Yena/Trivia

* She was born in Gil-Dong, Gangdong, South Korea.
* She spent her childhood in Gwangju, so she can still speak in an accent.
* Yena has an older brother: actor and former SPEED member Choi Sungmin.
* She was belatedly revealed to be the mystery fan that Sungmin embraced on stage on his final busking performance.
	+ At the time, she only just started her trainee life.
* She attended Hanlim Multi Arts School.
* Yena attended Joy Dance Academy and majored in girls hip-hop dance.
* She trained for 3 years and 5 months.
* Her talent is playing claw machines and playing games in general.
* Her hobby is reading comic books and watching movies alone.
* Her lips are her secret weapon.
* She can pinch people and pick up items with her toes.
* Was on the show “Cooking Class.”
* Yena’s favorite ice cream is flavor strawberry and chocolate, strawberry and banana.
	+ She dislikes red bean paste. She disliked mint chocolate, but become more receptive in 2021 after becoming roommates with Chaewon.
* She loves Vietnamese spring rolls.
* She is petrified of snakes.
* Well known for being very bright and energetic. Also very affectionate with the other trainees. Though when she gets on stage her aura changes to very powerful and captivating.
* She is the happy virus of the group.
* Despite her mannerisms being similar to Yuqi of (G)I-dle (ENFJ, Mastermind/Protagonist), her MBTI is actually ENFP (Spark/Campaigner) .
* She is trilingual and can speak Korean, Japanese and Chinese fluently.
* She tends to say "Yayaya" (Hey! Hey! Hey!) when she's annoyed, the tempo is the same as the song of the same name by Stray Kids
* Her catchphrase on Eat-Ing Trip series is "That's trash, you fool".
* In Eat-Ing Trip 3, she became the youngest member of Driver Line, beating out Chaewon
* Yena was crowned as “Personal Talent One Queen” in Weekly Idol.
* Yena has a dog named Audrey. (IZ\*ONE CHU ep.4)
* Yena is close to DIA ‘s Jueun, as they’re both former BBC/Polaris trainees.
* Yena is a big fan of Bora (ex Sistar). She is also a big fan of Apink, and has met Bomi in the first episode of TMI News series 1, and has beaten her in a pizza eating contest.
* Yena is a childhood cancer survivor, she had lymphoma & was told there was no chance of survival but miraculously recovered. Her family wasn’t well-off so her parents had to sell kimbap every morning to be able to pay her hospital bills.
	+ For the same reason, she learn to eat kimbap as a whole log like her parents
* She is ex-Polaris/Blockberry Creative trainee, she used to train with LOONA 's HeeJin and HyunJin .
* Yena and Hyewon went to the same school.
* Yena is known for looking like a duck.
* Her parents didn’t want her to become an idol because her brother’s group didn’t do well.
* Despite being a bluff for many things, she has proven that she is good at using a hover board, skateboard, long board, bicycle and being a good driver, especially when it comes to reverse parking.
* Yena was one of the fixed members of tvN’s program “Prison Life of Fools” together with GOT7 ‘s JB and SEVENTEEN ‘s Seungkwan.
* Yena was one of the fixed members of TVING's program "Girls High School Mystery Club" with BIBI, Jang Doyeon, Jae Jae and Park Jiyoon
* She got title "IZ\*ONE's Idea Bank" and "Queen of Gestures"
* She won Daesang at 2021 Brand Customer Loyalty Award [Catergory : Female Idol Entertainer]