Nayeon

Life and career

Early life

As a child, she had participated in a child modeling contest and was eventually cast by idol agency JYP Entertainment. However, her mother prevented her from starting training and entering show business right away given her young age.[4][1] On September 15, 2010, she secretly attended JYP Entertainment's 7th Open Audition after which she became a trainee.[5][6][7] In 2013, she was initially cast as a member of 6mix, a JYP girl group that was planned but never debuted.[8][9][10] She also made an appearance in the second episode of KBS2's 2012 Korean drama Dream High 2.[11]

2015–present: Sixteen and Twice

Main articles: Sixteen (TV series) and Twice

In 2015, Nayeon participated in the reality television show Sixteen, a competition designed to choose the founding members of Twice.[2][8][12] As one of the nine successful participants, she went on to join the newly formed girl group Twice.[2]

In October 2015, Nayeon officially debuted as a member of Twice with their first extended play, The Story Begins.[13] In Gallup Korea's annual music poll for 2017, Nayeon was voted the sixth most popular idol in South Korea, ahead of all her bandmates.[1][14][15] In the 2018 poll, she was again ranked sixth, receiving 6.7% of the votes.[1][16][17] In 2019, she was ranked fifth, receiving 8.2% of the votes.[1][18][19] In 2019, Nayeon was also ranked as the eighth most popular female K-pop idol in a survey of soldiers doing mandatory military service in South Korea.[20]

Other ventures

Endorsements

Aside from various endorsements with her bandmates, Nayeon has done work promoting various products and featured in several advertisements. During trainee years, Nayeon became a model for brands such as Smart School Uniform[21] and TN.[22]

In May 2021, she became a model and appeared in the promotional video for Chaumet's Joséphine Collection.[23][24] In August, she became a model for Biotherm Korea, a South Korean beauty brand.[25][26] Nayeon also appeared as a promotional model for magazines, including Nylon Korea,[27] Cosmopolitan Korea,[28] W Korea,[29] and Elle Korea[30] for various fashion brand in South Korea such as Ralph Lauren,[31] Jill Stuart,[32] Fendi,[33] and Louis Vuitton.[34]

Discography

Main article: Twice discography

Composition credits

All song credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association's database unless stated otherwise.[35]

List of songs, showing year released, artist name, and name of the album

Title Year Artist Album Notes

"24/7" 2017 Twice Twicetagram As lyricist

"Rainbow" 2019 Feel Special

"21:29"

"Make Me Go" 2020 More & More

"Depend on You" Eyes Wide Open

"Baby Blue Love" 2021 Taste of Love

"F.I.L.A. (Fall in Love Again)" Formula of Love: O+T=<3

Filmography

Television series

Year Title Network Role Notes Ref.

2012 Dream High 2 KBS Jung Ui-bong's dance partner Cameo [11]

Television show

Year Title Network Role Ref.

2018 Idol Star Athletics Championships MBC Presenter [36]

Web show

Year Title Network Role Ref.

2020 Seize The Light YouTube Herself [37]