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Not pretending to be who I am not...

 
likes ( from Hanbyul's POV):
Coffee ( coz its delicious )
Black Cats ( aren't they beautiful?!?!?! )
Tall Buildings ( their rooftops are windy )
​Horror movies ( you call that horror? Its funny! )
Cycling ( adrenaline rush woooo )
Hip Hop and B-boying ( dancing is ma passion and life)
 BlockB ( cos they are awesome  )
​playing musical intruments ( piano, violin, guitar, clarinet. They produce beautiful sounds.... )
Lady Gaga ( the epitome of creativity. You exoect the unexpected. )
Hitsugaya Toshiro ( how can you not luv that boy. he's protective and mature!)
Japan( kimono, Luna Sea, Sushi, Anime, Manga, Polite people what else would I want?)
Watermelon ( red, watery, jucy. Yum yum)
 Ball Games ( my bros and I play it often. Its real fun)
Singing low notes (  High notes are too mainstream for vocalists )

dislikes ( from Hanbyul's POV): 
 Needles ( cos the doctors might inject a tracking device into me juz like all those movies I watch. They just look scary. It's like an unreasonable paranoia like this shiny metal thingy is going to poke through you. Scary!)
 Hospitals ( reminds too much about late uncle )
Seafood that is not Fish, Crab or Prawn ( they lookand taste weird )
Beef ( the cow gives us milk! Its our second mom! )
getting a tan ( Its easy to get but difficult to take off )
Swimming  ( I drowned before and nearly died. No time to go for therapy cos I need to train. It's not like I am going to swim or go into water everyday so shouldn't be a big problem. ^^)
Brats, ists, Ageists, Chauvinist ( erm they belong to the wrong century )
Screaming ( can't you talk like a civilised human being?)
Waking up late ( that means I have to rush to do my work later )
 

hobbies : 
writing lyrics or raps
 dancing to random songs
cooking food for her family, friends and members and eating spicy foood
reading books of all weird kinds
sleep

habits: 
doing acrobatics like tumbling and cart-wheeling instead of walking down the corridor / doing handstands while waiting to use the wash room/ tumbing down the steps of in between tables
writing lyrics or raps about everything and anything when she is bored. She once made a rap about crossing the road safely and a song on how to watch tv like a boss
dancing while cooking, Rapping in the shower 
 imitating people like P.O, Yongguk and Yong Junhyung
cracking knuckles before going onto stage
blinking thrice when confused 
 tracing circles on any surface within reach when thinking 

trivia: 
 has a youtube channel with 2000+ subcribers where she had posted videos of her dancing, covers of songs, her self-produced/composed songs and mixtapes
 was scouted into SM Entertainment in Japan
Musical Prodigy who had won an international piano competition
Knows Judo and Taekwondo 
 English Accented Korean
hate wearing contacts
 owns all of Brown Eyed Girls' Albums.
Has a black cat named Jelly which has beautiful green eyes
 diploma in piano
 has really y eyes 
currently studying in Seoul Institute of the Arts
 Has never drunk or smoked before and hopes to remain that way
wants to get a small tatoo but is scared of needles 
Loves eating sour and spicy stuff

 

The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or earased,it can only be accepted...


background 
Hanbyul was born in Geneva, Switzerland and stayed there till she was 5. Then she moved to Bali, Indonesia because her paternal grandmother was unwell, where she spent the next 6 years. Soon she moved to Incheon South Korea,, where her father was working. Since young, Hanbyul was passionate about music and the arts as her maternal family in Bali runs a cultural school where she would join in the lessons when she had time to learn music and dancing. She would often run to the school after she finishes her homework and watch the teacher teach the students from the window and would write it down on her yellow pikachu notebook and try it out when she gets home. Her passion for the dance and music remained as she grew older. When she came to Korea, she found out that her cousin, Kyuhyun has debutted as an idol in this company called SM. She too wanted to audition but Kyuhyun stopped her saying that idol life was not easy and would be a hard one. Her brothers too were not very supportive of the idea of her becoming an idol even though she doesn't lack the talent or skill.  

Her youngest older brother, Hankyul was studying in Japan when she was a teenager. She would often go visit him in Japan, cos she loves her brother and she loves Japan. That is where she met Jiho and the two of them often met up whenever she came to Japan to write lyrics, rap or just talk nonsense. Both of them wanted to debut as idols because they love music and wanted to turn their passion into something tangible.  Pretty soon Jiho joined SM and later quit to join Stardom Ent and debut as BlockB 
 

She would also often go to Hankyul's faternity club's outings, whenever she could. Once, they were playing a game and Hanbyul had fortuanely lost the game due to her short attention span and had to do a forefiet of singing and dancing. During that time, SM staff who was somehow wlaking by that area saw her talent and decided to scout her. 

But getting in wasn't easy as her cousin, her brothers and even Jiho were telling her not to become a trainee as it was hard. Her parents told her that it was her life and they will accept what she does and Yunji said that she doesn't mind as long as Hanbyul's happy. After months of hard and difficult persuasion, she finally became a trainee.

