Go Won/Facts

## Go Won

On 22.09.25

* 朴 (박/Park): "naïve, simple"
* 彩 (채/Chae): "colorful"
* 嫚 (원/Won): "beauty"

**Stage name:**

* 고원 (gowon) in Korean means “plateau”, and can refer to the raised portions of the moon’s surface known in English as “highlands”.

### Other names

* **Japanese:** Paku Chewon (パク・チェウォン)
* **Mandarin:** Piáo Cǎimān (朴彩嫚)

### Nicknames

* Park Go Won (박 고원)
* Gwon (권)
* Cha Cha (차차)
* Che Che (체체)
* Vanilla
* Crunchy
* Chae-I (채이)
* Kong Won (콩원, Bouncy Won)
* Kong Ju-nim (콩주님, Bouncy Princess)
* Warning/“Won”ing (워닝)
* My Fairy
* Mint (By Olivia Hye)
* Papagowon (By Chuu)
* Goggle (By Yves)
* Gowon Minaj

### Body statistics

* 158.7cm (5’2”) (height)
* 230mm (US 6, EU 37) (shoe size)

## Other information

### Family

* Parents
* Older brother
* Younger sister

### Education

Incheon Gong Hang Middle School (graduated), Incheon Haneul Academy (transfer), Bakmun Girls' High School (drop out)

### Likes

* Her dog Bbomi
* Tteokbokki
* Babies doing cute things

### Dislikes

* Bugs
* Hunger
* Getting woken up

### Hobbies

* Nintendo
* Writing in diary
* Shopping for clothes & makeup

### Personality

* Determined
* Cute
* Bubbly
* Positive

## **Facts**

I'm sure it'll work out.
 - Go Won's motto

**Go Won** (Hangul: 고원; Japanese: ゴウォン, *Gowon*) is the eleventh member of the girl group LOONA.

She is the fourth youngest in LOONA, a member of the sub-unit yyxy, and was revealed in January 15, 2018. Her solo single *Go Won* was released on January 30, 2018.

In the group, she's represented by a butterfly, the color eden green (which looks like mint color) and the fruit pineapple. In yyxy, she's represented by the emotion “Hope”.

Her symbolic animal is more specifically a morpho peleides, more commonly known as the emperor butterfly. Out of all twelve members, her symbolic animal is the only one to not be a vertebrate as butterflies are classified as hexapoda.

## Names

* "Go Won" is a full name (like "Kim Lip"), thus *Go* is a surname and *Won* is a first name (taken from the second syllable of her real first name). Hence, BlockBerryCreative spells Go Won with a space (like Kim Lip) to signify that it's an actual full name, as opposed to HaSeul, JinSoul, etc. that don't have a space separating the syllables. Despite this, most Orbits spell her name as **Gowon**.
* Oddly: Her last name is Park, and Go Won in Korean means "upland, wold, park, garden".

### Nicknames

* Nickname she wants Orbits to call her: "Princess Go Won"
* HaSeul has Go Won saved in her contacts as kongju (kong princess).

## Charms

* Go Won has a small mole on her left eye and on the left side of her neck.
* YeoJin once said on a VLIVE that Go Won is so skinny she looks like a cutlassfish (갈치).
* She has a silver tooth.
* She speaks softly. Unlike Chuu and YeoJin, she has the softest speaking voice, so others often can't hear her.
* She has heart shaped lips.
* According to HeeJin, she has good eyesight, fair skin, doesn't gain weight easily and still maintains a good volume of hair having dyed her hair into lighter color for a long time.
* Like Yves, she doesn't gain weight easily, but Go Won has a big appetite, yet nowhere near than YeoJin's.
* Unlike INTP and INFP having typically pessimistic thoughts, Go Won is added into Positivity Line.
* Charms according to herself:
	+ "Lethargic yet active. Round, round forehead. Round, round eyes, lips, nose :-)"
	+ "A voice that you always want to listen to. The members and Orbits imitate my voice a lot."
* Charms according to other members
	+ Her visuals (Olivia Hye)

