AS A KID: AS SHE WAS USED TO GROWING UP ALONE BECAUSE OF HER PARENTS LINE OF WORK AS HOTEL AND RESTAURANT OWNERS SHE GREW UP TO BE SILENT AND SHY AROUND PEOPLE,SHE DID NOT HAVE FRIENDS THAT WOULD STICK FOR LONG BECAUSE SHE WAS ALWAYS CONSTANLY MOVING TO ANOTHER RESORT EVERYTIME

WHILE GROWING UP: SHE EVENTUALLY BECAME MORE SOCIABLE WHEN SHE FINALLY SETTLED IN THE CITY OF NEWYORK..THERE SHE CAME OUT OF HER SHELL..SHE BEGAN TO BE TALKATIVE, THERE SHE DEVELOPED HER SENSE OF HUMOR, HER EXPERIENCE IN NEWYORK MADE HER FRIENDLY AS SHE MEETS DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE

TO HER FRIENDS: SHE IS JUST LIKE A MOTHER WHO CAN GIVE YOU TENDER LOVING CARE, A DAD WHO WOULD REMIND  YOU IF YOU ARE BEEING FOOLISH BUT SHE NEVER RAISES HER VOICE, SHE IS A SISTER WHO WOULD BY HEART KEEP YOUR SECRETS OUT FROM THE OPEN, EVEN AN OLDER BROTHER WHO CAN BE A LITTLE OVER PROTECTIVE OF YOU

EARLY YEARS: SON YEON MI WAS BORN WHEN HER MOTHER WAS BASED IN NEWYORK CITY TEACHING IN A BALLET INSTITUTION IT WAS WHERE HER PARENTS SON JI NO A YOUNG CEO OF RESORTS AND HOTELS WHO JUST AQCUIRED HIS BUSINESS FROM HIS LATE GRANDFATHER, HE MET THE FAMOUS KOREAN BALLERINA MIN MI EUN AND EVENTUALLY FELL IN LOVE JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES AND HITCHED IT OFF IN JUST A SPAN OF 1 YEAR, THEY WERE ACTUALLY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS MEETING AGAIN AFTER A LONG TIME AND DISCOVERED THAT THEY ARE MEANT TO BE.

THE TIME CAME WHEN SHE WAS MERELY ONE YEAR OLD HER FAMILY MOVED BACK TO SOUTH KOREA, SPECIALLY DUE TO THE CONSTANT PRESSURE OF HER FATHER'S RICH AND POWERFUL FAMILY FOR HER FATHER TO GO BACK AND "STOP PLAYING HOUSE IN NY AND DO YOUR DUTIES" EVEN IF HER PARENTS WANTED HER TO HAVE A NORMAL LIFE THEY EVENTUALLY GAVE UP AFTER CONSTANT PRESSURES AND THAT WAS THE TIME WHEN SHE GROWS UP CONSTANTLY MOVING FROM PLACE TO PLACE.

AS AN HEIRESS FOR A TOP COMPANY SHE WAS TRAINED TO BECOME A REFINED LADY ALMOST PRINCESS LIKE...SHE ALWAYS STUDIED AND READ...THAT THING THAT SHE LOOKS FORWARD TOO IS WHEN SHE HAS HER MUSIC LESSONS, SHE DOES NOT ONLY STUDY PIANO, VIOLIN AND SINGING ..HER TEACHER ALSO CONSTANTLY LETS HER SEE MUSICALS AND THE THEATRE IT WAS WHERE SHE DEVELOPED THE LOVE FOR PERFORMING, AND SHE ALWAYS WANTED TO FOLLOW HER MOTHER'S FOOTSTEPS SO AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 3 SHE ENROLLED IN HER FIRST DANCE LESSONS BALLET

AN OPPORTUNITY CAME WHEN HER FAMILY OPENED UP A BRANCH IN NEWYORK CITY FOR THEIR HOTEL, AT  8 SHE MOVED TO NEWYORK, EVEN IF SHE WAS STILL LIVING IN A HOTEL, HAVING TO LIVE IN A CITY LIKE NY SHE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET NEW PEOPLE,AND ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT SHE MET WAS A RENOUNED  PRODUCER, SHE WAS SINGING WHEN SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS ALONE, YET THE PRODUCER HEARD HER AND ASKED HER TO BE THE ANNA IN THE HIT MUSICAL...WITH HER BACKGROUND IN DANCE SHE EVENTUALLY  HAD HER FIRST DEBUT AS A THEATRE ACTRESS THROUGH THE YEARS SHE PERFORMED IN MORE PLAYS AND EVENTUALLY RECOGNIZE AS AN UPCOMING BROADWAY ARTIST. WHILE LIVING IN NY SHE ALMOST GREW TO LOVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF DANCES EVEN HIPHOP WITH HER BALLET SHE LEARNED HIPHOP AS WELL,BUT AFTER 5 YEARS AT 13 HER FAMILY BACK IN SOUTH KOREA FORCED HER TO GO BACK TO SOUTH KOREA, FOR THEM NY WAS NOT HER PLACE.