 

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Who you love and who love you back.....

family
father | Cho Yuhan | 60 | Major General  | Humorous but strict when he needs to be | Hanbyul and he father communicate mainly through the phone as he is always away due to work and she will be in her dorm. Since Hanbyul is the only daughter, she is the apple of his eye. He says that if she gets married the groom will have to stay with them.  
mother | Laure Cho | 60 |  Teacher | Naggy and talkative | Hanbyul is always seen running away from her mother. The two of them are like Tom and Jerry. Hanbyul is always getting into trouble for something when she comes back home and the two of them are always chasing or running around the house. Laure calls her daughter Trudi (her swiss name) and is a very proud mother.
Brother | Cho Hanyong | 32 | Pilot | Sarcastic and Funny | Most of their conversations happen on Skype. Hanyong is Hanbyul's favourite brother as his voice alone is enoigh to brighten her day. Its soothing and calm. Due to their big , he calls her Kid and she calls him Ahjusshi-oppa. 
Brother | Cho Hankyung | 27 | Lawyer | Witty  | This oppa is one talking-machine. Hanyong says that the reason why Hanbyul didn't talk till she was four was because Hankyung didn't give her a chance to as he kept on yapping and yakking non-stop. Hankyung is the one Hanbyul sees the most in real life as his company is beside her dorm and they eat together when both their schedules premits.
Brother | Cho Hankyul | 24 | Psychology Undergraduate | Sweet and sometimes melodramatic  | The reason why Hanbyul went to Japan and was scouted, Cho Hankyul. Hankyul was studying in Japan and since Hanbyul loves Japan she would often visit him there.  Hankyul are Hanbyul are the closest to each other  
Cousin | Cho Kyuhyun | 25 | Idol- Super Junior | playful | he calls her cow and she calls him pig. they tease each other alot.

Its not about being inseperable, its about being seperated and nothing changes....

friends: 
Best friend | Woo Jiho | 22 | BlockB- Leader | Playful and talkative | they both met in Japan when Hanbyul had gone to visit her brother. She was surprised to see another person who could talk korean, like a korean as there were not many foreigners in the place her brother was staying. Both of them behave like siblings and are often seen joking around and doing all sorts of weird stuff together. Jiho is one of the people(not her family members) who can recognize her distress and forces her to speak about it. Hanbyul too is one of Jiho's trusted compaions and is often seen asking her for her opinion on things like his music, what he should say to s for their first performance etc.  

Best Friend | Yang Yunji | 22 | Undergraduate | Talkative and Whiny | people say that they are sisters seperated by some weird birth defect. When young the two of them did everything as though they were attached to each other by the hip. Yunji is another person who can recognize her distress and force her to speak about them. Since Hanbyul decided to train, the two of them couldn't hang out with each other that often so the two of them talk to each other through this online game where they battle and talk at the same time. Yunji is the only person other than her mother and grandmother who can call here Trudi and Asoka respectively.

Friend | Amber | 22 | f(X) | Funny and awkward  | Once Hanbyul was asked to help Amber, who had sprained her leg, to the first aid room. They started talking then and became good frinds due to the close . Amber and Hanbyul have alot in common as they both are foreigners and all. Amber and Hanbyul opften eat out together as the other f(x) members would be on a schedule.
 

Character in unchanged by circumstance......

stage name: Ione
persona: The Living Apsara
position: Lead Dancer Vocalist 
back-up position: Lead Vocalist Main Dancer
fanclub name: Eons
fanclub colour: diamond blue #0EBFE9
singing twin: Gayoon ( 4minute)
dancing twin: Minzy (2ne1)
rapping twin: CL (2ne1)
talking twin: Jung Hana ( Secret)
 

Hardwork beats Talent when Talent doesn't hard work........

trainee years 
— SM Entertainment ( 2013 - Present )


trainee life
 She was scouted. Hanbyul didn't have an easy time in SM.
She was a foreigner, despite having a korean surname and all, she spoke differently from the other so the other trainees avoided her. She didn't mind as long as they don't do anything to her, she was fine with it. Anyway, having trainee frinds was alot of drama there were cases of friends sabotaging each other and all. Scary. Soon she made a few good friends but most of them left SM to join other companies where they have higher chances of debutting.
She couldn't sing and dance at the same time in the beginning. It was just difficult. She could sing fantastically. She could dance fantastically. But not at the same time. It hurt her 'ego' that she worked real hard to be a trainee in order to become an idol singer to be not able to sing while performing. She might as well have became a back-up dancer. She worked really hard and practiced tirelessly so that she'll not get out of breathe if she has to sing while dancing.
Hanbyul had and still has a short-attention span so was always scolded by her trainers.
Her nickname given to her by the traniers was Ms.UN (United nations) cos if there were any problems she would be he one trying to setle the issue and most of the time she is successful so yea bu the UN is mostly not sucessful. sorrynotsorry. 
  
pre-debut experiences 
— Cameoed in Beast's Shock. Shadow, Caffeine. Flower and Super Junior's No Other
— has a youtube channels where she uploads her songs and mixtapes