Shuhua/Facts

Shuhua

* She is a Rising Star Cosmetics Model.
* Shuhua can speak Chinese and Korean, but cannot speak Taiwanese, which is based on Southern Min.
* She is of half-Hakka-Han Chinese, half-Atayal (Indigenous Taiwanese) descent. Despite this, she has very fair skin.
* Her English name is Susan. It was given to her by a kindergarten teacher.
* Her hobby is acting.
* She tried to escape from home after imitating a scene from a drama, but was caught out 5 seconds later.
* She is really good at winning staring contests. She was tested again in TMI News in 2022, and was stopped at 4:59, she could had easily done a lot longer.
* Back in Taiwan, she studied in Taipei while living in Taoyuan, her hometown. Therefore, she had to travel 1.5 hours each day.
* She studied at Hwa Kang Arts School, a famous arts school for Taiwanese entertainers, which is in the same level as Hanlim or SOPA. She specialized in acting rather than dancing. The school was in the mountains, where it is one of the rarer places in Taiwan where it could snow or sleet in winter. She never graduated.
* Shuhua hates strawberries and shrimps. She likes chocolate, stir-fried spicy pork and fruit juice.
* She dislikes anything to fall from the sky, be it snow, rain, or hail.
* Shuhua is the most alcohol-intolerant member.
* Appeared in *Rising Legends CUBE x Soompi* Promotional Video.
* She said she’d like to be like HyunA.
* When asked about their hard times as a trainee, she said “I could not understand (Korean), it was the hardest for me.” (RISING STAR COSMETICS MODEL)
* When asked what'd she like to be in the future, Shuhua answered, “I want to be a Superstar.” (RISING STAR COSMETICS MODEL)
* She was featured in 10cm’s "PET" music video alongside Yoo Seonho.
* She was introduced to K-pop through her friends.
* She has had her teeth aligned with transparent removable braces.
* Her off-screen personality is actually quite chic and cold, but she acts more cutely for V Lives.
* She originally wanted to become an actress, before switching her ambitions towards becoming a singer.
	+ She used to think that she wanted to be an entertainer by seeing actors on TV since she was young, and always used to tell her family that she would be on TV some day.
		- Even then, her family thought it was cute. She was serious and practiced acting alone every day, imagining that there was an audience in front of her.
	+ HyunA inspired her to be an artist.
* She did not have much experience in dancing prior to debut.
* She has aquaphobia (fear of water) as she almost drowned in a stream as a child.
* When she was a trainee, she secretly cried alone when she was sad.
* One day she confessed what she was feeling to the members and got a lot of encouragement from them. She was thankful that she did not give up.
* Shuhua participated in auditioning for Cube Entertainment in 2016 because her friends wanted to be idols and she followed them.
* She trained for 1 years and 6 months before debut.
* She wants to travel a lot once she is older.
* According to Miyeon and Minnie, Shuhua "is weird."
* According to Yuqi, her bed is a mess.
* According to Minnie, she sleeps a lot.
* According to Soojin, she likes dramas, has a 4D personality and has never dyed her hair (prior to *DUMDi DUMDi*).
* She dislikes having her hair dyed in a lighter color after doing a color test.
	+ Shuhua dyed her hair temporarily for a photoshoot for *DUMDi DUMDi*, and in September 2022, she dyed her hair fully for the first time, bleaching it blonde for *I love* promotions.
* Shealso prefers wearing minimal makeup and dress comfortably and conservatively.
* Shuhua and Soojin were roommates, and Soojin was the first Korean person Shuhua befriended.
* Soojin was "like a tree" to Shuhua when they first met.
	+ Shuhua was "like a sad lady" when Soojin first met her.
* Shuhua almost didn't travel to Korea in time because she contracted gastroenteritis in the week she was supposed to go. When she did, she was the lightest that she had ever been as she lost 5kg in a week and looked really unwell.
* Shuhua's favorite dish that was made by Soojin was seaweed soup.
* Shuhua has many mottos.
* Introduced herself during the group's debut showcase as "(G)I-DLE’s visual maknae".
* She has a tendency to say "Everyone" a lot.
* In May 2021, she became the first K-pop artist from Taiwan to guest in a Taiwanese variety show. She made a special appearance in Mr Player, a modified version of Infinite Challenge.
* In March 2022, it was discovered that her blood type was incorrectly written as A on Namuwiki, but she was hesitant to correct it.
* Shuhua was almost exclusively in charge of onomatopoeia in songs until 2022 when Soojin departed the group.
	+ She was noted to have received lesser parts in previous releases due to her struggles with pronunciation and reading Korean.
* She dislikes people touching her head, even for a compliment.
* It was revealed in a behind-the-scenes filming of a promo poster photoshoot for *I NEVER DIE* that Shuhua is scared of fire, has low tolerance to hot objects and cannot use a lighter properly.
* She may be highly susceptible to jet lag and altitude sickness – she had fainted and suffered vertigo in Mexico.
* She often gives sage advice to Chinese-speaking fans.
* She wants everyone to live authentically without worrying about others' disapprovals, even those from their own families.
* Shuhua never talks about her younger sister, and she has never been to Korea, which is why only Taiwanese fans know of her existence or seen her in person, whenever Shuhua returns to Taiwan.

## References

1. ↑ Shuhua with her younger sister in Shilin Night Market, Taipei