## Personality

* According to YeoJin during her VLIVE, Go Won has an introverted personality.
* According to Chuu, Go Won is the most socially awkward member. Adding to the fact that unlike Olivia Hye, she is not the most practically-inclined, it fits her retested MBTI of INTP (Logician). That said: She also has INFP-like tendencies, especially being conflict-averse.
* According to Kim Lip, she initially didn't understand her charms when she first entered the company because she was very shy.
* According to Olivia Hye, she isn't good at following through on plans or personal goals.
* Hashtags to describe her:
	+ #silverhairedfairy, #eyebrows, #overreactor, #shouldergangster, #showerconcert
	+ #Kogong #PoppingGoWon
* According to Olivia Hye, Go Won has a firm personality and a mysterious aura about her.
* She is a "kingmaker" of the group. In Konglish, it means she can be bratty and annoying, but without malicious intent.
* She had lots of thoughts about becoming an adult, but she wants to enjoy being twenty freely without feeling burdened by that.
* Go Won prefers to deal with unresolved conflict later after the fact rather than immediately.

## Relationships

* Her role models are Shinhwa and Oh My Girl.
* The other members of yyxy (Yves, Chuu and Olivia Hye) are also her roommates.
* She is closest to Olivia Hye.
* She isn't scared of thrill rides, zip line rides and is comfortable with heights.
* She is good friends with Weki Meki's Sei.
* In 2020, Go Won went viral after singer Grimes jokingly confirmed that Go Won was the godmother of Grimes' child with Elon Musk, "X Æ A-Xii".
* Go Won has a small circle of friends.
	+ Because of this, Olivia Hye would often tease her for her lack of friends.

### Members impression

**HeeJin**

* Because HeeJin and Go Won are about the same age, it was easy for HeeJin to talk to her.
	+ However, HeeJin was still shy with her as she was busy competing in MIXNINE.

**HaSeul**

* When she first met HaSeul, she thought HaSeul would have a blunt and straightforward personality.
	+ **Go Won:** "I think Haseul unnie had really diff vibes. I thought she'd be blunt, like if you talk to her she'd just be like "alright" but she wasn't like that at all. I think compared to how she looked she was really different.

**ViVi**

* To ViVi, Go Won gave the impression of being cool and adorable.

**JinSoul**

* They first met when Go Won was doing the concept photoshoot for her debut.
* Out of all the members, it took the longest time for her to get to know JinSoul, as they're both shy.

**Yves**

* According to Go Won, Yves first gave the impression of a cool adult.
* Yves had mixed feelings about Go Won when she first saw her. However, because Yves wanted to help Go Won, she ultimately decided to teach her.

**Chuu**

* The member she got the closest to first was Chuu.
	+ Go Won often felt lost while preparing for her debut, so Chuu would take care of her and comfort her by offering sweet potatoes.

**Olivia Hye**

* When they first met, they were generally distant with eachother, in star contrast to their relationship now.
	+ **Olivia Hye:** "When I had just joined the company, there was a time when Go Won unnie and I were talking on the practice room’s terrace. Unnie had also recently entered the company, so she understood my situation and feelings, and we were able to find many similarities while talking. I think that time was how our current relationship was made."
	+ **Go Won:** "Funny thing is that we'd just say a thing here and there. And I'd feel that she was [taking initiative while] talking to me well, and she'd feel the same about me. And if someone else was observing it might seem weird but we'd both feel comfortable with that."
	+ According to Olivia Hye, when they first met, Go Won had sunbaenim (senior/superior) vibes.
	+ To Go Won, Olivia initally didn't leave a strong impression and seemed timid to Go Won, as her face would often turn red.
		- However, according to her, Olivia now has a fiercer image to her.

### Family

* She is the only member that is a middle-child in the family.
* Her younger sister is Park Hyo-min (박효민), born 2011, and is a fan of Olivia Hye.
	+ When they were younger, they would often fight.
		- When Hyomin was much younger, she once threw legos at Go Won while she was sleeping.
* Her older brother was born in 1998 and is a fan of fromis\_9’s Gyuri.

