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Jimin
Park Ji-min, known mononymously as Jimin, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and dancer. In 2013, he made his debut as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS, under the record label Big Hit Entertainment. Jimin has released three solo tracks under BTS' name—"Lie" in 2016, "Serendipity" in 2017, and "Filter" in 2020—all of which have charted on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart.
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entertainment · South Korean singer (born 1995) · singer · dancer · songwriter · also Jimin, Park Jimin, Park Ji-min
Born 13 October 1995 · Q20947093
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 10,536 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.9× the usual 2,146, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Jimin made it to the Madame Tussauds Hot 100 list, recognizing him as a K-pop star
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2024· 1 entry
Released his second album, Muse, and its lead single "Who", which debuted at number one on the Billboard Global 200
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2023· 4 entries
Big Hit announced through Weverse that Jimin, along with bandmates RM, V, and Jung Kook, had started the enlistment process to carry out his mandatory military service
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Ryan Gosling gifted Jimin the guitar his character Ken used in the movie Barbie, as Jimin's "Permission to Dance" music video outfit served as inspiration for one of the outfits Gosling wore for the role
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Which debuted at number one in South Korea and Japan and number two on the US Billboard 200, making him the highest-charting Korean solo artist on the latter chart
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Jimin stated that as a pop artist, he "aims to excel at both dancing and singing and perform a diverse range of musical genres and themes" while "taking a healthy and sustainable approach to do so"
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2022· 3 entries
In 2022, Jimin was hospitalized after having abdominal pain and a mild sore throat.
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Contributed the single "With You", a duet with Ha Sung-woon, to the soundtrack of the TvN drama Our Blues; the single was released on April 24
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Jimin was hospitalized after having abdominal pain and a mild sore throat
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2021· 2 entries
Purchased a property in the area worth ₩5
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Olympic figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu shared being a BTS fan and mentioned Jimin as a source of inspiration for his dance movements on the rink
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2020· 1 entry
On the ranking, having spent 80 weeks on the chart as of the issue dated October 9, 2021
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2019· 2 entries
Award-winning director and photographer Gus Van Sant named him as the artist he wished to work with
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For performing buchaechum, a traditional Korean fan dance, during the 2018 Melon Music Awards and helping spread the dance outside of Korea
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2018· 7 entries
Jimin released "Promise", his first credited song as a solo artist, for free on BTS' SoundCloud page
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Followed shortly thereafter by the former's full length version from BTS' Love Yourself: Answer (2018) compilation album, which achieved the milestone in early 2019
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Alongside his bandmates, by the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, for their contributions to the promotion of Korean culture
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Jimin addressed his perfectionism
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Jimin was the ninth most-tweeted about celebrity and the eighth most-tweeted about musician globally
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“aims to excel at both dancing and singing and perform a diverse range of musical genres and themes”
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And recorded the duet "With You" with Ha Sung-woon for the soundtrack for the TvN drama Our Blues in 2022
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2017· 3 entries
And then consecutively ranked first in 2018 and 2019, as the only idol to top the survey for two consecutive years
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On a cover of Charlie Puth's "We Don't Talk Anymore" featuring Selena Gomez
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During BTS' Wings Tour, Jimin was unable to participate in the show in Macau due to neck and shoulder cramping
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2016· 3 entries
Jimin was ranked as the 14th most popular idol in an annual survey conducted by Gallup Korea
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"Serendipity" in 2017, and "Filter" in 2020—all of which have charted on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart
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As part of the band's second Korean studio album, Wings
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2014· 1 entry
Jimin collaborated with bandmate Jung Kook on a song called "Christmas Day", a Korean rendition of Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe"; Jimin wrote the Korean lyrics himself
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2013· 2 entries
Debuted as a vocalist and dancer in BTS with the song "No More Dream" from their first single 2 Cool 4 Skool
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Made his debut as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS, under the record label Big Hit Entertainment
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2012· 1 entry
Transferred to Korean Arts High School, graduating in 2014
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1995· 2 entries
Born 1995-10-13.
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In Geumjeong District, Busan, South Korea
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