Real name is Bae Joohyun (배주현)
Born on March 29th, 1991 and is an Aries.
From Daegu, came to Seoul during her 3rd year of high school to be a performer, training under SM for 5 years.
Many of the trainees thought Irene to be scary because she didn’t speak much. Because her Daegu dialect was so strong, she would just say “hello” and walk by others. Since then, she has fixed her accent and only speaks with the dialect when she’s speaking on the phone with her mom or overly excited. Others say that she was scary to approach because she was so pretty. As a trainee, she never dyed her hair and only kept it a pitch black, which is why she believes she was hard to approach. Joy says that Irene is shy and can appear cold but is really warm and kind once you get to know her.
Reason for becoming a performer: enjoyed singing and dancing very much and really liked the feeling of being on stage during talent shows.
Nicknames: Baechu (cabbage: derived from her name Bae + Joo) and Hyun-ah (which her mom calls her).
Family of a mother, father and younger sibling.
Shortest member of Red Velvet (no official height has been released by SM yet).
Dubbed the babyfaced leader of Red Velvet, often told that she looks the youngest.
Admits to being very shy but is also the most playful amongst the girls. She’s known to have the most different off-stage image. Wendy has even commented that Irene is like a kid.
Favorite color is purple, favorite movie is The Notebook, favorite genre of music is rock and ballads (these days she enjoys quiet and comfortable music), favorite musician is BoA and favorite number is 43.
She’s comfortable with all foods except for chicken. When she eats chicken, her head extremely hurts and she turns pale. She believes her body just doesn’t accept it. There was a time when her mother ordered soy-sauce marinated chicken for her all week but she grew sick of it and began throwing up. Since then, she can’t eat chicken at all.
Her speciality is modern dance.
She’s good at cooking and regularly makes seaweed soup, especially for birthdays.
Motto to live by is “concentrate on positivity” (lit. bringing up the mood)
Favorite way of relieving stress is to create mind maps to organize her thoughts. Because of her sensitive sense of smell, she will often keep around nice fragrances to help. She also enjoys going to Ttukseom Island at Hangang River where she will sit on a mat at night to meditate and talk to herself about little things concerning life or go to Bukchon district 8 to do sightseeing and even visit the folk museum.
Has a habit of clinging to others — linking arms and holding hands.
Naturally very flexible (ranks the highest in flexibility in Red Velvet with 28cm while last place measured 15cm). Wendy has caught her sleeping with her legs fully split and her upper-body laid against the floor while covering herself with a blanket and another time in the same position but with her legs squished under her, making it look like her legs disappeared. Though it scared Wendy on both occasions, Irene says she’s most comfortable sleeping this way.
She admits being insecure of herself and will often ask people around her if she has done well or not.
She collects notes, journals and anything that is purple.
Her preferred type of fashion is something comfortable and clean. Like a loose shirt and regular bottoms.
She usually doesn’t rely on people, she works to become an unnie that the kids can rely on instead. She always works things out on her own by sorting out her own thoughts and embracing the new things presented to her. Since she was young, she was never good at telling other people her stories or problems.
Because she is a person that doesn’t regularly express herself, she uses the stage to take that opportunity. She says she’s the type that believes it’s important for her to feel her emotions when on stage and being able to express herself in that way is important.
It was pointed out that she seems happy with trivial things in life and she admits that lately, she does realize that.
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