### Pets

* Go Won has a dog named Bbomi (뽀미).
	+ According to Go Won, Bbomi is an active dog despite being older in age.
		- In fact, Bbomi is older than Hyomin, Go Won's younger sister.
	+ Bbomi once ranked as the 4th prettiest dog in a pet festival contest.
	+ One of Bbomi's favorite foods is sweet potatoes.
	+ According to Go Won, Bbomi will often mess with their trash bin whenever she's left alone.
		- Despite this, Bbomi likes to go off on her own during walks.

## Pre-debut life

* When she was younger, she'd like to sing and dance to various K-pop songs in her alone time. However, due to her timid personality, she was embarrassed about performing in front of others.
	+ However, after attending Oh My Girl's first concert (Summer Fairy Tales), she decided she wanted to become an idol.
* Before becoming a trainee for BlockBerry Creative, she auditioned for Source Music Entertainment.
* Go Won first learned about BBC through the banners in Seoul that advertised LOONA. Once she saw the advertisements, she got interested in LOONA and started watching their various music videos/performance stages. Because of her interest in LOONA, she decided that she wanted to join BBC and applied for an audition.
* She dropped out of high school in order to focus on an idol career.
	+ That was a surprising decision amongst her fellow students. Although she has goddess-like beauty, she was in the aeronautics club.
* She was a student at LP Dance & Vocal, with Dance as her speciality.
* The first time she performed was when she danced to Wonder Girls - Tell Me.
* Due to Go Won's shy nature and the fact that ten members had already debuted before her, Go Won initially found it hard to fit in well.
	+ However, because she debuted around the same time yyxy debuted as a unit, she found it easier to befriend the rest of the yyxy members.
* While preparing for her debut, she had to do a test shooting, do the photoshoot for her album, receive her debut song and record the song in less than a week.
* Before debuting with LOONA, she liked Let Me In and would frequently listen to it while on the bus to school.
	+ She also listened to new a lot while on the bus.
* She loved to play Cooking Mama when she was younger and would replay certain levels until she got a perfect score.
* Before debuting, she ended up throwing away all of her uniforms, as she didn't know at the time that she'd be an idol. However, she now regrets this and says that if she knew that she'd be an idol, she would've kept her uniforms.
* Due to the significantly short period between training in BBC and becoming a LOONA member, Go Won felt a sense of self-doubt about her skills/readiness to debut.

## Abilities

* She can make waves with her eyebrows. She even talks with her eyebrows almost as much as JinSoul talks with her hand gestures.
* According to JinSoul, her eyesight is fine. She only wears contact lenses to change the color of her iris for aesthetics.
* According to YeoJin, who is a good cook, GoWon is not only a bad cook, but also a reluctant cook, often ordering takeaways, so she has to make her eat the food she made when YeoJin made too much food.
* She showed on *Idol Room* that her tongue can reach down to her chin. It's possible that it can also reach the tip of her nose.
* She can speak like a ventriloquist, meaning she can speak without moving her lips and jaw. However, she tends not to move her lips and jaws much anyway.
* She is not affected by helium because her voice is already naturally high pitched.
* By 2021, she has become the leader in reading English comments, because she can translate back to Korean fairly quickly.

## Goals

* She would like to try a concept similar to Everyday I Love You.
* Her dream was to have a song reach Billboard charts. On November 3, 2020, it came true when [12:00] reached #112 in the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, and when 'Shake It' and '365' #1 on Billboard's World Digital Song Sales.
* Go Won would love to have a comeback with a magical concept.
	+ She would also like to have a comeback with a winter-themed song.
* She'd like to try American food, especially American pizzas.
* Go Won would like to try having pink hair.

## Items

* She personally bought a film camera.
* Go Won bought an ebook. However, according to Olivia Hye, she has never seen her read.
	+ In general, Olivia Hye believes that Go Won has bought too many electronics.
* One of the perfumes Go Won uses is Secret Wish by Anna Sui.

