Tuesday, June 16, 2015

T-ara's members

Get to know about T-ara's members



                In my opinion, As I have been following T-ara for a long time, I find something interesting or a bit surprised for T-ara. Say their group is quite different from many other Korean girl groups that I have known. First, they always change their leader so each leader has her period to do duty. Next, they often changed their members like added or dropped someone. In contrast, other Korean girl groups have their exact leaders, they will change a leader if that leader has reason or leave a group. Also other Korean girl groups seldom change their members, they just add more to replace if members of their teams depart. But T-ara just added more even though no one departs. Furthermore, seems they have only one main vocalist out of 6 people but 5 rappers; Eunjong, Hyomin, Areum, Hwayoung and Dani. Even a new members is to be added, they still give a new member as a rapper position or at least a rap part in a song. To me, a number of rappers is too much comparing to a number of main vocalist which is only one. I have no idea why it is like this. Today, T-ara remains only six members as before. However, it’s better to know more about each T-ara's member from past to present. So, In this page I would like to introduce members that I divided into three different types of T-ara members which are present members, extra members, and past or ex - members.


                    Firstly, I would like to introduce a first type of T-ara members that I divided which is a present members.


Stage Name: Boram
Birth Name: Joen Boram
Birth Date: March 22, 1896
Height: 155 cm
Weight: 45 kg
Position: Support vocalist
Blood Type: B
Education: Myeongji University – Post Modern Music
Hobbies: Playing golf, water skiing, watching baseball game, travelling
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Boram_0322
More information: Boram is a daughter of famous people. Her father is a singer, Joen Young Rok and her mother is an actress, Lee Mi Young. She was criticized that she was be able to work in this field because of her parent. She said on one TV show about this issue that she felt sorry about this. However, she still keeps on being a good singer and member for her group. Boram is an oldest person but smallest in the group, so she’s called “fake Maknae” (Maknae means a youngest person) by some fan clubs. Apart from this, Boram was a third leader of T-ara during in 2010-2011.


Stage Name: Qri
Birth Name: Lee Jihyun
Height: 163 cm
Weight: 44 kg
Birth Date: December 12, 1986
Position: Support vocalist
Blood Type: B
Education: Myeongji University – Theatre & Visual Arts
Twitter: http://twitter.com/QriPretty
More information: Qri used to be a net idol before became a new member of T-ara. With her beautiful and sweet face like a doll and attracted by men, fan clubs call her “a cute doll”. Qri became a new member of T-ara after Soyeon and Boram. She is a quietest person in all members, for she is such a bashful. Qri has been a sixth and current leader of T-ara since in 2014 – now.


Stage Name: Soyeon
Birth Name: Park In Jung
Birth Date: October 5, 1987
Height: 163 cm
Weight: 46 kg.
Position: Main vocalist
Blood type: B
Education: Anyang Art School
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sohotmelody
More information: Soyeon used to be a trainee under SM Entertainment for a future girl group project “Girl Generation”. With her powerful, charming and beautiful voice, she was expected to be a leader of Girl Generation. But she decided to withdraw from a SM Ent’s trainee causing SM entertainment had to find a new trainee to replace Soyeon and finally they got “Taeyeon” who has been becoming a leader of Girl Generation so far. However, Soyeon said she never felt regret to withdraw from a training. She prefer to be a T-ara. Apart from this, Soyeon was a fifth leader of T-ara during in 2012-2013.


Stage Name: Eunjung
Birth Name: Ham Eunjung
Height: 167 cm
Weight: 46 kg
Birthday: December 12, 1988
Position: Lead Vocalist, Main Rapper
Blood Type: O
Education: Dongguk Women’s University – Performing Arts
Hobbies: Movie, Fashion magazines, Reading
Twitter: http://twitter.com/taraeunjung1212
More information: Eunjung is an original member since the group music was ballad and the group was composed of 5 people. She was an actress when she was young. Eunjung loves learning Taekwondo and she is very skilful about this. She was a first leader of T-ara since
Jiwon and Jiae withdrew from the group and T-ara's debut during in 2009 - 2010. Furthermore, most fan clubs know well that she easily sleeps. Eunjung ever made all staff members nearly in such a trouble, for she just had gone to sleep in a toilet before a live show.


Stage Name: Hyomin
Birth Name: Park Sun Young
Height: 167 cm
Weight: 43 kg
Birthday: May 30, 1989
Position: Lead Rapper, Lead Vocalist, Lead Dancer
Blood Type: O
Education: Sungkyunkwan University – Acting Arts
Hobbies: Photography, Cooking, Drawing, Designing.
Twitter: http://twitter.com/b89530
More information: Hyomin is an original member of T-ara. She used to be a trainee under JYP entertainment and also a net idol. She loves photography and collecting a cameras. Hyomin is quite a close friend of Sunny, member of Girl Generation. Beside this, Hyojun, T-ara Jiyeon’s brother, also is her fan club. Hyomin was a forth leader of T-ara during in 2011-2012.



