Table of Biography
Park Ji-min is a South Korean singer, songwriter, as well as a TV presenter. Park Ji-min initially gained fame after winning the first season of “K-pop Star”. She was also a part of the duo 15& alongside Baek Yerin and she was also a part of the group the project group M.O.L.A. Moreover, she also worked as a co-host of “After School Club” which aired on Arirang TV.
Early Life and Childhood
Park Ji-min was born on July 5, 1997, and her current age is 26 years old as of 2024. She is originally from Daejeon, South Korea and later she lived in Thailand for eight years. She attended Garden International School Bangkok and there, she was as popular as Jamie.
Ji-min’s family lives in Seoul, South Korea at present. Her mother is Park Mi-Jeong and her father is Park Pil-woo. Moreover, she also posted a picture of her mother to her Instagram handle in August 2015 and shared a throwback picture of herself as a baby with her grandmother in August 2017.
Likewise, she speaks Korean and she is also fluent in English, and basic Thai. In Korea, she attended the Hanlim School of Performing Arts and graduated in the year 20016 alongside her group member Baek Yerin and her label-mate Yugyeom of Got7.
Professional Life
Professionally, Park Ji-min is a vocalist, singer, songwriter, and TV personality. She is best known as the Season One winner of K-pop Star. She is also famous as a member of the K-pop duo 15& Baek Yerin. Her popular singles include covers of Over The Rainbow and Rolling in the Deep.
After winning K-pop Star, she signed with JYP Entertainment and released her first song with 15& titled I Dream in the year 2012. She is a philanthropist as well as a pop singer who gave approximately forty-five thousand dollars to a performing arts organization for visually impaired musicians.
Likewise, she performed Rihanna’s hit We Found Love at the 2012 champion ice skating event at Seoul’s Olympics she is also popular as a former member of the project group M.O.L.A. as well as a co-host of the variety show After School Club.
Caption: Park Ji-min performing April Fools for her comeback stage at M Countdown. Source: Youtube
More Details
In the year 2011, she participated in the first season of the competition television show K-pop Star. She later finished in first place in the competition and had the chance to sign with YG, SM, or JYPE. Later, on 21 May 2012, she officially signed with JYP Entertainment and received a brand new Hyundai i40 along with 300 million won (approximately USD 257,400).
After this, she appeared in a drama and also received the chance to sign a contract as a CF model. Then on 19 September 2012, they announced that she would debut as a duo with Baek Yerin. They formed a duo called 15& and released the digital single I Dream on 5 October of the same year.
The duo made their official debut stage on the music program Inkigayo on 7 October. 15& went on hiatus after February 2015 and they disbanded following her departure from JYP Entertainment.
Solo career
Par Ji-min worked as the co-host of Arirang TV After School Club. It was back in July 2014. Then on 31 March 2015, she revealed the news about her solo debut. She went on to release her debut single Hopeless Love on 5 April with the name Jimin Park. She then made her debut stage before the finals of K-pop Star 4 on the same day.
Likewise, on 19 May 2015, she worked alongside Eric Nam to release a duet called Dream for Charity Project. They released the song on 28 May 2015. The same year on 14 August, she announced a project group she had formed with Seung-youn of UNIQ and rapper Nathan.
The group’s name was later revealed as M.O.L.A (Make Our Life Awesome). They released their first track My Way on August 20 and their second song Trick or Treat on October 31. She made her second recorded comeback as a rapper with the song Trick or Treat.
On 23 August 2016, she released her first EP 19 to 20 with the lead single Try. Due to Naver’s V-LIVE, she stated that 19 to 20 is about “her story” and hoped that her fans would be able to connect to her better and build a stronger relationship with her first self-composed album.
Then on 4 September 2018, she released her second EP Jiminxjamie in which she participated in the composition of the majority of the tracks. Following the expiration of her seven-year contract with JYP Entertainment, she left the company on 6 August 2019. Then on 21 April 2020, she signed an exclusive contract with Warner Music Korea and will continue to promote as “Jamie”.
Caption: Park Ji-min worked with Eric Nam and Kevin Woo for After School Club. Source: Amino Apps
Charity work
In October 2012, Park Ji-min donated 50 million won (approximately USD 45,000) to Hanbit Performing Arts Company for blind musicians. She initially became interested in this program after meeting with fellow K-pop Star contestant Kim Soo-hwan. She currently attends the Hanbit Performing Arts Compan.
Likewise, she also donated 50 million won (approximately USD 45,000) to World Vision. Then on 28 May 2015, she collaborated with singer Eric Nam for their song, Dream with the producer Sweetune. They then revealed that they would be donating all profit made from the song to charity.
Relationship Status
There is no information regarding Park Ji-min’s romantic relationship status. She is most probably more focused on her career as a singer, model, and ambassador for various brands rather than being involved in a relationship. Or it might also be the case that she has not publicly shared her romantic involvement to avoid any kind of rumors, scandals, and controversies that might hamper her steady career and public image.
Park Ji-min – Body Measurements
Park Ji-min stands tall at a height of 1.6 meters or 5 feet 3 inches and weighs around 49 kg. Other than this, there is no information regarding her other body measurement details like chest-waist-hip measures, dress size, shoe size, etc. Likewise, she has naturally black hair which she has dyed into several shades like blue, pink, purple, red, etc. She also has dark brown eyes.
Caption: Park Ji-min posing for a photo. Source: Instagram
Park Ji-min – Social Media
Talking about her social media presence, Park Ji-min joined Twitter in November 2010 and so far has over 768.2K followers on her @jiminpark07 account. Likewise, she is also available on Instagram under the username @jiminxjamie. This account boasts 57 post shares and 1.3 million followers at the time of writing this biography.
Park Ji-min – Net Worth 2024
Moving on, Park Ji-min has a net worth estimation of approximately 7 million dollars.