## Likes

* When asked what job she would like to do apart from being an idol, Go Won said she would like to own a rice cake (tteokpoki) shop.
* Go Won’s hobby is playing Nintendo.
* Go Won is an avid fan of K-pop.
* Her favorite girl group is Oh My Girl.
	+ Like Chuu, she became a successful fan of Oh My Girl. She chose their songs for trainee evaluations, and had danced with Hyojung and Seunghee in Weekly Idol.

* Her favorite color is red.
	+ She also mentioned yellow in IDOL GROUND
	+ She also loves the colors pink and lavender. Olivia Hye was the first person to notice that her favorite color had "switched" to lavender in News Ade.
* Choerry
* She loves dolls, especially Kirby.
* She likes sun chips.
* During the winter, she likes to listen to entire winter playlists.
* When it comes to perfumes, she prefers sweet and fruity scents.
* She prefers winter over summer as she hates mosquitoes.
* How Go Won likes spending her time: watching movies or YouTube, writing in her diary, playing video games and reading fan letters.
* Her happiest moments are during concerts and fan meetings, as she gets to talk to fans.

### Habits

* She typically speaks with little energy in her voice.
* According to Sei of Weki Meki, both are known to be very slow-movers and slow-eaters. Sei thinks Go Won eats slower than her. However: Go Won is not considered a slow-talker compared to Sei.

### TV shows / Dramas / Films

* Go Won is into k-dramas.
	+ K-dramas she's watched:
		- Girls' High School Mystery Class
		- Juvenile Justice
		- 2521
* Go Won loves *The Hunger Games*.
* She likes the anime Case Closed (aka Detective Conan).
* She watched About Time, after the other members recommended it to her.
* She's watched Paddington.
* Go Won likes movies that focus on the concept of time.

### Songs

* She wants to sing HaSeul's Let Me In.
	+ Another LOONA solo she'd like to try is Everyday I Love You.
* Her favorite LOONA choreography is Butterfly.

Recommendations / songs she listens to
* 9Muses - Hurt Locker (다쳐)
* 10cm - What the Spring?? (봄이 좋냐??)
* BOL4 - Travel (여행)
* Crush - fall (어떻게 지내)
* Day6 - Freely (Free하게)
* Day6 - When You Love Someone (그렇더라고요)
* ELRIS - Summer Dream
* Ji Jin Seok - Good Night
* Loco, Yuju - Spring Is Gone By Chance (우연히 봄)
* LOONA - Hula Hoop
* Lovelyz - Now, we (지금, 우리)
* NU'EST - BET BET
* Oh My Girl - Their whole discography
* Park Bom - Spring (봄)
* Taeyeon - Feel So Fine (날개)
* Twice - Oxygen
* Yu Seungwoo - 500 Days of Summer (500일의 썸머)
* Wonder Girls - This Fool (이 바보)
* WJSN - I Wish (너에게 닿기를)

Explanations
* Day6 - Freely (Free하게)

* For Spring:
	+ 10cm - What the Spring?? (봄이 좋냐??)
	+ Loco, Yuju - Spring Is Gone By Chance (우연히 봄)
	+ Park Bom - Spring (봄)
* For Summer:
	+ ELRIS - Summer Dream
	+ Twice - Oxygen

* Nine Muses - Hurt Locker

* Day6 - When You Love Someone

* Taeyeon - Feel So Fine (날개)

* Profile Rewrite (August 2018)  - Orbit 1st anniversary
	+ Crush - fall (어떻게 지내)
	+ Lovelyz - Now, we (지금, 우리)
	+ NU'EST - BET BET
* Wonder Girls - This Fool (이 바보)

* Ji Jin Seok - Good Night

* For Christmas (K-pop carols):
	+ Lovelyz - Twinkle (종소리)
	+ Jellyfish Entertainment - Because it's Christmas (크리스마스니까)

