Today is Blackpink’s Jisoo’s birthday and the singer-actor turns 27. With his husky vocals, lively personality and tremendous presence on social media, Jisoo is a favorite across the globe in the blink of an eye. Born as Kim Ji-soo, the singer traveled a lot before making her debut with the popular K-pop girl band. In 2011, she joined YG Entertainment through auditions and later in 2016 debuted with Blackpink, three years after BTS, another representative of Hallie Wave.
acting career
Before her debut in Blackpink in 2016, she starred in several commercials and even had a cameo in the K-drama The Producers, in fact, it was one of her few commercials. advertisements With South Korean star Lee Min Ho, who became the talk of the town at the time. While Lee Min Ho was already an established actor, Jisoo was still known as ‘YG Apprentice’, and even then, he was looked up to for his screen presence. Backpack’s ad was nothing short of a K-drama – and fans flooded YouTube saying they’d love to see a full show, with Jisoo as the antagonist. In the 32-second commercial, Jisoo had a heated exchange of words with Lee Min Ho, leaving him restless and emotional. Lee Min Ho then runs to the back of the car, and it stops. As the two have a moment, it is revealed that Min Ho just wanted the bag in the back seat. With her style and acting range, fans have really demanded to see Jisoo as an antagonist in K’s drama.
Before her own show, Snowdrop, in 2019, the singer starred in an episode of Earthdal Chronicles, which starred Song Jong-ki. Jisoo played his love interest and had a cameo in episode 7. Despite being only present for a few seconds, she became the subject of discussion on Twitter with the hashtag ‘Jesus on Earthling Chronicles’. After this, fans were excited to see the singer on screen.
While fans hoped and prayed that the singer would make her Korean debut with Lee Min Ho, she starred alongside Jung Hee-in on The Snowdrop Show. The show is a historical drama that revolves around the crucial year 1987, which included the June 1987 Democracy Movement, a mass protest that forced the dictatorship in South Korea to hold fair elections. Elections were finally held in the December 1987 elections, in which the authoritarian Fifth Republic of Korea was abolished, and the democratic Sixth Republic of Korea was created.
jisoo and bts
While fans of Blackpink and BTS (ARMY and Blinks) have often been at war, the two K-pop sensations have always shared cordial conversations, dispelling rumors of a rivalry. Actually, Jisoo and V Inkagyo of BTS appeared together at a K-pop concert. Not only this, it seems that the two also have a different fanbase called ‘Visu’, with fans claiming that they have a soft corner for each other.
During an interview with BTS, Jisoo introduced the boy band, and even sang a line from their song, Spring Day. The boys were quite impressed with her singing, and BTS leader RM even said, “Jesus, you’re so funny, as they all say!”
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