Lee Sang-mi

the real you

PERSONALITY TRAITS :　
ENFP - The campaigner (MBTI)
Type Seven - The enthusiast (Ennegram)
Positive: Charismatic, curious, friendly, open, optimistic
Neutral: Energetic, enthusiastic, excitable, annoyingly cheerful, spontaneous, flirty
Negative: Lacks common sense, ditzy, has trouble focusing, vain, kind of a mess

PERSONALITY :　
Charismatic and flirty: Sangmi is a force to be reckoned with. She´s charismatic, she´s enticing and she´s tempting in a way that´s extremely hard to ignore. She´s also very very skilled in picking out the men that are most likely to give in to her seduction and play along, letting her have her fun. She uses a lot on non-verbal cues without realizing it. She keeps eye-contact, smiles, and angles her body towards her conversations partner if she can. She´s a big flirt and she´s a great flirt also. She has a natural knack for knowing what to say when to be the most effective at seducing and flirting. And she has flirted with basically every male in the kpop industry. These two traits have given her the nicknames “Vixen”, “Tease”, and “Flirt”. She tends to flirt with people and then pull back at the last second, leaving them hanging and wanting and this tends to get on peoples nerves. Especially guys, but at times her members have also had to stop her when she´s gone a little too far with her flirting on variety shows and the like.

Lacks common sense, ditzy and has trouble focusing: Sangmi lacks common sense and is quite forgetful. She´ll brew coffee without a filter and she spaces out a lot. This means she doesn´t really know what´s going on around her at any point and makes her come across as ditzy and perhaps a little dumb. Really she just loses focus easily and spaces out. She isn´t actually dumb. She´s just a little scatterbrained and an airhead. This also means that her answers to questions don´t always make sense or she has to ask the person who asked her a question to repeat said question because she was too spaced out to comprehend what was being said to her. These traits are partly what Sangmi would go on to become known as. The ditzy airheaded member of Gloria.

Optimistic and annoyingly cheerful: Sangmi approaches life with a constant optimism. Everything´s going to be fine is generally what she believes. She´s upbeat and fun to be around. She has a desire to fully participate in life and she doesn´t take herself or anyone else too seriously. She´s joyful and happy 99% of the time, much to the dismay of some other people. Because being around someone who´s as upbeat and cheerful as Sangmi can get tiring in the long run. But to others her natural enthusiasm and happiness is a gift and reminds them of the pure pleasure of existence. Because Sangmi can find something good in every situation and she always tries to keep others happy and cheerful as well. 

Energetic, excitable, enthusiastic and spontaneus: Sangmi is energetic and has trouble sitting still. She always has to be doing something, much to the annoyance of everyone around her. When she´s forced to sit down for extended periods of time she often bounces her legs or taps her fingers or fiddles with something. This ties into her being easily excitable, because when she´s excited about something she gets even more energetic and talks about it for hours with a loud voice and quite big movements that could possibly knock someone over. This also ties in to her being spontaneous. She can´t stay in the same place for very long, whether that´s the same city or just the same spot in a house. She has to move around and Sangmi adores exploring and adventuring. She does things without thinking about the consequences and if she gets an idea she sets it into motion, no matter what she might have been doing beforehand. She´s impulsive and doing things excites her. She takes pleasure in being spontaneous. She does things unplanned. If She suddenly got the urge to move to Australia she would. Or start an education in art. Or literature. Or anything. She often works by a trial and error method, wanting to try everything to find out what´s best. If for example she is unable to decide whether she wants chocolate, vanilla or strawberry ice cream Sangmi choses all three so she doesn´t miss out on the right one. Sangmi wants to experience as much in her lifetime as possible and this requires sometimes making rash and unplanned decisions. 

Vain: Sangmi is vain. There´s no other way to put it. This ties into people thinking she´s dumb because she cares about the way she presents herself to the world. She knows she looks good and she takes pride in this. However Sangmi cares a little more than your average person about how she presents herself to the world. This has come from her living the entirety of her adult life and even some of her teenage years in the spotlight. She´s always had to be aware of how people saw her and how she presented herself because idols have to be perfect. Right? 