LIKE HER PARENTS, THE CONSTANT PRESSURES MADE HER GIVE UP...SHE WAS TO ABOUT TO THROW ALL HER DREAMS, ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO PERFORM ON STAGE...WHEN HOPE SEEMS LOST SHE WAS SCOUTED BY AN SM SCOUT WHILE JOGGING ON THE PARK.

BACK IN KOREA: ORIGINALLY IT WAS HER SILENT PROTEST WHEN SHE BECAME AN UPCOMMING SM ACTRESS BUT SHE ONLY HAD 3 YEARS CONTRACT WITH THE MANAGEMENT...SON YEON MI IN THREE YEARS BECAME AN INSTANT FAVORITE FOR CF'S, DESIGNERS AND DIRECTORS THAT CASTED HER FOR DIFFERENT TV SERIES USUALLY AS A SISTER OF A MAIN CHARACTER....BUT AFTER 3 YEARS.. AT 16 WHILE HER CONTRACT ENDED IN SM SHE SAW A GROUP OF BOYS PERFORMING IN THE STREETS THEY LOOKED SO HAPPY..SHE MISSED THE TIME WHEN PERFORMING GAVE HER JOY...THOSE PEOPLE WHERE ACTUALLY TRAINEES OF DREAM TEA ENT, SHE ASKED THEM AND THEY GAVE HER THE ANSWER SHE WAS WAITING FOR...SHE DID NOT RENEW HER CONTRACT WITH SM...AND SOON SHE AUDITIONED FOR DREAM TEA ENT

AND THAT IS HOW SHE ENDED UP FULFILLING HER FANTASIES...AS SHE ENTERS THE DOORS OF DREAM TEA ENT.

KIM JONG IN ON A FAN'S PERSPECTIVE IS KNOWN TO BE BOSSY, ARROGANT, OR EVEN FLIRTY. WHEN IN FACT HE IS ACTUALLY VERY SHY, HE ALWAYS RESPECT HIS HYUNGS, TRUE HE CAN GET A BIT PASSIONATE WHEN IT COMES TO PERFORMING BUT HE DOES NOT GO OVER BOARD AND BEING A FLIRT IS THE LAST THING HE WILL EVER BE HE IS NOT EVEN THAT POPULAR AMONG GIRLS IN SCHOOL TRUE HE HAS FANS BECAUSE OF HIS DANCING ABIITIES BUT HE DOES NOT REALLY INTERACT WITH GIRLS AT ALL. 

BUT TO HIS  CLOSE FRIENDS HIS PLAYFUL SIDE SHOWS SPECIALLY TO THE OTHER EXO MEMBERS

THEY FIRST MET IN SM ENTERTAINMENT WHEN SHE WAS AN ACTRESS THERE BUT THEY NEVER INTERACTED THAT MUCH ONLY OCCASIONAL HI AND HELLOS THEY BECAME FRIENDS IN SCHOOL, WHERE SHE REVEALED HER DANCING ABILITIES THEY BECAME INSTANT FRIENDS, THEY ALWAYS DANCE TOGETHER AND GREW MUCH CLOSER WHEN HER BROTHER SON EUNJEONG BECAME AN SM TRAINEE HE WAS ALSO GOOD FRIENDS WITH OTHER EXO MEMBERS SPECIALLY OH SEHUN WHO IS HIS CLASSMATE IN SOPA AS WELL AS HIS BESTFRIEND, KAI AND YEONMI BECAME REALLY GREAT BESTFRIENDS, THEY ARE SO CLOSE IT IS KAI WHO MAKES HER CONFIDENT AND IT IS YEONMI WHO MAKES HIM TALK, SHE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE REASONS ALONG WITH DO WHO MADE HIM STOP SMOKING, THEIR CLOSE FRIENDS OFTEN MISTAKEN THERE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP EVEN HER BROTHER AND THE OTHER EXO MEMBERS BUT ACCORDING TO THEM THEY ARE LIKE SIBLINGS ALREADY, BUT INSIDE THEIR MINDS THEY ALSO GET CONFUSED OF THEIR OWN FEELINGS BUT DENY IT, BUT STILL THEY SHOW AFFECTION FOR EACH OTHER, THEY ARE JUST INSEPERABLE