Hyomin

Hyomin
효민
Hyomin in 2018
Born	Park Sun-young (1989-05-30) May 30, 1989 (age 35) Busan, South Korea
Education	Sungkyunkwan University
Occupations	Singer songwriter actress
Agent	Sublime Artist Agency
Musical career
Genres	K-pop
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2009–present
Labels	MBK Entertainment
Korean name
Hangul	박선영
Hanja	朴宣映
Revised Romanization	Bak Seon-yeong
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Sŏnyŏng
Stage name
Hangul	효민
Hanja	孝敏
Revised Romanization	Hyo-min
McCune–Reischauer	Hyomin

Park Sun-young is a is a South Korean singer and actress. She is known by the stage name Hyomin.^[1] She has been a member of girl group T-ara since 2009. She also performs as a solo artist and is an actress in movies and television.

Hyomin was born on May 30, 1989, in Busan, South Korea. She is the only child in her family. She went to Sungkyunkwan University.

In 1997, Hyomin won the MiMi Princess modeling contest at the age of 8. She went on to modeled for online shopping malls in later years.^[2] She trained for music with JYP Entertainment and was thought of as a possible member of Wonder Girls.^[3] She then was in music videos, such as SS501's Unlock, SG Wannabe's Smooth Break-Up and FT Island's Heaven.

In 2009 Hyomin became as a member of T-ara. The group made their debut on July 30 with their song "Lie". In 2009 and 2010, Hyomin was in the KBS' television show Invincible Youth.^[4] In November 2009, Hyomin was in the musical I Really Really Like You.^[5] Fellow T-ara member Jeon Bo-ram was in the same musical.^[6]

In 2010, Hyomin sang on the soundtrack for television show Coffee House. She was also in the drama My Girlfriend is a Nine-Tailed Fox.^[7]

In 2011, Hyomin was in the horror film Gisaeng Ryung,.^[8]

In 2012, Hyomin was in the musical Our Youth Roly-Poly along with other T-ara members Park Ji-yeon and Park So-yeon. Hyomin was also in the Chinese version of We Got Married. She also had a role in the MBC's show The Thousandth Man.^[9]

On February 10, 2013, Hyomin was cast in a lead role in the Japanese film Jinx!!!^[10]

In April 2013, Hyomin was in a girl group called T-ara N4 along with other T-ara members Hahm Eun-jung, Park Ji-yeon and Areum.^[11]

Hyomin made her first solo album in 2014. It was called Make Up and has the lead single "Nice Body". She made a single called Fake It later in the year.

In 2016, Hyomin made the single Still. She also made her second extended play album called Sketch.^[12]

In early 2018, Park and her fellow T-ara members left MBK Entertainment when their contracts finished.^[13] They stated they would stay together as a group.^[14] However, they have not released any new music as a group since then. In May 2018, Hyomin joined Sublime Artist Agency.^[15][16][17] In September 2018, Hyomin made a single called Mango.^[18]

In January 2019, Hyomin made a new single called U Um U Um.^[19] Then in February, 2019, Hyomin released her album Allure.^[20]

For T-ara's performance of Roly-Poly in 2011, Hyomin designed her own clothing.^[21]

In 2012, Hyomin started her own clothing line.^[22]

In 2019, Hyomin started a cosmetic brand named called "MINITT".

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