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"Let's become a sharing person." —Seulgi
Kang Seul-gi (Hangul: 강슬기, born on February 10, 1994), known by the mononym Seulgi, is a South Korean singer, dancer, and television personality. She is the lead vocalist and main dancer of South Korean girl group Red Velvet.
Career
Pre-debut
Seulgi auditioned for SM Entertainment in 2006 through an open audition. She didn't receive a call back until a year later and began training in 2007 during her first year in middle school.[2]
2014–2020: Debut with Red Velvet
On July 17, 2014, she was announced as a member of girl group Red Velvet and assigned to represent the color yellow. On August 1 2014, the group officially debuted with "Happiness".
Seulgi played the main lead, Dorothy, in SM Entertainment's hologram musical, School Oz, which had the first screening on January 14, 2015.[3] Seulgi was featured on the JTBC variety show Off to School, where she attended Gyeonggi Arts High School for three days along with other idols, which aired from April 2015 to May 2015.[4] She went on MBC's music variety show, King of Mask Singer, on October 2, 2016, where she went under the name Cinema Heaven.[5]
On February 23, 2018, OSEN reported that Seulgi would be part of the cast for Law of the Jungle in Mexico, which aired from May to July.[6] On July 21, 2018, she alongside Wendy was on the special 100th episode of KBS's variety show Battle Trip.[7] On October 26, 2018, JTBC posted a video announcing that Seulgi would be one of the MCs for their variety show Cool Kids.[8] On Episode 7, the MCs revealed that Seulgi along with Hyun-min had left the show.
2020: Irene & Seulgi subunit
On April 21, 2020, Seulgi was announced as a member of the Red Velvet subunit Red Velvet - Irene & Seulgi alongside member Irene. They debuted with the mini album Monster on July 6, 2020.
2021: Seulgi.zip, GOT the beat
On April 2, 2021 Music content company 11018 stated that Seulgi would be the new MC for their new music variety The Wise Music Encyclopedia which connects to the music documentary that SBS made called, Legendary Stage Archive K.[9] On May 31, Naver NOW made a statement revealing that Seulgi would be having her own show, Seulgi.zip which would premiere on June 1.[10] The show aired on every Tuesday and Thursday at 10pm KST and had it's last episode on November 25.[11]
On December 27, 2021 Seulgi was revealed alongside Wendy as one of the members of GOT the beat, the first unit of the project group Girls On Top.[12] The unit debuted on January 3, 2022 with the digital single "Step Back".
2022: Solo debut with "28 Reasons"
On September 6, Mydaily reported that Seulgi will be making her solo debut sometime in October. A couple hours later, SM confirmed the reports and added that that she is preparing her album with the aim for it to be released in October.[13] On September 13, it was revealed that Seulgi will be debuting with her first mini album, 28 Reasons[14], on October 4. The album contains six songs including the title track, "28 Reasons".[15]
Discography
Collaboration
Year | Album | Song | Note |
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2016 | SM Station Season 1 | "Sound of Your Heart" | with Lee Dong Woo, Yesung, Sunny,
Luna, Wendy, Taeil & Doyoung |
2017 | "Darling U" | with Yesung | |
Fall in, girl Vol. 3 | "Our Story" | with Chiywol | |
SM Station Season 2 | "Doll" | with Kangta and Wendy | |
2018 | SM Station X 0 | "Wow Thing" | with Jeon Soyeon, Chungha and SinB |
2021 | Like Water | "Best Friend" | with Wendy |
Featuring
Year | Album | Artist | Song | Note |
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2014 | Fantastic | Henry | "Butterfly" | |
2017 | High School Rapper FINAL | Mark (NCT) | "Drop" | |
Move | Taemin (SHINee) | "Heart Stop" | ||
2018 | Selfish | Moon Byul (MAMAMOO) | "Selfish" | |
ZZZ | Zion. T | "Hello Tutorial" |
OST
Year | Album | Song | Note |
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2016 | Uncontrollably Fond OST | Don't Push Me | With Wendy |
2017 | Idol Drama Operation Team OST | Deep Blue Eyes | Girl Next Door |
Hwarang OST | I Can Only See You | With Wendy | |
Blade & Soul OST | You, Just Like That | Solo | |
2019 | The Crowned Clown OST | Always | Solo |
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2015 | SMTown: The Stage | Herself | Documentary Film of SM Town |
