Soyeon

* Korea
* Japan

**Soyeon** (소연) is a South Korean singer-songwriter under Chess International. She is the main vocalist for girl group **LABOUM**.

She is also a former member of the project group WSG Wannabe and its sub-unit GayaG.

Featuring a small, slender appearance and a feminine husky voice. Therefore, she is introduced as '*a voice you want to hear before going to bed*'. She speaks softly and coherently, and is mainly in charge of introducing songs. The members are all very active, but among them, she is quiet and shy.

As a main vocalist position, she has a great sense of responsibility for vocals. As the main vocalist, Soyeon's biggest strength is that she has stability and excellent interpretation of the song. In particular, there are many evaluations that Soyeon's vocals made good use of the song during Between Us activities. Also, her range is quite wide.

## Early life

Soyeon, was born in Buk-gu, Gwangju, South Korea. She attended Mudeung Elementary School, Gwangju Culture Middle School, and Salessio Girls' High School, all of which she graduated from.

## Career

### **Pre-Debut:**

She was a trainee at Jellyfish Entertainment and she lived with Lee Haein at the time.

Before her debut, she sang the song "Softly"(사르르) in a duet with Sum as an OST for JTBC's Monday-Tuesday drama "Can We Love." In the middle of the song, you can also hear the voice of Haein.

### **2014: Debut with LABOUM**

She debuted as a member of LABOUM on August 28, 2014 with the group's first single "Petit Macaron".

### **2015 - 2017:**

On December 10, 2015, "Love is Cold" was released, participating in the KBS daily drama "Sweet Home, Sweet Honey" OST.

She appeared on JTBC's entertainment program Girl Spirit, which began broadcasting on July 19, 2016. After finishing 11th out of 12 in the group match, she was placed in Group B, known as the Death Group. Although she failed to advance to the top four, she showed good performance in the second half.

In accordance with the concept of "*Soyeon, the voice you want to hear before going to bed*" in the sub-program Girl Spirit, she appeared at a sleep cafe at Gangnam Station and sang "*Good Work Today*" and "*Love of 10CM*" in the Milky Way Cafe.

On July 22, 2017, she pitched the first pitch with Haein at Gocheok Sky Dome in the KBO League between KT Wiz and Nexen Heroes. (Pitching = Haein, batter = Soyeon)

On September 20, 2017, the MBC drama "Hospital Ship" OST "I Feel Love" was released.

On December 5, 2017, KBS drama "Jugglers" OST "Cosmic Girl" was released.

### **2018 - 2021:**

In February 2018, she appeared in the musical Magic Adventure with Cho Hyun-young of Rainbow, a senior idol, and played the role of Princess Olivia together.

On the 2018 Lunar New Year's Day, she participated in the bowling of the Idol Star Athletics Championships with Solbin, beating Weki Meki (Kim Do-yeon, Lucy) and winning the first gold medal at the Idol Star Athletics Championships. She was the first runner in the 400 m relay, and Laboum won the silver medal.

From May 28 to July 30, 2018, she appeared on MBC's SPORTS+ billiard program "Seven Quiz Season 2". #Soyeon's trailer

The 98th contest of "King of Mask Singer" aired on March 17 and 24, 2019, She participated under the pseudonym of *"I'll let you drop! Spring Rain".* In the first round The song she sang with Spring Flowers was IU's "See you on Friday" and she advanced to the second round. The song she sang in the second round was Hyolyn's "Hello."

On May 18, 2020, the OST "Let's Make Love" of the SBS drama "Good Casting," which was sung with Lee Joon-young of U-Kiss, was released.

On June 13, 2020, Oh! My Part, You she appeared as a panelist.

On May 17, 2021, she participated as a singer for the OST of Youth of May, Think of You.

On November 8, 2021, The All-Round Wife's OST Part 1 came out, she sang Your Smile Always Approaches Me.

In 2021, she participated in writing the lyrics of DIAMOND (Imitation X Sparkling) for the drama Imitation.

