Jihyun

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**Jihyun** (Hangul: 지현) is a former contestant on the JTBC girl group survival show, R U Next?. She was first revealed on June 16th 2023.

Jihyun was eliminated in episode 9 during the fifth elimination round, after ranking 12th. Her current whereabouts are unknown but it is speculated she is still under HYBE.

## History

### Early life

Jihyun was born Choi Ji-hyun (최지현) on November 8, 2004 in South Korea.

### 2020: HOWZ

On April 28, Jihyun was revealed as the fourth member of the then upcoming HOW Entertainment girl group, HOWZ (tentative name). It's speculated the group was disbanded prior to debut after inactivity on their socials since September 15, 2020.

### 2023: R U Next?

On June 16, Jihyun was revealed as a contestant on *R U Next?*.

She performed ITZY's "Dalla Dalla" during the TRYOUTS round along with Hyewon and Iroha and received a 'low' ranking by the judges.

In the second round, DEATH MATCH, she performed ENHYPEN's "Given-Taken" along with Jiwoo, Jeemin and Ena. She was voted among the other contestants to have the killing part and ended up received 573 individual points. However her team lost to the opposing team, HIGH-B. Jihyun moved up to the Middle Level after this round.

In the ALL-ROUNDER round, for the Heel Choreo mission, Jihyun was placed into Hyewon's unit and performed Girls' Generation's "The Boys" along with Hyewon, Iroha, Yunah, Chanelle, Youngseo and Jeongeun. Her team won with 4419 points. Her individual score was 625 points.

For the second mission, "Hip Hop", Hyewon's unit performed Lisa's "Money", winning again with 4254 points. Jihyun scored 612 individual points.

During the fourth round, THE SPECIALISTS, Jihyun participated in the dance battle mission and performed Wonder Girls' "Tell Me along with Jeemin, Funa, Himena and Moka. She was moved to the Low Level.

In the CONCEPT GAME round, for mission one, "Color Mission", Jihyun performed 2NE1's "I Don't Care along with Youngseo, Minju, Jeemin and Hyewon as Team Green. She did not receive an individual score and her new level was announced to be 11.

In Round six, IMAGE TRAINING, Jihyun performed original song, "Pride" as Sub-Vocal 1 along with Jeemin, Chanelle, Yunah, Youngseo and Himena. Their team lost to Scrum.

For mission two, Global Kpop Mission, Jihyun along with the Pride team, performed IVE's Eleven, losing to Scrum team again.

She was eliminated in episode 9 and placed 12th overall. However, Jihyun came back to perform a medley of the DEATH MATCH round songs with all contestants in the final episode.

## Discography Participation

### Original R U Next? Songs

* [2023.08.25] "Pride" *(Unreleased officially)*

## Rankings

### Global Votes

 2nd Vote
 3rd Vote

## Trivia

* She has two older sisters.
* She attended Hanlim Multi Art School with Hyewon and was in the department of acting.
* She trained with Chanelle and tripleS' Xinyu at Yue Hua Entertainment between 2021 and 2022.
* She loves dogs.
* She loves chocolate and dalgona latte.
* Her pre-debut fandom name is Chocoji (모카치노).
* Her favorite color is white.
* She was classmates with NewJeans' Minji, NMIXX's Sullyoon and TIOT's Kum Junhyeon.
* Her favorite animal is a cat.
* Her role model is BLACKPINK's Jennie.
* She describes herself as a lazy perfectionist.
* Jihyun's motto is ***"Let's live happily!"***

## References

1. ↑ Fandom name announcement via @CJIHYUN\_GLOBAL on Twitter/X