All About Them I

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T A E Y E O N

• Despite her kid-like appearance, Taeyeon is the oldest member and leader of SNSD.
• Taeyeon is considered as the best singer of SNSD.
• Taeyeon is the SNSD member with the largest fanbase. Her fanbase is the largest among female idol singers in Korea.
• Her vocal mentor is The One who praised her as his most memorable student. Prior to SNSD, 15-year-old Taeyeon was featured on his song called ‘You Bring Me Joy (Part 2)’. Six years later in late 2010 the teacher-student duo re-teamed for a hit single ‘Like a Star’.
• Taeyeon is nicknamed as “OST Queen” because she has numerous of #1 hit drama soundtracks.
• Her hometown is Jeonrado Jeonju.
• Taeyeon’s parents own a optical shop in Jeonju.
• She made her musical debut as Kaoru Amane in Midnight Sun, a musical adaptation of movie ‘Taiyou no Uta’. She learned how to play guitar for that role.
• Taeyeon collects perfumes.
• Taeyeon’s favorite color is purple.
• Taeyeon has a infamous self-explanatory nickname, which is “Byuntaeng” (byuntae + taengoo, “byuntae” means “pervert”).
• She once stated that her ideal man is Vegeta of manga/anime Dragon Ball.
• Tayeon loves jelly, gummy worms and the likes.

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J E S S I C A

• Nicknamed as Ice Princess, Sergeant Sic, and Sica-sama because of the cold, predominant vibe she has.
• Jessica is often considered as a real-life tsundere; A tsundere is a Japanese manga/anime character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing their warm side over time.
• Jessica was born in San Francisco, California. After street-casted by SM Entertainment when she was 11 year-old, she and her family moved to South Korea.
• Jessica trained for more than seven years before debuting with SNSD, making her the one who trained longest among the nine members.
• Her younger sister, Krystal Jung, is a member of label-mate idol group, f(x).
• Jessica is allergic to cucumber.
• Jessica is SNSD’s resident sleepy-head. She can sleep up to 16 hour a day and is the hardest member to wake up.
• Jessica once revealed that her hobbies are soccer and boxing. She also loves reading books and magazines.
• She made her musical debut as Elle Woods in the musical adaptation of Legally Blonde.
• A “Sica Effect” (Sica Hyogwa) is when the atmosphere went down or turned cold once Jessica said something.
• Jessica is close to FinKL’s Ock Juhyun and actress Park Minyoung of drama Sungkyunkwan Scandals fame.

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S U N N Y

• Sunny is the shortest member of SNSD.
• Sunny is in charge of aegyo (cutesy acts) in SNSD.
• She doesn’t really fond of her real name, Soon-kyu because it sounds old and outdated.
• The name Soon-kyu lives on through her participation in variety show ‘Invincible Youth’ wherein Sunny revealed her hard-working side as a farmer. Many viewers thought “Soonkyu” was a nickname given to fit her persona of  hard-working country-side girl in the show, while in fact it’s her real name. She also gained the nickname “Chicken-catcher Soonkyu” thanks to her impressive ability to catch chicken.
• Sunny was born in United States and the moved to Kuwait when she was an infant.
• She and her family was a war refugee during the Gulf War in Kuwait.
• Sunny has a phobia to fireworks and loud sounds, probably because of the Gulf War experience she had.
• Sunny is an avid gamer.
• Sunny is a niece to SM Entertainment’s founder and former CEO, Lee Sooman.
• She’s the last to join SNSD and the one who received the shortest training in SM Ent; that was because she was trained in another company, owned by singer Wheesung, for five years but the company went bankrupt so Sunny auditioned to SM Entertainment instead.
• Sunny shares the same birthday with both of her older sisters.

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T I F F A N Y

• One of Tiffany’s biggest charms is her eye-smile.
• Tiffany was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in Diamond Bar, LA, California.
• After casted in Los Angeles, Tiffany came to Korea in 2004 all by herself.
• Although Tiffany graduated from Korea Kent Foreign School on April 2007, she had attended primary and secondary schools in California – South Pointe Middle School (US) and Diamond Bar High School (US).
• Tiffany’s favorite color is Pink.
• She shares the same birthday with her one-year-older brother, Leo Hwang.
• Tiffany has a puppy named Romeo.
• Tiffany is a devout Christian.
• During her trainee days she roomed with Taeyeon and Zhang Liyin.
• To avoid confusion with CSJH’s Stephanie, she picked the stage name Tiffany. She revealed that Tiffany was the name her mother wanted to give her, but her father named her Stephanie instead.
• Her “idol title”, Brighter than Jewels (boseok boda bitnaneun), is the meaning of her Korean name, Mi-young.
• During Tiffany’s debut days, she wasn’t as fluent in Korean and often makes pronunciation mistake. She mispronounced her introduction of“boseok” (보석, Jewel) to “beoseot” (버섯, mushroom) so the fans thought she was saying “Brighter than Mushroom”. She gained the nickname “Mushroom” ever since.
• One of her nickname is Ti-manager or Manager Hwang because she often take the role of manager to her fellow members due to her caring nature.