Soo Young Facts

1. The meaning of the name Choi SooYoung is Luxurious Flower Petal

2. Soo is the third youngest member but she is the tallest of them all (170 cm AND GROWING).


3. She doesn't call her unnis "unni".


4. Jessica gave her the English name "Summer".


5. She eats an average of 6-7 times in a one day.


6. Soo never had a boyfriend.

7. Taeyeon busted out one of her sleeping habits: SLEEP TALKING.


8. Aside from Sunny, Soo is also one certified gamer in SNSD.


9. She can eat 3 scoops of ice cream in 5 minutes.


10. She was once asked for a dare in a variety show to put on a swimming tube and do the Gee crab dance in a coffee shop. She was very shy at first but she managed to finish the task amazingly. The dare is taken as a prank in relation for her name (sooyoung) which is also the Korean word for "swimming". (Introduce To A Stars Friend show)


11. It was revealed by SuJu that Sungmin of Super Junior is closest with her and Sunny that on SuJu's 3rd album, Sungmin mentioned Sooyoungie on his Thanks To part.


12. Soo has worked many times with Kangin of Super Junior (from her predebut days in MNET VJ Chat to the movie SoonJung Mahwa and many other radio shows in between)


13. One of her pastimes include discovering new facial exp ressions when she faces the mirror without any make-up.


14. Sooyoung's bestfriend is her sister, Soojin.



15. She won the Most Comic Talent award during the 2009 Girl's Award.


16. In relation to that award show, DBSK was quoted saying that "She is really fun to be around and has that special something that makes her stand out".


17. She has a huge crush on Jo Insung and Lee Sueng Gi


18. She likes TALL men with broad shoulders, good backsides, and V-shaped back.


19. She goes fangirl crazy over VOS.


20. Comic-writer Kangfull made a comic for Sooyoung. Apparently, SooYoung sent him a fan e-mail before. Kangfull was so impressed with the way SooYoung talks (very mature for her age) that he replied to her fanmail. Years later, they finally meet when SooYoung starred on the movie adaptation of Kangfull's Manhwa.


21. Nicknamed Cheerful Princess because of her charming personality. She is considered one the friendliest members in the group.

22. She can spot fancams easily and she acknowledges them by smiling/waving/sending winks.



23. Soo has a penchant on keeping things even though they're worn out when she really likes it. An example of this would be how she still uses the Harry Potter blanket and the passport holder SSF gave her from years back.


24. When she was in middle school, she liked a certain guy that on Valentine's Day she planned on giving him chocolates. When the great day arrived, she was so shy to reveal her feelings that she ended up not giving the chocolates and bringing it back home.

25. A TRAX member taught her how to play the drums while Sungmin taught her how to play the guitar.


26. She can play the piano as seen on her performance during the Chunji Concert.


27. She was part of the Jeong Shin Female High School choir back in her high school days


28. Called the Home Shopping Queen because she can perfectly imitate the hosts of Home Shopping Channels


29. She feels that she is not beautiful and that only ahjussi-fans like her.


30. Nicknamed ShikShin by the other SNSD girls because of her big appetite. ShikShin literally means FOOD GODDESS.


31. She can speak Korean, Japanese, and some English


32. Her favorite place to visit is USA.


33. SNSD is her first debut as an artist in Korea but it is also her second debut as an artist (as a whole). Her first debut was in Japan as a member of the duo Route 0.


34. She lives with her Mom, Dad, older sister, and a little dog


35. Her blood type is 0.


36. A devout Christian, she is also close friends with Jaeson Ma (pastor/musician) and Vanness Wu.



37. She sang the trot song "Kkok", which means Sure, for the show Working Mom with SNSD Yuri


38. The other members refer to her as the girl who "tries hard to be funny". (LOL I beg to disagree)



39. While in Japan, she became close friends with BoA and Sunday from The Grace as they too were working in Japan as singers at the time.



40. Soo is currently the youngest member to win in the game show Star Golden Bell.


41. Aside from ShikShin, the girls also gave SooYoung the nickname NaSoo which means interrupter.


42. Referred by some netizens as Anti's Darling as she is the most loved/least hated member by antis. Most of whom credit it to her down-to-earth attitude and naturalness.


