Nayeon

Background

Im Na-Yeon, also known as Nayeon, has grown to be a household name when it comes to music and fashion in South Korea. She was born on September 22, 1995, in Seoul, South Korea. She was raised together with her sister, Im Seo-Yeon. When she was a child, she took part in a child modeling contest and she got cast by the idol agency J.Y.P. Entertainment. She did not join them, however, as her mother refused her involvement with show business at such a young age. A decade later, in 2010, she sneaked into the seventh Open Audition of the agency without her family’s approval. She ended up being a trainee.

In 2015, Nayeon took part in the reality show Sixteen. It was a competition that aimed to select the girls that would find the group “Twice”. She became one of the nine participants that won and proceeded to the girl group. In October of the same year, she debuted as a member of Twice in their first-ever extended play, “The Story Begins”. She was voted the sixth most popular idol in South Korea in the Gallup Korea annual music poll in 2017. In 2018 and 2019, she was ranked sixth and fifth respectively, and this heightened her popularity and widened her fanbase. Nayeon ended up being the eighth most popular female K-Pop idol in 2019.

When she was a trainee at J.Y.P. Entertainment, she modeled for brands such as Smart School Uniform and T.N., and this served as a foundation for her modeling and fashion career. Nayeon has worked for Chaumet’s Josephine Collection, Biotherm Korea, and many magazines, such as “Elle Korea” and “Cosmopolitan Korea” and various fashion brands, such as Louis Vuitton and Fendi.