[Addition] 📁 - (G)I-DLE - Park, Narae [Profile]
About: Narae was born in Orange County, California where she lived until the age of seven. Her father was a diplomat at the Korean embassy and currently works within the political field in South Korea though his exact job is unknown. She had always been involved in music from a young age, taking violin, piano, and vocal lessons along with jazz dance. She has 2 older brothers and a younger sister and brother who are twins. Narae was quite popular in school although not the best student grade-wise due to a lot of stress put on her by her mother, who can be a bit controlling and pushy.
Her members describe her as being very disciplined, and shy but very friendly which earned her the nickname "Rae of Sunshine" because she often brings light to the darkest of times.
Birthday: February 13th, 1999 (24)
Hometown: Orange County, California, United States / Gyeonggi, South Korea
Nationality: Korean-American
Instagram: @/RaeOfSunshine
Label: Cube Entertainment
Group Position: Main Dancer, Lead Vocalist
Song Writing/Producing Credits:
"Pretty Psycho" by Purple Kiss
"Bye Bye Love" by Lightsum
"가면무도회 (Animal Farm)" by Bibi
Faceclaim: Jinny (Secret Number)
Voiceclaim: Wendy ( Red Velvet)
Height: 165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Narae was originally supposed to debut with Lightsum but Cube decided she wasn't a good fit and a staff member even commented that she was too old to debut. She trained with the girls for a very long time and is close to the members.
She's a lover of 90's and early 2000's pop/r&b and is also a huge fan of the girl group XG, which she makes obvious by her numerous tiktok and instagram posts dancing to their songs.
Paris Hilton is Naraes icon. She's always admired her for her confidence, determination and smarts despite the image that the public has of her in mind.
Her contract was due to be terminated until her Father stepped in and invested a large sum of money into the company under the condition that Narae would stay.
Her addition to the group was teased slowly and deliberately with Narae appearing as a background dancer during various performances including on Queendom. Eventually, she started appearing in members' Instagram posts before fans finally noticed her popping up with the girls in vlogs, practicing and interacting a lot with them.
She was officially announced as the newest member in May 2020. and debuted during the group's summer release "DUMDi DUMDi".
After Soojins scandal, Narae gathered a lot of anti-fans for a while, some claiming she conspired against her to have her kicked out or that Narae rich family bribed the company to defame Soojin so that Narae could get more attention.
Although the accusations and hate did get to Narae especially because she was close to Soojin and had known her for a very long time, both attending Waw Middle School and Korean Arts High School together. She looked up to her with both girls being into jazz dance and all. Naturally, netizens found this information out and became even more convinced that Narae was envious of Soojin and competing against her.
She looks up to Soyeon and often goes to her for advice and is constantly praising the leader, often commenting that Soyeon is like your favorite childhood teddy bear that you cling to for comfort. The two also have very cute interactions together with Soyeon almost appearing like a caring Mother figure to Narae and fans say she brings out the leader's cute and caring side.
She's become more popular within the last year and a half and now has far more supporters than haters. The girls have always been very supportive and welcoming towards her which has helped her cope over the past few years.
With the help of Soyeon, Narae learned how to produce music and takes part in writing and producing for the group and other ones under the name "Rae Rae". She often writes and produces songs for other groups and artists. She gets paid more by doing that.
Queen of the stank face. She's bad at hiding her feelings and when she doesn't like somebody or what they say or do, it's written all over her face. Fans like to make gifs of her funny facial expressions during awkward interviews or interactions. Some even like to compare her to Yoongi from BTS and even shipped the two.
Often comes up with the choreography for their songs.
DUMDi DUMDi | Lyric Video
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