Curious: Sangmi is generally quite curious. Instead of sitting around and brooding she would much rather go out and experience new things. She isn´t afraid to step outside of her comfort zone, especially not if it means learning something new and she approaches life much like a kid in a candy store. She isn´t afraid to ask if there´s something she wants to know.

Friendly and open: Sangmi is a friendly person. She enjoys making friends, being an extrovert to the max. However often times people will be scared to approach her as she can come across as scary when you first see her. But as soon as you notice her perpetual enthusiasm and optimistic was of being most people warm up to her. She´s interesting and exciting and with her charisma you can´t help but be drawn to her whether you want to or not.

TL;DR: a loveable, cheerful, upbeat, at times airheaded and ditzy, extremely outgoing and friendly girl, with an aura of iness and charisma that you cannot help but be drawn to, but who is in reality just kind of a mess. Everything around her is messy, she zones out and comes across as dumb, she´s spontaneous and does things without thinking about the consequences they might have.

BACKGROUND :　Sangmi was born on September 12th, 1993 in Orange County, Southern California to second generation Korean immigrants. She grew up in the gated community of Pelican Crest, located in the Pelican Hill Communities in Newport Coast, Orange County. Pelican Crest is home to some of the most sought after luxury real estate in Southern California due in part to its majestic views and the estates range in price from five to twenty plus million dollars. So it´s safe to say that Sangmi grew up privileged. She went to both a private elementary and middle school and here she was immensely popular. Midway through her time in middle school her parents took her on vacation to Seoul. They wanted her to see the place she came from. She was 12 and suddenly being here was strange. Now Sangmi had always had a love for music and her parents had enrolled her in piano classes and singing lessons when she was just 9. And it was 2006. Super Junior had recently had their debut and their song U was being played everywhere they went. Sangmi immediately fell in love with the song and upon returning home she started doing research. She came across a faceless group who had debuted around the same time that Sangmi had been in Korea (Brown Eyed Girls). However she had not heard anything about this group despite them having obvious talent. In particular the rapper of the group (Miryo) intrigued Sangmi and she decided she would learn. And learn she did. At first it wasn´t her dream to become a kpop idol but within a year of starting her journey on learning rapping she was hooked. She wanted to do music for the rest of her life. So in 2007 Sangmi sent auditioned to a multitude of companies. And only one was willing to take her in. A fairly new established entertainment company known as Fantasia Entertainment. Sangmi took the trainee spot and became a trainee in early 2007. For her first year she was training with a group of 5 other girls however these girls got to debut in 2008 as Gloria and Sangmi was left alone. Still too young and not good enough at her skills to debut. 

However this changed in 2009 when Sangmi was told she would be joining the 5 girls she had previously been training with. The girls had only released one album and Sangmi was added to the lineup for their next comeback. This meant that Gloria was now a 6 membered group and while Sangmi had previously been training with these 5 girls it still wasn´t easy for her to be the new girl. She pushed Hyojin out of her spot as main rapper and this made for a tense atmosphere between the two. This along with the fact that the first single Sangmi was part of was less popular than the groups debut. It certainly wasn´t all sunshine and rainbows. Things started changing for the better for Sangmi and her relationship with her members over the relases of Lies and Absolute and by the time Absolute Breaking rolled around you wouldn´t have known Sangmi was added to the group a year later than the rest of the girls. And you wouldn´t have known about the internal problems that Sangmi had been having with some of the other members not being entirely welcoming at first mainly due to the fact that Sangmi “stole” Hyojin´s position.

