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Sooyoung

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Also known as Choi Soo-young, Choi Sooyoung, Soo-young, Suyoung, Su-young, Soo Young, Su Young, Choi Suyoung

South Korean singer and actress

Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Academic genealogy of physicists
  • Academic genealogy of mathematicians

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Film & TV

Acting · Seoul, South Korea

Choi Soo-young (Hangul: 최수영; born February 10, 1990) is a South Korean singer and actress, and member of the girl group Girls' Generation. She made her singing debut in the Korean-Japanese girl group, Route 0, which was active from 2002 until 2003. In 2007, she became a member of the K-pop girl group, Girls' Generation, with the roles of a lead dancer, lead rapper, and sub-vocalist. In her…

Known for

  • Ballerina — Katla Park2025
  • Second Shot At Love — Han Geum-ju2025
  • Idol I — Maeng Se-na2025
  • Fake Kim Hyoyeon — Self2025
  • Yoobari Talkbari — Self2025
  • Fake Kim Hyoyeon2025
  • Dead Man — Hipster2024
  • Masterpiece Championship — Self - Host2024
  • Hit Song Championship — Host2024
  • Hey, Come Here2024

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Country
South Korea
Active from
1990

Member of

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,169
Total plays
69,321

Tags

k-popKoreanSNSDfemale vocalistspop

Choi Sooyoung (최수영; born February 10, 1990, in Gwangju City, South Korea) is a singer, actress, model, spokesmodel, TV host, radio DJ, and member of the South Korean idol group, Girls' Generation. Before Sooyoung's audition to SM Entertainment and 2007 debut under 소녀시대 (Girls' Generation), she made a brief debut in Japan as a singer in the short-lived idol duo called routeφ in 2002. She first debuted with Marina Takahashi with the song "Start". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/%EC%88%98%EC%98

via Last.fm · 수영

Key facts

Born
( 1990-02-10 ) February 10, 1990 (age 36) , Gwangju, Gyeonggi , South Korea
Alma mater
Chung-Ang University
Occupations
Singer actress songwriter
Years active
2002–present
Agent
Saram Entertainment
Partner
Jung Kyung-ho (2013–present)
Family
Choi Soo-jin (sister)
Genres
K-pop
Instrument
Vocals
Labels
SM Avex Trax
Member of
Girls' Generation
Formerly of
Route 0
Hangul
최수영
Rr
Choe Suyeong
Mr
Ch'oe Suyŏng
Website
esaram.co.kr , Choi Sooyoung

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

최수영 | 사람엔터테인먼트

최수영, 최수영

esaram.co.kr

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Encyclopedic overview

Choi Soo-young (Korean: 최수영; born February 10, 1990), known mononymously as Sooyoung, is a South Korean singer, actress, and songwriter. She was a member of the short-lived Korean-Japanese singing duo Route 0 during 2002 in Japan. After returning to South Korea in 2004, Choi eventually became a member of girl group Girls' Generation in 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of South Korea's most widely known girl groups worldwide.

Apart from her group's activities, Choi has also starred in various television dramas such 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 You Saw (2020), and most recently in Run On (2021), So I Married the Anti-fan (2021), If You Wish Upon Me (2022), Not Others (2023), Second Shot at Love (2025), and I Dol I (2026).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sooyoung” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.