## References

1. ↑ caskerbox
2. ↑ 朴 - Wiktionary
3. ↑ 彩 - Wiktionary
4. ↑ 嫚 - Wiktionary
5. ↑ 高原 - Wiktionary
6. ↑ loonatheworld “LOONA TV #275” YouTube. 2018.02.12
7. ↑ Loossemble. “Loossemble Profile Rewrite EP.2”. YouTube. 2023.08.25
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 220622 MBC Radio - Noon Song of Hope w/ Kim Shinyoung (Translation by Orrery/nim)
9. ↑  Weekly Idol: self-written profile (Translation by Team Subbits)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2  Orbit Japan Official Book Vol. 1 - Translation by Team Subbits
11. ↑ Orrery/nim "210720 HaSeul VLIVE - Good night with Joaha-D" Twitter. 2021.07.20
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 LOONA Profile Rewrite - Translation by Team Subbits
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3  Orbit Japan Official Book Vol. 1 (2SHOT TALK) - Translation by Team Subbits
14. ↑ Go Won MBTI
15. ↑  Weekly Idol: self-written profile (Translation by Team Subbits)
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Orrery/nim "220703 LOONA Fansign" Twitter. 2022.07.03
17. ↑ Team Subbits "[ENG] ALLETS Interview with Hyunjin and Go Won (190322)" YouTube. 2019.03.26
18. ↑ Orrery/nim "Oh My Girl is said to be the role model of the new girl group LOONA (specifically Gowon ㅠ)." Twitter. 2018.09.10
19. ↑ Celuv TV (February 27, 2019)
20. ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 20.12 20.13 20.14 20.15 20.16 20.17 20.18 20.19 20.20 20.21 Orrery/nim "220304 Go Won Voice Only VLIVE" Twitter. 2022.03.04
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Rolling Stone Korea "/RSK/THE FIRST TIME/ 이달의 소녀 (LOONA)" YouTube. 2021.07.28
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 KPOP IDOL OLYMPIC "LOONA Go Won, The story of a quiet, shy kid entering the Billboard." YouTube. 2021.01.31
23. ↑ 나돌\_NADOL “IDOL FAMILY LOONA Go Won.” YouTube. 2021.07.27.
24. ↑ 나돌\_NADOL “IDOL FAMILY LOONA Go Won.” YouTube. 2019.10.19.
25. ↑ Weekly Idol EP.449
26. ↑ Orrery/nim "220710 LOONA Fansign" Twitter. 2022.07.10
27. ↑ loonatheworld “LOONA TV #546” YouTube. 2019.12.31
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1  Orbit Japan Official Book Vol. 1 (Group Interview) - Translation by Team Subbits
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 GENIE MUSIC "[Answering Machine] 12 Questions and Answers with LOONA" YouTube. 2019.04.10
30. ↑  211204 Fansign - Translation by Orrery/nim
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Orrery/nim "Naver NOW - g.o.d. Lunch Attack (HaSeul, YeoJin, Yves, Go Won)" Twitter. 2022.06.26
32. ↑ IDOL GROUND
33. ↑ GENIE MUSIC "[Answering Machine] 12 Questions and Answers with LOONA" YouTube. 2019.04.10
34. ↑ Orrery Nim's translation, extracted from 210215 - WekiWeki VLIVE @ 23:12
35. ↑ 191214 | Premier Greeting: Meet&Up
36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 TV Daily: Loona's song recs - When You’re Being Nagged (200127)
37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 VLIVE: Winner of the Chaotic Art Contest: Seeing the Cherry Blossoms (190412)
38. ↑ Frequency of the Moon Ep.15
39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 LOONA's Profile Rewrite
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 TVDaily: Loona's songs recs - Chinese New Year (190204)
41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 Billboard: Song recs during the COVID-19 pandemic
42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 Fancafe: Orbits 2nd Anniversary Member Replies - Go Won & Olivia Hye (200710)
43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 IDOL RADIO EP.502 recs - explanation thread
44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 IDOL RADIO EP.502 (SPECIAL DJ LOONA HeeJin & Yves)
45. ↑ Mu:fully questionnaire (Halloween 2019)
46. ↑ Orrery/nim "Melon promotion: #LOONA's summer playlist" Twitter. 2022.06.20
47. ↑ Fansign: song rec - 500 Days of Summer's Yu Seungwoo
48. ↑  211126 YeoJin VLIVE - Translation by Orrery/nim
49. ↑  211204 Fansign - Translation by Orrery/nim