HyunJin/Facts

### Education

Baeksa Elementary School, Baeksa Middle School (transfer), Shinnam Middle School (transfer), Hansung Girls’ Junior High School (graduated), Hansung Girls’ High School (graduated)

### Instruments

* Piano
* Guitar
* Ukulele
* Drums

### Likes

* Bread
* Russian blue cats
* Gaming
* Earrings
* Sports
* Pillows

### Dislikes

* People touching her bed
* Eggplants
* The sound of motorcycles
* Spiders, even fake ones

### Hobbies

* Exercising
* Creating choreography

### Personality

* 4D
* Confident
* Competitive
* Sassy
* Witty

## **Facts**

Let's live deliciously
 - HyunJin's motto

**HyunJin** (Hangul: 현진; Japanese: ヒョンジン, *Hyonjin*; Chinese: 贤真, *Xiánzhēn*) is the second member of the girl group LOONA.

She is the fifth youngest in LOONA, the maknae in LOONA 1/3 and was revealed on October 28, 2016. Her solo single album *HyunJin* was released on November 17, 2016.

In the group, she’s represented by a cat and the color yellow. In LOONA 1/3, she is associated with the location Tokyo, Japan.

## Nicknames

* Her nickname HyunJin-Bot stems from her robot like movements during the filming for the "Around You (다녀가요)" MV. She also talks like a robot at times.
* Apart from the nicknames from fans and members, new nicknames she'd like to give to herself: she wants to be called a baby.
* Her other nickname of BreadJin is just for the fact that she likes bread, but she has a very serious face when analyzing the flavors, even for breads that she likes a lot.
* Nickname she wants Orbits to call her: "Baby cat ♡."
* One of the nicknames fans have given her is Jun Jihyun-jin. The nickname is a play on her name and Jun Ji-Hyun, an actress known for her visuals.

## Charms

* What people love about HyunJin: "Her big eyes", "Her goofiness", "Her pretty face", "Long arms", "Her voice".
* She went viral for her barefaced visuals.
* Charms according to her:
	+ "The more you get to know me, the more interesting I become."
	+ "Big hands, big eyes, misty voice."
	+ "My eyes. They're a natural brown."
* She has an airy singing voice.

## Personality

* HyunJin is known for her 4D personality.
* She dislikes being interrupted while she concentrates and analyzes the taste of food that she likes. She also makes a serious face while doing so.
* When it comes to unresolved conflict, HyunJin likes to resolve arguments immediately rather than later.
* The other members describe her as "unique", "like from another world", "nobody knows", "can't tell", or "she gets excited when we are not".
* According to HeeJin, HyunJin has a strong sense of duty that allows you to entrust her with anything.
	+ There are also times when HyunJin is sulky but also cute.
* According to Kim Lip, HyunJin puts on a concept when she talks.
* Yves compares HyunJin to a drink: "You know when you go to buffets, they offer you free refills on soft drinks. So then you can get a big glass and mix up Coke, Fanta, Sprite, all in one. She's like that, a really fizzy drink. It's because she's unique."
* Olivia Hye thinks her and HyunJin's personalities are similar to some extent: "We’re both quick-witted and tend to be a little individualistic. It makes me a little frustrated to see something being slow, and when I see HyunJin unnie I feel comfortable".
* She was tested with the same MBTI as Kim Lip: ESTJ, which really surprised people. In July 2021, she rechecked and has changed to INTJ. That being said: She took the tests from 16 Personalities, which is prone to mistype Intuitive users since the questionnaire tests each letter almost in a vacuum.
* She isn't in the Positivity Line, because she has a highly guarded personality off-camera and isn't emotionally expressive. That said: she often just takes deep breaths alone when she is overwhelmed, so members often can't tell when she is sad or stressed. In 2022, HeeJin interpreted it has her call to say "I want to go home", because she is such a "homing pigeon".
* Hashtags to describe herself:
	+ #Wanna, #Enjoy, #Sentimentality, #Alone, #LeaveMeBe
	+ #Yellow, #Aeong
* Team Position: Prankster, aeongie
* Self written profile, 2020 Weekly Idol edition:
	+ Motto: "Let's live deliciously"
	+ Personality: good funny, active
	+ Hobbies: listening to music, watching YouTube
	+ Habits: flicking her tongue
	+ Strength: "I have good physical stamina"
	+ Weakness: "I often don't talk"
	+ She can surpass YeoJin in: stamina, eye size, impressions, hand size
	+ She wants HeeJin's ability in: putting on sunscreen (consistently)
	+ Lately she's interested in: dancing & singing (R&B soul, groove), games, YouTube, movies, Americano coffee