43. She has the least thread posts in the STAND forum.


44. She likes spicy cabbages.

45. Her favorite season is Winter. (to think that her English name is Summer.)


46. She is a big fan of Stacie Orrico. She made a cover of Orrico's Stuck (pre-debut days) and I Promise (with Jessica).


47. Soo rates herself a score of 70.

48. Between love and friendship, she chooses the latter.



49. On an interview, SooYoung was asked the question "What would you say to the people who truly love you?" and she replied "Little fool! I love you!"

50. On the same interview, she was asked how many boy liked her and she said "5, but they don't really love me, just used me to dispel loneliness."

51. The name she would want to give her future kids would be either Hid or Cinderella.


52. Her favorite number is eight. Her Jersey Number 24 on Oh! was explained when the members exposed the fact that she wrote it because she wants to marry at age 24. Soo reasoned, "It's just a wish. If I get married, then I can't do SNSD anymore, so I'll flip the numbers over and marry at age 42." (LOL)


53. "Let's not procrastinate" is her motto.



54. Her favorite song from Girl's Generation is "Complete".



55. The longest time that she liked a guy is a month and a half.



56. Taeyeon calls SooYoung her friend, dongsaeng, companion, and husband. She used all four words when referring to Soo during the Rolling Paper activity on Maybee's Radio



57. SooYoung admitted on Oh SangJin's radio show that she is more acquainted with actors/actresses than music idols.

58. One reason for #57 is that most of the people in her Bible Study Group are actors/actresses. Those she have mentioned were Jung Joon, Sung Yuri, Lee Jin, Ok Juhyun, Na Eol, and Kim Ajoong.


59. Aside from sleep talking, she sometimes "invades" other members bed. Back when she was still roommates with TaeTae and Yoong, she woke up feeling uncomfortable only to find out that she's in between her and Tae's bed.

60. She is close friends with Lee Yeonhee. Their friendship started way back their pre-debut days when they auditioned for the Korea-Japan Idol Casting. They were reunited after many years for the movie Soonjung Manhwa.

61. There was this incident during a fan meeting when the manager was rushing a fan who is getting signatures from the girls. SooYoung insisted on writing the fan's chinese name as a token of appreciation for the fan's support.


62. She was given the title "Kim Yuna of the Entertainment Industry".



63. SooYoung has no dance music in her mp3 player since she likes ballads so much.



64. Her favorite color is pink. Basing on the latest interview from Vivi magazine, it seems that she has changed her favorite color from pink to black.


65. Tiffany shared a story on a radio program on how during their trainee days,SooYoung saved her mother's number under Jo Insung's name. She would then get messages saying "What are you doing?", "Did you eat?" and all were from "Jo InSung". She got busted when "Jo InSung" called and it was her mother's voice which was heard from the other line.


66. Yoona and Tiffany revealed that SooYoung has a crush towards Go Soo (an actor from Will It Snow For Christmas). She denied at first but after Yoona revelead that she had made Go Soo a cellphone charm, she immediately agreed while blushing. She even said that just thinking of him makes her smile.

67. SooYoung invents nicknames for the girls. She calls Hyoyeon, Hyosukie; Taeyeon, Taengie; Yoona, Yoongie; and Seohyun, Makdoongie (cute way of saying maknae).


68. Aside from Stacie Orrico, Soo also revealed that she is a fan of Jason Mraz. (oh, could listening to foreign artists be her way of practicing her English? How lovely!)


69. Soo pointed out during a Sukira guesting that one of the things she worry about herself is that she has too much hair. This must be related to her UFO reply when a fan asked why she cut her hair (during Genie promotions) and she answered "I want it to dry fast".


70. During the same Sukira guesting, the girls subtly hinted that SooYoung once had a crush on Eunhyuk during their trainee days.


71. If she wasn't in SoShi, Soo said that she would have been a designer.


72. Sooyoungie expressed sadness on being nominated as #1 on the Most Intimidating Member. She said that "They say that I seem like the most intimidating but I'm really quiet at the dorm."


