotions in June 2011, Hyomin designed her own stage costume, which flaunted a retro pattern and short shorts that were popular during the period.[10]

Hyomin launched an exclusive clothing collection, in collaboration with celebrity stylist Kim Sung-il, for G-Market on June 4, 2012.[11] Hyomin has come up with a total of 150 products for the collection, and has been actively involved with the planning, designing, and product launch preparations for the shop.

Discography

EPs

Title Album details Peak positions Sales
KOR
[12]		 TWN
[13]		 TWN East Asian
[14][upper-alpha 1]
Make Up 6 15 4
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Singles

Year Title Peak positions Sales Album
KOR
Gaon
 KOR
Billboard
2013 "Love Suggestion" 12 28
  • KOR (DL): 7,469
 (digital single)
2014 "Nice Body" 13 18
  • KOR (DL): 205,741+ [15]
 Make Up
"Fake It" 27 92
  • KOR (DL): 205,741+ [15]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.
"N/A" Billboard Kpop Hot 100 ran from August 2011 to May 2014.

Soundtracks

Year Show title Album Song Duration Notes
2010 SBS Coffee House Coffee House OST Part 3. "Coffee Over Milk" 3:35 With Soyeon and Seeya's Lee Boram

Other works

Year Album Song Duration Notes
2008 Colour Pink "Blue Moon" 3:32 With Seeya, Davichi and Black Pearl
2009 N-Time(Single) "N-Time" 0:00 With Hwang Jung-eum
2010 Wonder Woman (Single) "Wonder Woman 3:38 With Eunjung, Seeya, Davichi.
2011 Beautiful Girl(Single) "Beautiful Girl" 3:14 With Brave Brothers Featuring Electro-Boys

Other charted songs

Year Title Peak positions Album
KOR
2014 "Overcome" 70 Make Up
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Music videos

Year Music video Director
2014 "Nice Body" Unknown

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Gisaeng Ryung Yurin A Horror Movie
2013 Jinx! Ji-Ho Japanese Film

Television drama

Year Title Role Network
2010 My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox Ban Seon Nyeo SBS
Master of Study Cameo KBS2
2011 Gye Baek Choyoung MBC
2012 The Thousandth Man Gu MiMo MBC
2015 Sweet Temptation ( ) Hyo Jin Web Drama

Music video appearances

Year Song title Artist Role
2006 Unlock SS501 Herself
2008 Heaven FT Island
Smooth-Breakup SG Wannabe

Musical

Year Musical Title Role
2009 I Really Really Like You Musical Hong Jung Hwa
2012 Our Youth, Roly Poly Musical Han Joo Young [16]

Variety show

Year Title Role Network
2009 Radio Star Herself MBC
Mnet Scandal Mnet
Star King SBS
Challenge 1000 Song KBS2
2009-10 Invincible Youth KBS2
2010 Star Golden Bell KBS
Strong Heart SBS
You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook KBS
Happy Together KBS
Taxi tvN
Star King SBS
Bouquet MBC
Dream Girls Mnet
Hello Baby KBS
2011 Star King SBS
King of Idol SBS
Challenge 1000 Song KBS2
Win Win KBS2
2012 Weekly Idol MBC Every 1
Naughty Boys JTBC
Running Man SBS
We Got Married (Chinese Version) MBC/SMG
Invincible Youth 2 KBS2
Sponge Zero KBS
2013 Beatles Code Mnet
Challenge 1000 Song KBS2
Immortal Songs 2 KBS
Let's Go! Dream Team Season 2 KBS2
SimSimTaPa MBC
2014 Immortal Songs 2 KBS
Music Travel MBC
Moon Hee Jun's Pure Mnet
Weekly Idol MBC
Smile People SBS
Vitamin KBS2
Weekly Idol MBC Every 1
Star King SBS
Hidden Singer JTBC
2015 A Song For You 4 (Ep. 6) KBS2
Idol Star Athletic Championship 2015 MBC

Awards

Year Awards
2011

Notes

  1. ↑ Position was taken from 2011 week 31 for Bubble Pop, 2012 week 47 for Melting, 2014 week 35 for A Talk.

References

  1. ↑ Mark Russell (29 April 2014). K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution. Tuttle Publishing. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-4629-1411-1.
  2. ↑ (Korean)티아라, 효민 '인터넷 얼짱 출신이에요'
  3. ↑ (Korean) Kwon, Su Bin 보람→효민 리더교체 “모든 멤버에게 기회줄 것
  4. ↑ http://www.allkpop.com/article/2014/06/hyomin-shows-off-her-nice-body-in-first-teaser-image-for-solo-mini-album-debut.
  5. ↑ (Korean) Go, Jaewan 티아라 효민, 뮤지컬 배우 변신 '진짜진짜 좋아해' 캐스팅
  6. ↑ (Korean) Na, Jiyeon '티아라' 보람, 뮤지컬 데뷔..."아버지 전영록과 동반 출연"
  7. ↑ (Korean) 티아라 효민, '내 여자친구는 구미호'로 연기 데뷔'
  8. ↑ (Korean) Kwon, Su Bin 영화 첫 데뷔 티아라 효민 '상큼한 손인사~'
  9. ↑ "T-ara’s Hyomin attends her first script reading for ‘Jinx’ in Japan". Allkpop.com. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "티아라 효민, 자체제작 '하의실종' 롤리폴리 인형 의상". TV Daily. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  11. ↑ "티아라 효민, G마켓에 단독샵 오픈". edaily. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2012.
  12. ↑ "Gaon Chart" (in Korean). Gaon Chart. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
  13. ↑ "G-Music Combo Chart" (in Chinese). G-Music. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  14. ↑ "G-Music J-Pop Chart" (in Chinese). G-Music. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  15. 1 2 Sales references for "Nice Body":
  16. ↑ http://www.soompi.com/2012/01/16/taras-soyeon-and-hyomin-for-musical-roly-poly/
  17. ↑ http://m.news.nate.com/view/20111230n25220

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