Park Ji-yeon
| Park Ji-yeon | |
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Jiyeon at 2015 K-Pop Festival.
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| Native name | 박지연 |
| Born |
Park Ji-yeon June 7, 1993 Seoul, South Korea |
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| Musical career | |
| Genres | K-pop |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Labels | MBK Entertainment |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 박지연 |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Bak Ji-yeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chi-yŏn |
Park Ji-yeon (born June 7, 1993), better known mononymously as Jiyeon, is a South Korean singer and actress. She is best known for being the visual, main dancer and the youngest member of the South Korean girl group T-ara.
Ji-yeon was born in Seoul, South Korea, on June 7, 1993, from a Korean family. She briefly attended Hyehwa Girls' High School and graduated from Lila Art High School in 2012.
She and Eunjung are the only two members of T-ara to be trained in acting. Instead, the two switched over to singing despite their original intentions.
Ji-yeon has expressed an interest in modeling. In 2008, when she was 15 years old, Ji-yeon was featured in several pictorials and advertisements for clothing company Smart with Korean boy band SHINee. She collaborated with Davichi and SeeYa on the digital single "Female Generation/Forever Love", which was released in May 2009, making her the first member of T-ara to appear in public. She appeared in SG Wannabe's music videos "Saranghae" and "My Love is Crying" from their 2009 album, Gift from SG Wannabe. Early on, the Korean media dubbed Ji-yeon "Little Kim Tae-hee" due to her close resemblance to Kim.
Ji-yeon auditioned at the Mnet Casting System and joined the company in 2008. She subsequently debuted with T-ara debuted on 29 July 2009, as the youngest member.
In 2010, Ji-yeon starred in Master of Study, a Korean screen adaptation of Japanese manga Dragon Zakura. The same year, she played the leading role in horror film Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp and starred in the youth drama Jungle Fish 2.
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