73. Hyo supported Soo's statement by saying that SooYoung is actually the Most Obedient.


74. SooYoung cares for Maknae so much. She always speaks highly of Seobaby and she almost always lets her win on games.


75. Soo's mom wants a boy so she is raised like one. Her mom made her wear pants and she used to sport a boycut back when she's still a kid.

76. On SBS Strong Heart, SooYoung confessed about an incident involving a toilet. Her whole family was in a Seoul subway stop when some fans took notice of her. SooYoung who wasn't all decked out in her stage apparel and makeup, ran into the bathroom to hide (she was afraid someone would write that she doesn't look that good in person). The two fans were knocking on the door butSooYoung kept on insisting that she is not SNSD's SooYoung and that they've got the wrong person. As they were losing hope, suddenly Sooyoung's mother yelled "CHOI SOOYOUNG! HURRY UP AND COME OUT!". Of course, with her identity confirmed, no fan would just leave.SooYoung said, "They slipped a piece of paper under the stall door and I just took it and quickly signed it. They eventually went away and I was finally able to get out of the bathroom!" (she is so worried about her appearance)


77. Her favorite ice cream flavor is chocomint.


78. Apart from her weird sleeping habits, SooYoung was once caught pouting her lips (as if kissing someone) in her sleep.

79. SooYoung and FT Island Jaejin are close friends.


80. Acting in a historical drama is one of her greatest dreams as an actress.


81. SooYoung mentioned in SGB that her first love is an oppa whom she had seen on the streets. (LOL) She was in middle school back then, and the guy was in high school. It was love at first sight for her that she admitted following the boy at times. She was heartbroken when she saw the guy with his girlfriend. She calls the guy her Romeo and until now, that boy doesn't know about her feelings at all. (awww)


82. In an episode of Wonderful Outing, Yuri said that she gained 5 kilograms during their Unforgettable Marriage days because she was always eating along with Sooyoung. She gained weight by following the ShikShin's eating schedule which is 7 times in one day.


83. She sang the opening song 'I Am' for the Korean version of the anime InuYasha.


84. SooYoung and Yuri recently attended a class party with their ChungAng classmates. For many reasons it's hard for celebrities to take part in these events with other regular students. The regular students are usually distant with the celebrity students but a classmate has been praising the girls for coming to school whenever their busy schedule permitted and mingling together with other students.


85. Apart from Sungmin, she is also close with almost all members of Super Junior.


86. Her Japanese name is Che Suyon.


87. Known as the group's megaphone, SooYoung is almost always the spokesperson during interviews, whenever the group receives awards, or even other not-so-good things. Her flair for words is definitely one, if not her most, renowned talents. Here's aTHREAD here in the SY section talking about how this 'talent' has worked on a lot of ways already.



88. On an interview in Chosen, SooYoung is referred to be the most well-mannered and respectable amongst the members.

89. Along with this, Yuri was quoted on saying that "More than anyone, SooYoung is the member most devoted to justice and what's right. When there's something that everyone else hates to do, she'll get up and do it, and if there's some sort of conflict, she'll get up right away and set it straight."


90. Sooyoungie is a Harry Potter fan.


91. SooYoung and Super Junior Siwon are close with one another. They took acting lessons together so they talk a lot about acting. Siwon even introduces her as his blood relative to others and they promised each other that when one of them is acting the other would make a cameo.



92. She is interested in photography that she often ask the girls to model for her as she take their photos. In a visit to the Soshi dorm, it was revealed that the refrigerator was plastered with pictures that SooYoung took,



93. Even from ITNW days until now, ALL the girls agree that SooYoung is the prettiest without make-up. The reason for this is because the members has always been fascinated with her "exotic" looks. This was verified later by Kim Shinyoung during KBS 2TV's "Win/Win" aired on April 20 when she, herself, chose SooYoung as the prettiest without make up on.


94. It was found out on an episode of Star Golden Bell that SooYoung has the slimmest waistline among all SNSD member. Tiffany measured her waistline and it's a farkin' 22 inches!