Stage Name: Jiyeon
Birth Name: Park Jiyeon
Birth Date: June 7, 1993
Height: 167 cm
Weight: 45 kg
Position: Vocalist, Main Dancer, Image of T-ara, Maknae.
Blood Type: AB
Education:  HyeHwa All Girls High School
Hobbies: Sleeping, Watching Movies, Taekwondo, Sports, Cooking
Twitter: http://twitter.com/pjy1234
More information: Jiyeon is one of an original member like Eunjung and Hyomin. She is a first member of T-ara, except Eunjung who was an actress since she was young, that got chance to join a TV drama. Jiyeon is a Maknae, youngest member of the group. She loves taekwondo like Eunjung does. She learnt it to a highest level. She is a close friend of Luna, member of F(X) and IU, solo singer. Furthermore, Jiyeon is an only one member of T- ara who eats like a horse, also she likes playing energetically with other members. So everyone gave her alias as “Dinosaur”.
All of these present members have been working together under the girl group named "T-ara" for around 6 years already.

               Second, I would like to introduce a second type of T-ara members that I divided which is an extra member.  Well, a reason I called an extra member is that this new member only joins in T-ara sub-unit activity called T-ara N4 not a whole of T-ara's albums.


Stage Name: Dani
Birth Name: Kim Dani
Birth Date: December 23, 1998
Height: 167 cm
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
More information: Dani was born and raised in USA since she was 4 years old. So she is very good at English and Korean language. Actually, Dani was announced to be a ninth new member of T-ara, but now she is only a member of T-ara N4, T-ara sub-unit activities. In addition, she ever joined a collaboration single with F-ve Dolls in a song “Can you love me”. Beside this, she also joined in a music video “Day by Day” with T-ara when she didn't debut yet.
This extra member Dani is quite talented even though she is too young comparing to other members.

              Finally, I would like to introduce a third type of T-ara members that I divided which is a past or ex-members. The members ever joined in T-ara’s discography.


Stage Name: Hwayoung
Birth Name: Ryu Hwayoung
Birth Date: April 22, 1993
Height: 170 cm.
Position: Main rapper
Education: Sungeul High School
Twitter: http://twitter.com/RHY422
More information: Hwayoung is a twin sister of Hyoyoung, elder sister who was a member of disbanded F-ve dolls. Hwayoung is cheerful. She is very skilful in rap that’s why she was given a position as a main rapper during she was a member of T-ara. Hwayoung was withdrawn from T-ara earlier than her contract in 2012. Her departure made most fan clubs upset and banned T-ara temporaily. T-ara members exposed that they also felt sad about Hwayoung’s departure. They said they just said CEO to do something but they didn’t expect CEO would solve problem by withdrawing her. However, Hwayoung said probably, this mightn’t be her way. She wanted to work as an actress career.


Stage Name: Areum
Birth Name: Lee Areum
Birth Date: April 19, 1994
Height: 167 cm
Position: Main vocalist, Rapper, new Maknae
Education: Hanlim School of Arts
More information: Areum decided to leave T-ara after joining for 1 year. She gave reason she fell in love with music in Hip-hop style and wanted to be a solo singer as her dream.



Birth Name: Lee Ji-ae
Birth Date: August 6, 1987
Height: 163 cm
Weight: 43 kg
Blood type: B
Position: Leader, Lead vocalist.
More information: Jiae was an original member of T-ara, also a first leader. She withdrew from the group before their official debut. She gave reason that a music wasn’t her style and she wanted to find out herself more. However, now she is a member of Jevice, Korean pop female duo under DreamT Entertainment. Her well-known stage name is Hana.


Birth Name: Yang Jiwon
Birth Date: April 5, 1988
Height: 166 cm
Weight: 49 kg
Skill: Cooking
Hobbies: Watching movies, exercising, eating a treat
Position: Lead vocalist.
Birth Place: Seoul, South Korea
More information: Jiwon used to be a member of girl group Five Girls under Good Entertainment but never debuted due to financial problem. So she moved to Mnet Media, new company, and was a member of T-ara. However, T-ara didn’t debuted yet, she had decided to withdraw from the group due to creative differences. Today, she’s a member of Spica, Korean K-pop girl group under B2M Entertainment. Her Spica position is a lead vocalist.
Even though today these ex-members don't work with the group T-ara already, but they still work in a music field.

               In conclusion, as you see that a present members, extra members, and past or ex- members are a three different types of T-ara members that I divided. All of these members ever were or have been in part of T-ara's success. Even though, nowadays some members already departed from the group and T-ara left only 6 members out of 11 members.  Yet T-ara is still popular. The group still be loved and supported by all their fan clubs around Asia. All these left members still keep working their best for T-ara more future success. 

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