2020 | Trolls World Tour | Gomdori | Animated Film |
TV Shows
Year | Title | Network | Role | Note |
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2015 | Off to School | JTBC | Cast | Episode 40–43 |
100 People, 100 Songs | Contestant | Episode 31, with Wendy | ||
Immortal Songs 2 | KBS2 | Episode 223-224, with Wendy and Joy | ||
2016 | M Countdown | Mnet | Special host | Episode 494, with Joy |
King of Mask Singer | MBC | Contestant | Episode 79 as "Cinema Heaven" | |
Idol Battle Likes | KBS2 | Host | Episode 1 | |
2017 | Girl Group Battle | Contestant | Korean New Year special, with Wendy and Joy | |
M Countdown | Mnet | Special host | Episode 510 and 511, with Wendy and Yeri | |
High School Rapper | Featured artist | Episode 8, with Mark Lee (NCT) | ||
Idol Drama Operation Team | KBS2 | Cast | ||
2018 | Law of the Jungle in Mexico | SBS | Part of second half team in Mexico (Ep.320–324) | |
Secret Unnie | JTBC | with Sunmi | ||
Battle Trip | KBS | Contestant | With Wendy (Ep. 100–103) | |
Cool Kids | JTBC | Host | Episodes 1-6 | |
2020 | King of Mask Singer | MBC | Panelist | Episode 259 |
Yeri's Room | Dum Dum Studio Youtube | Guest | with Irene | |
Where is My Home? | MBC | with Irene, Jeonghan, and Seungkwan | ||
Weekly Idol | with Irene, Episode 469 | |||
Knowing Brothers: After-School Activities | JTBC | with Irene, Episode 240 |
Radio DJ
Year | Radio | Channel | Role | Note |
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2015 | Kiss the Radio | KBS Cool FM | Special DJ | October 13 with Wendy |
Music video appearances
Year | Song | Album | Artist(s) | Official video(s) |
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2014 | "Fantastic" | Fantastic | Henry | YouTube |
2015 | "Wish List" | Winter Garden | f(x) | Youtube |
2016 | "One Day One Chance" | School Oz OST | SM Entertainment |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2014-2015 | School Oz | Dorothy | Lead Role |
Endorsements
Year | Endorsement |
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2018 | Converse Korea |
2019 | Coca Cola (with Park Bogum) |
2019 | L'Occitane X OMY City Palette |
Awards and Nominations
Year | Award Show | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
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2017 | Melon Music Awards | Hot Trend Award | Deep Blue Eyes (as Girls Next Door) | Nominated |
Naver's 2017 Fashionista Awards | Rising Star Award | Nominated |
Trivia
- Out of the 5 members, she trained the longest, training for a long duration of seven years, being cast back in 2007.[16]
- She is the only member, and the only female SM Entertainment artist, to have single eyelids.
- She was born the same year as Wendy. Both have suffered vocal nodules. In Seulgi's case, it happened in her 5th and 6th year, which transitioned her into a dancer.
- Seulgi was mentioned by labelmate Kyuhyun from Super Junior, gaining some attention before debut.
- She got the nickname "Bear" from labelmate Amber from f(x).
- She likes to imitate Pikachu.
- She walks without moving her upper body, so it looks as if she was wearing heelies or being on a conveyor belt.
- She can speak Japanese.
- Her favourite number is 20.
- Her English name is Angela. It was given to her by a teacher when she studied in an English institute.
- She represents the color of Yellow.
- She can neither wink nor do the splits.
- Her designated animal is a brown bear since the release of Red Velvet's 2020 Seasons' Greeting. Prior to that, it would be a unicorn since debut to pre-Summer Magic era, and a polar bear from Summer Magic era till the release of their 2020 Seasons' Greeting.
- Her representative fruit is a pineapple.
- Her representative weapon is a knife.
- Her representative drink is Yellow Breeze.
- She has shown an imitation of an ostrich in various variety shows.
- Her role model is Beyoncé.
- Her hobbies are drawing and going to the Karaoke alone.
- She claims that she has a habit of leaving a mess and cracking her bones, especially the knuckles.
- Her ways of relieving stress are organizing thoughts by writing in a diary, eating with the people she likes and going to the Karaoke alone.
- She collects stickers, pens and notes.
- She used to share a room with Wendy.
- She now has her own room.
- Her zodiac sign is Aquarius.