## Relationships

* HyunJin is closest to JinSoul.
* HeeJin considers her as her best LOONA friend.
	+ Of all members, only HyunJin sometimes address HeeJin by her full name.
* According to ViVi, HyunJin listens to ViVi's instructions the most.
* According to Yves, HyunJin has very different food preferences from her.
* HyunJin often speaks in third-person and starts skits with her mother. They also speak in an accent where the sentences often end in 'shya'.
* Her brothers and her have a big age difference (11 and 10 years).
* Her second oldest brother, Jinsu, is very fun and jokes around well with her, so with him she can just call him by his name without any honorifics ("oppa") but she can't do that with the first oldest brother (she finds him a bit too scary for that).
* Her role models are Gong Hyo-Jin and CL.
* During a VLIVE, she said she wanted to befriend STAYC's Isa.

Friends/acquaintances in other groups
	+ Additionally, she trained with Cignature's Jee Won and REDSQUARE's Bomin.
* She became friends with ITZY's RyuJin during MIXNINE.

### Members impression

#### HeeJin

* HyunJin's first impression of HeeJin: "I saw Heejin when she entered the company. She looked kind of like a puppy, so I thought she was really cute. So when I first saw her, I thought, 'she's so cute-looking! I want to be friends with her.' [...] The nickname... 'Hey puppy~' is how I called her at first."

#### JinSoul

* She first saw JinSoul when she was working out in the practice room.
* To HyunJin, JinSoul appeared to have a strong vibe, which gave HyunJin the impression of her being intimidating and unapproachable.
* As she got to know JinSoul more, she learned that JinSoul is rather shy and has a soft personality.

#### Chuu

* Chuu first met her and HeeJin while they were all in the company car.
	+ Because of how tired she and HeeJin were after filming MIXNINE, they could barely respond when Chuu first said hi to them.
		- Nevertheless, Chuu was still marvelled by them as they debuted before her.

### Pets

* In third grade, HyunJin raised a puppy for about 2 years. It was a mutt/mixed breed dog and looked a bit like a Jindo dog. Her uncle brought it home and she named it "Dia", hoping it would have a very bright life and shine bright like a diamond.
* When she watches videos about lizards, she finds them cute but wouldn't want to actually raise one as a pet. She's a bit scared of reptiles.
* She thinks it would be neat to have a pet elephant or monkey.
* If she were to have a pet, it would be a dachshund dog.
* Her oldest brother had a dog named "500 Won" (the Won is Korea's currency; 500 Won is about 40 cents).
* One of her brothers has a pet hedgehog. He's had it for 5 years (191105 VLIVE).
* Her second oldest brother is currently (191105 VLIVE) raising a puppy he named Charles.

## Pre-debut life

* The first time she sang to others was in elementary school.
* In her 8th grade year, HyunJin attended a co-ed school.
	+ Around that time, she was popular due to a rumour spreading around the school that she was a trainee. She was often teased about it by boys, and students would sometimes take pictures of her without her knowledge. However, she slightly liked the attention she got from the rumour.
* Her audition song: CN Blue - Love Light
* She trained for three years before the release of her debut single album "HyunJin".
* When HeeJin first got the song "ViViD", they recorded the song together.
* She participated in the reality show MIXNINE. Her final ranking is unknown, but she did make it to the final 18 female contestants.
* She recited the poem “The background colour is getting prettier” by Kim Hak Joong for Weekly Poem 1.

## Abilities

* HyunJin has tried many sports pre-debut: basketball, badminton, soccer and table tennis, but not volleyball.
* Exercise she's the most confident: squats
* Due to her physical power, she can lift YeoJin and pick her up like a baby.
* HyunJin has the strongest core strength compared to Yves, and managed to drag her off and capture the hula hoop.
* She has the hardest two-finger slap out of all members.
* HyunJin was a champion in shot-putting back in 5th grade.
* She is good at bowling.
* She can catch well, even to the point that she can catch dolls with her legs.
* Things she excels in: physical power, long arms; "She's really fast as she's our action-taker", she is fast in doing everything (she eats and moves fast).
* She's not good with horror movies.
* One of HyunJin's special talents is barking like a dog.
	+ Although her representative animal is cat, she can impersonate dogs much better, possibly because she's a dog owner.
* She can play three instruments (guitar, piano and ukulele).
* She is very good at tongue-twisters.
* Like HeeJin, she is a gourmand in the sense that she has a lot of knowledge in terms of food.
	+ She even has a protein-rich diet like an athlete in the off-season.
* HyunJin can sign autographs with both hands, making her ambidextrous, but she still is predominantly right-handed, as she only dribbles and shoot basketballs right-handed.
* She can impersonate the voice of Korean Siri. She even met the person that actually record Siri's voice.
* When she was on King of Masked Singer, HyunJin easily piggy backed Kim Gura, who weighs 97kg.
* While she competed on MIXNINE, she managed to nominate former YG Entertainment CEO to do the Ice Bucket Challenge or donate money. He chose to donate 50 million won instead.