### **2022: WSG Wannabe**

April 2022, she did a blind audition for *Hangout With Yoo's WSG Wannabe project group.*

In July it was announced that Soyeon would be apart of **WSG Wannabe** (WSG워너비) it was a 12-member project female vocal group formed through MBC's *Hangout with Yoo*. They released their debut single, "WSG Wannabe 1st Album", on July 9, 2022 and held their debut stage on the July 16, 2022 episode of *Show! Music Core*. They officially concluded activities following the August 6, 2022 broadcast of *Hangout with Yoo*.

On August 17, 2022, she participated as the singer of OST Part 2 If You Wish Upon Me, with the song "STARLIGHT"

## Discography

### Features

* DJ Hanmin, Flawless, Dizzy Sunn - "Thank You (LSD Ape Machine Remix)" (2016)

### OSTs

* "Can We Love? OST Part.4" ("Softly") (2014)
* "Sweet Home, Sweet Honey OST Part.4" ("Love Is Cold") (2015)
* "Hospital Ship OST Part.4" ("I Feel Love") (2017)
* "Jugglers OST Part.1" ("Cosmic Girl") (2017)
* "Come and Hug Me OST Part.2" ("Don't Disappear" with Yujeong) (2018)
* "My Strange Hero OST Part.6" ("Is It Love" with DinDin) (2019)
* "Good Casting OST Part.3" ("Let's Love" with Lee Jun Yong) (2020)
* "Youth of May OST Part.4" ("Think Of You") (2021)
* "My Roommate Is a Gumiho OST Part.7" ("You & I" with Youngjae) (2021)
* "The All-Round Wife" ("Come to Me, Always Your Smile") (2021)

## Trivia

* She has an older sister.
* Her nicknames are Yeoni (연이), Olaf (Frozen character), and Yeonhyung (연형, after cutting her hair).
* She is best friends with Miss A's Suzy.
* She is friends with Ki Hui Hyeon's older brother.
* She attended the Catholic Salessio Girls' High School, but she is non-religious. In the fourth single "Fresh Adventure," it can be misunderstood because there is a thank you to the nun, but this is simply because the homeroom teacher was a nun at the time. In the third episode of Girl Spirit, she took third place, and she expressed respect, saying it was a song dedicated to her homeroom teacher.
* In 2011, she participated in the Superstar K3 qualifying round and was broadcasted. There it was revealed her friendship with Miss A's Suzy.
* When she cut her hair short while making a comeback with "Allow Allow," fans nicknamed her Yeon-hyung.
* Her stage name was "Queen" before her debut.
* When the group name was set as "Laboum", it was said that she was the member who didn't like it the most, saying it wasn't a feminine word.
* It is said that she always wakes up the members early because she is diligent.
* It is said that she has a weak immune system and has a lot of minor illnesses.
* While the rest of the members were from the metropolitan area, Soyeon is from Gwangju, so she had never been to Lotte World until they appeared in the Laboum project at the end of 2016. When Soyeon said her wish was to visit Lotte World, members teased her for being a country girl.
* On April 26, 2017, she reportedly headed to the emergency room after finishing the Show Champion HwiHwi stage due to excessive bleeding beyond a simple nosebleed. Laboum was forced to miss the show schedule in the first week of May for Soyeon's full recovery and health because the blood vessels in her nose were bursting and she was in need of rest.
* She dyed her hair green two-tone because of LABOUM Summer Special, which earned her the nickname "Yeon Corita". Therefore, fans buy dolls and post photos of Chikorita and Soyeon, showing that they look alike. In fact, there was a time when Soyeon posted a fan's data on Instagram that she looked like her.
* It was not until the third year of high school that she moved to Seoul to become a singer and debuted as Laboum in 2014.
* As a result of the MBTI test, her results have now been changed to ISFP.

## Producing and writing credits

 2018
 "Between Us" (Original ver.)
 2019
 "Two Of Us"

 Studio Albums
 Studio Albums