Jihyo

Park Ji-hyo (; born Park Ji-soo on February 1, 1997), known mononymously as Jihyo (), is a South Korean singer. She is the leader of the K-pop girl group Twice under JYP Entertainment.
Early life.
Jihyo was born on February 1, 1997 in Guri, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Her birth name was Park Ji-soo.
Career.
Debut and solo activities.
JYP Entertainment had scouted Jihyo after she participated in a contest on Junior Naver and placed second. She then joined JYP Entertainment as a trainee at the age of eight and trained for ten years before her debut. During her trainee years, Jihyo was known as the face of Innisfree's teen line with boy band Boyfriend. She trained with many JYP idols including Wonder Girls' Sunmi and Hyerim, Bae Suzy, Jo Kwon, and Nichkhun. Jihyo was set to debut in a girl group along with Nayeon, Jeongyeon and Sana, but the project was cancelled. Instead, they all joined the reality television show "Sixteen", a competition designed to select the founding members of Twice. She legally changed her name to Jihyo before the competition. As one of nine successful participants, she went on to join the newly formed girl group Twice. Though not the oldest member of the group, Jihyo was later voted by her bandmates as their leader in an anonymous vote.
In October 2015, Twice officially debuted with the release of their first mini-album, "The Story Begins", with the lead single "Like Ooh-Ahh" being the first K-pop debut song to reach 100 million views on YouTube.
Personal life.
In August 2019, the agencies representing Jihyo and Kang Daniel, a former member of Wanna One and the founder of Konnect Entertainment, confirmed that they are dating. After the news broke, Jihyo and Kang topped Twitter's trends list. They were described as a new "power couple" of K-pop by the media. In November 2020, JYP Entertainment confirmed that the couple had broken up due to busy schedules.