Minnie

Who Minnie is

Minnie (민니) is i-dle’s main vocalist, and she came to the group from Thailand. On a YouTube variety show in July 2024 she said she had been attending a K-pop singing school in Thailand when a teacher suggested she try an audition, that the audition was run in person by people from her current agency, and that passing it brought her to Korea. “I couldn’t speak Korean then, and I still passed — it’s amazing,” she added (TV Report, 14 July 2024). She debuted in (G)I-DLE on 2 May 2018.

Edaily, interviewing her in January 2025, wrote that she had spent seven years as the group’s main vocalist and one of its producers. The songwriting started in 2019. At the showcase for the second mini album I made on 26 February that year, Minnie introduced the track ‘Blow Your Mind’ as the first song of her own she had released (Singlelist).

A first solo album she wrote in full

Her first solo mini album, HER, came out at 6 p.m. KST on 21 January 2025. thebell reported that Minnie is credited as a writer and composer on all seven of its tracks. She wrote the lyrics of the title track ‘HER’ with BIG Naughty; TEN of WayV features on ‘Obsession (Feat. TEN of WayV)’, and her groupmate Yuqi on ‘Drive U Crazy (Feat. YUQI ((G)I-DLE))’. “I wrote the Korean lyrics myself too,” she told Edaily. “I’ve been in Korea for ten years now, and Korean lyrics still weren’t easy.”

‘HER’ took first place on KBS2’s Music Bank on 31 January, and Minnie said “it feels like a dream” (Sports Kyunghyang).

Acting and soundtracks

Her first acting role was in the 2021 Netflix series So Not Worth It (SPOTV News). On JTBC’s 아는 외고 (Aneun Oego), which ended on 4 March 2025, she said, “I’ve acted in Korea, so now I’d like to act in my mother tongue” (Xports News), and on 12 August that year MBC Entertainment reported that she had been cast as the female lead of the Thai remake of 50 First Dates, produced by Sony Pictures International Productions with Thailand’s GDH. The film opened in cinemas across Thailand on 17 September 2026 as HENRY’s First Dates (Time Out Bangkok).

She sang ‘꿈결같아서’ (Kkumgyeolgataseo), the third soundtrack song for tvN’s Lovely Runner (16 April 2024, Sports Kyunghyang), and ‘Devil’s Angel’, Part 3 of the soundtrack for TVING’s Dear. X (20 November 2025, Bridge Economy). In July 2024 the colour-cosmetics brand 3CE named Minnie its new Asia ambassador (Datanews).

A gift for home

On 1 December 2025 she donated 50 million won to World Vision Thailand for children and vulnerable families in the flooded south of the country. “I was deeply saddened to hear that Thailand, my home, had been so badly hit by these sudden floods,” she said through MyDaily, adding that she hoped the money would help children and vulnerable families get their lives back to normal as soon as possible.