Aespa Member Karina Complete Profile, Facts, and TMI

Karina Profile

Birth Name: 유지민 (Yoo Jimin)
Stage Name: Karina
Nationality: South Korean
Date of Birth: 2000.04.11
Zodiac Sign: Aries
Chinese Zodiac: Dragon
Height: 167 cm (5’4”)
Weight: 45 kg (99.2 lbs)
Blood Type: B
Personal Social Media: N/A

Karina Facts & TMI

Karina was born in Suwon.
Her family consists of parents and an older sister (born 1995).
She belongs to Gangneung Yoo clan.
She dropped out of Hansol High School and took High School GED.
She is Catholic and her baptismal name is Catarina.
Her stage name Karina is taken from her baptismal name.
Karina is the leader of aespa.
Her official position in aespa is vocal, rap, and main dancer.
In 2021 she joined SM’s project girl group GOT the Beat.
Her symbol is ❤️ and her “power” is rocket puncher.
Karina and Winter are the visuals of the group.
She has a mole below her lips.
Fans think that she resembles cats.
She is highly celebrated as one of the prettiest 4th generation female idols with her AI-like appearance and glamorous body.
She prefers rice over snacks.
Her favorite animals are Dog cat, tiger, shark, crocodile.
Karina’s favorite color is Blue.
Her favorite foods are pork cutlet (donkatsu), carbonated drinks, jelly.
Her favorite season is spring.
Her favorite movies are Frozen and Rapunzel.
She is collecting lipsticks.
Her favorite snack is Pringles (Caramel and Mayocheese flavor).
She mentioned MBC’s ‘I Live Alone’, SBS’ ‘Running Man’, and tvN’s ‘Amazing Saturday’ as variety shows she wanted to appear in.
Her favorite beverages are Starbucks’ grapefruit honey black tea and peach jelly iced tea.
She prefers dog over cat.
Her favorite Christmas carol is Michael Bubble’s ‘White Christmas’.
She is a fan of IU, Taeyeon, and f(x).
She likes beach.
Indonesian food she wanted to try is sate.
She said that if she’s to be born again and debuts as aespa member, she wants to be the maknae rather than the leader.
Her role models in terms of music are Taeyeon, IU, Lee HI, Camila Cabello, and Kehlani.
Karina was a fan of Bigbang when she was an elementary schooler and Lee Kwang Soo‘s fan when she was in middle school.
She said that she wants to shoot carbonated beverage ads.
She shared that if she raises a cat later, she wants to name it Gungdaengi.
She is not afraid of insects and snakes, but she has severe bird phobia.
She likes flowers very much that she wants to open a flower shop if she didn’t become an idol.
Her favorite flowers are roses and her birth flower, Polemonium.
One of her future dreams, when she was young, was being a flight attendant. But she gave up because she had a phobia of airplanes.
Contrary to her chic image, she has many friendly and cute sides.
Karina is in charge of the mother’s position in the group.
She is originally very good at expressing affection to her friends.
Along with Giselle, she is one of the team’s scaredy-cats.
Karina is relatively calm compared to the younger members.
Among her nicknames are Rina, Karomi (Karina + Kuromi),
Kanyang-ie, KaLeader, Yoo Cherry, Karangdoong, Jimni, Jim, etc.
During her school days, she was nicknamed Yoo Jiman or Jjiman by her school friends.
Before it was decided that she used “Karina” as her stage name, she almost use Woo!Ah!, Jasmine, or Zion as her stage name.
Her symbol color is blue.
She dreamed of becoming a singer for the first time after seeing Girls’ Generation’s ‘Into The New World’ choreography.
She is considered as the member who takes the best selfies.
She is good at playing the piano and guitar.
She even received an award for piano.
When she was young, she tried various sports and instruments such as ballet, swimming, taekwondo, futsal, piano, janggu (Korean traditional instrument), flute, and harmonica.
She is especially good at swimming and taekwondo.
She’s one of the best arm wrestlers on the team.
She seems to be pretty good at Chinese because she seems to understand everything Ningning says.
Karina thinks the strength of aespa is teamwork.
She watches entertainment shows, reads webtoons, and plays games when she’s resting at home.
She uses iPhone 13 Pro Silver.
When she was in the third grade of middle school, she met Super Junior’s Shindong and posted it on her IG.
She shared that eating delicious food, shopping, and reading books become her way to relieve stress.
She thinks her strengths are taking good care of the people around her, being quick to catch on, while her weaknesses are being timid and forgetful.
When she joined the agency, she thought that Ning Ning was older than her.
Her face swells very easily.
Karina is the tallest among aespa members, but her hand size is the smallest. Giselle saved Karina as a “small hand” on her cell phone.
In an interview with DAZED Magazine (March 2021 issue), she revealed that she liked Taeyeon, BoA, and Taemin musically.
She sleeps between 9 and 10 p.m.
There were many opinions that she resembles actress Kim So Yeon.
She wears a rosary ring on important days.
She is raising mini succulents in her dorm room.
Currently, her roommate is Ningning.
She named a teddy bear given by fans “Bboong”.
It is said that she danced to Jeon Hyosung’s ‘Good-night Kiss’ at the school talent show.
Her MBTI personality type is ENFP.
She spent 4 years as a trainee in SM Entertainment.
She was an ulzzang with many Instagram followers in her school days. She received the casting offer from SM through Instagram DM.
Some of her favorite songs are ‘Red Light’ by f(x), Beenzino’s ‘Nike Shoes’, ‘How do I look’, ‘Boogie On & On’, and ‘If I Die Tomorrow’.