## Goals

* Long-term Goals: become an owner of a bakery and a cafe, be the CEO of BlockBerryCreative
* HyunJin wants to be in an earring commercial.
* If she wasn't an idol, she would want to be a soldier to utilize her athletic skills.
* She would like to try performing "ViViD".
* HyunJin would like to appear on “The Fishermen and the City”.
* She would like to try rock climbing.
	+ After watching the Olympics, she thought it looked fun. She also mentioned that her long arms and big hands might give her an advantage.

## Items

* HyunJin owns an iPad.
* Airpods name: "ong-ae Kim" (from her nickname "Aeong" and her family name).
* HyunJin has a ukelele, with the sound hole shaped like a cat's head.
* Her vocal room is the biggest out of all members, since she won Rock Paper Scissors against Choerry, with Chuu pulling out.
	+ The wall of her vocal room is decorated with various fan letters.

### Gifts

* Back in 2018, HaSeul gifted her a chair, after finding out that was a chair she wanted.
* 2021 birthday gifts:
	+ For her birthday, the community manager gave her a donut cake.
		- Another manager gave her various pastries and a gift card.
	+ A necklace from HaSeul
	+ A cake from Kim Lip, Chuu and ViVi.
* She got a cat doll (which is inspired by her) from a fan.

## Likes

* Interjections HyunJin keeps repeating: "Oh mygat kimchi"
* She prefers being called pretty over being called cute.
* HyunJin prefers dancing to singing.
* She likes swimming.
* She is an avid user of perfume.
* HyunJin goes to PC Cafes to play video games. She doesn't play the same video games as Olivia Hye.
	+ She plays Tale Runner and uses the female character.
	+ HyunJin is into FPS video games, such as Sudden Attack.
* She likes gaming, especially mobiles games like PUBG and Candy Crush.
	+ One of her favorite games is Homescapes.
* Heading home. While she isn't a homebody, she is a homing pigeon.
* She prefers travelling to warm places rather than cold ones.

### Food

* HyunJin really likes bread, to the point of being called a bread-holic.
	+ In one case, she said she liked bread more than high-quality sushi provided by the CEO of BlockBerry Creative (BBC).
	+ She apparently has more bread photos than selfies. If she were to open a social media account, she would spam with bread photos and character photos.
	+ That said: HeeJin's family had dropped 300K won in a single bakery. HyunJin hasn't revealed to had done something similar.
	+ However, she prefers iced americanos over bread.
* HyunJin often likes to do mukbang VLIVEs.
* Food preferences:
	+ Bread vs. rice: rice
	+ Cola vs lemon-lime:
		- HyunJin: "Cola!!! But sometimes when I want both, I mix them. Because I want them together."
	+ Eat sweet potato every day vs. eat potato every day: potato
	+ Eat tteokbokki forever vs. never eat tteokbokki: never eat tteokbokki
	+ Pizza bread vs. cream bread: cream bread
	+ Shaved ice vs. ice cream: shaved ice
	+ Boba flavor: brown sugar
	+ Favorite bread: condensed milk bread
	+ She loves iced americano, even in the winter.
	+ She loves eating snacks on her bed.
	+ She likes tteokbokki, jajangmyeon, as well as cold buckwheat noodles.
	+ She likes original Krispy Kreme donuts.
	+ She likes sushi, however, she doesn't eat salmon sushi.
	+ She also likes pizza, fried chicken, and ice cream.
	+ She dislikes matcha.
	+ She dislikes red bean porridge.
	+ She dislikes sweet coffee, like mocha or coffee with syrup flavoring in it. That said, she loves coffee, sometimes even more than bread.
	+ She is not good with spicy food.
		- She dislikes spicy food like malatang (numbing spicy chilli soup) and pho (Vietnamese rice noodle soup).
	+ She can't eat: rice noodles, gopchang, lamb meat, chicken feet.
* HyunJin has spent 2.49 million won on delivery food in 2022.
* If she could choose a representative fruit, it would be seedless grapes.
* HyunJin doesn't like asking for a bite of food, because she doesn't like it when others do it.