2010 rolled around and Absolute Breaking was released. Sangmi was amongst the members who were minors during this concept and as such the controversy largely surrounded her. She didn´t really mind the ual nature of the video or the dance but she could also see why people got up in arms over it. The group however recovered and Sangmi was told she would be joining the first sub-uni or Gloria. Dahlia along with Hyojin and two other Gloria members. And then came the controversy that resulted in their leader leaving and the group going on hiatus. Sangmi was amongst the members who did solo work during this period, however she did not promote on music shows. Rather she released a mixtape titled “Homework”. The mixtape contained 6 songs. Homework, Take It, Hood Sister, Enough, Why and Like I Have It. This mixtape got Sangmi attention from the korean hiphop community and also earned her a lot of respect. It proved she could actually rap, something which many people had doubted since she joined Gloria. However Sangmi was still one of the fairly unknown members, at least in comparison to some of the others.
Two new members were added to Gloria after their leaders departure and the continued success of the group made Sangmi extremely happy.

In early 2012 while Gloria were promoting on music shows for y Love, Sangmi would go on to meet a man while backstage at a particular music show. The two started a relationship not long after but ultimately decided to split up. (AJ - First love interest section goes more into details). 
Sangmi became part of the subunit Lily with another member and the two released the song Gone Not Around Any Longer in 2012. This song became a massive success and it boosted Sangmi´s popularity massively. She was no longer a member of Dahlia due to changes in the lineup but it didn´t bother her massively. She was quite fine with it especially when she saw that their comeback track failed to win any awards on music shows.
Sangmi became part of the cast for Unpretty Rapstar season 2 in 2015. She won the ability to star on the 4th song of the Unpretty Rapstar compilation album and before this she earned a lot of credit from her performance of the song Crazy Dog on the 3rd episode of the show. She was eliminated on episode 8 before returning for the semi-final as she won a revival round. In the semi-final she performed Abused Me/Treat Me Roughly ft Hanhae a song that also made it onto the compilation album.

Gloria released their first Japanese single album in July of 2015 and Sangmi released the song Crazy Dog ft San E who she had met during the shooting of Unpretty Rapstar in late 2015. The song was a pre-release for her maxi-single Foresight Dream. Sangmi also started a ual relationship with San E around this time.
Taking the popularity Unpretty Rapstar had given her and running with it, Sangmi released the maxi-single Foresight Dream in early 2016. She would also go on to star in Jay Park´s music video for Drive in 2016.
In 2017 Sangmi released a single called Ack Su Namum just a month before debuting as a member of the third subunit called Clover. Sangmi however was growing tired of being in the spotlight and when Gloria finally disbanded in 2018 she was almost happy. She could finally be free. She had started up a ual relationship with Jay Park not long before Gloria´s disbandment and was happy she didn´t have to work so hard to hide it anymore. She didn´t really want to be an idol anymore and so she decided she wouldn´t stay with Fantasia Entertainment as an artist and instead she sought to become a rap mentor and teacher. She had helped some of the girls of Cherry Day/Nova with their rapping and had loved it so she figured why not choose it as her career path? She ended up being hired at Polaris in early 2019 and a lot of Gloria´s fans mourned the loss of Sangmi as an artist in the entertainment industry as her charisma and stage presence was unlike that of any other.

Throughout her time as a Gloria member Sangmi became known as the cheerful, upbeat, at times airheaded and ditzy rapper who would do a complete 180 when she got on stage to perform.

When she got the invitation from Hyojin, Sangmi was surprised and didn´t know what to think. She didn´t know whether she wanted to go back into the idol business after having been away from it. At the same time though… She did love standing on stage and she loved rapping. Something she didn´t get to do much of as a mentor and teacher.

TRIVIA :

▸ Likes
- Designer clothes.
- Fashion.
- Attention.
- Music - Except country and metal.
- Sour food.
- Spicy food.
- Alcohol - Especially cocktails, champagne and soju.
- Khiphop/krap - she´s especially a fan of Simon D, Jay Park (duh), Crush, Gray, DPR Live, Zico, August D and RM.
- Writing lyrics.
- Jewelry - Especially silver jewelry.
- Expensive perfumes, makeup, skincare etc.
- Heels

▸ Dislikes
- Being alone.
- Green tea.
- Beer.
- Being cold.
- Non-designer things.
- Poor people.
- Fake gemstones.
- Being catcalled and hit on.