95. She is a fan of the japanese drama Hana Yori Dango.



96. When Taeyeon proclaimed her decision to step down as leader of SNSD and went crying to her room, it was only SooYoung who went to her immediately and asked her what is wrong. Out of all the members, it was only with SooYoung that Taeyeon cried her heart out.


97. When SooYoung had her vacation in New York, she was spotted talking with a chess playing man in a park. The man was lonely waiting for someone to play chess with and SooYoung talked and comforted him, saying that she has no worries in life because she believes in God.


98. SooYoung is good in imitating the members signatures that sometimes, the members ask her to sign in behalf of them. The hardest signature to imitate for her is Sica's.


99. There is another thing that SooYoung loves more than food aside from her family: her SNSD sisters. During their recent break where she spent a vacation in USA, she mentioned about how she thought about Sunny while she was eating a hamburger in New York.


100. She is the only Asian to make it into the top 10 barely legal hotties list of Complex Magazine (published online on July 14 2009).


101. When they go to the noraebang, SooYoung and Yoona take their shoes off and then go singing and dancing on the sofa. And SooYoung doesn't let go off the mic.


102. She has close friendships with Yunho, Yoochun, and Junsu of TVXQ. Of all three, she's closest to Junsu the most since they've trained together for a long time.


103. Star Golden Bell host Kim Jaedong is close with Soo Young. He always asks SooYoung to attend SGB and that he even has her number on his phone.


104. SooYoung eats straight right after she wakes up. (SHIKSHIN!)



105. There was a time when SooYoung was so hungry that she went into a Korean BBQ house ALONE and had two servings of beef and dwenjjang chiggae (bean paste stew). Apparently, her record is 6 servings on her own!

106. SNSD was introduced as a new group during a recording of Super Junior's appearance on M.net School of Rock at Jung Shin Girls High School, the same school that Sooyoung, herself has attended.


107. Jessica and SooYoung are very close with one another since they were those who trained the longest among all the girls. They even tried once to set up a three-girl group called called Goneko, but the plans fell through.

108. She's one of the many girls dubbed as the "SECOND BOA". Apparently, Jessica was labeled this, too.


109. When asked if she would be reborn in any point in time, what time would she want to be, she answered "the time when Jesus is alive".


110. SooYoung is considered to be the most experienced among all the members. Prior to being a member of SNSD, she has already debuted in Japan at age 13, modeled for two clothing lines (Chubbygang and Skoolooks Uniform), starred in a CF (Samsung AnyCall), been a VJ (M.Net Hello Chat), and DJed on a radio show (ChunBangJiChuk Radio). Her solo activities after being a member of SNSD starring in a sitcom (Unstoppable Marriage), being casted in a movie (Hello School Girl [Soonjung Manhwa]), recording songs ('I AM' Inuyasha OST Korean Version, 'Only Feeling You' with The Blue & Tiffany and 'Kkok' with Yuri), being a host for a variety show (Fantastic Duo), and being a ramp model for the 08-09 F/W SFAA Seoul Collection - Lee Joo-Young Fashion Show. Not to mention the tons and tons of CFs and endorsements she has done with the girls.


111. SooYoung has dimples.

112. On Yu Hueiyol Sketchbook, Yu Hueiyol asked her "When was the last time you lied?" and she said she never lies because she is a church-goer.


113. SooYoung was the first member to know about Soshified.


114. SooYoung said in Intimate Note that she once invited her members to go lunch with her but got rejected because they were too busy so she just went out with the manager instead.


115. SooYoung got exposed by her mom in SBS Junior Show saying that her room is like a garbage can. According to her mother, she leaves a trail of her clothes every time that she arrives home. She would take her shoes first, leave her bag in the living room after that and then she would go to her room. She takes of her jacket, leaves her pants near the entrance then her socks.


116. SooYoung once mentioned how her Japanese is getting a little rusty so she watches Japanese dramas to practice on it.

117. Lee Jun of MBLAQ was once quoted saying this about Sooyoung: "She talks so well, she's tall and she was really nice to us."