### Dramas/Movies/TV Shows

* She likes watching movies on Netflix, even ones in foreign languages. She watched Chinese ones with Korean subtitles, but often forgets that ViVi can watch them without subtitles.
	+ She specifically likes comedies.
* She's watched "Hellbound".
* She likes "Venom".
* HyunJin has seen all of the Maze Runner movies.
* Despite her being unable to handle horror movies, she still likes to watch them on occasion.

### Dislikes

* She is scared of thrill rides, but it is hard to tell because her mind goes blank or would keep her eyes closed as if she is sleeping.
* She is also scared of haunted houses.
* She is arachnophobic, and is petrified of spiders, even fake ones.
* She is petrified of bees and balloons, especially ones that fills up and are doomed to pop.
* HyunJin doesn't like wearing makeup in her daily life and prefers to go out with a bare face.
* HyunJin doesn't wear contacts.
* HyunJin likes cats, but is the most allergic to cat fur.

### Songs

* HyunJin listens to a lot of dance, pop, and R&B.
* Her favorite LOONA solo is Singing in the Rain.

* HyunJin's songs she'd like to cover / she's listened to:
	+ Baek Yerin - Lean On Me
	+ beta max - tap water
	+ Billie Eilish - bad guy
	+ CRUSH (feat. ZICO) - Cereal
	+ CRUSH - woo ah
	+ DEAN - 21
	+ Dua Lipa - Good In Bed
	+ GFRIEND - Sunny Summer (여름여름해)
	+ HYUKOH - WI ING WI ING (위잉위잉)
	+ HyunJin - Around You
	+ IVE - ELEVEN
	+ Jenevieve - Baby Powder
	+ Jinsoul - Singing in the Rain
	+ Kehlani - Piece of mind
	+ MAX, Felly - Acid Dreams
	+ Red Velvet - Oh Boy
	+ Red Velvet - Russian Roulette
	+ Suzy - Ring My Bell
	+ TWICE - I CAN'T STOP ME
	+ YENA (feat. BIBI) - SMILEY
	+ Yves & Chuu - Girl's Talk

## Recommendations

* For Chinese New Year (2019):
	+ Song Ji-eun - Twenty-Five (예쁜나이 25살)
		- Hyunjin: "I'm not 25 yet, but I did want to recommend this song for myself as I turn 20. I think all of the twenties is such a pretty age, not just 25, and I want to recommend it for others who are turning 20 as well. [N.B. the Korean title is "Twenty-Five, a Pretty Age"]

* When you're being nagged:
	+ IU - Nagging
		- Hyunjin: "There's a line that says 'From one to ten all the words are for your own good', and I really identify with that so I recommend this song."

* HyunJin & HaSeul - Naver NOW radio broadcast “Because I wanted you to listen to this”
	+ Jeremih - oui
		- HyunJin: "Everyone, you can relieve stress by dancing. I recommend this: when you're at home alone at night, turn off all the lights and dance to this song."
	+ BeWhy - Day Day
		- HyunJin: "I listen to this song a lot at the gym. When I hear it while doing cardio or running, this song makes me want to run more. Everyone, if you listen to this, you too can exercise longer."
	+ Bb4 songs for belting and to check her vocal condition
		- Frozen soundtrack - Into The Unknown
		- Alicia Keys - New York

* For a drive in the summer:
	+ Sunset City - Forget It All

* HyunJin's favorite songs from the Flip That mini-album:
	+ LOONA - Playback
	+ LOONA - Pale Blue Dot
		- HyunJin: "Pale Blue Dot feels... slightly like Stylish."

* Songs HyunJin would suggest to The Big Issue magazine vendors:
	+ LOONA - Hi High
	+ LOONA - Playback
		- HyunJin: "I think it would be nice to spend some time looking back and seeing how you've been doing".

