Yujeong (유정) BB GIRLS (formerly Brave Girls)

Yujeong (유정) is a South Korean singer under Warner Music Korea. She is a member of the girl group BB GIRLS (formerly Brave Girls).

2016: Debut with Brave Girls

On February 2, 2016, it was announced that Brave Girls would be returning as a seven-member group after a two year hiatus. She, alongside Minyoung, Eunji, Yuna, and Hayun, were added as new members.

Yujeong made her official debut as a member on February 16, 2016 with the group's third digital single "Deepened".

2017: The Unit

In October 2017, she, alongside fellow member Eunji, became a contestant on the rebooting project show The Unit. She was eliminated in episode 11 after ranking 37th place.

2023: Departure from Brave, new agency, and renaming as BB GIRLS

On February 16, 2023, Brave Entertainment announced that Brave Girls would conclude their official activities under the agency after all the members decided not to renew their contracts.

On April 27, Warner Music Korea announced that she, alongside Minyoung, Eunji and Yuna, had signed exclusive contracts with the agency to continue activities as a group. On May 3, it was announced that the group had changed their name to 'BB GIRLS' due to their previous agency, Brave Entertainment, owning the trademark for the 'Brave Girls' name.

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Yujeong Facts:

– She was born in Suwon, South Korea.

– Education: Sungshin Women’s University, Department of Media Communications.

– She has nicknames. The main one is Squirtle for her iconic eyesmile, others are Turtle and Crazy.

– Her personality is cheerful and lively, she considers it as her strength, but can change her mood in a second.

– There she learned to speak English and Cantonese.

– Her hobbies are walking her three dogs once a day, reading and listening to music.

– She often does ordinary physical training and hiking.

– She has a driving license.

– She says she gives the most objective reactions out of the members.

– She is considered as the cutest member.

– She considers her hot-temperedness as her weakness.

– As it was revealed in Weekly Idol Episode 508, she is really shy and worries a lot when no one sees.

– She is very talkative person and often uses interjections.

– She has a habit of making sounds with her lips.

– She has flexible lips, she is practicing tricks with them since her 5 year old.

– Her mouth is 6.2 cm when idle and 8.5 cm when she does lip trick.

– At the age of 12-13 she flew to Hongkong because of his father’s job and studied in an international school.

– She pranks her groupmates a lot.

– She loves to mock Eunji by imitating her ‘pretty’ poses. As Eunji and others say, she does it very well.

– She presses Yuna‘s bean-size mole on her spine and says ‘ding-dong, who’s inside?’.

– She would like to borrow Eunji’s dance moves and her memory in dancing.

– She can imitate the talking manner of her boss Brave Brothers.

– The first thing she does in the morning is checking on her pet Laren.

– She had a MAXIM photoshoot. She has few issues on her own, because her mother bought it.

– She was planning to either concentrate on study or to become a show host after probable disbandment of Brave Girls.

– Right before Rollin’ success in 2021 she had memorable dreams, like she is winning in a bike race and her groupmates cheering for her and her running from a snake with a cute eyes.

– She appeared on a cover of Kkobuk (Turtle, like her nickname) potato chips package with fans’ help.

– Her ideal type is someone she cannot help loving. As for appearance, she likes tall men, who also have eyes that disappear when smiling and have long and skinny hands. Someone like Rain.

The Unit Information:

– She with Eunji and Yuna performed “Irony”. Yujeong got 5 boots from mentors.

– She performed in the Team White for the first mission. Her team got the second place.

– She was ranked 33rd on the episode 4.

– She performed “Red Flavor” by Red Velvet for the second mission. She got 98 votes from the audience.

– She was ranked 32nd on the episode 5.

– She was ranked 26th on the episode 7.

– She performed “Blood Sweat & Tears” by BTS for the third mission. Her team lost.

– She was ranked 32nd on the episode 8.

– She was ranked 37th on the episode 10 and was eliminated.

– One of her favorite musicians are Jannabi.

– She likes the sense of someone warming up her ears.

– She respects the most her parents and her CEO Brave Brothers.

– She would like to visit the USA for the world tour.

– She does not like word puns and rarely laughs at them.

– She likes to eat spicy food, any kind of tteokbokki, giblets and sushi.

– She hates too sugared sweets (like macaroon), cucumbers and Korean melons.

– She has low alcohol tolerance, so she drinks alcohol only before bed.

– Rain is her childhood idol. Watching his performances made Yujeong to aspire to become a singer. She even has picture of him besides her bed and a very rare album of him.

– She wanted to become an idol after her friend accepted to be a trainee in an entertainment company.

– Her mother was against her becoming an idol because Yujeong’s uncle, who worked in entertainment industry, said that job of a singer is very hard.

– Her mother allowed her to go into entertainment if Yujeong get into a university in Seoul. With her older sister’s help Yujeong successfully applied into Sungshin’s Women University.

– She once met Brave Girls original members, when she was working in a cafe during her study.

– She became a trainee at Brave Entertainment around in 2013.

– She thought she would be there only for 3 months, but debuted with Brave Girls instead.

– She had worked as a hand cosmetics model and appeared in some Youtube videos between “Rollin’ 2018” and “We Ride” comebacks.

– She hates bugs, but during one performance for the army she ate a bug. This became memorable to her.