▸ Habits
- Swearing in English.
- Rapping along to any rap song she knows the lyrics to.
- Fiddling with everything.
- Being unable to sit still for more than 5 seconds at a time.

▸ Hobbies
- Writing lyrics.
- Fashion - as in putting clothes together and even drawing her own designs
- Mixology (aka creating ctrange cocktails)

▸ Trivia
- She owns a Tesla Model S estimated to be worth around 110 thousand USD that she has had since 2014.
- She has preordered the second generation Tesla Roadster Founders edition (she was lucky enough to be among the first 1000) priced at 250 thousand USD. She´ll be getting her car in late 2020. And yes her parents helped her pay the deposit on it but hey... Who´s asking?
- Both cars put her on the list of idols who own the most expensive cars. The model S places her at a joint 20 with IU and her Porsche Cayenne and the Roadster at number 15 just under Jun Hyun Moo with his Bentley Continental GT (List here)
- She´s a huge Brown Eyed Girls, NU´est, T-Ara, GOT7 and Kara fangirl.
- She has a giant celebrity crush on Leeteuk of Super Junior and Xiumin of EXO. 
- She knows the entire lyrics to Bermuda Triangle by Zico ft Crush and Dean.
- She has a heavy valley girl accent when she speaks English.
- She wrote the lyrics for both Ack Su Namum, Cider, Crazy Dog and Abused Me on her own.
- She lives in a pretty nice apartment in downtown Seoul that she´s had since she left the Gloria dorm. (Living room, bedroom)

▸ Social media accounts
- Twitter:
Gloria days: GloriousSangmi
Now: R_LeeSangmi
- Instagram:
Gloria days: GloriousSangmi
Now: R_LeeSangmi
- Snapchat: Mi_SangMi
 

connections

RELATIONSHIPS :　(may be more to add - ALSO PICTURES!)

▸ Fling/FWB — Jung San/San E (34) / khiphop artist/idol / personality traits / closeness
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▸ Ex-friend - now enemy — Joo Jinhee (age) / occupation / personality traits / closeness
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▸ Friend? — Sato Erika (age) / occupation / personality traits / closeness
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▸ Friend? — Kim Hyojin (age) / occupation / personality traits / closeness
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▸ Friend? — Lee Yumi (age) / occupation / personality traits / closeness
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▸ Other groupmates — Gloria (age) / occupation / personality traits / closeness
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▸ Baby dongsaengs — Nova/Cherry Day members (age) / occupation / personality traits / closeness
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what they see

STAGE NAME :　Sangmi - It´s literally just her name
POSITION :　Main rapper, lead vocalist

TALENT TWINS :

▸ Rap + vocal: Lee Yezi formerly of Fiestar (Rap vid, singing vid - she was only vocalist in Fiestar  and not lead but she originally trained as a vocalist before she switched to rapping)
▸ Dance: Amber Liu of F(x)

TRAINEE LIFE :

▸ Write as much as you like. How was your life like under Fantasia Entertainment as a trainee? Were you training under any other company before Fantasia? 
 

SCANDALS :

▸ gloria / fantasia entertainment in general is quite scandalous. put as many as you like or none

 

SOLO ACTIVITIES : 

▸ 2011 | Mixtape relase
▸ 2013 | cameo in the music video of She´s Mine by U-Kiss
▸ 2015 | Unpretty Rapstar season 2 (replacing Yezi - duh)
▸ 2015 | Solo by Jay Park ft Loco and Sangmi release (Unpretty Rapstar season 2, 4th track)
▸2015 | Abused Me/Treat Me Roughly by Sangmi ft Hanhae (Unpretty Rapstar - semi-final performance)
▸ 2015 | Crazy Dog ft San E release
▸ 2016 |Foresight Dream maxi-single release (title track: Cider)
▸ 2016 | cameo in the music video for Drive by Jay Park ft Gray
▸ 2017 | Ack Su Namum release

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LAST WORDS :　questions? comments?
PASSWORD :　Party probably. Gone Not Around Any Longer is good as well, but isn´t the full group so Idk if that counts?

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