118. SooYoung is the third-best english speaker in the group (with tiffany and jessica being the top 2).


119. 2NE1’s Minzy thanked SNSD members in the “Thanks to” portion of their full-length album. Minzy, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Tiffany, and YoonA are members of ??? (Moonmien), which stands for “Christian meeting for culture media entertainment workers”. It has small scale worships and prayer meetings, and other talents who attend are Jungjoon, Kim Junghwa, Yang Donggeun, Kim Soohyun, Ryu Won, and Choi Siwon.


120. The ShikShin has a huge crush on Brad Pitt but her mom said that she doesn't want international marriages for Sooyoungie.


121. SooYoung is one of the most caring members in SNSD. Well, all the girls are caring but she's one of the most demonstrative. She often gives the Maknae a reassuring pat on the back as seen in many reality shows and is almost always the first one to rush forward to give other members an encouraging hug to comfort them.


122. Her mom is the representative of all the other girls' parents. 123. It was revealed in a Sweet Night episode that SooYoung made her homeroom teacher kneel in front of her back in 5th grade.


124. In Korea, elementary students aren't allowed to go to karaoke rooms. SooYoungsneaked out but was caught. Her homeroom teacher called her to school and shouted "Kneel down!". That teacher was so kind that seeing her angry scared her. She was too scared to kneel down that her teacher kneeled in front of her and said "I beg you not to do this kind of things again." She was crying a lot during the incident that in remembering it, her tears started falling again. She still remembers her teacher's name (Ahn Eunyoung) even after ten years.


125. It is an obvious fact that SooYoung is fluent in Japanese (since she has lived in Japan during her Route O days) but she laughs upon remembering that during those days in Japan, the only japanese word she knows is "Hai!".

126. SNSD's worst drunks are SooYoung and Jessica. SooYoung becomes hot-tempered and Jessica becomes a “telephone demon”. (SOOSICA)


127. In accordance with FACT#67, SooYoung also invented the nickname "Ming" for Super Junior's Sungmin. On Chunji radio, she started calling him "Ming" and he would call her "Soong". Then Sunny also started calling him Ming, and he would introduce himself as "Chunji Radio's DJ Ming" (they took the first syllable from their names, Mi and Soo, and added Ng. So its ? and ?). He told his fans in Korea they can call him Ming oppa and he considers it his favorite nickname. (MINYOUNG~~~)


128. Even if she loves playing Nintendo DS during the small break time between their rides from one shooting area to another, Sunny still teases SooYoung about being a lame gamer because it takes her 30 minutes to eat the mushroom in Super Mario.


129. SooYoung made her sound dubbing debut through the animated documentary Ami Army as a narrator.


130. During SNSD's first fan meeting, it was revealed through Seohyun's rolling paper thatSooYoung is the member who memorizes the group's choreo. She is the one who basically masters the group's formation and that oftentimes, the members will ask for her help during practices.


131. Yoona mentioned during the same fanmeeting how she and SooYoung often gets stomach problems. Sunny teased that the reason why that happens is because they eat too much.


132. On October 11, 2010, i-Weekly, a Singaporean magazine, released an SNSD feature issue naming SooYoung the most popular SNSD member in Singapore. (SingaporeanSooyoungsters are jjang!)

133. Surprisingly, Sooyoung's favorite time of the day is not eating time. It's SHOWER TIME.

134. When driving, SooYoung has a hard time making turns. Someone has to remind her to turn before it comes up and when no one does that she will just keep going straight.

135. A Japanese editor was quoted about the time he ordered a meal for SNSD: "the tallest and most eloquent one ordered donkatsu, then asked if it's KING SIZE."

136. The girls' new favorite word is "osusume". It means recommendation. They've learned it fromSooyoung. Why osusume? It is because when they go to restaurants and they can't decide on the order, they ask the waiter for the recommendation.

137. Quite contrary to the usual conception of people towards her, SooYoung actually loves reading books. She says she always reads books especially when she's traveling in a plane.

138. Recently, SooYoung and some celebrities (actors Jung-Jun and Yang-Dong-Geun) visited Park Seungil in a hospital. Park is a basketball player diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease.139. In her UFO star call, she talked about and recommended the book "neun uro huimangeul ssuda" which she read during the fall season. It is a book about life and survival written by Park Seungil himself.

140. She is a huge fan of baseball.