* IU - Ah puh (어푸)

## References

1. ↑ orrery\_nim “it’s Gimhae-(賢眞) Kim, not Kwangsan-(賢晉) Kim.” translation from 220305 VLIVE. Twitter. 2022.03.05
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3. ↑ Wiktionary. “賢”. Retrieved 2020.03.11
4. ↑ Wiktionary. “眞”. Retrieved 2022.03.05
5. ↑ Mandarin Chinese transcription; differs from Korean hanja
6. ↑ orrery\_nim “And my height! … I’m actually 163.7cm.” translation from 220305 VLIVE. Twitter. 2022.03.05
7. ↑ [Teaser] 이달의 소녀 1/3 (LOONA 1/3) "???"
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9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Frequency of the Moon Ep 12 — Translation by orrery\_nim
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12. ↑ LOONA TV #38
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 13.6 VLIVE: Studio challenge 03
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4  Orbit Japan Official Book Vol. 1 - Translation by Team Subbits
15. ↑ Orrery/nim "Multiple people have been calling Hyunjin "Jun Jihyun-jin" (pun w/ actress Jun Jihyun, known for being beautiful)" Twitter. 2022.06.25
16. ↑ LOONA - Profile rewrite
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1  The Big Issue Magazine #258 (Feat. #LOONA HeeJin & HyunJin) Making Film - Translation by Orrery/nim
18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Orrery/nim "220703 LOONA Fansign" Twitter. 2022.07.03
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2  Orbit Japan Official Book Vol. 1 (2SHOT TALK) - Translation by Team Subbits
20. ↑  211231 Kim Lip VLIVE - Translation by Orrery/nim
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 [Translation] 210706 BNT News Interview with HyunJin, Kim Lip, and Olivia Hye
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Weekly Idol: self-written profile
23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 LOONA's Profile rewrite
24. ↑ Celuv TV (February 27, 2019)
25. ↑ Orrery/nim "220703 LOONA Fansign" Twitter. 2022.07.03
26. ↑  211225 Yves VLIVE - Translation by Orrery/nim
27. ↑ Mom&Dad Tinkle Tinkle LOONA HyunJin
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 28.5 Frequency of the Moon Ep.4
29. ↑  220301 Chat highlights: Hyunjin story and roast time about her brothers, Hyunsoo and Jinsoo - Translation by litell\_johnn
30. ↑  220129 VLIVE HyunJin, JinSoul, Go Won Voice Only VLIVE - Translation by Orrery/nim
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Genie Music: LOONA - Answering Machine
32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Rolling Stone Korea "/RSK/THE FIRST TIME/ 이달의 소녀 (LOONA)" YouTube. 2021.07.28
33. ↑ 33.00 33.01 33.02 33.03 33.04 33.05 33.06 33.07 33.08 33.09 33.10 33.11  211222 HyunJin VLIVE - Translation by Orrery/nim
34. ↑ Orrery/nim "220710 LOONA Fansign" Twitter. 2022.07.10
35. ↑ LOONA Studio 1/3 Hertz
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 LOONA STUDIO English Subtitle Transcripts (@gointosubbit)
37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 37.4 37.5 Orbit 1st Anniversary Chat Event
38. ↑ Hula hoop games : Hyunjin Vs Yves 🔥
39. ↑  211204 Fansign - Translation by Orrery/nim
40. ↑  210927 Elle Korea (October 2021) interview with #LOONA HyunJin and Chuu: "The Running Girls, Chuu & HyunJin" - Translation by gointosubbit
41. ↑ Airpods name
42. ↑ Go Won playing HyunJin's ukelele
43. ↑ 43.0 43.1  211115 HyunJin VLIVE - Translation by Orrery/nim
44. ↑  LOONA KICK 44
45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 45.4 45.5 45.6  [ENG] 220724 VLIVE HyunJin - Translation by Orrery/nim
46. ↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 46.3 46.4 46.5  Frequency of the Moon Ep.50
47. ↑  [ENG] 211016 Orbit Ring - Translation by Orrery/nim
48. ↑  ELLE KOREA Interview with Chuu
49. ↑  Hyunjin spent 2.49 million won on delivery food in a year. (2022)
50. ↑  Chat highlights: Hyunjin's representative fruit (230205)
51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 51.2 51.3  211201 HyunVi VLIVE - Translation by Orrery/nim
52. ↑ Exclusive Interview
53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 [ENG] Because I Wanted You to Listen - Hyunjin & Haseul (190829)
54. ↑ Mu:fully questionnaire (Halloween 2019)
55. ↑ IDOL RADIO EP.502 (SPECIAL DJ LOONA HeeJin & Yves)
56. ↑ IDOL RADIO EP.502 recs - explanation thread
57. ↑  LOONA KICK 236
58. ↑ Orrery/nim "Melon promotion: #LOONA's summer playlist" Twitter. 2022.06.20
59. ↑ TV Daily: Song recs - Chinese New Year
60. ↑ TV Daily: Song recs - When You’re Being Nagged