Miyeon

Who Miyeon is

Miyeon (미연) is the main vocalist of i-dle. Bridge Economy reported on 26 May 2025 that she trained for about five years from her first year of middle school, and that road ended with her debut in (G)I-DLE on 2 May 2018. Segye Ilbo also named her the group’s main vocalist in a report of 3 November 2025.

Two solo mini albums

Her first solo mini album, MY, came out at 6 p.m. KST on 27 April 2022, with ‘Drive’ as its title track. She told Xports News it was an album “born when I went back to the beginner’s heart I had when I first dreamed of being a singer and thought about what music I wanted to make”. It was the first release on which she wrote lyrics herself since her debut, and it went to number one on the iTunes Top Albums chart in 22 regions straight after release. ‘Drive’ won first place on SBS M’s The Show on 3 May.

Her second, MY, Lover, arrived three and a half years later, at 6 p.m. KST on 3 November 2025. Segye Ilbo reported that its title track is the pop ballad ‘Say My Name’ and that the pre-release single ‘Reno (Feat. Colde)’ came out first, on 28 October. Miyeon wrote the lyrics of ‘F.F.L.Y’ and ‘You And No One Else’, and before the album she released ‘Sky Walking’, a song of her own that she had sung in her solo slot on i-dle’s world tour, as a digital single. MBC Entertainment reported on 4 November that the album was number one on QQ Music’s daily and weekly bestseller charts in China.

On 10 August 2026 she released ‘RUN AWAY’, her first Japanese digital single as a soloist. TenAsia reported that she wrote lyrics for this song too.

As a host, and as a soundtrack singer

From 18 February 2021 to 16 November 2023 she hosted Mnet’s M Countdown, and before her last broadcast she told Ilgan Sports that it had made “ordinary Thursdays every week warm and happy”. ENA’s 혜미리예채파 (Hyemiriyechaepa), which began on 12 March 2023, was her first regular variety show (SPOTV News), and on SBS’s global audition B:MY BOYZ, which began on 14 June 2025, she hosted an audition programme for the first time since her debut (Bridge Economy).

She has sung for dramas and variety shows as well. While she was a panellist on JTBC’s dating reality show 연애남매 (Yeonaenammae), its soundtrack song ‘You and I’ came out on 22 March 2024 (Consumer Times), and on 15 July 2025 she sang ‘우리 우연히 만나’ (Uri Uyeonhi Manna) for tvN’s Head over Heels (The Fact). In March 2024 the cosmetics brand Wakemake named Miyeon its brand muse (News1).