- She trained with f(x) and EXO.
- She has appeared in several CFs, including Baskin Robbins, Lotte Pepero, Meters/Bonwe, and BLACK Martine SITBON.
- She starred in the SM Entertainment musical, “School Oz” as Dorothy.
- Her Chinese name is Jiang sèqí (Jiang Su Qi).
- She has a older brother.
- She can play the guitar.
- Her best subject at school was PE.
- Despite this, her reaction times are the slowest and moves slowly.
- She loves Pringles, even receiving a congratulatory message from Pringles UK's Twitter on her birthdays.
- She prefers male choreography like hip hop dances.
- Irene's first impression about Seulgi was that she was odd but that made her even cuter
- Before her debut Super Junior Kyuhyun mentioned her a lot on Radio Star. On 093015 Seulgi when on Radio Star and said" I was practicing when my trainee friends came and said I've come up on the real-time searchers. I stayed at first place without falling", Kyuhyun responded with the word " I've dug up a star"
- Recently on MBC's Idol's True Colors she said sometimes she is conscious of her ears.
- She is part of the South Korean television program "Idol Drama Operation Team" and its project female group Girls Next Door.
- At the Music Bank festival in Singapore she did a cover of "Bang Bang" by Jessie J, with Hwa Sa from the South Korean girl group "MAMAMOO".
- She was named one of the "Precious Yet Powerful" Idols that prove duality man undoubtedly exists. [17]
- Her favorite movie is Before Sunrise. [18]
Gallery
To view the Seulgi gallery, click here.
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References
- ↑ Everline Fansign (December 21, 2023)
- ↑ Koreaboo: Here’s How Each Red Velvet Member Was Discovered, And Signed To SM
- ↑ Soompi: SM Announces Premiere Date for World’s First Hologram Musical “School OZ” Starring EXO’s Suho, Xiumin, TVXQ’s Changmin, and Others
- ↑ TVDaily: '학교다녀오겠습니다' 레드벨벳 슬기에서 허각까지, 아쉬운 이별의 순간들
- ↑ Soompi: Watch: This Idol Sings Her Senior Group’s Popular Song On “King Of Masked Singer”
- ↑ (KR) Naver: 단독 위너 이승훈X레드벨벳 슬기, '정글의법칙' 뜬다..3월 멕시코行
- ↑ (KR) Naver: (단독) '배틀트립', 레드벨벳 슬기X웬디 첫 출격..오스트리아 우정 여행
- ↑ (KR) Naver: '요즘애들' 레드벨벳 슬기 "나도 무대 밖에선 똑같은 20대"
- ↑ Soompi: Red Velvet’s Seulgi Becomes MC For Web Music Program
- ↑ Koreaboo: Red Velvet Seulgi Host Show Naver Now
- ↑ (KR) Naver: 레드벨벳 슬기, '슬기.zip'으로 첫 단독 MC 데뷔 '진행 포텐'
- ↑ [https://twitter.com/GirlsOnTop_SM/status/1475119210997194752 @GirlsOnTop_SM on Twitter (December 27, 2021)
- ↑ Soompi: Red Velvet’s Seulgi Confirmed To Make Solo Debut
- ↑ @RVsmtown on Twitter (September 13, 2022)
- ↑ (KR) Naver: 레드벨벳 슬기, 10월 4일 첫 미니앨범 '28 Reasons' 발매
- ↑ https://k-popped.com/2015/01/exclusive-know-more-about-sm-entertainments-red-velvet/
- ↑ https://www.soompi.com/article/1239933wpp/precious-yet-powerful-10-k-pop-idols-prove-duality-man-undoubtedly-exists
- ↑ https://www.soompi.com/article/1182785wpp/red-velvets-seulgi-talks-favorite-movie-explain-ideal-type-stemmed
Seulgi | ||
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Red Velvet • Irene & Seulgi • GOT the beat | ||
Mini-albums | Monster • 28 Reasons • Stamp on It | |
OSTs | Don't Push Me • I Can Only See You • Deep Blue Eyes • Always | |
Collaborations | Butterfly • Drop • Sound of Your Heart • Darling U • Our Story • Heart Stop • Selfish • Doll • Wow Thing • Hello Tutorial • Step Back • Hot & Cold | |
Drama | Let's Only Walk The Flower Road | |
Reality | Idol Drama Operation Team • Seulgi.Zip |